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Drug-related violence left two men dead and another seriously injured in separate Burlington shootings late Sunday night and early Monday, according to police.

Officers also responded to another report of gunshots and an arson fire someone set inside a vestibule at police headquarters on North Avenue — all part of a chaotic few hours in the Queen City.

“We’re talking about a night that would have been a busy night in any single precinct in the entire country,” Chief Jon Murad, a former member of the New York Police Department, said during a press conference on Monday. “I worked in the Bronx. I worked in Manhattan North. I don’t remember a night like this.”

Police responded to 4 Decatur Street just after 9 p.m. and found two men who had been shot in the head. One was already dead, and the other died shortly after at the University of Vermont Medical Center, according to Murad.

Police believe Khalif M. Jones, 27, of Stowe, fatally shot Anthony R. Smith, 26, of Vergennes. A second gunman is thought to have shot Jones, Murad said, and is unaccounted for. The chief said a large group was at the home, and police found evidence of drug trafficking there.

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About an hour or so before those killings, Murad said, police responded to the area around 101 Main Street, near the intersection with Pine Street. Officers believe one shot was fired there, and witnesses saw two men flee.

Murad said it’s possible the Decatur killings and the Main Street gunfire incident are linked.

Then, around 1:15 a.m. on Monday, a 37-year-old man called police to say he’d been robbed of drugs and shot in the foot at 225 East Avenue, Murad said. He’s expected to survive, and no suspect is in custody.

Finally, around 2 a.m. on Monday, a homeless man entered a vestibule inside the Burlington Police Department building and lit a fire. The small blaze created “a tremendous amount of smoke,” Murad said, set off a sprinkler in the room and caused some water damage. Dispatchers were temporarily relocated to the South Burlington Police Department for about two and a half hours, Murad said.

The suspect, Stephen Romprey, 62, was arrested and charged with arson and reckless endangerment. Romprey told officers the fire was “to make a point,” Murad said.

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1. “Frankie’s Coming to Former Penny Cluse Café Site in Burlington,” by Melissa Pasanen. The former manager and executive chef at Hen of the Wood are teaming up on a new 70-seat farm-to-table dinner restaurant.

2. “Burlington Takes Initial Steps to Redevelop Memorial Auditorium and Surrounding Properties,” by Courtney Lamdin. On the Gateway Block, private developers envision 200 or more housing units and a 100-room hotel, plus a “vibrant pedestrian streetscape.”

3. “Charlotte’s Philo Ridge Farm to Pause Restaurant and Market Operations,” by Melissa Pasanen. The business plans to reorganize as a nonprofit to expand its research into how sustainable practices can support Vermont’s agricultural future.

4. “Two Killed During Chaotic Night of Crime in Burlington,” by Courtney Lamdin & Sasha Goldstein. Police responded to two shootings, a report of shots fired and a small arson fire set inside a vestibule at the Burlington police headquarters.

5. “Seven Can’t-Miss Vermont Winter Events to Stave Off Cabin Fever,” by Dan Bolles. Our Winter Preview issue featured several events worthy of bundling up and braving the elements.

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Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library plans to open on Thanksgiving Day and hand out free, prepackaged roast turkey dinners made by local restaurant conglomerate the Farmhouse Group. Patrons can bring the food home or eat it in the library, though they won’t be able to heat it up. The library will also provide coffee, hot chocolate and dessert.

“Sometimes people just need a place to be on a holiday,” Fletcher Free director Mary Danko said. “We’re a big library downtown. It just makes sense.”

The library will be open on Thursday, November 23, from noon to 4 p.m. for meal distribution, as well as book checkout and computer use, according to Danko. People can also pick up food on Wednesday. Farmhouse will distribute hundreds more meals to other Burlington locations.

Danko said the library has opened its doors on Thanksgiving several times in recent years and it’s been interesting to see the variety of people who come in: elderly folks who don’t have a place to go, those in recovery who don’t want to be around alcohol, families with young kids who just need to get out of the house for an hour.

Though Fletcher Free appears to be the only Vermont library open on Thanksgiving, there are efforts in other parts of the state to get holiday meals to those in need. The Vermont Foodbank has purchased 3,800 turkeys this year, along with side dishes such as potatoes, box stuffing and cranberry sauce, to distribute to its more than 200 local partners, including food shelves, senior centers and social services organizations.

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BOY DESERVES ANONYMITY

Please remove and apologize for your identification of the child charged in the shooting death in Bristol [“No Room in the System,” November 8; “Burlington Teen Charged in Shooting Death of Fellow 14-Year-Old,” October 31].

You must be aware of the reason that children are charged under rules of confidentiality. Doing otherwise destroys lives and futures for adolescents whose brains are as yet underdeveloped and whose criminal responsibility is therefore greatly diminished. This is a 14-year-old boy who, even if he is free of adverse childhood experiences and trauma, is very early in the development of kinds of cognitive functioning. To blight his future as you are doing is cruel and wrong.

Justice for the victim in this tragic event cannot be obtained by retribution against another victim, in this case the shooter himself.

Your article indicates that the shooting was likely an accidental discharge. Yes, the boy acted irresponsibly — horribly so.

We don’t, in our more civilized moments as a society, make a scapegoat of a child for the negligent actions of adults, and the bad policy choices of our leaders, that led to him having possession of this weapon.

You may be justifying your choice in publishing this story on the grounds that he’s been charged as an adult and that the prosecutor and court chose not to hide his identity. As responsible journalists, you should instead query the competence and motives of the prosecutor and judge, as well as the human decency of the laws on which those decisions were based.

After your wonderful reporting on Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center [“The Loss of Grace,” October 25], I am doubly disappointed in this editorial choice.

Nate Hine

SOUTH STAFFORD

Editor’s note: We understand and discussed the concerns about publicly identifying a juvenile charged with a crime. In this instance, the seriousness of the charge, second-degree murder, drove the editorial decision to identify the 14-year-old charged. While we make editorial decisions independently of other news organizations, we did note as well that several had, in fact, already published the name of the 14-year-old defendant.

‘THE NATURE OF OPPRESSION’

I appreciated Ken Ellingwood’s reflections on his family’s positive experiences in the Middle East [“Our Life During Wartime: During a Previous Explosion of Mideast Bloodshed, a Journalist and His Family Straddled the Divide,” November 1]. It is always good to be reminded of everyone’s humanity and also of how narratives can get in the way of our remembering that. It is easy to imagine visits to other times and places where people have been divided according to ethnic background, where warmth and humanity are not hard to find among both the oppressed people and the people benefiting from the oppression. But if the fact of humanity on both sides distracts us from the nature of the oppression, we risk

CORRECTIONS

Last week’s story about Vermont’s strained juvenile justice system, “No Room in the System,” included an inaccurate figure for youths placed in out-of-state residential treatment programs. The incorrect figure was sourced from testimony that Department for Children and Families deputy commissioner Aryka Radke delivered to state lawmakers. The department, which did not respond to a related information request until after the story was published, says she misspoke. There are 44 youths in such programs.

The news story headlined “Feat Feet” misstated the location of Darn Tough Vermont’s headquarters. It’s based in Northfield.

missing the opportunity to contribute to anti-colonial struggle.

Former Zionist Gabor Maté, a child of the Holocaust, visited the occupied territories over 30 years ago and reports that he “cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...” That the current situation in Israel is one of apartheid is apparent to all honest observers, including Human Rights Watch; Amnesty International; the former head of Mossad, Tamir Pardo; and the former attorney general of Israel, Michael Ben-Yair.

As Americans whose government has been the crucial support for Israeli oppression, we are complicit in the current genocide and ethnic cleansing operation. So how can Burlingtonians contribute to ending the oppression?

Let’s start by taking the apartheid-free community pledge that will be on the ballot in March.

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TEAM TALK

Erik Esckilsen’s [“Pitch Imperfect: Youth Soccer Comes of Age in Vermont, but the Playing Field Is Hardly Level,” November 1] was an interesting read, and I do hope you pursue the topic of “pay-to-play” in further stories; it’s complex and not just the monster making money off of kids’ backs, as suggested here.

At Nordic Soccer Club and other clubs in our state, we take our role in the community very seriously. We take cues from what our community needs and lead

where we have the expertise — not only in soccer instruction but also in healthy child development.

As one of Vermont’s oldest “premier” clubs (1986), and currently its largest, we have a rich history in this community.

More importantly, we have been mitigating the perceived negatives of the pay-toplay model: • Promoting multisport athletes as a rule, not as an exception, without punitive measures to the player. When they’re not playing for us, they’re not paying, either.

• Removing cost as a barrier to payto-play; we provided $40,000-plus in scholarships last year. No child is denied a spot at Nordic because of finances.

• In the elementary and middle school years, letting families know that they can and should play both club soccer and community soccer if they want to. They certainly have the bandwidth to do so.

• Putting joy into the game at every level. This is a coaching requirement at the club. Sport is for life — not only to make a high school or college roster.

We’re not here to milk anyone; we’re here to help.

Craig Stone

BURLINGTON

Stone is head coach at Nordic Soccer Club.

THE OTHER STORY

[“Pitch Imperfect: Youth Soccer Comes of Age in Vermont, but the Playing Field Is Hardly Level,” November 1] was a timely piece at the close of the fall youth soccer season. I was so excited to see this headline, since it is a subject matter dear to many, myself included, in the greater Burlington community. However, I’ll admit a bit of disappointment. The article dedicated a few paragraphs and quotes to the clubs whose mission is to level the playing field, but for the most part, the important details were left out. There is an inspiring story to be written on club soccer in Vermont right now and the FEEDBACK

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Breakfast, lunch and early dinner in Randolph

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Vermont health care workers are grappling with unprecedented workplace violence

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Burlington Council Progs Hightower, Magee Won’t Run Lowering the Barriers to Care

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Book review: The Body Below, Daniel Hecht

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Christy Mitchell’s New Exhibition Addresses the Impact of a Family Crisis SUPPORTED BY: Eva Sollberger recently caught a ride in a metal basket dangling above the Winooski River to see two masons repointing the Chace Mill’s iconic brick smokestack, built in the early 1900s. A 175-foot-tall crane held the “man basket” in place as it swayed in the breeze. The epic view was worth the trip.

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Vienna Waits for You The storied Sarasa Ensemble celebrate their 25th anniversary with “Tendrils of the Soul” at the Brattleboro Music Center. The program marks a quarter century of chamber music excellence with emotional, inventive works by towering giants of the Viennese classical period: Ludwig van Beethoven’s and Joseph Haydn’s string quartets, and a cello quintet by Franz Schubert.

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TURKEY TO SUCCESS

Continental Drift Border- and boundary-breaking folk band Acoustic Nomads make appearances at Randolph’s Chandler Center for the Arts and Richmond Congregational Church. The quartet combines South American folk music with North American bluegrass and a touch of jazz improvisation for an adventurous sound in which Appalachian fiddle reels and Argentinean guitar picking are equally at home.

Shredders kick off the season at Killington Resort’s Loaded Turkey Rail Jam. Spectators cheer on skiers and snowboarders as they hit the rails at the Woodward Pop-Up Park during a morning of nail-biting heats. First place wins a frozen turkey; second and third win all the fixings.

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School’s Out Fans of teen dramas and Broadway musicals alike flock to Montréal’s Sylvan Adams Theatre at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts for Boy Falls From the Sky, a biographical one-man show from Jake Epstein, of Degrassi: The Next Generation fame.

From the halls of Degrassi Community School to the stage of the infamous musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Epstein’s songs and stories make for a soul-baring showbiz tell-all.

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Snowman Is an Island Northern Stage starts the holiday season early with A Christmas Carol at Barrette Center for the Arts’ Byrne Theater in White River Junction.

Charles Dickens’ beloved tale, freshly reimagined by producing artistic director Carol Dunne, brings Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future to life in a production full of laughter, warmth and music.

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Montpelier’s Capital City Farmers Market transforms into a sublimely seasonal Thanksgiving Market this weekend at Montpelier High School. Home cooks pick up everything they need for the big day: sweet potatoes for the casserole, celery for the stuffing, eggs for the pumpkin pie, flowers for the table, gluten-free desserts for cousin Sage and handcrafted ceramics for the inevitable tableware shortage.

Burlington artist Elizabeth Powell presents “Silk and Sisal,” a new solo show at White River Junction’s Kishka Gallery & Library. Powell’s paintings depict abstract shapes and fractal patterns inspired by the female form; rich purples and pinks coalesce into kaleidoscopic evocations of curves and clothing.

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Deadline Novelist Vermont moviegoers saw their last picture shows at the Palace 9 cinema in South Burlington last Thursday. Seven Days film critic Margot Harrison marked the occasion with a loving tribute to her favorite spot to see the movies she reviews weekly for this newspaper — an essential part of our culture coverage since 2007. Ask yourself: How many media outlets still employ a local film critic who is every bit as insightful as the New Yorker’s Anthony Lane?

After noting some of the multiplex’s positive practical attributes — “cavernous, easy to park at and seldom crowded” — she gets into the good stuff. “If I had to explain why I love movie theaters, I’d say they’re liminal spaces, gateways to dreams and nightmares,” Margot wrote in the piece published Saturday on sevendaysvt. com. In a few well-observed paragraphs, she captures the appeal of choosing from “all those possible worlds” and the shared experience of watching movies with other people.

She also explains what doomed this particular venue.

Among other things: During the pandemic, many of the older folks who regularly patronized the Palace 9 developed a habit of streaming movies at home.

Margot’s piece was beautiful and sad and smart, just like a good movie. But I didn’t expect reading it would make me cry. Cinemas aren’t going away — Merrill Jarvis III still owns Burlington’s Roxy Cinemas and the Majestic 10 in Williston — but like so many things I hold dear, this all-American activity is on the endangered species list. We embrace the couch at the cost of local commerce and community.

The Palace 9 meant even more to Margot, who writes fiction when she is not working for Seven Days.

The multiplex movie theater inspired a short story earlier in her literary life as well her most recent young adult thriller — Only She Came Back — which comes out this week.

It’s the fourth book she’s written in the 16 years we’ve been colleagues. There’s at least one suspicious death in all of them. In this one, the heroine works at a fictional cinema Margot calls the “Grand 9.”

Although she reviews a film and wrangles everything else in the movie section each week, Margot works primarily as a culture section editor at Seven Days. Did I mention she has a PhD in English? Whenever there is a debate about grammar in our pages, Margot provides a detailed explanation of the rule. When a story idea comes up that we have pursued in years past, she often recalls exactly who wrote it and when.

Juggling that 30-hour-a-week newspaper job with an ambitious writing career requires organization, drive and lots of midnight oil. I know Margot often works all night. In that way, she’s a lot like her sister, Eva Sollberger, who produces the Seven Days video series “Stuck in Vermont”: Both women are creative, hardworking, prolific. To reach her young readers, Margot has mastered the art of book promotion Margot Harrison on Instagram and TikTok. She’s reading from her new novel on Thursday, November 16, at Phoenix Books in Burlington, exactly one week after she bid adieu to the Palace 9. Better than a movie, it’s happening in real life. We couldn’t be prouder of her.

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Vermont health care workers are grappling with unprecedented workplace violence B Y CO L I N FL A ND ER S • colin@sevendaysvt.com

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he people who work in Vermont’s busiest emergency department have been punched in the face.

They’ve been bitten, stabbed with kitchen shears and battered with metal food trays.

They’ve had their lips split open, noses broken and eyes blackened.

Working in an emergency room always comes with risk. But as hospitals have absorbed the swell of humanity ill-served by so many other struggling systems of care, staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center say they have endured violence of a severity and frequency that is unprecedented — and unsustainable.

The escalating threats have led many to consider leaving their jobs. Some already have.

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Center responded by installing a metal detector and beefing up the presence of security guards. It also lobbied lawmakers for heightened legal protections.

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Now, hospital officials are embarking on a public awareness campaign about the unacceptable perils of emergency

care. Last month, a video produced by the UVM Health Network featuring testimony by its workers was featured on the New York Times website as part of an op-ed. The hospital followed up with a print and online campaign in local media calling for an end to the “silence on health care violence.” Overnight, Vermont’s only level-one trauma center became the face of a nationwide problem.

A rash of physical assaults in 2020 spurred the UVM Medical Center to start collecting better data on workplace violence. Staff members have reported more than 2,100 incidents since the start of 2021, according to the hospital. The vast majority have occurred in the emergency department, where employees UNDER SIEGE

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The two longest-serving Progressives on the Burlington City Council — Zoraya Hightower and Joe Magee — are not running for reelection in March.

Their seats, in Ward 1 and Ward 3, respectively, are two of eight that will be up for election on Town Meeting Day. Councilor Ali Dieng (I-Ward 7) has also told Seven Days that he is unlikely to seek another term. And Council President Karen Paul (D-Ward 6) is running for mayor, leaving her seat open.

The four other incumbents said they are running.

Hightower said she’s stepping down because she thinks she can be a better advocate if she’s not on the council. She also expressed frustration with party politics, saying she’s leaving “a little more jaded” than when she was first elected, in March 2020.

“I have really been lucky to serve the city for four years and to be in a position to make really tough decisions, but also, it’s been a tough four years,” she said.

Hightower is the council’s longestserving Progressive and the last Prog on the council who voted in June 2020 to reduce police staffing through attrition — a vote that sparked backlash and made national news. Hightower, who introduced the resolution, defended the vote last week, saying it forced the city to consider alternatives to traditional policing, such as embedding social workers in the police department. But she also lamented how long it’s taken to start some of those programs.

Magee joined the council in 2021 after a special election in Ward 3, which includes parts of the Old North End. But the rising cost of living there is one reason Magee decided to step down, he said, noting that he didn’t want to commit to another term and then have to leave if his rent became too costly.

Like Hightower, Magee described feeling disenchanted with Burlington politics and said councilors are too often pushed into rubber-stamping proposals from the administration instead of debating them.

“I didn’t run initially to get into partisan political fights,” he said. “There are a lot of aspects of the job that I enjoy, but I think the cons sort of outweigh the pros at this point for me.” ➆

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new walk-in health clinic will open early next year in downtown Burlington to treat patients hooked on the increasingly dangerous drugs available in the city.

Caroline and Geoff Butler, a husbandand-wife team that operates a similar nonprofit health center in Johnson, are setting up shop at 117 Bank Street, formerly a Christian Science reading room located across from the CityPlace Burlington site. They are partnering with Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, a nonprofit in the building next door that serves people with substanceuse disorder.

Twice a week, nurse practitioner Caroline will hold office hours to help patients manage their meds and connect with mental health services.

She will treat persistent wounds caused by xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that’s mixed in some of the drugs sold in Burlington. When she isn’t in the office, a staffer at Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform will connect her to patients via video.

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working with the criminal justice reform group that active drug users know and trust, the Butlers hope the clinic can steer some of the city’s most vulnerable residents into treatment.

“We need these services now,” Caroline said.

The supply of illegal drugs in Vermont has become particularly deadly since the pandemic. Between January and July of this year, the state tallied 140 overdose deaths involving opioids, up from 114 in all of 2019. Xylazine was detected in about one-third of this year’s cases.

THE SUPPLY OF ILLEGAL DRUGS IN VERMONT HAS BECOME

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C D Mattison Launches Campaign for Burlington Mayor STORY & PHOTO BY COURTNEY LAMDIN courtney@sevendaysvt.com

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A fourth candidate has joined the race to become Burlington’s next mayor.

C D Mattison, a Democrat, launched her campaign outside city hall on Monday. She was joined by a small but passionate group of supporters, who toted signs with her slogans: “One BTV” and “Trust. Innovation. Progress.”

Mattison, the only candidate not currently in elected office, will face two longtime politicians at the Democratic caucus on December 10: City Council President Karen Paul (D-Ward 6) and Councilor Joan Shannon (D-South District), who have a combined 35 years on the council. Vermont Rep. Emma Mulvaney-Stanak (P/D-Burlington), a former city councilor, is so far the only Progressive in the race.

If elected on Town Meeting Day, any of the candidates would be Burlington’s first-ever woman mayor.

On Monday, Mattison positioned herself as the antiestablishment candidate, a message she hopes will resonate with people who feel they’ve “been dismissed” by city government.

“I’m here today grateful for the trust you place in me: someone new,” she said. “This is our time. This is our Burlington.”

As a tech consultant, Mattison has worked for companies such as Burton Snowboards, OnLogic and Dick’s Sporting Goods, according to her LinkedIn profile. Mattison, who is gay and Black, serves on the board of directors for the Vermont Professionals of Color Network and Public Assets Institute. She also served on the Outright Vermont board for several years.

Like those of the candidates before her, Mattison’s speech on Monday touched on Burlington’s public safety challenges, which have left the city “in distress,” she said. Underscoring her point, Mattison noted that at the time of her campaign launch, Burlington police had just started a press conference about a Sunday night shooting that left two men dead.

“It’s taken too long to acknowledge that our downtown is in crisis, that our city is in crisis,” Mattison said.

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Under Siege « P.14 treat patients who are in the throes of drug withdrawal, severe pain and psychiatric crisis.

“All my friends have been assaulted,” said Joey Miller, a mental health technician who works in the emergency room.

Miller, who provides oneon-one supervision of psychiatric patients, said he has been spit on, kicked, scratched and threatened with a knife. Two years ago, a patient broke Miller’s hand. When he returned to work weeks later, still wearing a soft cast, he had to restrain someone who attacked three of his colleagues. He went home that day with a scratch across his face.

“I’ve never been bitten, which is very lucky and exceptional in my role,” Miller said.

One of the UVM Health Network ads Longtime medical workers say violent incidents spiked as the pandemic waned The impact on workers isn’t just and emergency departments became physical. The rising violence has added busier than ever. The UVM Medical to a growing sense of burnout among Center now sees between 200 and 220 emergency room staff, who were also emergency patients most days, a 10 to 20 on the front lines of the pandemic. It’s percent increase compared to the pre- also changed the way people approach COVID-19 figure. That’s led to longer their jobs. wait times and more frustration.

After suffering a broken nose at the There’s also been a startling rise in the hands of a patient last year, nurse Karah number of patients who are in psychiatric Newman felt herself panicking whenever crisis. Some days, half of the ER’s 45 or a patient became agitated. She now tries so beds are occupied by mental health to keep her distance from patients who patients, who can be confused, scared show signs of aggression and strives to and prone to outbursts. They often stay have other people in the vicinity whenever for days while awaiting transfer to one possible. of Vermont’s few inpatient psychiatric “I want to care for my patients and do units. The hospital has had to restrain what I can to make them better,” Newman patients far more often, at least once a said. “But I’m not going to put myself in day on average, data show. harm’s way anymore.”

Staff members say more patients seem Vigilance can come at the expense of to be arriving under the influence of alco- patient care. As a medical technician, hol or drugs that can cause paranoia or Alex Dees works closely with people aggression. when they first arrive: He starts IVs, But not every incident can be blamed draws blood, takes them to imaging. on substance use or mental illness, accord- Connecting with patients can be one of ing to Matt Looft, a charge nurse. Some the best parts of his job, he said. But it people who have assaulted staff members can be hard at times to “explain what have been fully aware of their actions and you’re doing, when in the back of your the potential harm. mind you’re thinking, This could go south “We care for people who are in crisis. at any moment.”

We see people on their bad days,” Looft Staff members said they know several said. “Often, that agitation or vulner- colleagues who have left the hospital in ability is magnified and can spill over in the past few years because of the violence. unexpected, uncharacteristic ways, like One is a psychiatric nurse named Lindsey, violence.” who asked that her last name be withheld

because years of verbal threats have left her concerned for her safety.

The 34-year-old worked in a Baltimore hospital for years and said she never felt concerned about being assaulted there. COVID-19 hit shortly after she came to Burlington, and patients started acting more aggressively.

One day, she had a panic attack after a patient punched her in the head. In the aftermath, racing thoughts kept her up at night and a knot of anxiety formed in her chest on the way to work each day. She began arriving an hour early so that she had time to mentally prepare herself. She lost weight, enough for her friends to wonder whether she had an eating disorder.

She stuck it out for as long as she could, but at her husband’s urging, Lindsey left the hospital in August 2020 for a job with the state health department. She has since joined an outpatient addiction treatment clinic, where she’s working with patients again.

“I feel like I’m helping again, as opposed to being a punching bag,” she said.

Emergency room staff believe violent patients aren’t always held accountable.

Some workers say they have pressed charges against assailants only to see the case go nowhere. At a press conference about workplace violence last year, nurses called out Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George, accusing her of not pursuing cases involving assaults on their colleagues.

George spoke to the nurses later that day and said the specific incidents they were referring to had never been filed with her office. She said there appeared to be a disconnect between her office and the Burlington Police Department, whose officers were choosing not to file charges against certain violent patients in the apparent belief that she would not prosecute them. Police Chief Jon Murad did not respond to requests for comment.

In an interview last week, George said she has met with emergency room staff every few months since summer

HOLIDAY SPARKLE 2022 to hear about their experiences and keep them updated about pending cases. She’s also told her staff to make sure she personally handles any case that involves an assault on a health care worker.

The cases aren’t always straightforward. In the 30 or so involving assaults on health care workers in the past three years, many defendants have been ordered to undergo competency evaluations, suggesting their mental status was in question.

That includes a St. Johnsbury man accused of punching an ER employee while waiting to be admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit last week. Police had brought the man to the hospital the previous night after he allegedly broke into a Burlington apartment through a fire escape, locked himself inside and took a shower. He was naked when police arrived, and he appeared to be under the influence of drugs — psychedelic mushrooms, he claimed.

The hospital now provides “security carts” that contain protective gear, such as penetration-resistant gloves and swim caps meant to prevent hair-pulling, that staff can put on when patients get out of control. And the hospital is training more people on de-escalation tactics. Miller, the medical technician, recently left that job to take another full-time position with the hospital providing those trainings.

“In every area of the hospital, people are taking workplace violence more seriously,” he said.

Among them are members of the UVM Health Network’s communications department, which is spearheading the public awareness campaign. The idea came about in the spring as the comms team brainstormed ways to support its clinical colleagues, according to hospital spokesperson Annie Mackin.

Ryan Mercer, a former longtime Burlington Free Press photographer, had been hearing stories about violence in the ER for some time and offered to produce a

LONGTIME MEDICAL WORKERS SAY VIOLENT INCIDENTS SPIKED AS THE PANDEMIC WANED

AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS BECAME BUSIER THAN EVER.

There have also been reporting delays.

Last week, George said she recently received three cases involving assaults at the hospital, including one in early July.

It’s unclear why it took the police department so long to send it.

Back at the hospital, ER workers say management appears to be taking their concerns seriously.

Under their recently negotiated new contracts, support staff members who witness or experience a violent attack can ask for time off to recover. The hospital must pay them for any hours they miss on the day of the incident and then allow them to take either unpaid leave or use their accrued time off. The collective bargaining agreements for nurses and resident physicians do not contain such language, but the hospital says it tries to accommodate them whenever possible.

Meanwhile, the security team has a greater presence in the ER. The metal detectors — which sometimes collected dust for lack of staff — now operate around the clock, and visitors can only bring in transparent bags. The hospital has confiscated nine guns and nearly 1,500 knives this year.

video that would shine a spotlight on the problem. He shot a similar video from inside the intensive care unit during the height of COVID-19, in a plea for people to get vaccinated. With help from clinical leaders in the ER, Mackin said, they filmed the video and sent it to the Times.

Staff at the paper helped edit it.

The hospital has spent about $23,000 on the campaign thus far. The goal was to prompt a “local and national” conversation about the issue, Mackin said.

It appears to be working: The video, produced by Mercer and his colleague, Roland Kielman, has been played 1.5 million times on the Times website, Mackin said, and another 500,000 times on the hospital’s Instagram account.

As for the overall message, Mackin said, it was quite simple: “The hospital has a big role to play in keeping people safe, but, just like with COVID, the community has a role, too.”

It’s a small gesture, but one workers say they appreciate.

“We’re the backstop, and we’re asking for help,” said Dees, the mental health technician, “even if that’s just people understanding what we’re going through.” ➆

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Thursdays and Fridays, but Caroline will be reachable via telehealth almost anytime. While Kirby’s office primarily works with people who have been incarcerated, anyone with substance-use disorder will be able to receive care at the clinic.

Kirby said the on-demand model addresses the unpredictable needs of her clients. On a recent Friday, for example, she picked up a man from the courthouse with no clothes to wear except his corrections-issued ones. He didn’t have anywhere to stay and was out of buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid-use disorder. Kirby called Caroline, who got him a refill before the pharmacy closed for the weekend.

“She always answers the phone,” Kirby said of Caroline. “If he would have relapsed on opiates that weekend, it is not far-fetched to say he may not be here right now. That’s how contaminated and deadly the drugs are.”

Weinberger agreed, saying in a statement that the more dangerous drug supply has made traditional treatment methods less effective. A partnership such as the one on Bank Street is a novel approach to a shifting problem, he said.

“The co-location of the VCJR recovery and re-entry center with a new primary care practice in the downtown is already proving to have a positive impact for the clients they serve,” Weinberger said. He called it “an example of the urgent, innovative responses we need to meet this moment.”

The emergent need for wound care has complicated drug treatment in Burlington.

Kirby, who is in recovery herself, has seen

abscesses develop at injection sites. But xylazine wounds are a different beast, she said, scrolling through photos on her cellphone.

In one, a large swath of a person’s shin was covered in an angry, scaly cut. Another, much smaller in diameter, looked like the person had been stabbed with a pencil.

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recently launched an overdose response team to treat patients with Narcan and hand out drug-testing supplies. The team also distributes wound kits — nearly 60 in the first two weeks, according to city data.

City officials have tried other ways to address the problem. Mayor Miro Weinberger has pressured the state to distribute its $23 million share of opioid settlement funds, which have been sitting in state coffers for months. He’s also directed more than $300,000 in city funds to Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, which helps formerly incarcerated people and those facing criminal charges find housing and get drug treatment. The nonprofit opened a year ago and already has nearly 200 clients.

Other city efforts have been more symbolic. Last month, city councilors passed a resolution declaring the drug crisis to be Burlington’s top public health and safety issue, but the vote has had little practical effect. The measure reiterated the council’s support for overdose prevention centers and called for holding two public forums this month, but neither has been scheduled.

Meantime, the Butlers’ Johnson Health Center has been a lifeline in Lamoille County. The center, which offers primary care and addiction treatment, opened in November 2022. Eight months later, the office was ravaged by the July flooding.

The center quickly created a makeshift office and leaned on telehealth to keep serving patients. Demand for its services has only grown.

At about the same time, Jess Kirby, the director for client services at Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, noticed that more of her clients had wounds in places where they weren’t injecting drugs. The gashes, a side effect of xylazine, can cut to the bone and lead to amputation.

Caroline Butler, who worked with Kirby years ago at another nonprofit, offered to help. For the past six months, she’s met with Kirby’s clients virtually and made weekly treks from Johnson to Burlington to see patients in person, treating them in a private room at Kirby’s office. When the building next door came up for rent, the Butlers couldn’t pass it up, though they were still rebuilding their Johnson clinic.

“It’s a matter of need. The need is so great,” Geoff Butler, the center’s executive director, said. “Caroline’s really passionate about a very low-low-barrier system and trying to get care to people who are extremely underserved.”

The clinic — called the Johnson Health Center on Bank Street — will be open on

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“These would have been once-a-year wounds in the past,” Caroline said, noting she’s treated more than 20 in the past month. “It’s everywhere.”

The wounds need to be kept clean, a challenge if the patient is unhoused or living outside. Many people resort to covering their injuries with paper towels, which aren’t sterile and can stick to the cuts.

The Butlers have already started handing out wound kits stocked with gauze, medical tape and antibiotics, but the supplies are expensive. Even Caroline’s own stash, which she keeps in a red Craftsman toolbox, was running low last week.

She said the clinic, once it opens, may hold a supply drive.

The office may also need financial support. The Butlers are stretching their existing budget to run the Burlington clinic but will look for other funding to cover costs that aren’t reimbursed by insurance or Medicaid. The clinic will also offer services without charge if the patient can’t pay.

Having a walk-in option avoids the need for appointments, which Kirby said are a struggle for some of her clients to keep. She also thinks people may prefer the clinic to a hospital visit because of the stigma associated with drug use and fear that their pain won’t be taken seriously.

Connecting the clinic to her office, which Kirby’s clients know and trust, could encourage them to seek care, she said.

“People are really at risk of dying every day,” she said. “We really want to make it work for people.”

Before that can happen, the Butlers need to make the Bank Street office their own. The two main spaces will be transformed into patient rooms; the kitchen will become a small laboratory. The bathroom already has a shower that patients can use.

The new endeavor doesn’t mean the Butlers will abandon their central Vermont patients, Caroline said: The couple reopened their Johnson health center last week. It’s already as busy as ever. ➆

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More than 200 people marched from a rally at Burlington City Hall to the sidewalk outside the Main Street business where a “Welcome Congresswoman Balint!” sign had been set up. They were not allowed to enter because the building was at capacity, staff members said.

“Becca, Becca, you can’t hide!” the protesters chanted in unison from the sidewalk. “We charge you with genocide!”

Jewish Voice for Peace-Vermont organized the protest with participation from several other groups, including Migrant Justice, Vermonters for Justice in Palestine and Veterans for Peace. The Voice for Peace chapter has existed for several years, but its ranks have swelled fivefold since the war broke out on October 7, an organizer said.

On that date, Hamas militants from Gaza killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and took more than 200 as hostages in a massive surprise attack.

In response, Israel’s unrelenting military campaign has since killed more than 10,000 Palestinians and caused worry about a widening conflict.

Jewish Voice for Peace has been calling for Vermont’s congressional delegation to support an immediate cease-fire.

Inside the fundraiser, Balint told her supporters that she and U.S. Sens.

Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) have called for a “humanitarian pause” to the hostilities “because people are dying.” But a cease-fire is impractical, she said, because Hamas would not honor one.

“A cease-fire can only happen when two parties are willing to do it,” she said.

But a pause, she said, would enable getting food, water and fuel to people who desperately need it.

Earlier last Thursday, the White House announced that Israel had agreed to daily, four-hour “pauses” to allow Palestinian civilians to flee.

As Balint addressed attendees, chants from outside could be heard. And a few protesters who had purchased tickets and got into the event spoke up inside, at one point reading names of Palestinians who have been killed.

On the sidewalk, meantime, protesters only got more raucous as the evening wore on. They held signs up to the plate glass windows out front, showing people inside messages such as “Ceasefire Now.” A man with a bullhorn standing near the window peered inside and reported back to his fellow protesters: “They’re having hors d’oeuvres! They’re having cocktails!”

“Shame! Shame! Shame!” the crowd chanted.

In speeches earlier in the evening outside city hall, protest leaders decried U.S. aid to Israel and Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

“Now almost 11,000 Palestinians are dead, half of them children,” Kathy Shapiro told the crowd. “How many more need to die? Does one war crime justify another? No, never.”

Organizers said they have been frustrated because the members of Vermont’s congressional delegation had declined to meet with them personally, though they’ve talked to congressional staffers. Balint ultimately agreed to meet with representatives of the group over Zoom, according to Shapiro.

“It’s a very small step,” Shapiro said later. “But we’re going to make it clear that we won’t stop what we’re doing.” ➆

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ways it is reaching across class divides in Chittenden County. Perhaps there is an opportunity for a follow-up piece.

Cayenne MacHarg

BURLINGTON

MacHarg is a board member of the Burlington Football Club.

‘DERELICTION OF JOURNALISTIC DUTY’

In “From the Publisher: Don’t Stop Shopping” [November 1], Marc Sherman tells Paula Routly on the phone: “It’s not helping anybody to continue to talk about what’s wrong in Burlington.” Routly writes that “Sherman’s message was clear” and goes on for six paragraphs about how we have a civic duty to shop locally, especially at Seven Days’ advertisers and corporate partners.

I agree that Sherman’s message was clear but think Routly is missing the boat. The message is the same as that found in numerous letters to the editor lately: This paper’s coverage — particularly in notes “From the Publisher” — is focused on the negative in a way that is contributing to the problem, not helping it. I’ve been disappointed by this publication’s turn to fear, uncertainty and doubt, even as I’ve been pleasantly surprised to read a nuanced account of the state of our city in the Burlington Free Press: September’s “Burlington City Hall Park: How City’s Centerpiece Reflects Community’s Pain and Beauty” by Lilly St. Angelo.

We need more coverage like that, not columns like “Burlington Blues” and “Don’t Stop Shopping.” There is no doubt that these issues are many-faceted, but to say the solution is eating cheeseburgers for the next 10 days is, frankly, a dereliction of journalistic duty.

Dan Suder

BURLINGTON

‘SAVE ROOM FOR WILDLIFE’

In “On Thin Ice” [October 11], University of Vermont science professor Paul Bierman speaks of a potential sea rise of 20 feet if the Greenland ice sheet melts by the end of the century. Think about Boston becoming a series of islands. He says that 40 percent of the world’s population — more than 3 billion people — live near a seacoast.

In this meltdown scenario, I suspect the Northeast, including Vermont, likely will not be immune from intense pressure to develop more and more land, even our precious mountain ranges.

The price of conserving land will continue to rise, perhaps exponentially as more people are displaced. The cost in reduced wild areas and wildlife diversity will also rise.

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THE PICTURE OF INJUSTICE

I finally got to read Joe Sexton’s incredible piece on Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center and Grace Welch [“The Loss of Grace,” October 25]. I was deeply moved, angered and saddened. First and foremost, thank you for putting this huge effort into something so important that was repeatedly swept under the carpet by so many professionals. My anger lies in the fact that these people did not get their feet held to the fire, so to speak — in any way. That is true to this day. I am familiar with some of those players, and I was shocked.

Sexton should receive a writer’s award for his portrayal of this horrible injustice.

Deborah Moore

UNDERHILL CENTER

‘MANY GRACES OUT THERE’

Lots of blame, labels and medications to go around [“The Loss of Grace,” October 25]. So many looked the other way. Grace Welch blew through a lot of people, systems, schools, hospitals — some well intentioned. Whatever happened to humane treatment? Standards and guidelines for state facilities; confidence in elected officials; and there are still many Graces out there. Let us pay for prevention, not litigation.

Ruth Furman

JERICHO

DOCTORS’ NOTE

We physicians who formerly provided care at Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center are collectively shocked

Northeast Wilderness Trust works exclusively on nature conservation, prioritizing wildlife habitat and maintaining ecological processes — keeping land fully protected from future development.

The org’s wildlands ecologist, Shelby Perry, recently completed an 80-mile walk for wilderness with a goal of raising $10,000 toward conserving Bear’s Nest Wilderness Preserve, approximately 2,721 acres at the center of the binational wildlife movement corridor. To date, donations total $7,735.00.

Save room for wildlife. They wish to raise families, too.

Bernie Paquette

JERICHO

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and saddened to read [“The Loss of Grace,” October 25], on the abusive maltreatment in the North Unit. We observed thoughtful treatment under director Dr. Judith Christiansen as we provided health care for the residents at Woodside.

Historically, the vast majority of residents received access to primary care, a working school, intensive on-site psychiatric care and off-site specialty care. This über-structured environment included frequent Department for Children and Families meetings to determine the best path back to the community. The goal was never for youth to remain in the juvenile justice system.

Joe Sexton’s exposé illustrates how youth residential placement in Vermont can be when they are not safe in their home, community or foster care. When Woodside was created in 1984, the state’s aim was to create a therapeutic space to meet the overwhelming needs of young Vermonters in DCF custody. Woodside was a place where the juvenile justice, health care, child protection and mental health systems convened.

A residential facility, run well, is both possible and crucial for troubled youths who otherwise end up on the street, sent out of state at great emotional and financial cost, or — worse — deceased.

Prevention and stabilization in our communities is the ideal approach for the many children involved in our ongoing mental health crisis. But for those who are not well served by living on the street, incarcerated in an adult facility or in the emergency room, a safe and therapeutic

center, or multiple smaller centers, must be implemented in Vermont.

Heat Buildings With Wood-Fired Steam,” September 27]: Every article I read for or against net zero or so-called climate change seems only to point out the utter hypocrisy we all share on this issue.

I fully support sound environmental policies, but are we blinded by the corruption of science as it is today?

Science used to be the pursuit of the truth and now is simply corrupted by political motivations and the almighty dollar — to present what the dollar wants you to promote and conclude to be “scientific-proof” for your political beliefs.

Science is now simply a political tool.

Esteemed scientists who dispute net zero or climate change are ridiculed and all but disbarred from the scientific and research fields in academia, often subject to McCarthyism tactics to expunge their scientific research and conclusions and even ruin their personal lives.

Already in Vermont, those perhaps with the best of intentions are in bed with those with political motivations to direct “in the name of science” how you must alter and limit your personal choices and freedoms we take for granted.

If I take one step out of Vermont, north, south, east or west, how will all the political restrictions we face from Montpelier to “cure climate change” make a whit of difference?

Can anyone dare to read how some European countries are scaling back on net zero, while China approved 106 gigawatts of new coal-fired capacity?

Each day, hundreds of vehicles in Vermont line up outside our schools to drop off and pick up our children. Will climate-change hypocrisy restrictions soon disallow this freedom of choice?

Elizabeth Hunt

CHARLOTTE

Jeremiah Dickerson

COLCHESTER

Alan Rubin

BURLINGTON

FOREVER HAUNTED

I read “The Loss of Grace” [October 25] cover story last weekend. It took me three days because the sheer horror of revelations forced me to take significant breaks between readings.

This story — no, this Vermont reality — will forever haunt me. And I hope it does. None of us must ever look away again or forget what happened at Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center. The state’s “settlement” in the end is shameful at best. Those legislators, judges and state administrators who had awareness of the cruelty and mistreatment of all those children deserve a stint at Woodside, in my opinion.

I am incredibly thankful to Joe Sexton for his pursuit of the full record. And sincere thanks and a warm hug to Kerrie Johnson, who would not give up on Grace Welch or the unspeakable actions at Woodside. I applaud the courage and judgment of Seven Days in publishing this important article.

Barbara Biemeck BARRE TOWN

Robert “Bob” Devost

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OBITUARIES

George Bedard

Joan Garrity O’Brien

MAY 15, 1944NOVEMBER 5, 2023 HINESBURG, VT.

George Eugene Bedard of Hinesburg, Vt., died on November 5, 2023, after a long battle with cancer and Parkinson’s disease, at the age of 79. George was born in 1944 in St. Johnsbury to Robert W. and Yvonne L. Bedard and was the eldest of six children.

He first attended St. Johnsbury Academy, graduating in 1962, and then enrolled at Saint Michael’s College, where he started to pursue a degree in medicine.

George put his studies on pause when he enlisted with the U.S. Army in the First Cavalry, Armored Division, Artillery Survey, and served in Vietnam. He returned home after an honorable discharge and completed his higher education with a BS in business administration at the University of Vermont. It was there that he met his future wife, Janis Peplau.

George was self-employed as a land surveyor and a Realtor for decades and was very active in lending his expertise in any scenario where it could help people with their questions about their land. He served on the local planning commission for more than 20 years as an advocate for the community and its citizens, particularly farmers.

Family meant the world to George, and he took great pride in his children and grandchildren. Across multiple states (and occasionally the international date line), he and his siblings maintained close and supportive relationships, including through a weekly Zoom call in recent years that he looked forward to all week. He could often be found manning the grill at any cookout, even if it wasn’t his own. George was

JULY 29, 1924-NOVEMBER 4, 2023 SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT.

always happy to flip burgers and spin a tale or two to those who would pass by.

George passed peacefully at the McLure Miller Respite House in a sun-warmed room, surrounded by his children and his wife of 52 years.

George was preceded in death by his parents. George is survived by his wife, Janis; their four children, Melanie, Joseph (Margaret), Benjamin (Megan) and Christiana; his four grandchildren, Lucian, Addison, Renee and Orion; and his five siblings, Joann Jurentkuff (Darwin), Marie Hagan, Rachel Perry (Carl), Elizabeth and John.

He is also loved and remembered fondly by his international “kids” Magnus Halberg (Sweden), Tobias Toyberg-Franzen (Sweden), Martin Wesley-Holand (Norway), Josua Burkhart (Switzerland), Nik Weigelt (Switzerland) and Natascha Oberli (Switzerland), as well as many other shorter-term exchange students over the past 30-plus years.

His family would like to thank the wonderful people at UVM Home Health & Hospice, especially case manager-turned-friend Judy Johnson. George had an incredible team providing for his care over the past seven months, and his family expresses their heartfelt gratitude to the LNAs, nurses, Dr. Nancy Long, and the staff and volunteers at the McClure Miller Respite House.

Joan Garrity O’Brien, age 99, of South Burlington, departed this earthly realm, surrounded by her devoted family and the caring staff at Quarry Hill Residence, on November 4, 2023.

Born in Hartford, Conn., on July 29, 1924, to Bart Garrity and Kathryn (Magner) Garrity, Joan pursued her academic interests at Mount St. Mary’s, where she graduated summa cum laude.

She later completed her education at the University of Vermont and Notre Dame of Maryland University. It was at Mount St. Mary’s that she met the love

LeRoy Vidrine

MAY 8, 1939-NOVEMBER 7, 2023 WILLISTON, VT. LeRoy Vidrine, 89, passed away peacefully on November 7, 2023, surrounded by his loving family.

LeRoy was born in a little town called Pine Prairie in central Louisiana. He loved fishing in the bayou, playing baseball and hanging out with friends.

He graduated from Pine Prairie High School in 1952 and enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served for one year in the electronics school at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and then spent two years in Maryland working for the Army. LeRoy then enrolled in the engineering program at Louisiana State University on the GI Bill, graduating in 1960.

LeRoy went to work for Westinghouse, and during a ski vacation in Québec, he picked up a woman who was hitchhiking with her skis. This was Louise Picard, who was practicing nursing in Canada. They were married in 1962, in Québec City.

of her life, Edward “Ned” O’Brien, who served in World War II. They married after the war, building a family with seven children and enjoying 56 years of marriage.

Joan was the epitome of a dedicated family matriarch, shuttling her children to various activities and actively engaging in her community. In addition to her many accomplishments, Joan was a passionate member of a duplicate bridge club, spending decades competing and sharing stories with her bridge partners, deriving immense joy from these gatherings.

Summers at Starr Farm Beach were a cherished tradition, creating enduring family memories and the unforgettable

sound of Joan’s distinctive and unmistakable dinner call, echoing like a joyful yodel.

Joan leaves behind seven children, 16 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and her brother, Tom (Liz) Garrity.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ned; her parents; and siblings Betsy and Evie.

Visitation will be held on November 17, 2023, 9:30 to 11 a.m., at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, 158 West St., Essex Junction, with a mass of Christian burial at 11 a.m. Interment will follow at Resurrection Park Cemetery in South Burlington. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations to the Quarry Hill Employee Appreciation Fund in Joan’s memory.

Arrangements are in care of LaVigne Funeral & Cremation Service. To view the complete obituary and send online condolences to her family, please visit vtfuneralhomes.com.

LeRoy and Louise moved to Baltimore and had their first child, Sylvie Vidrine, in 1964. The family then moved to California for a year and had their second child, Jerry Vidrine.

In 1966, LeRoy got a job as an electrical engineer at GE in Burlington, Vt., and worked there until 1995.

The family enjoyed boating and fishing on Lake Champlain, playing tennis, and skiing at Bolton Valley. They regularly took trips to Louisiana and Québec to see family. LeRoy knew how to cook delicious Cajun food and enjoyed playing poker and tennis with his friends. He was famous for being able to fix anything, and when the job was complete, he would declare “That’s a Cajun patent pending!”

In 1995, LeRoy and Louise moved to St. Albans. In 1999, LeRoy welcomed his first granddaughter, Shea Dunlop, and in 2001, his second granddaughter, Rowan Dunlop. LeRoy played a huge role in his grandkids’ lives: They went ice fishing and tapped trees for maple syrup, and he made the kids cup after

cup of “café au lait”: a little coffee and a lot of whipped cream.

In 2006, LeRoy and Louise moved to Williston. As his grandkids got older, going from Hinesburg Community School to Champlain Valley Union High School, LeRoy regularly boasted of “Grandpapa’s Taxi Service.” He often brought the kids to their dance classes and attended all of their plays and recitals.

LeRoy is survived by his wife of 60 years, Louise Picard Vidrine; their two children and families: Sylvie Vidrine, her husband, Brian Dunlop, and their children, Shea Dunlop and Rowan Dunlop; and Jerry Vidrine and his dog, Stevie; his brothers, Don Vidrine and Tim Vidrine; and his sister, Mary Ann Vidrine.

The family will have a private gathering in LeRoy’s memory.

The family would like to extend their sincere thanks to the staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center ICU for their compassionate and extraordinary care of LeRoy. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Critical Care Nursing Fund at the UVM Medical Center by mail at St. Joseph’s Home, 5th Floor, 1 S. Prospect St., Burlington, VT 05401, or online at give.uvmhealth.org/ medcenter.

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OBITUARIES Wendell F. Corron AUGUST 30, 1933NOVEMBER 11, 2023 MONTGOMERY CENTER, VT.

Julia Northrop APRIL 15, 1928OCTOBER 22, 2023 UNDERHILL, VT.

Julia Smith Northrop, age 95, passed away on Saturday, October 28, 2023.

Julia, born on April 15, 1928, was the youngest child of Charles P. and Dora F. Smith of Burlington, Vt. She was the mother of four children: Patricia Boutilier, William Salmon, Grace Freeman and Charles Salmon.

In 1963, she married Robert P. Northrop, of Underhill Center, Vt. There, they blended their families in a home where she lived for 60 years.

Julia was a lover of life.

Music, gardening, farming, friends and family filled her days. She loved all animals and was an avid reader. She taught us to overcome life’s struggles, to work hard, to respect and embrace the natural world, and to always enjoy a good party!

Mom will be greatly missed by her children, seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and great-great-granddaughter.

Per Julia’s wishes, there will be no services at this time. Her family will be holding private services at a later date.

For those who wish, contributions in Julia’s memory may be made to Audubon Vermont at Green Mountain Audubon Center, 255 Sherman Hollow Rd., Huntington, VT 05462.

Condolences, photos and favorite memories may be shared through gossfs.com.

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Wendall F. Corron, age 90, died peacefully in his sleep on November 11, 2023, in Montgomery Center, Vt., as he prepared for a weekend at deer camp.

Strong, healthy and active to the end!

He was born at home in Enosburg Falls, Vt., on August 30, 1933. The nearby woods and stream were his playground, where he learned the habits of wildlife. He knew and appreciated the birds, bees, animals, trees and foraging throughout Vermont.

Wendall met Norma Sullivan

Russell Fellows

NOVEMBER 22, 1944NOVEMBER 9, 2023 JERICHO, VT. Russell Fellows passed away on November 9 while delighting in the beauty of nature and the joy of traveling with good friends on one of his many motorcycle adventures.

Russell Miller Fellows was born in Springfield, Vt., in 1944 to Carole Whittemore Fowler and Edwin Russell Fellows. His strong love of family and Vermont grew from his small-town roots and his deep connection to its history. Russell carried on his family’s legacy of invention and art throughout his life as a master woodworker, bowl turner and fixer of any broken thing.

He grew with up his sisters, Susan, Jane and Anne, in Springfield and

while serving in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1956. They met in Washington D.C., in 1955 and married on March 17, 1956. He worked at Westinghouse until retiring in 1991.

He was then free to enjoy his family and friends; tend to his garden; and go hunting, fishing and camping.

Wendall was always willing to help friends and family repair cars, appliances and anything else that wasn’t working right. He was our go-to guy.

He was a lifelong learner who adapted to new technology and used his iPad to research anything that interested him, to compare prices for parts or to watch a video with a great-grandchild.

You might find him working in his garden, tinkering with his truck, mowing the grass, enjoying a campfire, at happy hour on Fridays, or preparing a memorable meal of spaghetti or red beans and rice for Sunday dinner.

He was Papa to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they adored him. Whether it was pancakes for breakfast, ATV rides around the property and at camp, reading, fishing and hunting together, or puzzles, he was always happy to play.

He showed us the value of staying active, spending time outdoors, observing nature, not being afraid to get your hands dirty, eating healthy, putting your stubbornness to advantage and persevering to get things done, and being with family.

He is survived by Norma, his loving wife of 67 years; four children: Sheila (Donald) Quenneville, Cindy (Franko) Pavlik, Becky (Chris) Rochford and Dean (Tina)

Corron; nine grandchildren: Justin Quenneville, Amy (Jake) Todd, Taylor Pavlik (Kelly Walker), Jordan Pavlik, Sarah (Pat) Mulcahy, C.J. Rochford (Keely O’Brien), Dylan Rochford (Meg Cleary), Zachary Corron (Caitlin Ross) and Jake Corron; seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and good friends.

Wendall was predeceased by his parents, Fred and Clyda Derry Corron, and his siblings, Douglas Corron, Phyllis Sorrell, Beatrice Sanborn, Virginia King and Helen Hayes.

Arrangements are in the care of Ready Funeral & Cremation Service, 261 Shelburne Rd., Burlington, VT. Visiting hours will be on Saturday, November 18, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. To send online condolences, please visit readyfuneral.com.

In remembrance of Wendall, the family suggests that charitable donations be made to the Burlington VA Clinic, c/o VA Medical Center, Attn: Voluntary Service, 215 N. Main St., White River Junction, VT 05009.

his Whittemore cousins, Jeff, Tony, Wendy and Todd.

Russell graduated from the Vermont Academy and Middlebury College and retained a lifelong, youthful curiosity about the world and people.

Russell and Bob Coates met 43 years ago. They supported each other’s pursuits and passions, whether it was Bob’s business or Russell’s woodworking.

Together, they generously offered love and support to their wide circle of friends and family.

Russ and Bob happily welcomed their nephew Whitney into their family and considered Whitney’s children, Brendan and Delia, as grandchildren. Russell enjoyed their company greatly. Every summer, Uncles Bob and Russ and Brendan and Delia went on a road trip together.

Russell and Bob created

welcoming homes, where families and friends were always invited to gather. They remade the family camp on Thorndike Pond in Jaffrey, N.H., where generations of Fellows, Whittemores and Coates gathered for fun summer days, wonderful meals and rides in Uncle Russ’ jet boat.

In Sarasota, they created an oasis for their many guests and a winter retreat for Russell, who enjoyed woodworking in his shop with his many friends. Their friendship with next-door neighbors Bernadette and Lynn made it home.

It was in Jericho, Vt., where Bob and Russ created a home that brought peace and warmth to them and to their family and friends. Russ built the inviting house, and he and Bob filled it with furniture and art they handcrafted together. The trestle table that Russ built long ago was well-used by generations of grateful dinner guests. A lineage of Airedale terriers provided additional love and entertainment.

In his barn studio, Russell explored his talent for turning bowls, using tools handed down from

his grandfather. He became an award-winning, master bowl turner and found equal joy in sharing his knowledge with others. He joined the Vermont Woodchuck Woodturners Association and hosted weekly gatherings around his lathe in his Skunk Hollow Studio. He was also a member of the Sarasota Woodturners Association.

Russell pursued motorcycle riding with a similar focus, passion and skill.

As an expert rider, he explored every road in Vermont and joined tours to explore the American West, Canada, Europe and Asia, with his good friends and cousins.

Russell is survived by Bob Coates; his beloved nephew Whitney Fellows; Whitney’s children, Brendan and Delia, Jenn Fellows and Tessa Bussière; nieces Colleen Merrick and Kate Browall; and nephew Joey Merrick and his wife, Kelly; and many adored nieces and nephews.

In honor of a life very well lived, and in lieu of flowers, please consider a gift to Diversity Sarasota at diversitysarasota.org/donate. A gathering will be held in the spring at Skunk Hollow.

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Madi MacFarquhar

SEPTEMBER 14, 1927NOVEMBER 1, 2023 BURLINGTON, VT. Madi MacFarquhar, a Burlington resident for 38 years, died on November 1, 2023. She was 96. Madi died peacefully in her sleep in Lawrenceville, Ga., where she moved in 2022 so her oldest daughter could help care for her.

She first arrived in Burlington in 1984, living for 31 years at 37 Ledgemere Street, before residing at Harborview and then Elderwood. Her favorite pastimes included gardening, traveling and browsing Fletcher Free Library for new books about history.

Well into her eighties, Madi was a stalwart member of the Edge’s early morning adult aquatics program.

Another member, the late Judy Kelly, once remarked that those tempted to sleep in always remembered that Madi, at least a decade older than almost everyone else, would not miss a class, so they had best not, either.

Born Marie Madeline Gribi on September 14, 1927, in Bern, Switzerland, her Swiss family immigrated to the United States in 1938, as the rise of the Nazis began to convulse Europe. Madi graduated from Mount Holyoke College and worked briefly

as a model in New York City, including, she recalled, posing in a bright red sweater for a young photographer named Richard Avedon.

In 1949, she married Murdo M. MacFarquhar, an engineer, moving with him on oil company assignments to South Africa, the Netherlands, Libya and Scotland. The couple had four children, Nina, Peter, Gail and Neil, all of whom survive her, as do 12

grandchildren, 19 greatgrandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

The longest posting, in Libya, lasted 13 years, and she was often critical of the way the United States intervened in the Middle East. “They behave the way the Romans used to and will go the same way,” she once wrote in a letter.

Widowed in 1977, Madi first moved to San Francisco but, hankering for a smaller city, was delighted to discover Burlington, with its echoes of the Swiss Alps and rich cultural offerings.

No matter where her children were in the world, they always received updates from Ledgemere Street on the summer garden. “It’s skimpy,” she reported in 1989. “I might not be able to eat when the crops come in.”

She loved to travel to farflung destinations, including several stints volunteering on archeological expeditions on Easter Island and elsewhere. Once, remarking on the logistics needed to catch an airport taxi on Cyprus, Madi wrote, “I don’t feel like being cheated by cab drivers. They will think they are seeing a naïve grandmother instead of a well-travelled battle axe.”

A memorial ceremony will be held in Decatur, Ga., on Sunday, November 19.

Funeral arrangements in Vermont are still pending.

skills to build a hunting camp in 1987. He enjoyed the solitude and quiet in the Vermont woods. He treasured hours spent with his daughters and grandchildren, of whom he was very proud.

Steve and Gail (Bears Sylver), his second wife, traveled for 14 years in their camper, seeing most of the U.S., including a summer in Alaska. Summers were spent

in Vermont and Saranac Lake, and winters were in Florida. Due to illness, Florida became their permanent residence in 2022.

Steve is survived by his wife, Gail; his daughters, Tausha (Adam) of Shelburne, Vt., and Lisa (Sven); and Lisa’s two children, Sam and India, of Ottawa, Canada.

He is also survived by three sisters, Sister Constance Sylver of Carthage, N.Y., Deb Doscher of Weare, N.H., and Sue King of Portage, Mich.; his sister-in-law; his brothers-in-law; and his nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by his parents; his brother, Alan; and his beloved dog, Button.

Steve is remembered for his courage when fighting adversity, his quiet demeanor, his dry humor and his giving spirit in helping others. He will be missed by all of his family and friends.

Stephen Sylver

DECEMBER 26, 1948SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 MONTGOMERY, VT. Stephen E. Sylver passed away on September 27, 2023, at home with family by his side. Steve was born on December 26, 1948, to Clarence and Marjorie Sylver. He grew up in West Carthage, N.Y., and graduated from Carthage Central School. He was proud of becoming an Eagle Scout and equally proud of his military service. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in Korea, Kansas and New Mexico.

While in the service, he married Mary Jewett in 1969. They settled in Jericho, Vt., where they raised their family. Steve drove tractor trailers for UPS for more than 30 years.

Steve enjoyed carpentry projects and used his

William Harold Buckingham

FEBRUARY 13, 1947NOVEMBER 4, 2023 MILTON, VT. William Harold Buckingham,76, made his unexpected exit from this world after complications from a surgical “tune-up” on Saturday, November 4, 2023. Bill was the firstborn of Lorraine (Lemay) and Frederick Buckingham.

Some of his siblings say he was the favorite child, and there is no doubt he was doted on by his large extended family, which included many aunts, uncles and cousins. Then his four brothers and two sisters arrived, and he became the big brother with all the answers.

Bill was a self-proclaimed philosopher and expert on most things. Although he was usually right, he could convince others that he knew what he was talking about, even when he didn’t!

Bill grew up in Mexico, Maine, and attended St. Theresa’s Catholic School, where he both caused mischief and melted the hearts of various nuns. He then attended Mexico High School, where he made his mark on the football, track and crosscountry fields, and in English class. He was proud of his hometown and the lifelong friends he made there.

Bill decided to sabotage his college career at Plymouth State College by growing his hair too long for his father’s liking. Rather than cut his hair in exchange for tuition payment, Bill enlisted and became a sergeant in the United States Air Force and ended up with a buzz cut anyway.

After marrying his former wife and high school sweetheart, Gloria (Radcliff) Vaznis, Bill was stationed in Hawaii and faithfully guarded the pineapples and beaches from foreign and domestic terrors. After his first son, Christopher, was born and his service ended, Bill returned and settled his family back in Maine, and a few years later, daughter Lynn was born.

Bill was extremely proud of his children, including his stepson, Ryan Delorme, who joined the family when Bill relocated to Vermont and met and married the love of his life, Sarah Elizabeth “Beth” (Delorme).

Bill was smitten from the start, and Beth was no match for his baby blues and charm. Bill dabbled in several trades, including working as a mill worker and an officer with the Mexico Police Department before working in the telecommunications industry in Maine and Vermont for most of his adult life. Bill would point out locations and regale tales of cable troubles and the heroic lengths he would go to fix them (or maybe just supervise as others fixed them). He enjoyed meeting people and made connections with everyone he met. This led to his appointment as chief steward for Union IBEW 2326 and then, eventually, to his role as local manager for Verizon.

Bill had the ability to cut to the chase and was often the voice of reason. He put people at ease and always, always made a wisecrack or joke. This past May marked 37 years of sobriety for Bill.

He dedicated himself to growing from his struggles and was a sponsor for countless others in local Alcoholics Anonymous programs and led programs at Maple Leaf Treatment Center.

Bill was a professional napper and could fall asleep anywhere, anytime. He pretended to be a professional golfer for many years, and a few of his best friendships were created on the golf course. In retirement he loved to golf, but he especially liked to spend time in the yard around the home he shared with Beth. They would spend hours perfecting the lawn and perennials, as well as feeding and watching the birds. Bill’s full-time job was to cater to their beloved lab, Gustopher Butter Reginald Buckingham. The dog had the most loving companion and pampered life.

One of the greatest joys

in his life was visiting with family in Maine. He was the lead entertainment at Lemay Reunions, along with his sidekick, brother Mike.

Each year, he and his brothers, uncles, son, grandsons, cousins and adopted brothers would travel to special spots deep in the Maine woods to fly fish, eat, laugh, fart and tell stories — all favorites of Bill.

He is survived by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Buckingham, of Milton, Vt.; their son, Ryan Delorme, of Burlington, Vt.; his son, Christopher Buckingham, and his wife, Jill, of St. Johnsbury, Vt.; his daughter, Lynn, and husband, Alec Newell, of Bethel, Maine; grandchildren Nolan, Dane and Ella Buckingham, and Caroline and Emma Newell; brothers Russell Buckingham and wife Debbie of Sebring, Fla., Bruce Buckingham and wife Bonnie of Mexico, Maine, Michael Buckingham and wife Kathy of Litchfield, Maine, Matthew Buckingham of Poland, Maine; and sisters Laurie and husband Kevin Arsenault of Berlin, N.H., and Cindy and husband John Hutchinson of Carthage, Maine. He is also survived by siblings-in-law Bert Delorme of Burlington, Vt., Ben Delorme of Rutland, Vt., Becky Delorme of Burlington, Vt., Barbara and husband Frank Brunette of Burlington, Vt.; and niece Sabriana Decker and husband Eric and their children, Bradley, Lucy and Benjamin; as well as many special cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. Bill was predeceased by his parents, Frederick Perley and Lorraine Theresa (Lemay) Buckingham, and mother-in-law, Angela Delorme.

A mass of Christian burial will be held at Saint Mark Roman Catholic Church, 1251 North Ave., Burlington, on Thursday, November 16, at 11 a.m., with burial to follow at Resurrection Park Cemetery.

A reception will follow at the Elks Lodge, 925 North Ave., Burlington, Vt. A celebration of life in Maine will be held at a later date.

Arrangements are in care of LaVigne Funeral & Cremation Service. To send online condolences to his family please visit vtfuneralhomes.com.

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OBITUARIES Steven Patterson

OCTOBER 5, 1947NOVEMBER 6, 2023 MIDDLESEX, VT. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Steve Patterson, of Middlesex, on November 6, 2023. Steve died peacefully, with his wife, Sally, by his side. He was 76 years old.

Steve’s life was a beacon of goodness, kindness and bravery to all who loved him. He possessed a keen intelligence, a wry sense of humor and an understanding heart. If you were lucky enough to be in the light of Steve’s love, you were well cared for indeed.

Born on October 5, 1947, to Alice and Harold Patterson of Middlesex, Steve was a lifelong Vermonter, a product of deep, proud Irish roots on his father’s side in Middlesex, and the strong resiliency of his French Canadian grandparents — who were early 20thcentury immigrants to Barre’s granite industry jobs — on his mother’s side.

Steve’s love for his home state knew no bounds. Since his Middlesex boyhood, his passion for the traditions of fly-fishing and, later, deer hunting brought him great joy throughout his life. Steve loved being quiet and observant in the outdoors. The natural environment was his religion.

Of paramount importance in his life, though, was family.

Steve was fiercely committed to and protective of his family all of his life. Honoring his mother, Alice, and stepfather,

Howard Walbridge, as they lived together into old age was his privilege and his life commitment as a loving and dependable son. Being a younger brother to his beloved sister Sally gave him a special sense of security throughout their upbringing together by a strong single mother, especially after their father Harold’s and baby sister Linda’s premature deaths when Steve was 5 years old.

Steve discovered the joys of fatherhood after marrying his first wife and lifelong friend, Brenda Bean. Through their years of marriage and beyond their parting, they co-parented beloved daughter Sarah Patterson together.

Steve’s pride in Sarah and her life accomplishments over the years never waned.

Steve took great pride in his 33 years of sobriety, beginning in 1992. At that time, Steve began to live his life anew with confidence, a clear mind and a more open heart. Two years after this fresh start, he met coworker Sally Cavanagh.

Steve and Sally’s long friendship deepened into love, and they married in 2005, beginning the longest, most joyful and fulfilling partnership and family chapter in his life.

IN MEMORIAM Harlaine Miller

1944-2023 A celebration of Harlaine “Holly” Miller’s life will take place on Friday, November 17, 2023, 1 p.m., at the University of Vermont’s Davis Center in Burlington, with a reception to follow. All are invited to attend.

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Steve’s long career was primarily a mix of journalism, Democratic politics and Vermont state government. Straight out of Montpelier High School, Steve obtained a journalism degree from Becker College in Massachusetts and was editor of the college literary magazine while there. He then spent six years as a Rutland Herald and Times-Argus news reporter, covering government at the local and then the state level as a member of the Vermont Press Bureau.

He also worked for a time as a correspondent for the Boston Globe.

During a period of selfemployment, Steve directed a state environmental awareness project and worked in public relations for governor Tom Salmon’s 1974 reelection campaign. Entering state government for a time, he brought his media affairs expertise to his work as consumer affairs chief for the Vermont Department of Banking & Insurance. While on leave from state government, Steve managed Jim Guest’s successful 1976 Vermont secretary of state campaign. He returned to state government for the next several years as a special assistant attorney general and managed press relations for Vermont attorney general Jerome Diamond’s office.

Steve left state government for a period of years and worked in the private sector in media and public relations management positions for International Coins & Currency, Vermont Castings and the Barre Granite Association.

In 1987, Steve found his way back to what became his longest period of

employment in state government at the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development.

Over a period of 16 years, Steve’s responsibility steadily increased within the state agency, and he had oversight of economic development, housing and community affairs, tourism and marketing, historic preservation, and Vermont Life magazine. He went from being responsible for all aspects of public and media relations to a post as executive director of the Vermont Economic Progress Council to deputy secretary and, eventually, to secretary of the agency during the administration of governor Howard Dean.

In 2003, Steve was hired as executive director of the Northeastern Vermont Development Association, a post he excelled in for the last 10 years of his career. It was in this position that Steve found perhaps his greatest career fulfillment, nimbly weaving together all his many contacts made over his years in media, politics and government to assemble an impressive array of state and federal planning and development resources on behalf of Vermont’s most rural region — the Northeast Kingdom. He immersed himself in the region he so loved and is widely credited with having been the driving force behind the siting of the statewide Vermont Food Venture Center in Hardwick — his proudest professional achievement.

At the end of his life, Steve had no doubt that his proudest personal achievement was the beloved home he and Sally made on property that had been in her family since

1960, across the brook from the one-room schoolhouse where Steve attended school in his earliest years. Steve always felt he truly had come home, and, together, he and Sally created a setting of beauty and comfort, where family and friends could join them over the years in sharing lots of laughter and creating fond memories. For those closest to him, he was always there to lend a nonjudgmental ear, a helping hand, a word of encouragement, a heartfelt shared laugh or tear. Steve loved to laugh and make others laugh, and he was so good at it!

Steve and Sally felt fortunate and blessed that he was able to come home for over a month before he was readmitted to the hospital for the final time. He took great pleasure in celebrating his 76th birthday at home during this time — outdoors on a warm, brilliant Vermont fall day, with many family members and friends in attendance.

Perhaps Steve’s greatest gift to those who loved him was his lived example as an unpretentious, kindhearted common man. Steve’s life was one of treating others the way he would want to be treated.

This honesty and integrity endeared him to, and earned him the trust and respect of, countless people from all walks of life.

Steve was predeceased by his father, Harold Patterson; mother, Alice Patterson Walbridge; stepfather, Howard Walbridge; sisters, Sally Howard and Linda Patterson; and stepbrother, Robin Walbridge.

He leaves behind his wife, Sally Cavanagh Patterson; daughter, Sarah Patterson;

stepchildren, Katy Stohlberg and Matthew Stohlberg; and Matthew’s wife, Sarah Shimizu. He also leaves behind the one occupying a special place in his heart always — grandchild Baker Beauchamp, who evoked in Steve during his last 15 years some of the tenderest emotions he had discovered in life as a proud and protective grandfather.

In addition, Steve is survived by his sister Sally’s husband of many years, Greg Howard; Sally and Greg’s children, Chris and Nancy, and their families; and Greg’s wife, Susan. Wife Sally’s four Cavanagh sisters and their husbands, children and grandchildren also survive: Susan Martello, Alice and John Spinello, Amy Cavanagh and Ted Grossman, and Judy and Ben Whitney. Steve’s first wife, Brenda Bean, survives, as does his wife of several years in the late 1980s, Mary Whitcomb, and her children, Dale and Kevin. Steve leaves behind many beloved cousins and friends. He will be forever loved and missed.

There are many family members and friends who provided help and support during Steve’s long illness, and deep gratitude is offered here. His family also wishes to thank the skilled and dedicated staff at the University of Vermont McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester who provided comfort and compassionate care to Steve in his final days.

A celebration of Steve’s life will be held on Saturday, November 25, 2023, at 2 p.m. at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, located at 130 Main St., with a reception immediately following.

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for 25 years, continuing to travel for big jobs when he could and building many monumental projects in the Burlington area. If he could, he would still be tying rebar and pouring concrete today.

Those who know him very well — and even his acquaintances — would first and foremost describe him as a hard worker. He took great pride in being a man of God, being an avid reader, completing crosswords, his wit, never missing a polling

day, his Baltimore Orioles, his pool, his daughter’s academic accomplishments and being the best playmate to 5-year-old Lincoln.

Mark leaves behind his wife of 31 years, Donna DeSpirito-Bird; their daughter, Lauren; son-in-law Tyler, Bergeron; and grandchildren, Lincoln and Ophelia.

He is also survived by his five sisters: Kathleen B. Miller of California; Peggy and Steve Lesage of Winooski, Vt.; Nora Bird and Robert Cary of North Carolina; Mary Bird and Stanley Crowley of Idaho; and Patricia and Michael Casey of Monkton, Vt. He was predeceased by his father, William T. Bird, in 1986, his mother, Gloria C. Bird, in 2017 and his brother, Thomas M. Bird, in 2002.

Mark’s life will be celebrated at Holy Cross Church in Colchester on Saturday, November 18, 10 a.m., with a reception to follow at the church.

Michelle loved jewelry, and the more sparkle it had the better. She loved fishing, swimming and scratch tickets (and was frequently a winner). Michelle loved documentaries and movies and enjoyed watching them with her family. When her mother started homesteading, Michelle loved tending to the animals — especially when they were babies — which she kept in her mother’s bathtub.

Michelle had a great sense of humor and loved to laugh, especially with her two girls.

They would sing loudly in the car, act goofy and, overall, just enjoy each other’s company. They were like sisters and would paint each other’s nails and have frequent spa days at home.

She loved holidays, especially Christmas, when she could shower the girls with presents. Her excitement was matched only by that of her

daughters’. Holidays will never be the same without her.

Michelle was an adventurous foodie and would taste and try anything. She especially loved seafood, and every year for her birthday, she would ask for shrimp Alfredo, mashed potatoes and sardine bread that her father would gladly make for her.

She was very proud of her girls and everything they did and was quick to post photos on Facebook and share them with family and friends.

Michelle loved the beach and had dreams of traveling to see the world.

Michelle is survived by her daughters, Madolyn and Sophia Lee; her father, Mark Winger, and his wife, Kerry; her mother, Judith Stone; her brother, Dallas Winger; her grandmother, Jane Kiser; her aunts, Janet Bass and Julia Stone; her uncle Bob Winger and his wife, Ginny; her uncle Calvin Winger and his wife, Nancy; her uncle Brian Winger and his wife, Susan; and her uncle Joe Winger and his wife, Lana; and many cousins and other relatives.

Calling hours will be held at LaVigne Funeral Home, 132 Main St., Winooski, on Saturday, November 18, from 2 to 4 p.m.

In lieu of cards and flowers, the family would like donations to be made to the American Diabetes Association.

DECEMBER 13, 1951NOVEMBER 12, 2023 BURLINGTON, VT. Mark Francis Bird of Burlington passed in the loving arms of his family on Sunday, November 12, 7 p.m., at the University of Vermont Medical Center.

Mark was born in Washington, D.C., on December 13, 1951. His family moved to New York and then New Jersey before settling in Vermont in 1958.

His family’s farmhouse in Monkton filled his childhood with delight; Mark roamed the land, enjoyed the small community and raised pigs there. From his neighbors, he learned a strict work ethic and the art of working with his hands. Mark attended UVM, then found his passion in ironwork, which began when he worked for Atlas Steel in Maine alongside his brother.

Mark worked for S.D. Ireland

Michelle Winger

DECEMBER 30, 1985NOVEMBER 9, 2023 COLCHESTER, VT. We are horribly saddened to announce the unexpected passing of Michelle K. Winger, at the age of 37.

Michelle succumbed to complications from diabetes, in the company of her loving father.

Michelle was born on December 30, 1985, to parents Mark Winger and Judith Stone, in Lake City, Fla. As a child, Michelle lived in Florida, New York, Nevada and Louisiana before the family moved to Vermont when she was 9. She graduated from Montpelier High School in 2004 and lived in South Carolina and Ohio before giving birth to her daughter Madolyn in 2006.

In 2008, she gave birth to another daughter, Sophia.

Both daughters, along with her fur baby, Kirby, were the light of her life.

Michelle had a loving heart and would spark joy in anyone she talked to. She was outgoing and loved conversing with people, whether it was a grocery clerk or a stranger in a store.

Michelle had tons of friends, and from the moment she met you, she considered you a friend for life and would do anything for you.

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limb for a few minutes up a densely wooded hill behind Ken Cadow’s house in Norwich, and you’ll find a shingled cabin the size of a cozy bedroom. Inside, a faded red easy chair with threadbare arms sits alongside an icehut stove procured for $35 on eBay. A pair of wool clogs rests on a dingy, tan bath mat.

Cadow’s weathered wood desktop, mounted on a vintage sewing-table base scavenged from the town dump, is positioned squarely before a picture window that offers a diorama-like view of mosscovered hardwoods, conifers and ferns sprouting from a crunchy carpet of fallen leaves. A coatrack on the wall bears a message of pluck: “Talent is overrated.

Skill is acquired.”

Cadow, 59, has spent hundreds of hours in this cabin, which he built in 1999, sans electricity or internet, in a determined pursuit: outlining, writing and revising a book about a Vermont teen named Ian, who meets hardship with grit, humor, resilience and the unflinching companionship of a huge Irish wolfhound-mastiff mix named Gather.

Gather is also the name of Cadow’s newly released young adult novel, which is informed by the insights and empathy Cadow has cultivated through 20 years of working with middle and high school students, as a teacher and administrator in rural Vermont. He is currently coprincipal of Oxbow High School in Bradford, helping to oversee around 400 students.

Those countless days Cadow spent pecking away on his laptop in predawn darkness have paid off. On October 3, the same day that Gather was released, he was named one of five finalists for the prestigious National Book Award in young people’s literature, chosen by a panel of five judges from 348 publisher-selected submissions. Making the short list of finalists is a huge achievement and a possible launchpad for literary stardom. It is rarer still for a first-time novelist, and one who’s pushing 60.

Cadow’s turn as a National Book Award finalist is the latest plot twist in a long working life already rich with zigs and zags: U.S. Navy sailor, general store proprietor, grad student, studio artist, teacher and principal. Yet with a mop of dark hair

atop a lanky frame and a penchant for wholesome colloquialisms such as “Oh, boy,” Cadow projects a youthful presence that hints at the curious, energetic kid he once was.

Cadow will find out if he wins the National Book Award on November 15, at a swanky ceremony in New York City that will feature some of the country’s best writers, along with host LeVar Burton and special guest Oprah Winfrey. After the event, he’ll jet down to Florida for the Miami Book Fair, where he’ll be on a panel with fellow finalists.

In September, when Cadow learned from his agent and editor by email that he’d made the “long list” of 10 authors up for the award, he was in a school administrator’s meeting and didn’t quite grasp the magnitude of the honor.

“Wowie! Thanks,” he typed back, before closing his computer to attend to his day job.

Though Cadow has had time to digest the news and, later, that of his short-list status, he remains focused on managing the down-to-earth realities of a school filled with teenagers. When teachers wanted to recognize his accomplishment during a school assembly last month, he politely said no.

Being the center of attention doesn’t come naturally to Cadow. “I’m not great at that,” he said.

Writing, though — that’s another story.

FROM NOTION TO NOVEL

Cadow came up with the idea for Gather more than two decades ago as a newcomer to Vermont and father of three young children. While pursuing his master’s degree in creative writing at Dartmouth College, he became fascinated by the hunting culture in his new hometown of Norwich, among the wealthiest in Vermont, and the ways in which that pastime was dying out as developers and well-to-do newcomers bought up land and posted “No Trespassing” signs.

As part of his thesis, Cadow gathered material for an oral history project, spending time in hunting camps with groups of sons, fathers and grandfathers and listening to their conversations. Though not a hunter himself, Cadow was struck by their deep

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understanding of nature and respect for it, as well as their rich discussions about family traditions rooted in the woods, free from technology and workaday problems.

Around that time, he scribbled a barebones plot for a young adult novel on a sheet of loose-leaf paper: “Boy who loves

to hunt meets girl. Girl has just moved to town. Girl’s family has enough funds to buy lots of land. Girl’s family puts up ‘No Trespassing’ signs.”

Cadow put the outline aside for years while he continued to work on other writing projects. In 2010, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published his picture book, Alfie Runs Away, based on a true story from his own family of a little boy whose mom helps him pack his belongings when he decides to leave home.

Then, in November 2019, he was in his cabin reworking an essay about his old border collie Pompy’s animal-chasing habits when, as he put it, the character of Ian appeared on the page. By that time, Cadow had years of experience as a teacher at Thetford Academy and an administrator at Randolph Union High School.

“I found myself looking out from under the dripping hood of his old rain jacket, across a parking lot at some school,” Cadow told family and friends at a book launch party at the Norwich Inn last month. “I didn’t know his name until one of his teachers — now known as ‘The Sharpe’ — came out of the glass entryway into the rain.” “‘Ian,’ she said, ‘What are you doing?

Come inside.’ And I went along for the journey,” Cadow recalled.

That scene, which establishes school as a place of both alienation and refuge for Ian, would become the second chapter of Gather.

Ian, the narrator of the novel, takes readers through challenging, humorous and harrowing moments over five months of his life. Books geared to young people often unfold chronologically, so as not to confuse the reader, but Gather jumps around in time, brimming with asides and non sequiturs.

“I was just giving in to Ian’s way of telling,” Cadow said.

Ian is not based on any one teenager Cadow has known. Rather, the character is an amalgamation of many students encountered during a long career in education.

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abusing opioids after injuring her back at work, struggles to pay the bills and hold down a job.

Ian knows how to fix a small engine, harvest a Christmas tree from the woods and track deer, but he doesn’t care much about the stuff of school: “goddamn algebra two,” “poets you never heard of” and “how to write a lab report.” Yet school, and the people within it, provide Ian with much-needed stability and support as his life falls apart.

To capture the perspective of someone four decades younger, Cadow self-edited by reading everything aloud, taking special care not to let his own voice creep into the story. One example, he said, was a passage in which Ian expounds on how important Gather, the dog, is to him.

“That’s me writing for the adults who are going to be reading this book,” Cadow remembered thinking after reading it. He replaced that section with just one line: “I love that frigging dog.”

When COVID-19 shuttered Vermont school buildings in March 2020, spurring others to nurture sourdough starters or assemble thousand-piece jigsaw puzzles, Cadow wrote.

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for three and a half hours each morning before logging on to remote school from his house. On weekends, he’d write for sixor seven-hour stretches. Early on, Cadow shared the details of the book with his wife of 30 years, Lisa, a clinical mental health counselor and former bookseller, who provided encouragement and patience as her husband devoted many of his waking hours to writing.

As he got further along, Cadow called on friends, colleagues, his now-adult kids and other family members to make sure the manuscript rang true. His eldest sister, Karen LeRoy, formerly a dairy farmer and academic tutor in Whiting, read eight versions.

LeRoy said she was moved to tears the first time because Ian reminded her of some of the rural kids she’d tutored.

“I thought it was in the same category with Catcher in the Rye, The Day No Pigs Would Die, My Side of the Mountain,” LeRoy recalled. “A classic book that just would get into your heart.”

In July 2020, Cadow submitted a draft to his agent, Ginger Knowlton, of the New York City-based literary agency Curtis Brown Ltd., whom he’d convinced to represent him a decade earlier.

But after three months, Cadow still hadn’t heard back from Knowlton. He reached out to see if she’d had a chance to read it.

“I didn’t get really far into it, to be honest,” he remembered her saying.

It turned out that Cadow had sent Knowlton the wrong version of the manuscript, one that included many of his own notes sprinkled throughout. Once that snafu was cleared up, Knowlton and her assistant gave Cadow feedback on a clean copy and he began revising, a process that took more than a year.

Cadow wrote the first draft in a style he described as “first-person rural,” trying to capture the speech patterns of Vermont’s farm country. But Knowlton and others convinced him to tone down the language so that the story itself could take center stage.

In late October 2021, the same day Cadow and two of his children buried Pompy on the hillside of their home, he resubmitted Gather. Knowlton let him know in December that she loved it. “Ken,

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you’ve really found the He was also a budding voice for this story,” she naturalist, she said: “Whertold him. ever we lived, he would Four months later, know the birds, and he Candlewick Press, a would know the rocks, and leading children’s book he would know the trees.” publisher, acquired the After graduating from book. h i g h s c h o o l , C a d ow Katie Cunningham, attended Rhode Island Cadow’s editor at CandleCollege, where he majored wick, said that once she in English and computer started reading it, she science, thinking he could couldn’t stop thinking one day edit technical about Ian’s singular voice manuals, as his dad did and the unusual structure toward the end of his IBM of the story, which she career. In the late 1980s, Cadow spent four years likened to a dog circling before it lays down. in the Navy, followed by a Cunningham, who stint in the Naval Reserve. began chemotherapy Later, Cadow and his for ovarian cancer soon wife, Lisa, ran a general ELIJAH HAWKE S store on Block Island, after getting the book, said editing it was one of his childhood stomping the only work-related things she cared grounds. It was a job that gave him “such about at the time. a clear role in the community,” he said.

“Working on it, for me, felt like the But the long hours left him with little ultimate hopeful act,” Cunningham said. time to spend with his young children.

Cadow spent months on another In 1997, the family decided to settle in round of revisions and sent back the Vermont, where Cadow’s parents and manuscript on July 1, 2022, the same two of his sisters already lived.

Once in Norwich, Cadow struggled to day he officially became coprincipal of Oxbow High School. find a role in his new community. During a bike ride, he came upon Thetford Academy, one of four historic independent secondary schools in Vermont serving Much like the plot of Gather, Cadow’s life public school students from surroundhas followed a path that is anything but ing towns. Struck by the school’s beauty, linear. he rode up and asked a woman outside The youngest of seven siblings, two of how he could get on the list of substitute whom died in childhood, Cadow spent teachers. She happened to be the head of his childhood in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and the school. Thus began Cadow’s career North Smithfield, R.I., where his father in education. worked at IBM. Cadow taught at Thetford for a In elementary school, Cadow strug- decade, moving from substitute to fullgled with reading but got extra help and time teacher of art and English. In the went on to become an avid, if slow, reader process, he found a like-minded group who was inspired to explore the world of colleagues and a newfound sense of around him by the characters he encoun- belonging. tered on the page.

He went on to enroll in the principalHe tolerated school but — like Ian — preparation program at the Upper Valley was more excited about the adventures Educators Institute in Lebanon, N.H., and he found outside of it. For Cadow, that was placed in a yearlong internship at included making bookcases and bird Randolph Union High School. He ended feeders in the woodshop with his dad, up staying at the school for a decade. building trails and forts in the woods, His work at Randolph centered on and exploring the salt marshes and making learning relevant and accessible scrublands of Block Island, R.I., where to students, a focus he has maintained his family had a summer home. at Oxbow High School since becoming LeRoy, Cadow’s older sister by 13 coprincipal last year. years, remembers him as the most outgo“I don’t like when we talk about ing of all the siblings, a kid prone to start ‘school’ and we talk about ‘the real conversations with total strangers, even world,’” Cadow said. “Schools are the as a preschooler. real world.”

“He was kind of fearless,” LeRoy said.

At Randolph, he created “deployed “He wasn’t foolhardy. But he was always classrooms” to acquaint a range of interested in talking to people and hearing their stories.”

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For middle school students, Cadow created a replacement for traditional shop and home economics classes. He gave students dumpster-diving passes so they could scavenge behind the school for materials to build generator-powered windmills.

Former Randolph Union principal Elijah Hawkes said Cadow’s leadership helped lift the high school graduation rate from 76 to 95 percent in six years.

“He’s able to see the humanity and the worth in so many different people and professions,” Hawkes said.

That sensibility has carried over to the respect he shows for his characters, according to Cunningham, the book’s editor.

She recalled how Cadow pushed back on describing Ian’s mom as “addicted to opioids” in promotional copy for the book, saying he felt her character “deserved more nuance and compassion” than such a label conveyed.

Cadow ’s respect for Ian, and real-life kids like him, also shines through in Gather,, she said. Cadow has “extended a hand to all of these young people who feel like nobody sees them,” Cunningham said. “Ken is just waving his arms and saying, ‘I see you, and I think you’re great.’”

MIRRORS AND WINDOWS

There’s a well-known belief in the world of education that books can act as mirrors that reflect a reader’s own life and as windows that allow a peek into the lives of others. Gather is well positioned to be both.

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AN EXCERPT FROM GATHER So, something I have to say is about the word gather.

It means a lot of things, like gathering food. Gathering your thoughts. When somebody who listens, somebody like The Sharpe, when she asks you what it’s like to grow up the way you’re growing up, you gather together all these parts of your life and all these stories of things from way before, things that get mixed up with what’s happening right then. Those stories don’t come out like a goddam timeline.

They come out like compost. All the leaves, the coffee grounds, fireplace ashes, apple cores, tea bags, onion skins, eggshells, corn husks, potato peels, everything that turned to dirt at one time or another, doesn’t matter when, it belongs with whatever you’ve got growing out of it right there in front of you.

Doesn’t matter, either, if you’re talking about sugar snap peas, tomatoes, pumpkins, or weeds. You can’t go pulling all the dirt away from the roots, trying to put it in some kind of order so you can understand it your way. You kill it if you do that.

Stories we tell come out like the way you walk the woods if you want to know it — zigzagging, doubling back, maybe tripling, sometimes enough to find out the parts you know the least about are the parts closest to home. You don’t just make some frigging beeline to some hill like you’re trying to get your steps in. I just don’t understand people like that. I don’t think they’re from around here.

But I feel like you need to understand this. Our stories from around here come out like the way we keep our work shed: you go in there, see what you have lying around, some of it being old as hell, some of it being stuff you might even have had the money to buy for yourself. You move something, you find something else. You brush it off a little, then you use it or set it back down. But you need it all to piece together how things come to be the way they are now, how you come to be who you are.

And when things go to hell in your own life, the word gather means something else all over again. Because there’s a lot of good people, some who you know, some who you only just met. And the ones who matter, they listen. They gather on your side and at least they try to help you, even if it might not all work out. I know that for a fact.

All that being said, I am definitely getting ahead of myself here. Right then, I was just goddam glad to have that dog.

GATHER. Copyright © 2023 by Kenneth M. Cadow. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.

young adult novel that shines light on the working-class life many of his students are living.

Though it’s taken a couple of chapters for the Oxbow students to get used to the book’s nonlinear structure, Arendsee said they are beginning to see reflections of their own experiences, such as the threat of losing their home or a parent being laid off.

Many also think it’s pretty cool that their principal is a published author.

Lucinda Walker, director of the Norwich Public Library, said the book’s depiction of Vermont as a place where struggle and pain coexist with natural beauty is likely to be eye-opening to those from elsewhere who hold a romanticized idea of the state.

“I’m amazed that sometimes people forget that real life exists here — and real life isn’t always beautiful,” Walker said.

Cadow jokes that Gather isn’t likely to be promoted by the Vermont tourism department. But he hopes it will be read widely by teens in and outside of the state — and adults, too.

In Cadow’s hometown of 3,600 residents, the book is in heavy demand at the library and selling well at the Norwich Bookstore. He’s stopped by several times to sign copies.

“I’m not a part of the literary world, but I’m just so excited for my friend,” said Michael Lyons, a longtime family physician in Norwich who advised Cadow about sections of the story that deal with opioid use.

One of the scenes in Gather depicts Ian and his Gramps waiting in darkness at deer camp for a hunter’s moon to appear through a hole in the clouds. But before they see it, the pair is treated to something even more breathtaking: “an orange meteor, trailing sparks, like somebody just smacked a bright bed of coals in the sky.”

The scene is a testament to the grand rewards that patience and persistence sometimes bring. It’s a lesson that Cadow, through hundreds of hours of toil in a tiny cabin in the trees, is learning, too. ➆

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hen Grace Warrington arrived for the inaugural meeting of the Champlain Valley Union High School crossword club as a first-year student in fall 2022, she and her dad had already successfully completed every New York Times daily crossword puzzle for nearly a year. Grace brought with her a stack of puzzles she and her dad had created. “She came in beaming,” club adviser Charlie MacFadyen said.

But the weekly club meetings rarely attracted more than two or three students.

Often, they included only Grace and MacFadyen. On those days, Grace said, the agenda had just one item: “He does my puzzles.”

Now a sophomore, Grace continues to drop off puzzles for MacFadyen. She and her dad, University of Vermont math professor Greg Warrington, have been constructing crosswords together for nearly two years — a “fun challenge,” Greg said, that evolved from their evening ritual of solving the Times crossword together.

(Their streak remains intact.)

In September, after 24 rejections, the father and daughter sold their first crossword to the New York Times.

Grace doesn’t recall any hugging or screaming upon hearing the news. “I’m not much of a screamer,” she said.

“I just got a big smile on my face,” Greg said. They did call her grandparents, avid solvers who regularly give them feedback on their puzzles.

Grace, who turned 16 last month, is not the youngest person to collaborate on a Times puzzle. Eight-year-old Harrison Walden and his dad, Byron, of California, cocreated the 2020 Father’s Day puzzle titled “Animal Crossings.”

Sixty-five other constructors have made their debut in the Times before age 20, according to XWord Info, a website that analyzes Times data. Daniel Larsen of Bloomington, Ind., was the youngest. He was 13 years and 4 months old when, after eight rejections, the Times published his first puzzle in 2017.

The Warringtons have cracked an exclusive club. Of the roughly 200 crossword puzzles it receives each week, the Times accepts between 3 and 5 percent.

Associate puzzle editor Christina Iverson

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Andrew Kingsley said last month in a live-stream video discussion about the Warringtons’ fall puzzle. “There are just so few black squares. It’s a very cool grid shape.”

“And on top of it all, with that paucity of black,” guest solver Mike Glennon added, “I think there was only two clues that struck me as just rank crossword-ese.

And one of them was clued in a new and unique way.”

A video recording of Glennon solving the puzzle played on the screen while the group talked — a bit like a highlight reel playing as coaches and athletes discuss a game. Upon learning how the Warringtons work — Grace constructs the grid, and her

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helps with the initial sorting. Obvious rejects include puzzles with themes that have already appeared and constructors who don’t follow the basic rules, such as keeping black squares to a minimum and creating a symmetrical grid with overall interlock, meaning no section of the grid is completely disconnected from everything else.

Puzzles that make the first cut are reviewed by a small group of editors. Then, once a week, all six puzzle editors spend two and a half to three hours in a Google Meet call discussing the finalists, Iverson said. Before a crossword is accepted, puzzle editor Will Shortz reads every word in its grid aloud during the meeting.

The Warringtons’ puzzle was selected for a Saturday, the day the newspaper publishes its most challenging crosswords. “It had a lot of fun entries in the longest spots, and it was very clean,” Iverson said.

By “clean,” she means free of short answers that are obscure abbreviations or initials instead GRACE WARRIN GTO N of actual words.

The puzzle hasn’t been scheduled for publication yet but will dad writes the clues — likely run in the spring, Iverson said.

Kingsley said, “This grid looks like it was Other puzzle editors have noticed made by someone with decades of experithe Warringtons, as well. The father ence. And yet you haven’t been on Earth and daughter submitted a puzzle for that long … What’s your process like?” the spring tournament of Boswords, “Trial and error,” Grace said.

Grace builds puzzles by creating a a Boston-based league that attracts crossword illuminati. Though it was not 15-by-15-square grid using the Crossselected, their puzzle was among the word Compiler software. She puts in the best, Boswords codirector John Lieb said. black squares first — about 30 of them So the directors invited them to create for a themeless puzzle, her favorite kind one for the fall tournament, which has to make. Next, she enters the longest attracted 1,200 competitors. words and phrases she wants to include “I was impressed by how interlocking and continues to fill the grid, assisted by everything was,” Boswords codirector XWord Info’s online word list.

When it’s going well, she can finish a grid in an hour. When it’s not, it can take weeks. If her parents see her close her laptop, she said, “They know the next words out of my mouth are going to be, ‘My puzzle’s not working.’”

The process can be frustrating, she said, but it’s fun. “There’s just something about the letters interlocking that makes me happy.”

To write clues, Greg consults dictionaries and Wikipedia. He considers the different meanings of words and brainstorms clever wordplay. For the word “feed,” he explained via email, “you could clue it as a noun (‘Oats or hay’) or in terms of technology (‘Signal for a television’) or metaphorically (‘Gratify, as an ego’).”

BE AR For the word “bocce” in their Boswords puzzle, Greg offered the clue: “Game of throwns?”

The New York Times crosswords get progressively harder Monday through Saturday. Grace starts each day’s puzzle when it is released online, at 10 p.m. the night before.

She often completes the Monday and Tuesday puzzles herself. Her record time on a Monday crossword is three minutes and 29 seconds.

Any puzzles she doesn’t finish, she and her dad tackle together the next evening.

They don’t allow themselves to research any answers. “I absolutely refuse to look anything up,” Grace said. Knowing patterns of letters helps, she said. So does knowing commonly used puzzle words. “If you see a clue with ‘eagle’ in it,” she said, “the answer is going to be A-E-R-I-E.” An analog kid in a digital world, Grace likes Latin, classic novels and old albums.

She collects dictionaries and carries one to school each day. She doesn’t Tweet

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“Oh, God!” she said when her dad offered that last one — it means to chuck or throw — as an example of modern slang that she would not put in a puzzle. She does, however, understand the importance of including fresh, current words and phrases. She keeps a list of those she likes, such as “Barbenheimer” — a portmanteau of two hot movies released on the same day in July.

Since the Times accepted their puzzle, Grace and her dad have submitted two or three more. They’ve sent a similar number to the Los Angeles Times, and Grace would consider the Washington Post, she said, but she holds the New York Times in particularly high esteem.

“That’s the one that I’ve been solving for a while now. It’s the one my grandparents have been solving for decades. It’s the one my dad has been solving for years, and it’s probably the biggest crossword puzzle publication out there, so it does hold a certain…” She didn’t finish.

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“I’ll think of the word eventually,” she said. ➆

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he McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester feels like a home away from home. Its fireplace, open kitchen and thoughtfully designed rooms make the 21-bed inpatient hospice facility feel cozy. Its staff and community volunteers — more than 300 of them — provide meals and round-the-clock care, including emotional and spiritual support for residents and their families.

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surrounded by her family, including her daughter, Erika Montgomery.

An ER nurse who lives in Montana, Erika has witnessed the end of many

lives. “When she passed away, she literally had a smile on her face,” Erika said. “I’ve never seen that in my life.

That was really pretty amazing.”

Holly experienced dementia in the last few years of her life, but family and friends said they still caught glimpses of her personality shining through. “She died in exactly the way her soul wanted it to happen,” Erika said.

Holly was instrumental in advancing hospice and end-of-life care in Vermont. She helped establish the Respite House, the Noyana Singers — a chorus of volunteers that sings to hospice patients — and the MadisonDeane Initiative, which educates medical professionals about caring for patients at the end of their lives.

Hospice was just one of Holly’s causes. Alongside her husband, Robert “Bobby” Miller, who died in 2020, Holly nurtured many of Burlington’s community institutions.

Together, they gave away millions of dollars and countless hours of their time; both Holly and Bobby died in buildings bearing their names.

That’s remarkable, given that neither of them grew up with money or graduated from college. The couple donated to projects that improved the lives of vulnerable and marginalized people, never forgetting their roots.

“Holly was very humble, no matter what,” said Peg Maffitt, one of her longtime friends. “She never thought she was better than anyone.”

Manon O’Connor, another friend of the Millers, recalled the way Holly made others feel seen and heard.

“She had incredible empathy for people. She really could put herself in your shoes,” she said.

‘THERE WASN’T ENOUGH TO GO AROUND’ Holly’s empathy grew out of her own experience. Born in Rutland, she moved to Burlington at age 9 and lived with her family in an apartment on lower North Street.

“My mother would hide when the landlord would come, and I would have to answer the door,” Holly told Paula Routly for a 2000 story in Seven Days. “My father worked long hours and hard, but there wasn’t enough to go around.” She told Paula she remembered her mother hocking her wedding ring to buy Christmas presents for the five children.

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a pizza parlor and then as a carhop at an A&W. After high school, she became a secretary and later an office manager for University Orthopedics.

In 1974, Holly and her first husband became foster parents to Erika, then a 7-year-old living at St. Joseph’s Orphanage; they later adopted her.

When the marriage ended, Erika stayed with Holly.

In 1986, Holly married Bobby, a scrappy entrepreneur who founded New England Air Systems and R.E.M. Development. They were a loving couple and deeply devoted to each other; she called him her Buddha.

For the first time in her life, Holly didn’t have to work. She turned her focus to contributing to the community instead. Together, she and Bobby would become two of the Burlington area’s most generous philanthropists.

The Vermont Respite House was Holly’s first project.

came time to expand, Holly helped round up $8 million more. Bobby purchased land in Colchester and built the McClure Miller Respite House, which opened in 2016. They even moved the mural.

Holly was also involved in the Madison-Deane Initiative, which helps educate medical students and professionals in Vermont about death and dying. Holly helped the initiative plan talks and conferences and brought speakers to Vermont from around the world. The group also produced an award-winning documentary called The Pioneers of Hospice that focused on Dame

of trustees in 1992, shortly after it began offering bachelor’s degrees.

Her 15-year tenure coincided with Champlain’s growth into a four-year institution that today offers 80 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

Holly was also the first female president of the board. Her stepdaughter, Stephanie Miller Taylor, said Holly wasn’t the bra-burning type but was definitely “a badass feminist.”

In a statement after her death, Champlain College president Alex Hernandez called Holly “a transformational leader.” She and Bobby made the college more accessible

‘HOSPICE IS ABOUT QUALITY OF LIFE’

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Cecily, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Florence Wald and Balfour Mount.

When Dame Cecily died in 2005, Holly, Peg and their friend Pam MacPherson were among the members of the initiative who traveled to England to attend her memorial in Westminster Abbey.

‘A TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER’ Holly advocated for those at the beginning of life, too. She and Bobby were early supporters of the King Street Center, home to Head Start toddler and preschool programs and afterschool activities; the Millers pledged $100,000 for its first capital campaign. The couple donated the same amount to establish a scholarship fund for college-bound students who attended Burlington’s H.O. Wheeler School, now the Integrated Arts Academy.

They also gave to local colleges — and not just money. Holly was elected to Champlain College’s board

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Holly wrote about her developing interest in end-of-life care in her memoir, I’ll Show You How. While working in the medical field, she’d noticed that doctors, who worked to prolong life, often struggled to help patients with terminal illnesses prepare for death.

Hospice, on the other hand, treats death as a natural part of life. “Hospice is about quality of life — living each moment as fully as possible — and dying with dignity and as much control as possible,” she explained.

Dame Cicely Saunders established the first hospice in England in 1967.

The concept spread to the U.S. in the ‘70s and to Vermont by the end of the decade. Holly became interested in learning more about it after caring for her father, who died at home.

“Even though it was the most painful loss I’d ever experienced, I was left with an indescribable feeling of joy and inner peace,” she wrote.

Holly attended hospice volunteer training in 1986 and soon got involved with the group working to establish the Vermont Respite House. She helped raise $1 million for it. Bobby designed and built the first 13-bed facility in Williston, which featured a large mural of Noah’s Ark, painted by Holly’s mother, Elaine Park Dudley. The animals were incorporated into the names of the rooms.

Twenty-five years later, when it

to a broad population of students, he said.

Champlain awarded the Millers honorary degrees in 2009. The University of Vermont followed suit in 2015.

In 2016, the Millers established a chair in palliative medicine at the Robert Larner College of Medicine and made a $13 million gift to the UVM Medical Center’s new inpatient care building, aka the Miller Building.

In 2017, then-UVM president E. Thomas Sullivan nominated Holly for Vermonter of the Year, an honor bestowed by the Burlington Free Press. “Holly’s commitment to creating an environment where people receive compassionate and patient-centered care is a legacy like no other,” he wrote.

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years. “As a friend, she was such a believer in me.”

Erika echoed that assessment of her mom. “She taught me to explore my beliefs,” she said. “She taught me everything I needed was inside me.”

Erika and her mom were very different. Holly was a fashionista who could throw a perfect party and never went anywhere without lipstick. Or a book — if a title appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, she had to have it.

Erika has always been more comfortable in the wilderness, getting her hands dirty. After graduating from UVM with a degree in biochemistry, she moved to Colorado. Holly didn’t try to stop her. “Even though it terrified her, I’m sure,” Erika said.

“She allowed me to pursue my own passions and be myself.”

When it became clear Holly was developing dementia, Holly and Bobby started planning for how she would spend her final years. “She was a big planner,” Erika said. When Holly needed to move out of their downtown Burlington condo, Bobby built a house in Colchester next to the Respite House. He designed the floor plan to mimic the condo so it would feel familiar to her.

They hired caregivers to be with Holly at home, and her friends Peg and Pam spent one day with her every week. Tuesdays were Peg’s, and Fridays were Pam’s, a routine that lasted five years.

They brought Holly to visit the Respite House, to see her mother’s mural; they took her to get creemees; they sat with her and looked through her many photo albums — Holly traveled widely and was a prolific photographer.

Those days with Holly weren’t always easy, but Peg describes the experience as “a true gift.”

“She would have done it for me,” Peg said.  A celebration of life for Holly Miller will be held on Friday, November 17, at 1 p.m. at UVM’s Davis Center.

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hen I met Ben Rapson for lunch in early November, the Randolph resident pointed out a quirk of his central Vermont town: Its main streets form a giant capital R. Rapson has lived in Randolph for only four months, but he has quickly become a cheerleader for the town — and a contributor to its new website, Randolph Vibe, a guide to the local scene. He was so taken by this coincidence of urban design that he made the map his phone background.

“R marks the spot,” he said, flashing his lock screen across the table.

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restaurants and national recognition for Nisachon “Rung” Morgan, chef and co-owner of Saap, who was named best chef in the Northeast by the James Beard Foundation in June 2022.

This small town has a lot going on. And, as Rapson pointed out, it’s right off Interstate 89.

“You start descending into the valley when you see the ‘Whale Dance’ sculpture,” he said, referring to a roadside work by local artist Jim Sardonis. “Less than one song later, you’re in the center of town.”

When I visited recently, it had been a while since I’d gotten off at Exit 4, and several new restaurants had popped up — more than enough for our occasional “Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner” series, which

recommends a day’s worth of meals in one Vermont city or town.

My visit coincided with the launch of Randolph Vibe on November 6. Stick-season breaks and schedule changes at some restaurants in town narrowed down my itinerary, so see the sidebar on page 41 for more recommendations that I wasn’t able to sample.

Rapson joined me for my second stop of the day, at Kuya’s at One Main. He told me that his volunteer work on Randolph Vibe — a living directory of the town’s dining, shopping, arts, recreation and events, created for residents and visitors alike — has connected him with folks all over town.

“Randolph has so many champions,” Rapson said. “We’re sending out a strong beacon that says, ‘Yes, this town has gone

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There have been peaks and valleys. But it’s in a peak right now.’”

While enjoying breakfast, lunch and dinner at restaurants that have opened over the past year — all on the same block of North Main Street — I took in the view from that peak.

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ORIGINAL SKIFF FISH + OYSTER will be located in a newly designed space on the north side of the hotel’s first floor. The 258-room hotel, soon to be rebranded as Hotel Champlain, is currently open while undergoing renovations to its front drive and entry area.

Warnstedt and members of his 160-person team are creating and designing the restaurant for DiamondRock Hospitality, which owns the hotel property. Unlike Heirloom’s other restaurants, which also include PROHIBITION PIG in Waterbury and DOC PONDS in Stowe, Original Skiff will be operated by the hotel’s management company, Aimbridge Hospitality, after it launches, Warnstedt said.

“It will be our brand, our food, our recipes — but we’re not running the restaurant,” Warnstedt said. Heirloom will participate in hiring and training restaurant staff.

Original Skiff will have 90 inside seats, plus 37 on an existing patio and a new outdoor dining area.

“We’ve wanted to create an oyster bar for years,” Warnstedt said. “It will have a little bit of a throwback feel: playful, campy, nostalgic.”

The menu will feature a raw bar and daily fish specials sourced through WOOD MOUNTAIN FISH. Recipes under development include salt cod fritters, smoked bluefish chowder, and steamed mussels and clams.

Original Skiff will also serve slushies, creemees and “ice-cold beer,” Warnstedt said. “This is where I want to go out.”

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secret, but because the sun was shining in too intensely. Now that the weather has cooled, walkers-by can peer into the bakery’s production space and catch a glimpse of Wolfe in action.

“I get so many little smiles and waves during the day,” she said. “Until I worked downtown, I didn’t realize how busy it was.”

Wolfe was the only one in the kitchen when she moved her home-based bakery to the redeveloped former Belmains retail space in November 2022. Due to staffing changes, she’s now back to solo baking — except when her 4-year-old son stops by before or after preschool.

“He has his own working nook and his own apron,” Wolfe said. “Sometimes he goes out front, and he’s started getting tips, which is very motivating. Now he’s like, ‘What do you need me to do? Take out the compost?’”

When I made it to Randolph around 10 a.m., the glass case at Windy Lane was stocked with pumpkin whoopie pies, almond chocolate bars and other sweet treats. Cookies sat in neat piles on the counter, tempting me to expand my usual definition of “breakfast.” But the tray of huge, gooey cinnamon rolls ($3.75) won out.

Those tend to go early, Wolfe said, so I’d gotten lucky. She typically makes two to three dozen cinnamon rolls every weekday, slathering brioche dough with brownsugar-and-butter filling, cinnamon, and an unexpected touch of nutmeg.

“What really makes them is the glaze,” Wolfe said, noting that it’s cream cheesebased, with a lot of vanilla. “I don’t skimp on the glaze,” she continued. “It’s covering every nook and cranny.”

I wished I’d grabbed more napkins as I navigated the first few bites, before remembering that one of the joys of a cinnamon roll is licking your fingers after it’s gone. If the mark of cinnamon roll quality is how messy you are after eating it, Wolfe’s was exceptional.

Arroz caldo and Filipino bánh mì at Kuya’s at One Main

Patty and Travis Burns in the original Kuya’s space in 2021

Windy Lane offers a few savory breakfast items, including scones, hand pies and occasionally quiche, as well as simple drip coffee and several teas from Vermont Artisan Coffee & Tea. But sitting at the bar along the big windows and watching the town go about its morning was sweet enough that I wanted a treat to match.

Making a Buzz Kuya’s at One Main, 2 Merchants Row, Randolph, 565-8037, facebook.com/kuyasvt

When Patty Burns and her husband, Travis, moved their restaurant down the block in September 2022, one of the things she was most excited about was having a full bar. As a consultant, the pro bartender had helped the former One Main Tap & Grill expand its booze program, but she had none of her own at the couple’s sandwich shop.

Now, in their new digs at Kuya’s at One Main, the couple still serve lunch but focus on dinner service, and Burns is mixing up a creative drink menu there and making a JORDAN BARRY

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more typical sandwiches, burgers and salads for lunch and a variety of small plates and mains at dinnertime. A dinner-only highlight, Rapson said, is the perfectly fried vegetable and pork lumpia.

“My wife and I both grew up close to Filipino friends, and their very collaborative family kitchens are stored away in our separate teenage memories,” he said. “The first time we had the lumpia here, we both shed a tear.”

The Burnses rely on regulars such as Rapson to keep Kuya’s going. Moving to the larger space at One Main was a huge opportunity, Burns said, but it’s still a tough time for restaurants. They’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a cushion for the slower winter months and make necessary repairs, with the eventual goal of buying out One Main’s former owners, Shane Niles and Josh Niebling.

“It’s a community effort to make a place like this exist,” Burns said. “But this town has always been a community-driven place, and that’s what makes it flourish.”

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splash in the statewide industry. In September, she won both the final round and the People’s Choice award at an inaugural Barr Hill event, the Royal Jelly — a Bee’s Knees Cocktail Competition.

“It was the perfect way for me to push myself, which you have to do in the middle of nowhere,” Burns said with a laugh. “But being here, using the local products from where my husband is from — that’s really exciting to me.”

Burns’ winning cocktail, Miss B. Hivin’, combines flavors from her native Philippines, such as calamansi juice and homemade pineapple gum syrup, with Barr Hill gin and Brookfield Bees wildflower honey.

It’s now on the menu at Kuya’s. I was tempted to order one when I stopped in for lunch but opted for a hot mug of salabat ($4), one of the restaurant’s many thoughtful nonalcoholic offerings.

I was sipping on the spicy-sweet traditional Filipino ginger tea when Rapson walked in to join me. Though he’d been at Kuya’s for dinner the night before, he didn’t seem to mind doubling down with the restaurant’s best-selling Filipino bánh mì ($16).

I enjoyed that sandwich in Kuya’s original location, and an open-fire flame grill in the new space produces a leveled-up version. But I opted instead to continue my warming-up-from-the-inside theme with a comforting bowl of arroz caldo ($12). The congee-like rice porridge is flavored with ginger and fish sauce, filled with chunks of tender chicken and topped with scallions, crispy garlic, chicharrones, hard-boiled egg and lime wedges for squeezing over everything else.

The Filipino touches on Kuya’s menu make it stand out, not just in Randolph but in Vermont, where the cuisine is still underrepresented. But the restaurant also serves

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Lucas Battey and Randi Taylor at Short Notice

Small Plates, Big Impact Short Notice, 29 N. Main St., Randolph, 565-8589, shortnoticevt.com

Randi Taylor and Lucas Battey opened their small-plates restaurant and cocktail bar on June 10, taking over the space that Kuya’s vacated when it moved to One Main. From the start, the co-owners knew they wanted to capture afternoon and late-night hours that most other restaurants in town don’t; currently, they serve from 3 p.m. to 10 or 11 p.m.

Short Notice’s world-traveling, shareable menu is ideal for any time of night you decide to have dinner and however hungry you are. Showing up on the early side, I split a smattering of dishes with my husband — more than an afternoon snack, but not quite a full-menu fête. We left physically satisfied after chorizo meatballs ($11), smashed potatoes ($10), radicchio salad ($13), pretzel bread pudding ($12) and a slice of pumpkin spice cake ($7). But the playful flavor combos, inspired by Battey and Taylor’s travels, had me wishing we’d gone all in on the menu’s 10 or so other shareables, small plates and sandwiches.

Battey and Taylor change their menu roughly every six weeks, making the most of seasonal ingredients. As fall turns to winter, that means hearty polenta cake, rich mole with the chorizo meatballs, and parsnips instead of carrots for the popular root vegetable “fries” (which aren’t actually deep-fried, because the restaurant doesn’t have a fryer).

“One of our goals is to let our regulars and people in town try new things,” said Battey, who trained at the New England Culinary Institute. “We want to offer things that aren’t all that common in central Vermont.”

The bread pudding, in particular, is a dish that will stick with me for a while — and not just because it stuck to my ribs on one of the first cold days of the season. It started as a special to use up extra housemade pretzels, Taylor said. Now on the regular menu, the dish combines those pretzels with housemade bratwurst, succulent braised cabbage, Gruyère and a tangy caraway-mustard beer sauce. The result is German-influenced and reminiscent of really good stuffing — imagine if a beer hall put on a Thanksgiving feast.

The pumpkin spice cake capitalized on fall flavors, too, with Swiss, caramel and cinnamon buttercream frostings separating its layers. The sweet offerings, which change throughout the week, show off Taylor’s pastry skills and have become their own draw.

“We have people who come in after a show at the Chandler [Center for the Arts] looking for dessert and a cocktail, which is pretty fun,” Taylor said.

Next visit, I’ll give late dinner a try. ➆

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• Bagel and schmear at Wee Bird Bagel Café • Snacks and specialty grocery items at Chef’s Market • Quesadilla Crunch Wrap at Tacocat Cantina • Hot Italian grinder at Randolph Village Pizza • Peek gai tod (fried chicken wings) at Saap • Breakfast burrito at wit & grit., or whatever the dinner special is when the mostly breakfast-and-lunch spot is open for Trivia Night

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I made my way south to visit the Woods during cider-boiling season in 2011, and I still vividly recall being enveloped in a sauna of warm woodsmoke- and apple-scented air.

The rustic clapboard cider/ Cuffing Season cocktail made sugarhouse evokes with Woods Cider Mill boiled cider a bygone time, but its origins are far more recent. A 2002 Find recipes for fire destroyed the a boiled cider cocktail and previous 1940s-era a versatile pan sauce at building, which Willis Wood at the cider press sevendaysvt.com. appeared in the 1999 movie based on John Irving’s novel The Cider House Rules.

SMALL PLEASURES During my 2011 visit, Willis said, “One of the set designers told me, ‘They were looking for an old, run-down sort of place, and yours was perfect.’”

When I called several weeks ago, Tina, now 75, picked up the phone although the family was in the thick of their season. “We try to be done by Thanksgiving,” she said. These

BY M E L I S S A PAS AN EN • pasanen@sevendaysvt.com days, she and her 74-year-old husband rely on Wood-McNaughton’s help. Their teenage sauces for pork and chicken, drizzle it on From late September through at least a dark mahogany, sweet-tart elixir called granddaughter, Myra, is also “a great worker,” mid-November, you’ll find the Wood family boiled cider. When boiled longer, it becomes roasted squash, and brush it over apple tarts.

Tina said. working with a huge, old-school cider press spreadable, pectin-rich cider jelly.

Willis’ family has made boiled cider in Despite this year’s late spring frost, the in their Weathersfield barn. Alongside this Nothing is added, and nothing is taken Weathersfield since 1882, when doing such Woods managed to find enough local fruit standard fall activity, you’ll also see them do away — except a lot of water. The process is a thing was unremarkable. Apple molasses, to produce both the fresh cider they sell as it was called, was simply a way to preserve something less expected: gather around a essentially the same as that of boiling sap by the gallon and their boiled products. wood-fired evaporator amid clouds of sweet into syrup; the Woods use the same evaporafresh cider before refrigerators existed. Now, They offer the latter on their website and steam. tor for sugaring. it’s an endangered food tradition featured in Tina and Willis Wood and their daughter, The deeply concentrated apple flavor of Slow Food USA’s Ark of Taste, a catalog of “deli- through retailers, mostly in New England.

Since Willis and Tina took over the Marina Wood-McNaughton, are not maple their products is more tart than sweet, just cious and distinctive foods facing extinction,” operation in 1970, the market for boiled the way I like my apples. I slather the jelly where the Woods are noted as the leading sugaring out of season; they are turning cider has evolved. At first, mostly “oldfresh cider pressed from local apples into on buttered toast and swirl boiled cider into producers. timers would come buy it for their mincemeat pies,” Tina recalled. Soon, “we were selling 10-pound jars to hippies, and then it changed to yuppies buying little 10-ounce jars,” she continued. “Now, it’s gourmet cooks who want it, and bars for cocktails.”

Chef Jason Tostrup is a devoted fan of the Woods and their products. Over his restaurant career, Tostrup has deployed boiled cider and cider jelly in myriad dishes, from quail glazed with boiled cider and soy to a savory cheddar-crusted version of traditional boiled cider pie. Currently food service director for Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, the chef recently made a stuffed acorn squash with apple, dried cranberries and rosemary, all brushed with cider jelly.

However Tostrup uses it, “the apple flavor just explodes,” he said. ➆

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South Burlington production facility for packaged momos and sauce, HIMALAYAN D’LITE will open at 1303 Williston Road on November 17, co-owner NURBU SHERPA said.

Staffing shortages were one reason for the delay, Sherpa said; another was the growth of Sherpa Foods’ packaged food business, which Sherpa runs with his wife, PHURA. Their Himalayan-style momo sauces are distributed regionally through Whole Foods Market’s New England locations and at 900 HomeGoods stores.

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The menu will also feature chow mein and fried rice, along with a “sherpita” sandwich of meat or mushrooms stuffed in a pita pocket with feta cheese, Himalayan-style potato salad seasoned with mustard oil and cilantro, fresh vegetables, and sauce. Drinks will include mango lassi and hot milk tea.

The counter-service café will have about 45 seats and be open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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The elegant farm-to-table restaurant and market at PHILO RIDGE FARM in Charlotte will “temporarily pause” operations on December 10. The business owners plan to reorganize it as a nonprofit to expand

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Frankie’s Coming to Former Penny Cluse Café Site in Burlington A pair of longtime local hospitality industry colleagues will open a restaurant called FRANKIE’S next spring in the downtown Burlington spot that was occupied by Penny Cluse Café for almost a quarter century before it closed in December 2022.

CINDI KOZAK and JORDAN WARE recently left their jobs as general manager and executive chef, respectively, of HEN OF THE WOOD at 55 Cherry Street to start working in earnest on their new project a few blocks away at 169 Cherry Street.

They expect to open Frankie’s, which they described as a 70-seat farm-to-table dinner restaurant with an approachable style, in April 2024.

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area where the host station currently stands and install banquettes in the main and upstairs dining rooms.

The name was inspired by Frank’s, a restaurant that Ware’s in-laws owned in Hartford, Conn., for 50 years. “It’s a fun, playful name,” Ware said, one that reflects the personality they hope the new restaurant will develop.

“We’d like it to be a day-to-day place, not just for special occasions,” Kozak said.

The business partners said they feel a civic duty to invest in the building and in downtown generally at a time when the city is facing challenges.

“We want to open up a new space and fill it with joy,” Kozak said.

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El Gato Cantina to Close Burlington Location After 12 years on lower Church Street, EL GATO CANTINA permanently closed the doors of its Burlington location this week. The Mexican restaurant’s Essex Junction restaurant, food truck, and events and catering business will remain.

“It’s a numbers thing,” owner TREE BERTRAM told Seven Days, citing COVID19-related changes; increasing costs of labor, ingredients and rent; and “a tough market downtown right now” as reasons for the closure.

“Essex [Junction] is doing great,” Bertram said of the restaurant’s location there. “Our food truck and events are strong as well. So we really want to focus our time on the thriving parts of the business.”

El Gato’s space at 169 Church Street, where the restaurant originally opened

in August 2011, will be available for events, pop-ups and holiday party rentals through December. From there, the “really turnkey” restaurant will be on the market with assets valued at $140,000, Bertram said.

Staff were notified of the closure on Monday. Some of the roughly 20 employees, many of whom are part time, have been offered opportunities elsewhere in the company, Bertram said.

Before deciding to close the Burlington location, she said, she tried strategies to keep it afloat, such as streamlining the menu to reduce prep and payroll costs. “But you see the writing on the wall,” she said. “We had a great run here, with awesome employees and wonderful patrons. I’m sad to be leaving.”

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What Lies Beneath Book review: The Body Below, Daniel Hecht B Y J O R D AN A D AMS

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he truth is out there! So said the tagline from “The X-Files,” the vintage TV series about two FBI agents investigating strange occurrences. One is a skeptic guided by logic and verifiable evidence, the other a believer whose outlook challenges his partner’s analytical, what-you-see-iswhat-you-get view of the world. Neither one’s approach is enough to get the job done. That’s what makes them a perfect team.

Montpelier author Daniel Hecht’s new novel, The Body Below, similarly focuses on a pair of brilliant minds unraveling a mystery in the only way each knows how.

One focuses on facts, the time-stamped realities that can provide unequivocal answers. The other sees the truth as more subjective, something that varies from person to person based on feelings and experience. But each method leads them into dangerous and even deadly territory.

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FROM THE BODY BELOW At the narrows, I switched to a sidestroke so I’d have a better chance of avoiding branches that might have washed downstream and slowed there. I kept my eyes open, dipping my head under at intervals to scout for obstacles. Beneath the surface, the water didn’t permit a long view, just eight or ten feet of greenish glow, lit by the sky’s fading light.

Halfway through the narrows, I paused

gorgeous summer in fictional Richfield, Vt., a Morrisville-like burg with a small downtown and plenty of natural beauty.

Connor “Conn” Whitman, a middle-aged reporter for the Richfield Herald, a community newspaper with decent circulation, is known for penning a column called “Around Here.” Not unlike Seven Days’ “Stuck in Vermont” video series, “Around Here” highlights the color and quirks of small-town life.

to tread water and admire my lake’s-eye view of the cliffs on each side: rugged bedrock topped by white birch trees bright against the deepening forest shadow. That was when my foot struck something heavy and solid. I flailed in panic and tucked my head under to look down. A large, pale mass was pivoting slowly away from my kick — an irregularly swollen shape, blue-white, the color of a cataracted eye tinted olive by the silt.

I clawed through the water to escape it.

Conn is a career journalist who formerly wrote important pieces for the Washington Post. After getting embroiled in an ethical quagmire while attempting to take down a corrupt senator, he left the renowned paper in disgrace — with a minor criminal record to boot — and retreated to his home state of Vermont to put his life back together.

He’s fallen into a comfortable, committed-but-not-codependent relationship

with Celine Gabrielli, a psychologist in the local school district who, like him, has a marriage in her rearview mirror. They spend their summer fixing up Conn’s cabin, cooking healthy meals, basking on lakeshores and enjoying each other’s bodies.

A long-distance open-water swimmer (much like the novel’s author), Conn has found comfort and healing in the Green Mountains’ lakes and reservoirs. On one of his near-daily dips, he collides with something floating just under the surface.

He panics and retreats, fearing the bulbous, neutrally buoyant mass might be a dead body.

Chilled and mildly traumatized, Conn fears the worst when he finds out that his estranged sister, Laurel, is missing. What if the object he struck in the water was her body wrapped in plastic? But when the county sheriff ’s department searches the reservoir, it comes up empty-handed.

Despite the authorities’ opposition, Conn and Celine begin their own investigation, sharing some information but keeping other things to themselves. Perhaps what holds them back are their opposed views of what constitutes truth. Journalist Conn believes in objectivity, that the existence of a given reality excludes its opposite.

Celine, drawn to psychological profiling, believes there are shades of truth based on a person’s lived history.

There are many layers in the life of Laurel, who has been living under a pseudonym, Trudy. Despite being whip smart and talented, she experienced her own decades-long downturn of domestic abuse and drug addiction — though, as Conn discovers through his investigation, she has more recently turned things around and made a modest but comfortable life for herself and her two young daughters.

As the couple peel back the layers, a host of suspects emerges and the body count rises. Could Laurel’s presumed death be the result of a lover’s spat? She’s dated plenty of tough-guy creeps. Or perhaps her death was collateral damage in another tawdry plot. Or could it be connected to an investigation that Laurel herself was working on before her death, as Conn soon discovers?

The Body Below ruminates on themes of duality, or perhaps plurality, as do its dual narrators. Conn ponders how, for all the outward neighborliness of rural Vermonters, the state’s “rugged landscape, tough winters, muddy dirt roads, poor radio and cell reception” lead to an “independent, isolationist attitude” that never dies.

Perhaps that sense of seclusion was a factor in Conn and Laurel’s inability to get over their estrangement.

Hecht examines opposites throughout.

Take his water imagery: a world above

We have the

AS THEY PEEL BACK THE LAYERS, A HOST OF SUSPECTS EMERGES

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procedural that benefits from its author’s obvious familiarity with its setting. Longtime Vermonter Hecht knows how local police and school systems work, adding believability to his characters’ crime scene investigations, witness interrogations and counseling sessions.

Most of all, Hecht brings to life two sleuths who are utterly believable Vermonters. Recently returned expat Conn and Celine, a flatlander still getting to know State 14’s idiosyncrasies, are the type of charming childless couple you’d see strolling hand in hand at a farmers market or cuddling at a grange acoustic concert. The supporting characters are compelling, too, starting with foulmouthed, slightly unhinged detective Marlene Selanski.

I have no idea if Hecht plans to write a sequel to The Body Below, but Conn, Celine and Selanski are too well drawn for him not to find more stories for them. A new murder, mentioned in passing about twothirds of the way through, almost felt like a tee-up for an extended Connorverse. ➆

INFO The Body Below by Daniel Hecht, Blackstone Publishing, 458 pages. $27.99.

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Dinosaurs, competitive ice skating and life in Berlin during the decline of the Weimar Republic — at the second annual NonFiction Comics Festival, there’s no topic too silly or serious for the comic form.

This year’s fest — running from Friday to Sunday, November 17 to 19, mainly at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington — features an array of panelists and interactive workshops exploring the wide range of stories that can be told through graphic novels. About 50 cartoonists are expected to attend, including current Vermont cartoonist laureate Tillie Walden and former laureate James Kochalka.

The fest will kick off on Friday with the Hey Kids, Comics! listening party, hosted

by Vermont Folklife at the Archives arcade bar. Attendees will collectively listen to recorded interviews with local comic collectors and cartoonists as they describe Vermont’s comic book culture and how the state shapes their art.

On Saturday, catch keynote speakers Stephen Bissette and Rick Veitch, Vermont natives who both worked on DC Comics’ Saga of the Swamp Thing Tillie Walden in the 1980s. In line with the festival’s nonfiction theme, the speakers will discuss Bissette’s mid-’90s comic book series Tyrant, about the birth, life and death of a Tyrannosaurus rex; and Veitch’s ongoing series Roarin’ Rick’s Rare Bit Fiends, an exploration of dreams and the human psyche. Veitch also cofounded Eureka Comics, which specializes in making educational graphic novels.

Both Bissette and Veitch have had “amazing careers,” festival organizer Andy Kolovos of Vermont Folklife said. “Rick and Steve very rarely make public appearances, so it’s kind of a big deal.”

Other panels on Saturday include a discussion with past and present Seven Days cartoonists Kochalka, Julianna Brazill, Keith Knight and Rachel Lindsay, moderated by music editor Chris Farnsworth; a conversation about the defunct political cartoon website the Nib with founder Matt Bors and editor Sarah “Shay” Mirk; and a session on what draws cartoonists and readers to comics about adolescence.

Kolovos said the festival is especially pleased to host Walden, whom he calls “one of the best-known YA graphic

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the surface, another below. Then there’s Laurel, the drug-addicted fuckup known for half a lifetime’s worth of bad choices, who eventually becomes Trudy, a single mother who bootstraps her way into a healthier life.

Beyond duality, the author suggests there’s a tenuous boundary between opposing states and that it doesn’t take much to get from one to the other. As Celine ruminates, “Few people have had to face the twin ironies that love can beget murder and, sometimes, murder beget love, in a damning daisy chain that has wound through the history of the human family forever.”

Hecht is the author of numerous mysteries and thrillers, including the bestseller Skull Session. Though The Body Below is a bit long at roughly 450 pages, and the mystery could have used one or two more twists, it’s a mostly compelling

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novelists in the country right now.” Her work includes I Love This Part, about two teenage girls who fall in love, and Spinning, a memoir about her time as a competitive ice skater.

Festivalgoers will have the opportunity to create art themselves at Paws and Puns: An Animal Comics Workshop as well as Resiliency Narratives, which focuses on techniques for telling traumatic personal stories.

This year, attendees can personally meet six cartoonists at book signings, held every hour on Saturday. These include Jason Lutes, best known for his Berlin series; James Sturm, cofounder of White River Junction’s Center for Cartoon Studies; and Robyn Smith, author of The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town.

Concluding the festival on Sunday are several more workshops: how to turn primary sources into comics, how art can be used to interpret qualitative data, and a virtual lesson about adapting nonfiction prose into graphic novels.

Kolovos said the festival will highlight the many topics beyond superhero epics that authors can tackle through comics. For example, he said, he’s currently reading a scientific comic book about quantum Stephen mechanics. To Kolovos, Bissette comics exemplify the storytelling technique of “show, not tell.” It’s “the interplay between the words and pictures,” he said, that makes them so effective.

“For a lot of people, it’s a simpler way to engage with topics. You can be confronted by a 500-page book on something or a 100-page comic,” he said. “Comics are a wonderful medium for addressing all sorts of things.” ➆

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Theater review: Suite Surrender, Girls Nite Out Productions B Y A L E X BROW N • alex@sevendaysvt.com

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he set’s gleaming piano, swanky chairs and well-stocked bar convey the calm of a parlor in a luxury hotel suite. But no matter how serene the color scheme and upholstery, the five doors are a sure sign that a farce is about to break out. In the adorably comic world of Suite Surrender, nine characters intersect on hilarious trajectories that can only end in laughs.

The Girls Nite Out production of Michael McKeever’s play features a cast adept at physical comedy and the crucial skill of selling a joke.

It’s 1942, and everyone enlists for the war effort, including Hollywood stars who perform at benefits. Two singing divas, Claudia McFadden and Athena Sinclair, have a little war of their own going.

They’re fierce rivals who hate sharing the stage but once again find themselves on the same bill.

What’s worse, each assumes she belongs in the grand presidential suite at the hotel hosting the performance. Mr. Dunlap, the hotel manager, is dead set on keeping them apart and certain he has everything under control. The audience takes one look at this pompous man in the serious suit and knows he doesn’t stand a chance.

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paths must never cross — are resting in the two bedrooms of one hotel luxury suite? How long can two characters not quite enter the suite’s living room at the same time? In this well-rehearsed, neatly constructed comedy, the answer is a delirious “Just long enough.”

In a farce, the audience knows who’s behind each door. We also know that the characters are ridiculous, but we love the performers all the more when they keep their characters oblivious to both jokes.

The actors in this production positively sail on their characters’ sublime self-satisfaction.

Director Nan Murat has tuned the ensemble to work in harmony. The galloping pace and broad reactions make for an exhilarating ride.

Murat’s screwball playbook is deep, and her gags surprise even when we think we see them coming.

Claudia (Sabrina Sydnor) opens the door to the suite and gushes, “I love this hotel.” Sydnor gives Claudia a lovely cloud of excess to float on, fussing over her tiny dog and enjoying her martinis with dainty but persistent sips. She sings well and

sells a song better still — this Claudia is a performer first and last.

Her assistant (Brian Bittman) sees to her every need, desperately trying to outrun her next demand. No task is too demeaning for this bow-tied subordinate, and Bittman shows him clinging to composure even as the comic problems mount. A stupendous startle reflex is his only defense.

Athena (Sarah McKinnon Wright) arrives to twirl her beautiful red sleeves, ready to get down to the business of luxuriating in the hotel while hunting for a handsome Navy man or two — the lobby is filled with men in dress whites. Wright gives Athena an imperial bearing with a racy little twinkle in her eye.

Her secretary (Claire Demarais) is dutiful until a boyfriend she’d feared had enlisted turns up at the hotel. Demarais portrays romantic rapture with besotted clarity, snapping out of lovesickness only when Athena’s whims demand full attention. In her eye pops and full-body freezes, Demarais channels vintage Lucille Ball.

Geri Ann Higgins plays Mrs. Osgood, the indefatigable organizer of entertainment

DIRECTOR NAN MURAT’S SCREWBALL PLAYBOOK IS DEEP, AND HER GAGS SURPRISE

EVEN WHEN WE THINK WE SEE THEM COMING.

for the troops. Higgins elevates mugging to high art, holding her broad smiles and big gestures for a beat that audiences can fill only with laughter. Dreaming of singing with the famous Claudia, Mrs. Osgood mixes charm with chutzpah to muscle her way into a duet.

Dora Del Rio is a gossip columnist angling for a story on the hotel’s current famous occupants. Janet Stambolian plays the part with gusto, scurrying after leads and thriving on the physical comedy.

Stephen Moore, as the hotel manager, is not above begging the assistants to betray their bosses or desperately hiding anything — or anyone — in a closet, but he can’t divert the cyclone of a plot.

As the bellhops, Eric Warwick and Patrick Cope earnestly try to follow orders.

Wearing aim-to-please smiles and jaunty uniforms, they’re in constant motion and the ideal vessels for mistaken identity. As they try to stay one step ahead of the stars’ conflicting fancies, Warwick and Cope become hamsters in a treadmill, never quite fast enough to avoid disappointing someone. Warwick gets a lovely turn at romance, and Cope astounds with bravura bits of slapstick.

McKeever wrote the script in 2011, using farce’s solid foundation for some genuine wit. His attempts to magnify the madcap with references to offstage shenanigans never play, but what’s in front of us rises steadily in comic tension. And rest assured there’s a plot twist up his sleeve.

Ann Vivian designed a set that radiates elegance but is sturdy enough to accommodate pratfalls. The costumes, by Jennifer Warwick, give the show a regal bit of Hollywood glamour, plus just enough comic fluff in the bellboys’ uniforms and Mrs. Osgood’s crazy patriotic plumes. Warwick’s choice of bold colors makes each character stand out against the set’s tranquil tones. The impressive period hair styles by Linda Fleury whirl us back to the ’40s.

Girls Nite Out has been staging comedies since 2010, and making people laugh might as well be its mission statement.

Suite Surrender brings together a genuinely funny script and a talented cast of community theater performers in a show fully loaded with every kind of humor. The timing is crisp, and the physical comedy is irresistibly funny. This review is at pains not to ruin any of the gags, but plenty of surprises await audiences. ➆

INFO Suite Surrender, by Michael McKeever, directed

by Nan Murat, produced by Girls Nite Out Productions. Through November 19: Thursday through Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m., at Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, in Burlington. $23-25. girlsniteoutvt.com

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Johann Sebastian Bach knew about coffee addiction. He composed a miniature comic opera about it, called the Coffee Cantata. In the 30-minute work, a daughter defies her father’s command to stop consuming the popular new drink — until he threatens to prevent her from marrying. But she forms a plan. After all, she must have her three cups a day or, in the words of one song, she’ll “turn into a shriveled-up roast goat.”

The cantata was first performed in a coffeehouse in Leipzig, Germany, around 1735. As relevant as ever today, it will be performed twice on Saturday, November 18, at Kestrel Coffee Roasters’ Maple Street café in Burlington, by a newly minted musicians’ collective.

That group is the Vermont Contemporary Chamber Collective. Last week, founder Cole Marino, 25, launched the group with an email, inviting more than 100 Vermont musicians and singers to join his “performer database.” He wrote, “The aim is to bring new life to the performance of chamber repertoire, to challenge and enliven audiences and performers, and to build and strengthen community through innovative collaboration.”

He hopes to accomplish that through creative events like Saturday’s. Kestrel will offer a coffee tasting before the 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. performances, along with German pastries that would have been served back in 1735. Tickets are available online, but the café will remain open to regulars, who might end up hearing a soprano singing a love song to coffee while waiting for theirs.

That soprano role, Lieschen, will be sung by Lillian Broderick. Bass singer Erik Kroncke will portray Lieschen’s father, Schlendrian — literally, “Stick in the Mud.” Tenor Kevin Ginter sings the narrator.

Marino will conduct the singers and six musicians.

Ginter, from Underhill, hasn’t met Marino yet but appreciates the new collective. “The idea behind it is a good one,” he said. “Doing this baroque cantata in a

coffee shop in Burlington — that’s such an easy, accessible thing.”

Marino’s musical talents vary widely.

At age 9, he moved from Long Island, N.Y., to Williston with his two musician parents. He sang in the Essex Children’s Choir, school musicals and the Vermont Youth Orchestra Chorus. He also played trumpet, trombone, euphonium, piano and organ. During high school, he decided he wanted to become a conductor.

He pursued all those interests at the Manhattan School of Music while focusing on voice performance. Back in Williston after graduation in 2020, he dove into community conducting jobs: Lyric Theatre’s Into the Woods, Williston Community Theater’s Little Shop of Horrors, Tuck Everlasting at Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School in South Burlington.

Marino, who works as a bank teller, admitted that his idea for the collective “started rather selfishly”: He had a bucket list of chamber works he wanted to conduct. He conducted Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring a year ago in a soft launch of the group, as Vermont Contemporary Chamber Players. The Coffee Cantata opens a full season that includes an exploration of the works of Leonard Bernstein.

Funding, for now, comes from donors, ad sales and some of Marino’s own money.

Eventually he will seek nonprofit status, but in the meantime he is eager to enrich Vermont’s music scene.

When Seven Days met Marino — not for coffee but a salad — he mentioned the “incredible network of musicians that already exists” in the state. “The collective is there to tie it together formally,” he said. “I want to make the community as a whole a more musical place to be in.” ➆

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he film opens on a pair of shapely feet with salmon-painted toes padding across a pristine white shag carpet. False lashes and eyeliner are applied in a mirror. Welcome back to the intimate, impeccably curated world of Sofia Coppola.

This time around, the aesthetic is midcentury America, and the subject is how Priscilla Beaulieu became Priscilla Presley and what happened afterward, as told in her 1985 memoir Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock ’N Roll. Cailee Spaeny (“Mare of Easttown”), who plays the title character, won the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival.

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The deal

In 1959, 14-year-old army brat Priscilla is bored and friendless on the German base where her dad is stationed. She’s doing her homework at a soda counter when a grown man approaches her and invites her to a house party to meet rock idol Elvis Presley, who has enlisted in the U.S. Army.

With reluctant permission from her parents, Priscilla encounters the king of rock and roll (Jacob Elordi). She’s too shy to say much to this larger-than-life older man, but Elvis confides in her, expressing his grief over his mother’s death, and a bond is formed.

Elvis abandons Priscilla for a year or so, then returns to invite her to Graceland, where she learns about his habit of popping uppers and downers. Soon she moves in, earning her high school diploma at a Catholic school while spending chaste nights in her boyfriend’s room.

By the time they marry, in 1967, Priscilla is well aware of the rules of the relationship: Elvis can have affairs, while she must always be ready, waiting and devoted, accepting his critiques of her appearance while keeping her own opinions to herself.

She accepts that arrangement … for a while.

Will you like it?

I’ll never forget the experience of seeing the 1989 Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire! The filmmakers played the whole story as broad comedy, including the marriage of Lewis (Dennis Quaid) to his 13-year-old cousin (Winona Ryder), who’s portrayed as a precocious, randy hayseed. “Cringe” doesn’t begin to describe watching the scene of their wedding night in a theater.

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Cailee Spaeny plays Elvis’ bride in Sofia Coppola’s demystifying but still dreamy biopic.

today) by an older man who is beloved by millions? While the makers of Great Balls of Fire! seemed too embarrassed to face that question, Coppola isn’t. Whatever you think about Elvis’ intentions toward Priscilla — the film indicates they didn’t have sex until she was at least 18 — Priscilla doesn’t minimize the enormous power differential in their romance: child and adult, schoolgirl and rock star.

In early scenes, Spaeny is convincing as a 14-year-old — the ducked head and closed posture, the small voice, the desperate efforts to project sophistication. Her interactions with Elvis are almost painful to watch. Sure, Priscilla is besotted with this man who brings glamour and excitement into her life and even confides his vulnerabilities to her. It’s a teen fantasy on the level of Twilight. But she clearly lacks the experience to deal with Elvis on an equal plane, let alone call him on his bullshit.

Although Elordi played the dimpled, quasi-psychopathic heel on “Euphoria,” Priscilla doesn’t portray Elvis as a villain.

The film focuses tightly on Priscilla, putting her in nearly every shot. But we see enough of Elvis to grasp his own feelings of frustration and powerlessness, of being

used and abused by the industry, and to understand that exerting control over his bride is a way to compensate.

The movie’s overall mood is typical for Coppola: languorous loneliness. When Priscilla is with Elvis, living out the more documented moments of their lives, the director sometimes slips into the elegiac montage mode that dominated Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (though, unlike Luhrmann, Coppola doesn’t have the rights to Elvis’ music).

But then the nostalgic filters disappear. We snap back to the reality of a teenager living virtually locked up on her mostly absent boyfriend’s estate, where she’s scolded for trying to befriend the secretaries or even sitting on the lawn.

Like most of Coppola’s films, this one passes in a dreamy haze, and there are times when we may wish she’d filled the haze with more distinct details. We barely know Priscilla as an individual apart from Elvis: A few scenes in, he’s already the center of her universe. Not until late in the film do we see her talk and laugh with the confidence of a mature woman who might have her own personality.

Small as that evolution is, it’s satisfying.

Whatever Elvis’ fans think of it, Priscilla

is an absorbing study of a perhaps all-toocommon phenomenon: A girl surrenders herself completely to the man of her dreams and then grows up enough to see him with the painful clarity of daylight.

MARGO T HARRI S O N margot@sevendaysvt.com

IF YOU LIKE THIS, TRY… ELVIS (2022; Max, Prime Video, rent-

able): I’m not a big fan of Luhrmann’s biopic, which is much more about Elvis the icon than Elvis the person. But it is an impressive spectacle, and its bombastic style makes for a fascinating contrast with Priscilla.

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006; rentable):

Of all Coppola’s films, this one is most akin to Priscilla: Both reexamine women who are famous for their relationships and their excessive lifestyles.

ELVIS BY THE PRESLEYS (2005; Cinev-

erse, check your local library): Priscilla, Lisa Marie and other family members share their memories of Elvis in this well-regarded TV documentary.

movies THE HOLDOVERS: Paul Giamatti plays a grumpy prep school teacher forced to spend the holidays with his least favorite student in the acclaimed comedydrama from Alexander Payne. (133 min, R. Majestic, Roxy, Savoy) THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES: This prequel to the blockbuster dystopian series explores the youth of villain-to-be Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth). With Rachel Zegler and Viola Davis. Francis Lawrence directed. (157 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Playhouse, Star) NEXT GOAL WINS: Michael Fassbender attempts to coach the notoriously losing American Samoa soccer team to glory in this fact-based comedy from director Taika Waititi. (103 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic) THANKSGIVING: Turkey Day gets its own slasher movie about a killer on the loose in Plymouth, Mass.

Patrick Dempsey and Gina Gershon star. Eli Roth directed. (107 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Star)

THE MARVELSHH1/2 Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) must work with Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) to save the universe in the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe entry. Nia DaCosta directed. (105 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) PRISCILLAHHHH Sofia Coppola tells the story of the romance of Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi) and his teen bride (Cailee Spaeny). (113 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy; reviewed 11/15) THE ROYAL HOTELHHHH Two U.S. backpackers (Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick) become targets after they take jobs at a pub in the Australian outback in this thriller from Kitty Green (The Assistant). (91 min, R. Roxy) TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOURHHHH Fans who didn’t score tickets can catch this cinematic version of the pop star’s concert. (168 min, NR. Thu-Sun only: Essex, Sunset) TIGER 3: The saga of two spies continues in this Hindi action thriller directed by Maneesh Sharma.

(153 min, NR. Majestic)

TROLLS BAND TOGETHER: The third installment in the animated musical family series reunites Justin Timberlake’s character with his boy band brethren.

With Anna Kendrick and Zooey Deschanel. (92 min, PG. Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Star)

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ANATOMY OF A FALLHHHH1/2 A man’s fatal fall casts suspicion on his novelist wife (Sandra Hüller) in this French legal drama from Justine Triet, which won the Palme d’Or. (151 min, R. Roxy; reviewed 11/8)

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FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’SH1/2 In this horror flick, a guy gets more than he bargained for when he takes a night security gig at a kids’ party spot. (110 min, PG-13. Bijou, Majestic, Roxy, Sunset, Welden) JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM: Antonio Banderas plays King Herod in a retelling of the Christmas story in family-friendly musical form. Adam Anders directed.

(98 min, PG. Essex) KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOONHHHH1/2 Martin Scorsese’s historical drama traces the 1920s murders of Osage Nation members. Leonardo di Caprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone star. (206 min, R. Bijou, Majestic, Roxy, Savoy, Stowe; reviewed 10/25)

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Note: These capsule descriptions are not intended as reviews. Star ratings come from Metacritic unless we reviewed the film (noted at the end of the description). Find reviews written by Seven Days critic Margot Harrison at sevendaysvt.com/ onscreen-reviews.

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A Film Critic Pays Final Respects to the Palace 9 B Y M ARG O T H ARRI S O N • margot@sevendaysvt.com

cry from the platters of 35mm film that needed to be carefully threaded and monitored by projectionists.

But with the convenience of digital film came the new competition of home streaming. During the pandemic, Jarvis MARGOT HARRISON

I’ve been reviewing movies for Seven Days for 16 years, starting in February 2007 with the adaptation of Vermont author Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia. I saw it at the Palace 9 in South Burlington.

Over the years, the multiplex has always been my favorite theater for reviewing movies — cavernous, easy to park at and seldom crowded. Built in 1992, it was the state’s largest theater until the 2004 opening of the Majestic 10 in Williston — according to Merrill Jarvis III, who owns both.

I didn’t have a movie to see last Thursday, the Palace 9’s last night in operation. But I went anyway, to pay my respects to my home away from home. When I arrived, the parking lot was jam-packed — something I hadn’t seen since the pre-pandemic days when new Hunger Games or Marvel releases drew huge crowds.

Tickets were just $1 on the theater’s last night, as was popcorn. Crowds came and went. The lobby filled up briefly, then emptied out, then gradually filled again as the 6 and 7 p.m. shows approached.

Upstairs in the projection room, decommissioned 35mm projectors stood in a long row. In recent years, modern digital projectors ran themselves all week long, Jarvis said — a far

The Palace 9 lobby in July 2023

pointed out, even his older customers learned to use the new technology. Many didn’t return to the theater.

The Palace had to close because “25 screens here in Burlington is just too much right now,” Jarvis said.

“Everybody’s spread too thin.” The greater Burlington area still has three indoor multiplexes: Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas in Burlington, the Majestic 10 in Williston and the Essex Cinemas.

I never minded getting a screen all to myself at the Palace 9 — which did happen occasionally. But seeing a movie with people was always more rewarding. “It’s an amazing experience when everybody’s laughing in the theater together or crying or confused or chattering,” Jarvis said.

He thanked all the Palace’s customers over the past 30 years, saying, “I hate to see ‘em go.” While he didn’t disclose any plans for the theater’s replacement, he promised that it “will make the community happy.”

Reflecting on the crowds on the Palace’s last night, Jarvis said, “I love it full of people. I wish it was full every day like this.” ➆ Read the full version of this essay at sevendaysvt.com.

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Painting From Life In a retrospective at the Front, Delia Robinson reconnects with her past

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animals, often anthropomorphized, show up throughout. Bears, for example, began to appear in her dreams some years ago, Robinson said, and found their way to her paintings.

“The bears started with a dream that I had a mother who was a bear — a giant Kodiak. She would put me on her back and we would travel — she would fly,” Robinson said. “I had a series of dreams about this bear.”

If her bears also pile into a car or sit down for tea, well, so be it. Rabbits, dogs, frogs and chickens are actors in her scenes, as well.

Robinson said she frequently dreamed of flying as a young girl, a wishful vision sweetly illustrated in her pencil drawing, “Floating Girl,” drawn at age 6. The cutout figure is affixed to the gallery wall, a solo flyer. But she has companions: Nearby, in “Ladies Night Out for Geezer Circus Workers at a Levitation Workshop,” 10 older, gravity-free women frolic in the air over a verdant landscape. The tippy-top of a circus tent pokes up from the bottom of the frame.

Most of Robinson’s characters, human or otherwise, appear to be living their best lives — but a few images are ambiguous or even dark. In her painting “Red Riding Hood,” a man with a large wolf head, white suit and red shoes sits in an armchair as a woman clad completely in red stands over him.

Clockwise from left: “A Diabolic Haircut”; “Ladies Night Out for Geezer Circus Workers at a Levitation Workshop”; “Boyfriend Reunion”

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irls and women fly, bears ride in a convertible, wild animals visit a museum, old folks straddle leaping tigers in a “geezer circus”: These are not scenes from a children’s book, although they could be. In her current show at the Front in Montpelier, Delia Robinson transmutes these fantasies into exuberant paintings, drawings and hand-formed clay whistles. Yet events in her personal life provide a through line for the exhibit, titled “Then and Now.” The show “celebrates 2 windfalls,” Robinson’s artist statement explains.

A cache of her paintings from 20 years ago turned up in the closet of a Brattleboro gallery where she used to exhibit; both the artist and the gallery owners had forgotten about them. “Then my sister Robbie sent me a packet that my mother had saved — drawings from my childhood,” Robinson said in a phone interview. “I had no idea she had saved them.”

Robinson, 78, said she was fascinated to see the same motifs recurring over the years. “Childhood, middle-aged, old — all on the same themes,” she marveled.

“That’s when I thought, I’m going to do my retrospective. I’m going to put in the baby work.” .” Her new show mingles pieces from each of those eras.

In the gallery, paintings with similar themes or subjects — such as food, flying or circus — are grouped together. But

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Both look menacing. Disembodied faces and other images loom in the murky background.

In “Boyfriend Reunion,” Robinson indulges her mordant sense of humor.

Five of the fellas surrounding the whitehaired female at the center are skeletons.

The artist playfully abetted the concept by hanging “Whistling Skeleton” next to the painting.

Robinson modestly downplays her painting skill, but numerous collectors would surely disagree. Her style might be called folk art meets Marc Chagall-esque

repelled me, but I like this hero, Mercury.

He straddles the cosmos delivering the mail to heaven and hell.”

For years, Robinson was primarily known for her clay whistles — a craft she learned from her mother — and she continues to sell the one-of-a-kind items in gift shops. The Front exhibit features a number of whistles, along with a sign explaining Robinson’s credo: “I believe a whistle should be a small, personal handheld treasure.”

Most of the whistles are indeed minuscule, such as “Sleeping on an Elephant” — a

“Floating Girl”

MOST OF ROBINSON’S CHARACTERS, HUMAN OR OTHERWISE,

APPEAR TO BE LIVING THEIR BEST LIVES. magical realism. But the creative vision and vivacity are all her own.

Most of all, Robinson loves the narrative potential of art — which she also explores in hand-painted crankies (not in the exhibit).

“I love a story; I love that aha moment when you look at art — that sense of those doors opening in your imagination,” she said. “I admire abstract, but I can never stick to it — a little head sticks out, and a story appears.”

For the exhibit, Robinson augmented the stories in her paintings with short texts. In a myth-inspired piece titled “Mercury, Mailman of the Gods,” the winged postal worker is handing letters to an angel overhead and a naked figure below — one of many writhing in a fiery pit. “Finding appropriate jobs in the modern world for the ancient gods was a challenge,” Robinson writes in the accompanying caption. “Unfortunately, after six paintings, their murderous activities

teeny person under blankets snoozing atop an inches-tall pachyderm. But a few are larger and remarkably complex. In “Dawn Egg,” an ovoid shape is painted with sea, soil, trees and sky; myriad animals are perilously stacked atop it. A recent whistle, comically titled “A Diabolic Haircut,” consists of a woman holding both hands to her head, where little angel and devil figures vie for primacy.

Robinson may have had an “aha moment” when she installed her timetraveling exhibition. “When I put it in the room and hung it on the walls, there was a moment when I thought, It works,” she said. “I got to see the continuity of my life and [that] makes it feel special.” ➆

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‘ART FOR ALL’: A seasonal group show featuring works in a variety of mediums by 23 area artists.

Reception: Friday, November 17, 5-7 p.m. Canal Street Art Gallery, Bellows Falls, November 17-January 6.

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CRAFT VERMONT SHOW: Vermont’s finest artists and crafters sell their creations at the 71st annual fine craft and art show. DoubleTree by Hilton, South Burlington, Friday, November 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, November 18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sunday, November 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $8-10 for three days, cash only; free for children under 12 with an adult.

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SARAH H. PAULSON: “Dragon Land,” paintings rooted in the performative. Reception: Sunday, November 19, 4-6 p.m. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, November 19-February 11. Info, 451-0053.

SMALL WORKS 2023: A holiday exhibit featuring artworks and fine crafts by local artists that celebrate the season. Reception: Friday, November 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Artistree Community Arts Center, South Pomfret, November 17-December 20. Info, 457-3500.

VERMONT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY: Paintings by more than 30 artists of still life, outdoor studies, portraits and more. Reception and awards ceremony: Saturday, November 18, 2-4 p.m. River Arts, Morrisville, through February 8. Info, 888-1261.

ART EVENTS GUIDED TOUR OF ‘PAPER MADE’: Curator and artist Michelle Samour leads visitors through an exhibition that challenges assumptions about how paper can be used in art-making. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Wednesday, November 15, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124.

VISITING ARTIST TALK: WILL KASSO CONDRY: The renowned visual artist, graffiti scholar and educator talks about his work and career. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Wednesday, November 15, 8-9 p.m.

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HOLIDAY KICKOFF: The glass studio, tove wear and JenGreen Designs launch the gift-giving season with discounted items and refreshments. AO Glass, Burlington, Thursday, November 16, 6-8 p.m. Info, 540-0125.

OPEN STUDIO: A guided meditation followed by art-making in any modality and then sharing. No experience required. Many materials available in studio. Register at the website. Expressive Arts Burlington, Thursday, November 16, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Donation. Info, 343-8172.

ARTIST TALK: AURORA ROBSON: The artist, who makes innovative sculptures out of plastic debris, discusses her art-making career. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Saturday, November 18, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 257-0124.

BTV WINTER MARKET: A European-style outdoor market featuring a rotating group of 20 local artists, makers and food vendors. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturday, November 18, noon-6 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

Christy Mitchell’s New Exhibition Addresses the Impact of a Family Crisis

BY PAMEL A PO LS TO N • ppolston@sevendaysvt.com

For the past 11 years, Christy Mitchell has mounted a solo installation in November — her birthday month — at the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, the Burlington art venue she founded in 2009. Mitchell sold the gallery to artist Nikki Laxar in September, but the show still goes on this month. It’s called “Point of Impact,” and, yes, asteroids are involved.

In each show, Mitchell, who is also executive director of the South End Arts + Business Association, turns her reactions to events of the previous year into visually and conceptually compelling mixed-media installations. Though most of her shows have addressed personal concerns, this year’s might be the most profoundly felt of all.

“Whether sent from the universe or embedded in our DNA,” Mitchell’s artist statement begins, “messages and events can suddenly arrive and change the course of our lives.” In “Point of Impact,” she grapples with the heartbreak and challenges of caring for family members who are struggling with their mental health.

“Appearing in waves, hitting hard like an asteroid making contact with Earth, watching a loved one go through crisis can feel like the end of the world,” she observes.

Viewers who did not read Mitchell’s statement — or missed her talk on opening night — may not take in that theme, which isn’t conveyed literally. And that’s OK with the artist. “I like to create something where people can relate without [my] explaining it to them,” she said during a gallery visit, acknowledging that objects and images don’t elicit the same responses from everyone.

Mitchell has long collected old rotary telephones, cheap midcentury cameras and analog radios. Phones, in particular, are symbolic devices that play various roles in her work. They return in “Point of Impact,” mostly disassembled: a curly cord strung overhead, receivers hanging by their cords, phones sitting on the floor or affixed to black-painted wood discs on the wall.

All the objects Mitchell employs here are conveyers of communication — and it’s significant that they are disabled.

The vintage cameras and radios met violent ends: Mitchell smashed them and assembled jumbled collages of the pieces on similar black discs. It was hard breaking the first one, she admitted, but then it felt cathartic. Neatly hung in a row, the six tondos — “Foreign Body I” through “VI” — relate, at least in shape, to her images of celestial bodies.

For the latter, Mitchell cut out pictures of a solar eclipse and nebulae “from books about the universe,” she said. (Asteroids look less interesting, she found; they’re just rock.) She reinforced them with card stock and wrote a single word over each image with blue marker before framing them. The words came to her via stream of consciousness, Mitchell said. On the nebulae photos, her words include “contact,” “collide” and “compound.”

For Mitchell, the space images “express something about things beyond your control — like asteroids,” she said. The round assemblages, she suggested, are “like a black hole, with things sticking together after a collision.”

“Point of Impact” is about one woman navigating an emotional meteor shower, but, like the best art, it is universally relatable.

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‘BOOTLEGGER’S GUIDE TO NONFICTION COMICS’: Eisner-nominated cartoonist Jess Ruliffson presents a virtual workshop exploring nonfiction cartooning as part of the Non-Fiction Comics Fest. Online, Sunday, November 19, 1-2:30 p.m. Free; preregistration required. Info, nfcf@ vtfolklife.org.

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‘HEY KIDS, COMICS!’: VERMONT COMIC BOOK CULTURES: A LISTENING PARTY: Mary Wesley and Andy Kolovos host an event featuring the voices of well-known Vermont cartoonists describing how the state shapes their art, plus clips of comic book fanatics sharing tales of the nerd life. The Archives, Burlington, Friday, November 17, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free.

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‘DRAWING COMICS FROM PRIMARY SOURCES’: Part of the Non-Fiction Comics Fest, cartoonist Marek Bennett presents a workshop that interprets existing texts in new ways and explores sequence, voice and point of view. Basic art supplies and sources provided, or bring your own. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Sunday, November 19, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregistration required. Info, nfcf@vtfolklife.org.

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LET’S MAKE ZINES!: Part of the Non-Fiction Comics Fest, this workshop explores the role of visual arts in qualitative research and provides hands-on practice using drawings to work with data. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Sunday, November 19, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregistration required. Info, nfcf@vtfolklife.org.

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The Love You Take: Spencer Albee on Covering the Beatles Call me a paradox, even a hypocrite if you will. But I — who on occasion show up at local clubs with a crew of friends to play a bunch of covers to get drunks dancing — hate, hate, hate cover bands.

More often than not, watching them is like looking at a bad AI rendition of something cool.

And it makes me a little depressed, honestly. The skill and bravery it takes to write a song, get up on a stage and play it for a group of strangers who have never heard it before — well, that’s part of the magic that is music. The creation, the act of summoning notes from the void and shaping them into something new — it’s such a risk, no matter the skill level. And in that risk is beauty. Art can be defiant, and what’s more defiant than facing down a pub full of people who probably just want to hear “Wagon Wheel” and instead giving them something new?

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it. I’m just saying: It’s fucking Diet Coke, and I don’t like when musicians forget that.

I’m not sure where the line is or what makes me enjoy one tribute band over another, but I have seen a few that managed to re-create some of the original artist’s magic. By and large, the PINK FLOYD tribute stuff I’ve seen misses the mark, with most acts embodying the band’s bloated ’80s and ’90s stage setups. The group I’ve witnessed coming closest to re-creating the psychedelic grandeur and haunting dread of Floyd in their prime is our own DARK SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. The project of onetime GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS drummer MATT BURR and KAT WRIGHT guitarist BOB WAGNER relaunches for the first time since 2021 with a November 30 performance at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington. My hypocritical ass will absolutely be there, and I highly recommend that any other Floyd fans do the same.

I’ll check in at the SoBu club this week, too, for a similar reason: SPENCER AND THE WALRUS. The sprawling, all-eras

Beatles tribute act hits the stage on Thursday, November 16, playing the widest array of Fab Four-centric music I’ve ever seen.

“So many Beatles tributes get bogged down in stuff like costume changes or playing characters, as opposed to worrying about the music,” said SPENCER ALBEE, the ringmaster of the Portland, Maine-based band that has paid tribute to the Beatles for 20 years — all without wigs. “I even heard of a group that had plastic surgery to look like the band! That’s … yeah, that’s a little strange.”

Albee and co. are only worried about re-creating the Beatles’ songs as faithfully as they can. Rather than playing era-specific segments in which they ease from the mop-top phase to the psychedelic overtones of Revolver, the band simply glories in presenting as wide a Beatles selection as possible.

That’s not to say the musicians won’t get creative when the moment calls for it. When Spencer and the Walrus played The White Album in its entirety a few years ago, they marshaled more than 30 musicians on the stage to perform a wild “Revolution 9,” including trumpet players in tutus and pianists wearing LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN wigs.

“We don’t shy away from anything,” Albee said by phone. “People tend to gravitate towards the later material, but we pepper in plenty of the older stuff.

And all of those guys had amazing solo stuff, so we delve into that as well.”

Albee is a fixture in the New England music scene who started out with rockers RUSTIC OVERTONES in the 1990s and then played with power-pop trio AS FAST AS. He was working at a venue in Portland in 2003 when his bosses asked him to fill up a Saturday night with something that might put asses in seats.

He booked As Fast As, but with a catch: They became a Beatles cover band for the night.

“It absolutely crushed,” Spencer recalled. “So we did it the next year.

Then As Fast As signed a record deal and we were on the road like crazy, but every year we would play the Beatles night.”

The personnel shifted over the years as more and more Portland-based musicians signed up, such as SEAN MORIN, ZACH JONES and NATALIE MISHELL MARTINEZ. As the word got out, the group changed venues.

“We just kept moving up to bigger venues every year until we landed at the State Theatre,” Albee said. “It got to the point where now we’re selling 5,000 tickets a year.”

Twenty years on, the show has become part and parcel of the holiday season in Portland. The first night always coincides with the city’s Christmas tree lighting in Monument Square. And Albee reckons the group has spread the gospel of the Beatles to an entire generation of the city’s youths.

“We’ve been so many Portland kids’ first show,” Albee said. “And that responsibility isn’t lost on me. Not just introducing them to the Beatles but to live music. So we really go all out.”

The next phase of the project started in 2019 as Spencer and the Walrus toured the show in New England, including Burlington. Albee hopes the show will become a tradition in the Queen City, just as it has in Portland.

“I don’t see other bands covering the Beatles the way we do,” he said. “I mean, where else are you going to see a band go from ‘Love Me Do’ to ‘Uncle Albert/ Admiral Halsey’?”

And yes, the band will also tackle the Fab Four’s latest No. 1 single, “Now and Then,” perhaps becoming the first Beatles cover band to take a crack at the JOHN LENNON demo that PAUL MCCARTNEY, GILES MARTIN and our AI overlords recently turned into the so-called “last Beatles song.” Unless maybe the plastic surgery guys jumped on it first?

No costumes, no accents, no gimmicks — just a bonkers set list, faithfully spanning the work of the band that changed the face of not just music but society itself. That is a cover band I can get behind.

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That old punk rocker Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) also picked up a Grammy nom, for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for his book It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. It’s Bernie’s second nomination, but he lost out to CARRIE FISHER’s autobiography in 2018 because, um, she was fucking Princess Leia. He’s CO

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Happy anniversary to Burlington poppunk outfit the SILENT MILE. The hardcharging four-piece hit the scene with 2019’s What We Used to Have & Who We Used to Be, a year after its live debut at the now sadly defunct underground venue Jim’s Basement. To celebrate the half-decade anniversary (I think you’re supposed to buy each other pewter?), the band is throwing a rager at Despacito in Burlington’s Old North End on Saturday, November 18, with support from KENNEDY PARK and VIOLET CRIMES. Returning after a two-year hiatus from gigging, the band will have a lot of pent-up pop-punk frustration to work out, so bring your earplugs! ➆

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in 2019. Even though I consider myself fairly plugged in, I still miss show announcements sometimes, which gives me the opportunity to be excited when I come across an unexpected show. One of the local bands I’ve been continually happy to bump into is VERONICA STELLA RUSSELL’s Rangus. Not only does Russell absolutely rock on lead guitar and vocals onstage, encouraging openness and inclusion for the LGBTQ community, but all of her offstage work with Pride Center of Vermont and its Queer Takeover series rocks just as hard.

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5. “I ALWAYS DO” RANGUS AT THE HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE, SOUTH BURLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9: Once again at Higher Ground, I found myself unexpectedly jumping between the Ballroom, where I was house photographer for the SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS, and the Showcase Lounge, where I was happily surprised to see locals RANGUS opening for Portland, Maine’s WEAKENED FRIENDS — a band I hadn’t photographed since it performed at ArtsRiot

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THU.16 // MOHANAD ELSHIEKY [COMEDY]

All Apologies New York City-via-Libya comedian

MOHANAD ELSHIEKY is an expert at pointing out people at their worst. As

a cohost of the podcast “I’m Sorry,” Elshieky dives into the cringiest

Apollo Suns (jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

social media gaffes and fiercest public beefs each week as he and fellow

Bent Nails House Band (blues, rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

comedians Hoja Lopez and Kiki Monique debate the art of apologizing.

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

Free.

A digital producer on the acclaimed show “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee,” Elshieky has made a reputation for himself by pulling humor out

Brunch, Rabbit Foot, Dog Johnson, Benway, Blazer (indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5/$10.

of the most unlikely topics, often delving into politics and headlines with fearless abandon. He performs on Thursday, November 16, at the

David Karl Roberts (folk) at Two Heroes Brewery Public House, South Hero, 7 p.m.

Free.

Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.

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

Late Night Radio, parkbreezy, motifv (electronic) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 8 p.m. $22.

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

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

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

Matt Hagen (singer-songwriter) at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Matthew Mercury, Remi Russin (indie rock) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Free.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $5.

Oldtone String Band (bluegrass) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

Peg Tassey & the Loud Flowers, Julian Hackney, Lily Seabird, Zaq Schuster, Ezra Oklan, Aliza Azarian, Luminous Crush (indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10/$15.

Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

THU.16

Aubrey Haddard, Ivamae (singersongwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10/$12.

Pitt Crew (roots) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Double You, Workingman’s Army (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Rough Suspects (rock, blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Frankie and the Fuse (indie) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

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

Jason Lee, Luis Betancourt (singersongwriter) at Two Heroes Brewery Public House, South Hero, 7 p.m. Free.

Zenbarn 7th Anniversary Party (funk, DJ) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m.

Free.

Jazz with Alex Stewart and Friends (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

SUN.19

Jenni Johnson and the Junketeers (R&B) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free.

Kool Keith, Marc Live, DJ Halo, MC Homeless, Wheeler Del Toro, J Stylez, Mister Burns, Sed One, Vast & Slade (hip-hop) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 8 p.m. $25/$30.

Red Hot Juba (jazz, swing) at Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, Essex, 6 p.m.

Free.

Spencer and the Walrus (Beatles tribute) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $20/$23.

Stefani Capizzi (soul) at American Flatbread Stowe, 6 p.m. Free.

Thaya Zalewski Quartet (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Tom Bisson (folk) at Filling Station, Middlesex, 6 p.m. Free.

FRI.17

Arthur Sadowsky and the Troubadours (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Free.

Blue Star Radiation (jam) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 8 p.m. $32.50.

Bob Gagnon (jazz) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Burlington Electronic Department Showcase (electronic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10/$15.

Bob Montgomery Blues Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Cozy (jam) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Fran Briand & Mike Trombley (acoustic) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 8 p.m.

Free.

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

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 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.16

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.

Jeff Wilson (folk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Chris Powers (acoustic) at Gusto’s, Barre, 6 p.m. Free.

The Steppes (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Super Stash Bros (jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Grippo Funk Band (funk) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15.

Tiffany Pfeiffer (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Kowalski Brothers (folk) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free.

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

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

Larkspurs (folk) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Unruly Allies (folk) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass Jam (bluegrass) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

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

Lawless (rock) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

SAT.18

Bruce Sklar Jazz Quintet (jazz) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m.

Free.

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

Bearded Belligerents (punk, hardcore) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

Honky Tonk Tuesday with John Abair and John Freeburn Band (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Marisa Anderson, Cam Gilmour (indie) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. $15.

Matt Hagen (folk) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Richmond, 6 p.m. Free.

Mike MacDonald (acoustic) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Mountain Dog (bluegrass) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Night Protocol, D-LAV, Anxiocide (synth, electronic) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10/$15.

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

Shane’s Apothecary (folk) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

The Silks (rock) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 8 p.m. $10/$15.

The Back Roots (rock) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Drunk Off Diesel (metal) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 8 p.m. Free.

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

High Summer (soul) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10/$15.

Instant Narwahl (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Jaded Ravins (Americana) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, 7 p.m. Free.

Jordan Sedwin (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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

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

TUE.21

DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

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

FRI.17

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

John’s Jukebox (DJ) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

Kate Kush, NewMantra (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10/$15.

Lea Cota, Mary Esther Carter (singersongwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5/$10.

Space Daddy (electronic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

WED.22

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

Barbie-N-Bones (rock) at the Depot, St. Albans, 9 p.m. $5.

Bent Nails House Band (blues, rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Bird Mountain Sting Band (bluegrass) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free.

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

Free.

SAT.18

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

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

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

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Hi Fi (DJ) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

virtuosos such as MARISA ANDERSON are eyeing the throne. Dubbed “one of the most

Matt Payne (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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The Taylor Party (Taylor Swift dance party) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $25/$30.

approach, combining the typical fields of play for guitar music with electronic drone and minimalism. Many fans see the future of the instrument in her music. She and her

Under the Sea Prom (DJ) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free.

trusty Fender Stratocaster swing through the Monkey House in Winooski on Friday,

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

WED.22

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

open mics & jams WED.15

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

Free.

Lit Club (poetry open mic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

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

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Open Mic with Danny Lang (open Free.

THU.16

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

Live Standup Comedy (comedy) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free.

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

Mohanad Elshieky (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $15.

TUE.21

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

WED.22

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.

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Venetian Karaoke (karaoke) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

MON.20

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

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

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

Sam Ruddy & Kate Willett (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9 p.m. $25.

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

TUE.21

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FRI.17

Sam Ruddy & Kate Willett (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9 p.m. $25.

SUN.19

$5 Improv Night (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

MON.20

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

TUE.21

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

WED.22

Best in Show: Standup! (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:45 p.m. $5/$10.

trivia, karaoke, etc.

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

Pass the Potatoes (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $5.

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Comedy Wolf (comedy) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5/$10.

MON.20

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

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

Free Stuff! (comedy) at Lincolns, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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

Whale Tales: An Evening of Comedic Storytelling (comedy) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.15

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

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

Karaoke Tuesdays (karaoke) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. Free.

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

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

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.

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.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Tuesday Trivia (trivia) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Thursday (trivia) at Spanked Puppy Pub, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.22

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

Free.

SUN.19

Sunday Funday (games) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, noon. Free.

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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Quick Hits Surveying new releases from Vermont’s ever-expanding hip-hop scene B Y J U S TIN BO L AND

Local hip-hop stars 99 Neighbors ended an era with their sold-out farewell show at the Higher Ground Ballroom last month, and now the 802 rap scene finds itself at a turning point. Established names are aiming higher than ever, and new artists are desperate to make a mark in a packed, competitive field.

What follows is a mix of releases from new names and familiar faces stepping out solo. ➆

Ranch God, candy, coffee, cigarettes

Nahte Renmus, FUNK.95

The artist formerly known as Lil Ranch has recently graduated to Ranch God. This is a fitting move for someone who is such a force of nature, effortlessly creative, charismatic and funny as hell. He’s been stealing the show with features and singles for years now, and it’s finally time for his solo debut. Despite the name, candy, coffee, cigarettes turns out to be a surprisingly raw, personal album with as many ballads as bangers.

Less surprising is the fact that it all sounds incredible, a psychedelic wash of huge, crisply articulated mixes. Ranch God draws on a massive roster of collaborators to make it happen, and the final product is nothing short of monumental. This album clearly establishes Ranch God at the forefront of the current scene.

KEY TRACK: “SUM CYPHER Bonus (Ft Hakim XOXO, FrostyDaYoungin).” WHY: The sheer joy of this track is electric, with three young artists celebrating their success over a wild Caleb Lodish beat. This is the sound of 2023. WHERE: SoundCloud

Rapper/producer Nahte (pronounced like “latte”) Renmus emerged from Windsor’s legendary Maiden Voyage crew, alongside Teece Luvv and Jarv. Renmus and Jarv now call New York City home, which seems almost inevitable. From the very beginning, their crew has pledged allegiance to a very specific brand of hip-hop purism. Waking up every day in the birthplace of the culture has clearly raised the stakes, because FUNK.95 is light-years past Renmus’ earlier catalog.

That catalog, to be clear, is damn fine work. But it’s never been as urgent, consistent or undeniable as his latest offering. Every track here is a head-bobbing gem. Renmus is a student of the genre, and his style is a whirlwind of influences. But fans of Edan or Del the Funky Homosapien are especially advised to check this out ASAP. FUNK.95 is a blend of ’80s, ’90s and Def Jux-era sounds, which would be tediously referential if it weren’t all so effortlessly brand new.

KEY TRACK: “Stovepipe” featuring Kool Keith. WHY: This is timeless, funky-ass boom bap with Kool Keith bringing his A game for the feature. That’s respect. WHERE: Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music

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Topia, No U in Topia (NEW FOCUS, DIGITAL)

Topia is one of the most fascinating creators to emerge from the Make Music Club, a crucial talent incubator run by Jason Raymond at the Burlington Technical Center. His style is firmly rooted in modern emo rap. Topia won’t spit a 16 at you, he just levitates out of the booth and into the music, pushing the limits of studio technology to create something more than human. It doesn’t always work on his debut, No U in Topia, but when it hits, it’s downright intoxicating.

Much like the outstanding Caleb Lodish album I Expect Nothing in Return, this is a guest-packed tour through the current Burlington movement, with features from Hakim XOXO, Flywlkr, SYIERR, Ryder Jam, and ... oh, there’s Lodish, too. Even if the experimental style doesn’t grab you, this album will be remembered as vital local history, documenting this moment.

KEY TRACK: “sober.” WHY: This closing cut is a perfectly calibrated finishing move. It’s the strongest song on the album, and he carries it solo. WHERE: SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Music

Cersia, when i come home

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Tyler Serrani, intro2mimicry (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

The new generation of Vermont hip-hop talent is multifaceted, made up of artists who are comfortable exploring other genres.

Few are as proficient or as ambitious as West Rutland rapper/ singer-songwriter Tyler Serrani. On intro2mimicry, he delivers a knockout set. His free-range creativity has sometimes been too scattered on earlier releases, but every track here is honed razor sharp — and the sequencing is flawless.

This is a concept album about mimesis, or imitation — here explored as a process of human beings creating their individual personalities by imitating other humans. It’s rare to hear a young artist so self-aware about their artistry.

Serrani got his start during the Great Lockdown of 2020 and quickly won over a fan base with his SoundCloud demos. He is unusually gifted, blessed with a voice for pop hits and a knack for vividly detailed songwriting. That last part is what makes his work so captivating. The topics he explores are universal, but how he approaches them is endlessly surprising. Much like Bilé or Maari, this is an artist destined for a far bigger place than Vermont. Get hip now.

KEY TRACK: “attention” featuring Topia. WHY: On a project full of genre mashup fever dreams, this is just an unabashed, Gorillaz-style pop hit. WHERE: Spotify, Apple Music

(SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

Cersia broke onto the scene with last year’s LP The Old Radio.

His sophomore release, when i come home, hugely improves (and expands) his post-Eminem melodic rap formula. Where his debut was demo-grade rough around the edges, this latest album is a far more polished product. It’s also a gloriously awkward hot mess. Both the overall tone and the actual mixing are all over the map, but it’s an undeniably compelling ride through a whip-smart, hungry young mind.

Cersia’s shortcomings are easy to set aside when there is so much he does right. The clever ad-libs, the ever-changing flow patterns, the huge range of his production, the relentless drive to make every four bars into something special — it all represents several tons of hard, necessary work. Cersia understands the recording studio as an instrument.

This may not be the undeniable breakthrough project he needs, but when i come home makes it clear that project is coming.

KEY TRACK: “beauty” featuring Phixel. WHY: If any single track can embody the wide range of the album, it’s this one. WHERE: Apple Music, Spotify 62

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sepol mas, Voicemails From Vermont (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

Young rapper sepol mas specializes in lush, jazzy beats and rhymes that are as introspective as they are intricate. His latest project, Voicemails From Vermont, doesn’t deviate from the formula of his earlier releases, but in terms of performances and production, it’s a big step up.

There’s been a lot of auto-tune and hyper-pop in this week’s roundup, but truly, old heads have nothing to complain about. With artists such as Rivan, Fābō, Robscure, Cam Barnes and FOZ., classic hip-hop lyricism is alive and well around these parts. The densely recursive musings of sepol mas are part of that movement. His success is further proof that in a culture based on flipping fads and clichés, your best bet is still being yourself.

KEY TRACK: “mama sayin.” WHY: Few MCs anywhere would drop such a candid, human and funny song about living with their mom. WHERE: SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Music

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BURLINGTON CELEBRATION — PAID LEAVE & PINTS: Supporters join AARP Vermont and the VT Paid Leave Coalition to advocate for a paid family and medical leave bill in 2024 while enjoying pizza and brews. Pizza 44, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, cgliserman@ aarp.org.

ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN FILM SERIES: ‘LEVITATED MASS’: A 2013 documentary follows artist Michael Heizer’s efforts to turn a 340-ton boulder into a megalithic sculptural installation. Virtual option available. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

activism

business

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.

conferences

NAMI VERMONT 2023 CONFERENCE: TOGETHER FOR MENTAL HEALTH: Dr. Xavier Amador and Dr. Paul Foxma keynote a day of panel discussions and workshops for mental health providers and advocates. DoubleTree

by Hilton, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 8767949, ext. 103.

crafts

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.

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: Viewers learn the true story behind one of our most iconic — and misunderstood — predators. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘HOME FROM THE EASTERN SEA’: A 1990 documentary about Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigration to the U.S. sparks discussion.

Waterbury Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

‘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.

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

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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.

‘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.

COOK THE BOOK: Home chefs make a recipe from The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen

by Sean Sherman and Beth Dooley or New Native Kitchen

by Freddie Bitsoie and James Fraioli and share the dish at a potluck lunch. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

games

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

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

PUZZLE SWAP: Participants bring completed puzzles in a ziplock bag with an image of the puzzle and swap for a new one. South Burlington Public

FIND MORE LOCAL EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND ONLINE: art Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

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Library & City Hall, 2:30-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 846-4140.

country. Milton High School, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2226.

‘WHEEL OF FORTUNE LIVE!’: Audience members are randomly chosen to spin the wheel themselves for a chance to win cash prizes and trips to Paris. The Flynn, Burlington, 8 p.m. $41-171.

Info, 863-5966.

CHELSEA WOODARD: The New Hampshire poet reads from her prize-winning collection At the Lepidopterist’s House. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

health & fitness

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 — BARRE/CENTRAL VERMONT: Community members share their experiences and discuss the future of their local health care system. Presented by Green Mountain Care Board. 4-6 p.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 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.

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.

talks

YESTERMORROW FALL 2023 SPEAKER SERIES: BRITTON ROGERS: The Yestermorrow executive director explains how the curriculum helps students become better stewards of the land. Virtual option available.

Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 496-5545.

words

BANNED BOOKS TOUR: Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman hosts a reading featuring stories that have faced conservative backlash across the

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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HIRING2DAYVT VIRTUAL JOB FAIR: Job seekers get a chance to meet with employers from around the state, thanks to the Vermont Department of Labor. 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 828-4000.

community

STORIES FROM VERMONT FOLKLIFE’S ARCHIVE: A LISTENING PARTY: Recorded interviews keep memories alive, including stories of horsepowered maple sugaring, Franco American fiddle tunes, Burmese lullabies and beyond. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, info@ vtfolklife.org.

crafts

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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SUNDOG POETRY AMP NIGHT: Sundog Poetry hosts an artstravaganza featuring former Vermont poet laureate Sydney Lea and other special guests.

Junction Arts & Media, White River Junction, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 585-8502.

film

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

DRAGONFRAME: STOP-MOTION ANIMATION LAB: An introductory class teaches prospective filmmakers how to use cameras, software and lighting to bring whimsical worlds to life. RETN & VCAM Media Factory, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 651-9692.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.15.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.15.

MNFF SELECTS: ‘THE LEAGUE’: Never-before-seen archival footage tells the story of the Negro

League and the baseball players who paved the way for Jackie Robinson. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $14-16. Info, 382-9222.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.15.

‘OTHELLO’: Filmed live at London’s National Theatre, Shakespeare’s tragic tale deals in themes of racism, love and envy. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 9 a.m. $7.50-17.

Info, 760-4634.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.15.

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.

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.

games

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

Free. Info, 244-7223.

health & fitness

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.

music

BRADFORD BRINGALONG SINGALONGS: Locals bring a friend and a meal to a neighborly sing-along with the Rough & Tumble. Bradford Academy, 5:45 p.m. Free. Info, 860-593-2484.

CRYS MATTHEWS, PETER MULVEY & BETTYSOO: Three rising stars bring down the house. Bellows Falls Opera House, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $18.50-42. Info, 451-0053.

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burlington

ART EXPLORERS: Kids dig into art history and creative expression in this homeschooler-friendly program with an educator from Davis Studio. Ages 5 through 14. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 540-2546.

chittenden county

BABYTIME: 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.

KIDS GAME ON!: Kids get together to play video games such as Mario Kart and Overcooked on the library’s Nintendo Switches. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 846-4140.

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

TEEN ART CLUB: Crafty young’uns ages 12 through 18 create together.

Waterbury Public Library, 3:30-5:30 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.

THU.16

IT’S COMPLICATED: TEENS, SOCIAL MEDIA & MENTAL HEALTH: Erin Walsh of Spark & Stitch Institute gives parents the latest data on how screen time both helps and hurts teenagers. Presented by ParentIN. 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 652-0997.

burlington

GROW PRESCHOOL YOGA: Emily from Grow Prenatal and Family Yoga leads little ones in songs, movement and other fun activities. Ages 2 through 5.

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.

randolph/royalton

‘FREAKY FRIDAY’: Teen actors from the Sharon Academy take this beloved family body-swapping fable to the stage.

Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 728-9878.

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chittenden county

‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’: See THU.16.

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.

STEAM SPACE: Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. Ages 5 through 11. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 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.

manchester/ bennington

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 863-3403.

MARGOT HARRISON: The author and Seven Days editor launches her newest young adult thriller, Only She Came Back. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 448-3350.

chittenden county

‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’: Boy meets girl and plant eats boy in this morbidly silly sci-fi musical from student thespians. Essex High School, Essex Junction, 7-9 p.m. $5-10. Info, 879-7121.

ESCAPE ROOM (AT THE LIBRARY): THE WEREWOLF EXPERIMENT: Teens work together to escape the beast lurking in the stacks before time runs out. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

INTRO TO CHINESE CHARACTERS: Vermont Chinese School instructors teach teens to make some simple words.

Ages 13 through 18. ADA accessible.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

MIDDLE SCHOOL MAKERS: COOKING: Students in grades 5 through 8 make delicious homemade snacks. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5:30 p.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.

barre/montpelier

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Energetic youngsters join Miss Meliss and friends on the lawn for stories, songs and lots

stowe/smuggs

Backflip the Script When the students of Cathedral High School pitched a fundraiser called Vaudeville Nite in 1929, they couldn’t have anticipated that their silly performance of stunts and skits would be an epic, beloved community tradition almost a century later. The school is now called Rice Memorial and the show rebranded as Stunt Nite, but the spirit of fun and camaraderie remains unchanged. Each high school class performs a 30-minute revue, put together in just one month under the tutelage of parents and alumni, full of song, dance and joy.

STUNT NITE Tuesday, November 21, 4 & 8 p.m., at the Flynn in Burlington. $25-30.

Info, 863-5966, flynnvt.org. of silliness. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

stowe/smuggs

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.

mad river valley/ waterbury

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Games, activities, stories and songs engage 3through 5-year-olds. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

middlebury area

‘CINDERELLA’: Performers in grades 7 through 12 present Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical adaptation of the beloved fairy tale. Mount Abraham Union High School, Bristol, 7 p.m. $12-15.

Info, 377-3335.

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chittenden county

KIDS MOVIE IN THE AUDITORIUM: Little film buffs congregate in the library for a screening of a family-friendly film.

See southburlingtonlibrary.org for each week’s title. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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.

middlebury area

‘CINDERELLA’: See THU.16, 2 & 7 p.m.

upper valley

‘RADIUM GIRLS’: See FRI.17, 3-5 & 7-9 p.m.

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.

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.

randolph/royalton

middlebury area

chittenden county

‘FREAKY FRIDAY’: See FRI.17.

SUN.19

‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’: See THU.16, 2-4 p.m.

‘CINDERELLA’: See THU.16.

upper valley

‘RADIUM GIRLS’: Student performers present the fast-paced story of the frightful true events that befell the women who worked in radioactive factories in the 1920s. Martha Jane Rich Theater, Thetford Academy, 7-9 p.m. $510. Info, 785-4805.

STORY TIME: Preschoolers take part in tales, tunes and playtime. Latham Library, Thetford, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

upper valley

‘RADIUM GIRLS’: See FRI.17, 3-5 p.m.

MON.20

burlington

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.

‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’: See THU.16.

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JAZZ AT THE LANTERN: ARTHUR SADOWSKY & THE TROUBADOURS: The band serenades diners over charcuterie and bruschetta at this intimate dinner concert. The Brass Lantern Inn, Stowe, 6:30-8 p.m. $35-45.

Info, 503-5771.

JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR: Audiences revel in the face-melting guitar skills of one of Britain’s most sought-after blues rockers.

The Flynn, Burlington, 8 p.m. $35109.50. Info, 863-5966.

MIDDLEBURY AFROPOP BAND CONCERT AND MIDDLEBURY AFRICAN MUSIC AND DANCE ENSEMBLE: Student performers astound with rhythm-rich tunes and impressive movement.

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5578.

Itsy Bitsy Paganini Your favorite restaurant may be closed for stick season, but not the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival. Artistic directors Soovin Kim and Gloria Chien, alongside acclaimed guest pianist Zitong Wang, present a mini-festival dedicated to four composers who were also virtuoso solo performers themselves. Wang tickles the ivories with sonatas

by Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Franz Liszt; Kim plays a masterpiece by Niccolò Paganini, a violinist so skilled that audiences in his own time assumed he had sold his soul to the devil; and aficionados learn more about these giants of classical music at a weekend of talks and master classes.

THE GREAT VIRTUOSO COMPOSERS: CHOPIN, RACHMANINOFF, LISZT AND PAGANINI Friday, November 17, 6:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, November 18, 9:30 & 11 a.m.; and Sunday, November 19, 3 p.m., at the University of Vermont Recital Hall in Burlington. Prices vary. Info, 846-2175, lccmf.org.

NOV. 17-19 | MUSIC

STUDENT RECITAL: University of Vermont music students prove their chops in a variety of genres.

University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-3040.

outdoors

politics

sports

RED BENCH SPEAKER SERIES: RYAN COCHRANSIEGLE: A scion of the legendary Vermont skiing family talks about his Alpine racing career and experience at the Olympics.

Presented by Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum. 7-8:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 253-9911.

talks

PAUSE-MIDI: MEG OSTRUM: The Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region hosts an online presentation on the little-known story of a Belgian-born opthalmologist who became a World War II hero. Noon-1 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, info@aflcr. org.

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.

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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

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.

music

THE GREAT VIRTUOSO COMPOSERS: CHOPIN, RACHMANINOFF, LISZT AND PAGANINI: The Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival presents a weekend of talks and recitals

by Soovin Kim, Zitong Wang and Gloria Chien about four of the canon’s most accomplished composers. See lccmf.org for full schedule. See calendar spotlight.

University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 6:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Prices vary. Info, 846-2175.

MONTEVERDI MUSIC SCHOOL FALL FACULTY CONCERT: Solo acts and chamber groups perform a wide variety of tunes, with proceeds benefiting the Monteverdi Music School scholarship program. Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 6-7:45 p.m. $25 suggested donation; free for kids. Info, 229-9000.

NOVEMBER BIRD MONITORING WALK: Community scientists watch for warblers, spy sparrows and hear hawks to contribute to Audubon’s database. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 8-10 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3068.

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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NDLOVU YOUTH CHOIR: The South African vocal ensemble from America’s Got Talent astounds. The Flynn, Burlington, 7 p.m. $25-40. Info, 863-5966.

Soovin Kim

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‘SUITE SURRENDER’: Two Hollywood divas clash during a weekend of performances for the troops in this World War II-set Girls Nite Out production.

Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $23-25. Info, 448-0086.

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EVENING BOOK GROUP: Readers discuss The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr in a relaxed roundrobin. Virtual option available.

ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 6-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 846-4140.

INQUISITIVE READERS BOOK CLUB: Bookworms dig into a new horizon-expanding tome each month. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, henningsmh@ yahoo.com.

MEG HURLEY: The writer reads from her novel The Dog Who Ate the Vegetable Garden & Helped Save the Planet — possibly the only book in the Library of Congress with a canine for a coauthor. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 649-1114.

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ED EVERTS AWARD CEREMONY: The Peace & Justice Center honors some of the community’s most dedicated activists with food, drink and celebration. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.15.

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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.

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.

etc.

ANNUAL CATAMOUNT BENEFIT AUCTION: Catamount Arts kicks off its online fundraiser with a gala featuring cocktails, food, music and exclusive auction items. Catamount ArtPort, St. Johnsbury, 5:30-10 p.m. $75; preregister. Info, 748-2600.

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

like Sun Valley and Aspen through snowy footage. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $25-40.

Info, 382-9222.

tech

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.15.

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘DUSTY & STONES’: A 2022 documentary tells the story of two Swazi country singers who journey from Nashville to Texas sharing their music. See calendar spotlight. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4 p.m. $6-12; free for VTIFF All Access members. Info, 660-2600.

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MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING’: The grandfather of Black queer rock and roll gets his time in the spotlight in this new documentary. See calendar spotlight. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $6-12; free for VTIFF All Access members. Info, 660-2600.

film

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.15.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.15.

WARREN MILLER’S ‘ALL TIME’: Ski fans celebrate the birth of places

‘TENDRILS OF THE SOUL’: The acclaimed Sarasa Ensemble celebrates its 25th anniversary with a program of works by Viennese masters Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert. Brattleboro Music Center, 7-9 p.m. $20. Info, 257-4523.

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

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

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

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

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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

‘CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION’: Four New England acting students and their instructor face far more drama than they anticipated in this Shelburne Players production.

Shelburne Town Hall, 7-9 p.m. $20. Info, 343-2602.

‘CLAIRE IN THE CHAIR IN THE CIMETIÈRE’: The Wild Goose Players present a creepy comedy about a woman determined to make her home in a cemetery — and the cemetery workers determined to make her stay even more permanent. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $20.

Info, 376-4761.

‘SUITE SURRENDER’: See THU.16.

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film

MONTPELIER CONTRA DANCE: Dancers balance, shadow and dosi-do the night away to live tunes

by Calico and gender-neutral calling by Ben Sachs-Hamilton.

Beginners’ lesson, 7:40 p.m.

Capital City Grange, Berlin, 8-11 p.m. $5-20. Info, 225-8921.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.15.

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

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‘MIND MAGIC: AN INTIMATE NIGHT OF LAUGHTER AND ASTONISHMENT’: Psychological mentalist Dr. Steve combines comedy and magic for a brain-busting evening. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $22. Info, steve@stevetaubman.com.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.15.

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘DUSTY & STONES’: See FRI.17.

Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $12-15.

Info, 457-2355. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1389.

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘IMMEDIATE FAMILY’: A new documentary shines the spotlight on the session musicians who shaped the sounds of 1970s stars such as James Taylor and Carole King. See calendar spotlight.

MHCA DOVER Cinema and Arts,

West Dover, 4:15 p.m. $6-10. Info, 464-8411.

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE’: The legendary singer and activist looks back on her 60-year career in this moving music doc. See calendar spotlight. Playhouse Movie Theatre, Randolph, 2 p.m. $7-10. MHCA DOVER Cinema and Arts, West Dover, 7:15 p.m. $6-10.

Info, 728-4012.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.15.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.15.

WARREN MILLER’S ‘ALL TIME’: See FRI.17. The Flynn, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966.

‘X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X’: Filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera, this groundbreaking work by American

composer Anthony Davis dramatizes the life of the Civil Rights movement leader. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1 p.m. $12-26.

Info, 382-9222.

food & drink

BURLINGTON WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Dozens of seasonal stands overflow with produce, artisanal wares and prepared foods. Burlington Beer, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 560-5904.

games

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.

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.

SO YOU WANT TO BE A DUNGEON MASTER: Geeks and gamers learn how to run a Dungeons & Dragons campaign with their friends or family. Grade 5 and older.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

ST. PETER’S CEMETERY COMMITTEE BINGO: Players vie for cash prizes at this weekly event to support cemetery improvements. St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Vergennes, 5-9 p.m. $510. Info, 877-2367.

health & fitness

COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS: An all-levels session offers a weekly opportunity to relax the mind and rejuvenate the body. Wise Pines, Woodstock, 10-11 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 432-3126.

holidays

CAPITAL CITY THANKSGIVING MARKET: Home cooks pick up all the locally grown produce, homemade desserts and handcrafted tableware they’ll need for the big day. Montpelier High School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, montpelier farmersmarket@gmail.com.

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spring training trip to Florida.

Nonperishable food donations accepted. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 355-0832.

LOADED TURKEY RAIL JAM: Shredders kick off the season with runs through the rail park, the best of which count toward Thanksgiving dinner prizes.

Killington Resort, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $20. Info, 800-734-9435.

MEG MOTT: A professor of political theory asks whether free speech must endure hate speech and dives into the history of speech-restricting laws. Norwich Public Library, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, autilio@verizon.net.

RUTLAND YOUTH THEATRE’S 2ND ANNUAL HOLIDAY FAIR: Gift hunters of all ages enjoy a sneak peak at the upcoming production of Willy Wonka Jr. Rutland Recreation Community Center, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 774-1819.

theater

‘CLAIRE IN THE CHAIR IN THE CIMETIÈRE’: See FRI.17, 2 p.m.

‘SUITE SURRENDER’: See THU.16, 2 p.m.

SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFT & VENDOR FAIR: The school presents its annual holiday bazaar featuring crafters, vendors, a raffle, a bake sale and lunch sponsored by the eighth grade class. St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 655-2600.

WINOOSKI COMMUNITY HOLIDAY CRAFT & VENDOR FAIR: Sales of gifts and food support local makers and neighborhood schools. Winooski School District, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, pto@ wsdvt.org.

music

ACOUSTIC NOMADS: A continentspanning quartet combines the sounds of South American folk music with North American bluegrass. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 2 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 728-9878.

THE GREAT VIRTUOSO COMPOSERS: CHOPIN, RACHMANINOFF, LISZT AND PAGANINI: See FRI.17, 9:30 & 11 a.m.

BENJAMIN ANDERSON: A historian gives a virtual talk titled “The Fluidity of Allegiance in Revolutionary Vermont.” Presented by Ethan Allen Homestead. 2-3:15 p.m.

Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, ethanallenhomestead@ gmail.com.

FREDERICK WISEMAN: A speaker draws on ecological history and his own 19th-century family photos in his address “The Abenakis and the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge Region.” Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, info@friends ofmissisquoi.org.

theater

‘CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION’: See FRI.17, 2-4 & 7-9 p.m.

‘CLAIRE IN THE CHAIR IN THE CIMETIÈRE’: See FRI.17, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘SUITE SURRENDER’: See THU.16.

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BOOK & MOVIE SALE: With everything priced by donation, locals stock up on all the winter reading and watching they could want.

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NOV. 17-19 | FILM All Bands on Deck Music documentaries are the name of the game when the Middlebury New Filmmakers’ Festival hits the road, with screenings in Burlington, St. Johnsbury, Randolph, Woodstock, Dover, Greensboro and Brattleboro. Immediate Family gives the session musicians who worked with James Taylor and Carole King their time in the spotlight; Dusty & Stones tells the story of two African country singers and their pilgrimage to the American South; Joan Baez: I Am a Noise looks back at the icon’s six-decade career; and Little Richard: I Am Everything (pictured) centers the Black, queer origins of rock and roll.

Friday, November 17, through Sunday, November 19, at various locations statewide. Prices vary.

Info, info@middfilmfest.org, middfilmfest.org.

Latham Library, Thetford, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.15.

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, 10 a.m.1 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘DUSTY & STONES’: See SAT.18.

WRITERS’ WERTFREI: Authors both fledgling and published gather to share their work in a judgment-free environment. Virtual option available.

Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, judi@ waterburypubliclibrary.com.

SUN.19 crafts

YARN CRAFTERS GROUP: See WED.15, 1-3 p.m.

film

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.15.

SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 15-22, 2023

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘IMMEDIATE FAMILY’: See SAT.18. Playhouse Movie Theatre, Randolph, 6:30 p.m. $7-10. Info, 728-4012.

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘IMMEDIATE FAMILY’: See SAT.18, 7:15 p.m.

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING’: See FRI.17.

Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $12. Info, 533-2000.

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR: ‘JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE’: See SAT.18. Latchis Hotel & Theater, Brattleboro, 4 p.m. $10. Info, 2462020. MHCA DOVER Cinema and Arts, West Dover, 4:15 p.m. $6-10.

Info, 728-4012.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.15.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.15.

WARREN MILLER’S ‘ALL TIME’: See FRI.17. Spruce Peak

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.

MNFF VERMONT FALL TOUR

talks

and an educator discuss sex from a Jewish perspective in two presentations: “Sex, Good Sex, and Sacred Sex” and “The Blue Tent: Sexual Midrash.” Adults only.

Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 12:30-2 p.m. Free. Info, bruce@ brucechalmer.com.

Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 5 p.m. $25-40.

Info, 760-4634.

games

ENDANGERED ALPHABETS SUDOKU CONTEST: Puzzle fans compete to solve brain-teasers where the numbers 1 through 9 are replaced by symbols from minority languages around the world. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 363-3403.

health & fitness

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.

holidays

THANKSGIVING COMMUNITY HYMN SING: Sing-alongs led by the Champlain Brass Quintet, the Addison County Gospel Choir and Worship Team, and Dedicated

women’s quartet benefit the All Access Project. Vergennes Opera House, 3 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 877-6737.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.15.

montréal

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.15.

‘BOY FALLS FROM THE SKY’: Jake Epstein, famous for his role in Degrassi: The Next Generation, presents a one-man musical chronicling the ups and downs of a life in showbiz. Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 1:30 p.m. $25-68. Info, 514-739-7944.

music

ACOUSTIC NOMADS: See SAT.18.

Richmond Congregational Church, 4-6 p.m. $25-27.50. Info, 434-4563.

FRED LEMMONS: Accompanied by pianist Cynthia Huard, the veteran clarinetist plays several duets. Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, 4-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-4301.

THE GREAT VIRTUOSO COMPOSERS: CHOPIN, RACHMANINOFF, LISZT AND PAGANINI: See FRI.17, 3 p.m.

HINESBURG ARTIST SERIES CONCERT: South County Chorus and Hinesburg Community Band perform spirituals and other classics. Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 4 p.m.

Free; donations accepted. Info, 373-0808.

WINE & JAZZ SUNDAYS: Sixpiece band In the Pocket invite special guests to sing alongside vocalist Taryn Noelle each week.

Shelburne Vineyard, 5-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 985-8222.

talks

BRUCE CHALMER AND JUDY ALEXANDER: A couples’ therapist

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.15.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.15.

health & fitness

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.

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.

montréal

‘BOY FALLS FROM THE SKY’: See SUN.19, 8 p.m.

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.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.15.

crafts

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.15.

community

LEARN HOW TO CROCHET: Novices of all ages pick up a new skill. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

dance

MORRIS & MORE: Dancers of all abilities learn how to step, clog and even sword fight their way through medieval folk dances of all kinds. Revels North, Lebanon, N.H., 6 p.m. Pay what you can.

Info, 603-558-7894.

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.

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

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.15.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.15.

VIDEO PRODUCTION WITH PANASONIC UX-90: Experienced cinematographers learn some new advanced camera techniques. RETN & VCAM Media Factory, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister.

Info, 651-9692.

health & fitness

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.

Free; donations accepted. Info, 362-2607.

holidays

‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’: Northern Stage brings Charles Dickens’ classic story of redemption and community to life in an original adaptation. Byrne Theater,

Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $19-69. Info, 296-7000.

local beers. Burlington Beer, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, btvscienceontap@ gmail.com.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: Instructor Andrea Thulin helps non-native speakers build their vocabulary and conversation skills. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 5:307 p.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-5493.

montréal

‘BOY FALLS FROM THE SKY’: See SUN.19, 8 p.m.

music

COMMUNITY SINGERS: A weekly choral meetup welcomes all singers to raise their voices along to traditional (and not-so-traditional) songs. Revels North, Lebanon, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Pay what you can.

Info, 603-558-7894.

seminars

SCIENCE ON TAP: Local scientists give lessons on their varying disciplines while patrons taste

Library, Manchester Center, 9-10 a.m.

Free. Info, 549-4574.

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TEEN BAD ART: Creative kids learn that their art doesn’t have to be museumworthy to be worthwhile. Ages 13 through 18. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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

burlington

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with Linda.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

STUNT NITE: Rice Memorial High School students compete to perform the most miraculous songs, skits and feats of derring-do in this century-old tradition. See calender spotlight. The Flynn, Burlington, 4 & 8 p.m. $25-30.

Info, 863-5966.

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CRAFTYTOWN!: From painting and printmaking to collage and sculpture, creative kids explore different projects

BOOK CLUB BUFFET ONLINE: Readers dig into The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman over lunch.

Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org.

BURLINGTON LITERATURE GROUP: LAURENCE STERNE: Readers analyze the author’s 18th-century experimental novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman over eight weeks.

6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@ nereadersandwriters.com.

WINE & STORY: Lovers of libations and tellers of tales gather for an evening of good company.

Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Info, 863-1754.

QUEEN CITY BUSINESS NETWORKING INTERNATIONAL GROUP: See WED.15.

PLAYGROUP & FAMILY SUPPORT: Families with children under age 5 play and connect with others in the community. Winooski Memorial Library, 10:30-11:30 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, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

TODDLERTIME: Miss Alexa delights infants and toddlers ages 1 to 3 and

crafts

YARN CRAFTERS GROUP: See WED.15.

dance

WESTIE WEDNESDAYS DANCE: See WED.15.

film

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.15.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.15.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.15.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.15.

health & fitness CHAIR YOGA: See WED.15.

SEATED & STANDING YOGA: See WED.15.

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‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’: See TUE.21.

language

BEGINNER IRISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.15.

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: See WED.15.

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‘BOY FALLS FROM THE SKY’: See SUN.19, 8 p.m.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE TENNIS CLUB: See WED.15.

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NANOWRIMO WRITE-IN: See WED.15. ➆

COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.15.

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LEGO FUN: Budding architects and engineers use their imaginations and the classic blocks to build creations to display in the library. Children under 8 must bring a caregiver. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6956.

CURRENT EVENTS: Neighbors have an informal discussion about what’s in the news. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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and mediums. Ages 8 and up, or ages 6 and up with an adult helper. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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MAH-JONGG OPEN PLAY: See WED.15.

their adult caregivers with interactive stories, songs, rhymes and more. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 9:15-9:45 & 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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BUILD A FORT AND READ!: Young bookworms build a perfectly cozy reading fortress out of chairs and blankets.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1:30-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.16.

CRAFTYTOWN!: See TUE.21.

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PLAY TIME: See WED.15.

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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TODDLER TIME: See WED.15.

KIDS GAME ON!: See WED.15.

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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 9 through 11. Waterbury Public Library, 3-4 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

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FIGURE DRAWING NIGHT!: Please join us for an evening of figure drawing at Soapbox Arts in the Soda Plant, hosted by Ana Koehler of Devotion. A live nude model will be in short and long poses. Bring your own drawing supplies. Please no wet supplies such as inks or paints. All drawing levels welcome. Ages 18-plus only. Mon., Nov. 20, 6 p.m. Cost: $20. Location: Soapbox Arts at the Soda Plant, 266 Pine St., Ste. 119, Burlington. Info: sevendays tickets.com.

LAYERS: SELF-PORTRAIT WORKSHOP: This unique collage self-portrait workshop will teach you how to create a visualized self-portrait comprised of selfconstructed shapes and dynamic composition using a contemporary approach. You will explore and hone your technique using materials such as paper, paint, ink, pencil, marker and glue.

Sun., Dec. 3, 11 a.m. Cost: $150.

Location: The Kingdom Room, 444 South Union St., Burlington.

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some of Vermont’s favorite and emerging people. To kick it off, founder Ryan Nakhleh will share the story of Local Maverick and what we can expect from “Making Maverick’s” and the future of Local Maverick.

Thu., Nov. 16, 6 p.m. Cost: $10.

Location: Maverick Market at 110, 110 Main St., Burlington. Info: info@localmaverickus.com, sevendaystickets.com.

culinary POLISH POTATO PIEROGI WORKSHOP: In this workshop, we will learn how to make Polish pierogi just like my Babcia taught me! You’ll get the full recipe, some to eat during the class, and a package to take home and cook up that weekend or freeze for a later date. Thu., Nov. 30, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $55.

Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic District. Info: 203-4000700, sevendaystickets.com.

martial arts AIKIDO: THE POWER OF HARMONY: Cultivate core power, aerobic fitness and resiliency.

The dynamic, circular movements emphasize throws, joint locks and the development of internal energy. Introductory classes for adults and youths.

Ask about our intensive training program and scholarships.

Inclusive training and a safe space for all. Visitors welcome!

Beginners’ classes 4 days/week.

Membership rates incl. unlimited classes. Contact us for info about membership rates for adults, youths & families. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 802-951-8900, bpincus@burlingtonaikido.org, burlingtonaikido.org.

nature ECO-RESILIENCY GATHERING: This is a free monthly space to gather with others who are interested in exploring ecological questions, emotional elements of climate change, ideas of change, building community and creating a thriving world. Come together, share, engage and learn. Each month we center on topics related to the ecological and climate crises. Wed., Nov. 15, 6 p.m. Location: Online. Info: Ariel K. McK. Burgess, akmckb@ gmail.com, sevendaystickets. com.

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Noodle AGE/SEX: 4-year-old spayed female ARRIVAL DATE: October 12, 2023 SUMMARY: Originally found as a stray, Noodle is a loving little friend who loves to sleep and snuggle in her hammock swing. She is so social and lovable, but, sadly, Noodle has been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, so she is looking for a loving hospice home where she can be spoiled rotten for however long she has left. If you’re a small-animal lover looking to make a big difference in the life of a very little creature, come visit Noodle at HSCC!

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Visit the Humane Society of Chittenden County at 142 Kindness Court, South Burlington, Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. or Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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CARS/TRUCKS 2010 GMC TERRAIN SLT No rust, loaded, 6-cylinder. New brakes, new rocker panels.

Inspected through Aug. 2024. Asking $6,500.

Photos upon request.

Contact 802-355-4099.

HOUSEMATES HOMESHARE IN THE ‘NOOSK Share an apt. in Winooski w/ woman in her 30s who loves “Survivor,” “The Bachelor” & One Direction. Convenient to UVM. No rent, just parking & utils. costs in exchange for flexible evening companionship Mon.-Thu. & once/week transportation. Private BA. Call 802-863-5625 or visit homeshare vermont.org for application. Interview, refs. & background checks req.

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FOR RENT ROOMY 3-BR AVAIL. NOW Extra-roomy 3-BR avail. now in Burlington. $1,650. We pay building heat & cold water. Tenants pay utils. Contact Joe: 802-318-8916.

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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 and similar Vermont statutes which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitations, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, handicap, presence of minor children in the family or receipt of public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or a discrimination. The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law. Our

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readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. Any home seeker who feels he or she has encountered discrimination should contact: HUD Office of Fair Housing 10 Causeway St., Boston, MA 02222-1092 (617) 565-5309 — OR — Vermont Human Rights Commission 14-16 Baldwin St. Montpelier, VT 05633-0633 1-800-416-2010 hrc@vermont.gov

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MOVING/HAULING MARKOSKI’S MOVE AND HAUL Markoski’s Move and Haul proudly serves Vermont’s communities. Whether you are relocating to a new home or cleaning up after renovating your current one, Markoski’s will treat you like family.

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HOME & BR Vanity w/ marble sink & new faucet, 37” x 22” x 30”. $99. Call or text 540-226-4478.

HONDA HS720 SNOWBLOWER Honda snowblower purchased & serviced at Exit 18 Equipment as recently as 2022.

Excellent condition; starts on first pull. Electric start option. $450. Call 802-660-9843.

KITCHENAID 5-QUART MIXER KitchenAid 5-quart mixer. Blue, still in unopened box. $200.

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INSTRUCTION GUITAR INSTRUCTION Berklee graduate w/ 30 years’ teaching experience offers lessons in guitar, music theory, music technology, ear training. Individualized, step-by-step approach.

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KIDS’ ROCK BAND For ages 5-12 in Randolph/Bethel, Vt. Music lessons incl. Free afterschool or weekend slots for income-eligible students. Call 802-4318629 or email sprouts. education.vt@gmail. com for info.

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Legal Notices NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE BURLINGTON SELF STORAGE, LLC 1825 SHELBURNE ROAD SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT 05403 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid.

Name of Occupant Storage Unit Martel, Unit 205,206,207 (10x30) Said sales will take place on 11/17/23, beginning at 10:00am at Burlington Self Storage (BSS), 1825 Shelburne Road, South Burlington, VT 05403.

Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder. Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to BSS, on the day of auction. BSS, reserves the right to reject any bid lower that the amount owed by the occupant or that is not commercially reasonable as defined by statute.

STUFF-IT SELF-STORAGE AUCTION In accordance with VT Title 9 Commerce and Trade Chapter 098: Storage Units 3905. Enforcement of Lien, Stuff-It Self-Storage LLC shall host a live auction of the following unit on 12/02/23 at 9:30am: Location: 930 Main St, Fairfax, VT 05454 Steve Davis, unit #40: household goods Contents sold as is, and need to be removed within 48 hours at no cost to Stuff-It Self-Storage LLC. Purchase must be made in cash and paid in advance of the removal of the contents of the unit. A $50 cash deposit shall be made and will be refunded if the unit is broom cleaned. Stuff-It Self-Storage LLC reserves the right to accept or reject bids.

PROPOSED STATE RULES === By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record. The purpose

PLACE AN AFFORDABLE NOTICE AT: SEVENDAYSVT.COM/LEGAL-NOTICES OR CALL 802-865-1020, EXT. 142.

of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/rules/ . The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231).

----Vermont Low Emission Vehicle and Zero Emission Vehicle Rules.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 23P043 AGENCY: Agency of Natural Resources CONCISE SUMMARY: ANR proposes to amend its existing Low Emission Vehicle and Zero Emission Vehicle Rules, which incorporate by reference a suite of motor vehicle emission standards from California including the “Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Omnibus” or “HD Omnibus” regulation. The HD Omnibus regulation sets standards for emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) from on-road heavy-duty engines used in vehicles delivered for sale in Vermont, which help protect public health and air quality. In this rulemaking, ANR proposes to amend the current HD Omnibus regulation to (1) clarify the existing transit bus exemption, (2) adjust the vehicle model year in which vehicle manufacturers can begin earning early compliance credits, and (3) add the legacy engine provisions that will provide engine manufacturers greater compliance flexibility for vehicle model year 2026, while maintaining the originally projected emissions reductions and public health benefits under the HD Omnibus regulation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Deirdra Ritzer, Agency of Natural Resources, 1 National Life Dr. Davis 4, Montpelier, VT 05620 Tel: 802-223-8052 Email: deirdra.ritzer@vermont.gov URL: https://dec. vermont.gov/air-quality/laws.

FOR COPIES: Rachel Stevens, Agency of Natural Resources, 1 National Life Dr. Davis 2, Montpelier, VT 05620 Tel: 802-636-7236 Email: rachel.stevens@ vermont.gov.

----Residential Care Home and Assisted Living Residence Licensing Regulations.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 23P044 AGENCY: Agency of Human Services, Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living (DAIL) CONCISE SUMMARY: The Residential Care Home (RCH) and Assisted Living Residence (ALR) Regulations, last adopted in 2000 and 2003, respectively, were developed for residents who needed lower levels of assistance, who were simply unable to live independently. Since then, Vermonters, and people in general, have tended to stay in their homes longer and enter into residential care or assisted living with higher and more complex care needs.

Ownership structures have also changed. In addition to a general shift in use of group care settings, the Choices for Care (CFC) and Enhanced Residential Care (ERC) programs have placed hundreds of nursing home level of care residents into these homes.

The regulations did not provide the protections needed for a population that has increased and complex care needs, and they were not providing the guidance to the managers of these homes in how to provide safe care to residents, including those who need nursing home level of care.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Pamela Cota, Agency of Human Services, Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living, 280 State Drive, HC 2 South, Waterbury VT 05671 Tel: 802-241-0480 Email: pamela.cota@vermont. gov URL: https://dail.vermont.gov.

FOR COPIES: Stuart Schurr, Agency of Human Services, Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living, 280 State Drive, HC 2 South, Waterbury VT 05671 Tel: 802-241-0353 Email: stuart.schurr@vermont.gov.

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Vermont Proposed Rule: 23P045 AGENCY: Agency of Human Services, Department for Children and Families CONCISE SUMMARY: The amended rule reorganizes, renumbers, and replaces the existing rule. The amendment only addresses seasonal fuel assistance and removes sections relating to crisis fuel

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assistance, which will be addressed separately in a new rule. The amendment clarifies some existing practices and changes other practices to implement recent federal guidance and significant statutory changes that have occurred since the rule was last amended in 2009. Substantive changes include: new procedures for issuing one-time additional benefits during a heating season, removing certification requirement for suppliers of firewood and wood pellets, removing asset and resource requirements for applicants, new procedures for income calculation such as removing income deductions, new verification and residency requirements, and revised income-eligibility requirements. The amendment further clarifies the types of living arrangements and residential structures eligible for assistance.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Richard Giddings, Agency of Human Services, Department for Children and Families, Economic Services Division 280 State Drive, HC 1 South Waterbury, VT 056711020 Tel: 802-786-5986 Email: Richard.Giddings@ vermont.gov URL: https://dcf.vermont.gov/esd/ laws-rules/proposed.

FOR COPIES: Philip Back, Agency of Human Services, Department for Children and Families, Economic Services Division 280 State Drive, HC 1 North Waterbury, VT 05671-1080 Tel: 802-798-9318 Email: Philip.Back@vermont.gov.

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Vermont Proposed Rule: 23P046 AGENCY: Agency of Human Services, Department for Children and Families CONCISE SUMMARY: The amended rule reorganizes, renumbers, and replaces the existing rule. The amendment only addresses crisis fuel assistance and removes sections relating to seasonal fuel assistance, which will be addressed in a revised and separate rule. The amendment clarifies some existing practices and changes other practices to implement recent federal guidance and significant statutory changes that have occurred since the rule was last amended in 2009. Substantive changes include: new limits on the number of crisis benefits issued during a heating season, removing asset and resource requirements, new procedures for income calculation such as removing income deductions, new verification and residency requirements, and revised income-eligibility requirements. The amendment further clarifies the types of living arrangements and residential structures eligible for assistance.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Richard Giddings, Agency of Human Services, Department for Children and Families, Economic Services Division 280 State Drive, HC 1 South Waterbury, VT 056711020 Tel: 802-786-5986 Email: Richard.Giddings@ vermont.gov URL: https://dcf.vermont.gov/esd/ laws-rules/proposed.

FOR COPIES: Philip Back, Agency of Human Services, Department for Children and Families, Economic Services Division 280 State Drive, HC 1 North Waterbury, VT 05671-1080 Tel: 802-798-9318 Email: Philip.Back@vermont.gov.

Champlain Valley School District schools conduct Kindergarten screening each spring; parents may also call to make an appointment to discuss their concerns at any time. As the school district of residence, CVSD has the responsibility to identify and provide services to any child with special needs who may require special education and related services in order to access and benefit from public education.

If you have, or know of any CVSD resident who has a child with a disability under the age of 21 or a child who attends a private school located in Charlotte, Hinesburg, Shelburne, St. George, or Williston, Vermont, we would like to hear from you. Sometimes parents are unaware that special education services are available to their children.

Please contact the School Principal (Charlotte Central School – 802-425-2771, Hinesburg Community School – 802-482-2106, Shelburne Community School – 802-985-3331, Williston Central/Allen Brook Schools – 802-878-2762) or the Director of Student Support Services, Anna Couperthwait at 802-383-1234.

be given that the following schools/buildings have Asbestos Management Plans for the safe control and maintenance of asbestos containing materials found in their buildings. These Management Plans are available and accessible to the public at the administrative office of each facility listed above.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0610-6 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C1326-1 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 – 6111

Application 4C0610-6 from Joseph and Meghann Greenough, 370 Wortheim Road, Richmond, VT 05477 was received on October 11, 2023 and deemed complete on November 6, 2023. The project is generally described as the replacement of the existing 14-foot-by-70-foot three-bedroom single-family dwelling with a 27-foot-by-38-foot three-bedroom single family and after-the-fact approval of existing improvements constructed by predecessors in title. The project is located at 370 Wortheim Road in Richmond, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/ Details.aspx?Num=4C0610-6).

Application 4C1326-1 from State of Vermont Agency of Transportation, Attn: Jeff Ramsey, VTrans Environmental Section, 219 North Main Street, Barre, VT 05641 was received on October 17, 2023 and deemed complete on November 2, 2023.

The project is generally described as use of 4.4 adjoining acres to Exit 17 of Interstate 89 for project staging, laydown, etc. relating to previously permitted improvements at this interchange. The project includes extension of the construction completion deadline to December 31, 2026. The project is located on I-89 at Exit 17 in Colchester, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/ Details.aspx?Num=4C1326-1).

No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before November 27, 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-statuspetition-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 Kevin Anderson at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this November 8, 2023.

By: /s/ Kevin Anderson Kevin Anderson District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-522-6074 kevin.anderson@vermont.gov TOWN OF HUNTINGTON NOTICE OF DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Zoom Meeting* APPLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW FOR November 21, 2023 – 7pm The Huntington Development Review Board (DRB) will meet via Zoom to conduct the following business, pursuant to the Huntington Zoning and Subdivision Regulations: Subdivision – Final Review Eugene and Kathlyn Depetrio seek an 18.6 acre Subdivision on a 52.05 acre lot. Property is located in the Rural Residential District (5-acre zoning) on Stagecoach Road, Tax Map ID# 06-011.000.

The project information is available on the town website www.huntingtonvt.org. Participation in a hearing is required to appeal a decision of the DRB. Application materials may be viewed the week before meeting.

-Yves Gonnet, DRB Staff, October 23, 2023 *Zoom:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82853092094? pwd=K2pFMU9MMkpQcDQrMVVSakF xWXUzUT09 Meeting ID: 828 5309 2094 Passcode: 328992 / Questions: 802-434-3557.

NOTICE To Parents, teachers, employees, other personnel or their guardians and the public: The Champlain Valley School District composed of Allen Brook School, Charlotte Central School, Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg Community School, Shelburne Community School, and Williston Central School hereby provide the following notice in compliance with the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) 40 CPR 763.93 [g.] [4] Requires that written notification

No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before November 28, 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-statuspetition-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 November 8, 2023.

By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-261-1944 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov TOWN OF RICHMOND PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PURSUANT TO 24 V.S.A. §§4441 (d) AND §4444 (a)(b), THE TOWN OF RICHMOND PLANNING COMMISSION WILL BE HOLDING A PUBLIC HEARING ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2023, AT 7:00 PM, IN THE RICHMOND TOWN CENTER MEETING ROOM AT 203 BRIDGE STREET AS WELL AS REMOTELY VIA ZOOM TO RECEIVE COMMENT REGARDING PROPOSED ZONING AMENDMENTS: PURPOSE: To modify the Richmond Zoning Regulations (RZR) for the Industrial/Commercial District within the Town of Richmond as well as revisions to the Planned Unit Development section of the RZR. The Industrial/Commercial District will retain its primary emphasis on non-residential development and the retention of land for future commercial purposes, while allowing needed additional housing on lots that, prior to the adoption of zoning, had developed residential uses and have remained so into the current period. Portions of the section “Planned Unit Development” and “Residential Planned Unit Development”, will be revised for clarity and consistency, and the “Master Development Plan” language removed to streamline and clarify Development Review Board procedures.

These changes to Section 5.12 will affect any lot within Richmond that proposes to develop according to Section 5.12.

GEOGRAPHIC AREA AFFECTED: Any parcel/s proposing a Planned Unit Development and the following Industrial/Commercial District parcels: GP0198, GP0260, KR0280, KR0854, RG0080, RG0088, RG0090, RG0092, RG0140, RG0226, RG0300, UE0005, WM1436.

District, §5.12 Planned Unit Development (PUD) and Residential PUD. THE FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED ZONING AMENDMENT ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE RICHMOND TOWN CENTER OFFICES AT 203 BRIDGE STREET BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:00am and 4:00pm, MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY STARTING 11/6/2023. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE RICHMOND PLANNING/ ZONING OFFICE AT 802-336-2289 or koborne@ richmondvt.gov REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES GRAVEL WETLAND, BURLINGTON, VERMONT Due December 1, 2023, at 3pm Pomerleau Real Estate and Champlain Housing Trust (CHT), the owners, are developing a shared gravel wetland to manage stormwater. Pomerleau is seeking proposals from qualified Construction Managers for both pre-construction and construction services.

The project site spans the Shelburne Road Shopping Plaza (555 Shelburne Road) and the South Meadow Apartments parcels. To request a copy of the RFQ email sploesser@vermontrealestate.com with the subject line RFQ Gravel Wetland.

The DEADLINE for the proposal is 12/1/2023 by 3 PM. Proposals shall be submitted by email to Steve Ploesser, VP Construction Management, Pomerleau Real Estate. Any questions about the RFQ should be directed to Steve Ploesser at sploesser@ vermontrealestate.com by November 27, 2023, with the subject line RFQ Gravel Wetland.

TOWN OF WESTFORD - FINAL PUBLIC HEARING The Town of Westford, Vermont received $60,000 from the State of Vermont for a grant under the Vermont Community Development Program. A public hearing will be held at Westford Town Office (1713 Route 128, Westford, VT) and via Zoom https://bit.ly/ TownofWestfordZOOM2023; Meeting ID: 830 8165 4223; Passcode: E1Bdfy on Thursday, November 30, 2023, at 6:15pm to obtain the views of citizens on community development, to furnish information concerning the range of community development activities that have been undertaken under this program, and to give affected citizens the opportunity to examine a statement of the use of these funds. The VCDP Funds received have been used to accomplish the following activities: Property Appraisal Existing Conditions Plan Boundary Survey Alternative Analysis w/ three Conceptual Site Alternatives Public Engagement Preferred Alternative Plan Preliminary Site Plan Draft Subdivision Plat Draft Deeds Information on this project may be obtained from and viewed at the Westford Town Office Monday through Thursday from 8:30am until 4:30pm and Friday from 8:30am until 1:00pm. Should you require any special accommodations please contact Holly Delisle at townadmin@westfordvt.us to ensure appropriate accommodations are made. For the hearing impaired please call (TTY) #1-800-253-0191.

Town of Westford Selectboard Bill Cleary David Baczewski Lee McClenny November 9, 2023 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 PRIVATE LIVE AUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING UNITS ON OR AFTER 12/9/23: Location: 2211 Main St. Colchester, VT Kara Buell, unit #787: household goods Johnathan Taylor, unit #879: household good Eileen Foster, unit #786: household good Location: 78 Lincoln St. Essex Jct, VT Trixie Johnson, unit #230: household good Auction pre-registration is required, email info@ champlainvalleyselfstorage.com to register.

VCDP PROGRESS REPORT 2020 ORGANIZATION: TOWN OF COLCHESTER PR-2020-5-COLCHESTER-00266 FINAL PUBLIC HEARING VCDP Implementation Grant 2020 For publication on or before 11/27/2023 The Town of Colchester received $650,000 from the State of Vermont for a grant under the Vermont Community Development Program. A public hearing will be held at 781 Blakely Road, 3rd Floor, Outer Bay Conference Room on 12/12/2023 at 6:35 pm to obtain the views of citizens on community development, to furnish information concerning the range of community development activities that have been undertaken under this program, and to give affected citizens the opportunity to examine a statement of the use of these funds . The VCDP Funds received have been used to accomplish the following activities: Champlain Housing Trust and Evernorth built 36 new affordable apartments in a new construction building, 111 Stuart Avenue, in the Sunderland Farms development at Severance Corners. The Stuart Avenue project is a four-story apartment building over garage parking with an elevator, management office, community room, and on-site laundry.

Information on this project may be obtained from and viewed during the hours of 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. at 781 Blakely Road starting on 12/1/2023. Should you require any special accommodations please contact Renae Marshall, Deputy Town Manager at 802-2645516 to ensure appropriate accommodations are made. For the hearing impaired please call (TTY) #1-800-253-0191.

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C1O22-1 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 – 6111 Application 4C1022-1 from Champlain Housing Trust, 88 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 was received on October 3, 2023 and deemed complete on November 6, 2023. The project is generally described as construction of an infiltration area to capture and treat stormwater runoff from up to a 50-year storm event, including landscaping and pavement modifications. The project is located off Borden Street in Richmond, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/Details. aspx?Num=4C1022-1).

No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before November 27, 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-statuspetition-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 Kevin Anderson at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this November 7, 2023.

By: /s/ Kevin Anderson Kevin Anderson District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-522-6074 kevin.anderson@vermont.gov

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LRC is hiring a 32 hr/wk Court Diversion and Victim Services Case Manager to coordinate restorative processes and support services for individuals and communities impacted by crime.

This position is ideal for someone with excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills. This person should understand trauma-informed and victimcentered practices in Vermont’s legal and human service systems. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required.

This is an opportunity for professionals who are interested in a workplace that promotes employee well-being and is known for its inclusive and collaborative work environment.

The hourly pay rate is between $21.97 and $23.12. A generous benefits policy provides $12,000 annually for each employee to pay for the benefits they need, such as: medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance, and retirement. Additional benefits include 27 paid days off and 17 paid holidays, pre-tax dependent care deductions, paid family medical leave, an annual training stipend, and life insurance.

Please submit a cover letter and resume to: info@lrcvt.org.

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Prevent Child Abuse Vermont is seeking a full time experienced Administrative Coordinator. This position requires organization, efficiency, flexibility, and excellent verbal and written communication skills. Successful candidates are quick-learners, self-directed, have good attention to detail, and are skilled with using social media.

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Benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, IRA and paid time off. Salary commensurate with experience. PCAVT does not discriminate in the delivery of services or benefits based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. E.O.E.

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Dakin Farm is currently seeking applicants to join our holiday team for a fast-paced exciting work environment. No experience is required. These seasonal positions are available from the middle of November through early January.

We have both full and part time positions available in our Warehouse Department. We offer competitive wages, generous employee discounts, and hours that meet your schedule.

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We seek a part-time with an option to go full-time, detail-oriented professional to oversee a wide range of essential guest services at our Shelburne, VT, location. A College Degree, Knowledge of Microsoft Office, 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. Send your application to: jobs@gosojourn.com NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE.

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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.

Staff Assistant The office of U.S. Senator Peter Welch seeks an organized, friendly, and dedicated individual with strong interpersonal and writing skills for an entry-level position in the Burlington office. Duties include administrative tasks such as answering phones, greeting visitors, opening and sorting mail, supervising interns, drafting constituent correspondence, and assisting with other projects. Applicants should have a strong desire to assist Vermonters with federal programs and agencies. This is a full-time position, 40 hours per week.

Email your cover letter and resume to hiring@welch. senate.gov by November 27, 2023.

WISE Multidisciplinary Interview and Training Center (MITC) Coordinator

Join the MITC team and facilitate supportive interview experiences for survivors, represent WISE with community partners, and work with all aspects of expert witness development.

Family Violence Prevention Coordinator

Provide sophisticated, well-coordinated advocacy for people impacted by gender-based violence. Work with families experiencing the co-occurrence of child abuse and domestic violence.

Program Advocate

Provide advocacy for people who have experienced domestic and/or sexual violence, trafficking and stalking, and build relationships with community organizations and institutions.

Youth Violence Prevention Educator

Work with students, educators, and parents throughout the Upper Valley providing prevention education, student leadership to end violence, and youth advocacy for survivors.

The office is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, disability, military status, age, marital status, or parental status.

Community Educator

Engage adults, provide learning experiences, and create connections to end gender-based violence in our communities. Work closely with businesses, faith-based organizations, and community partners to develop these opportunities.

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!

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Director of Development & Communications This full-time position offers a salary range of $70k-80k and fantastic benefits, including medical insurance, family leave, and career development opportunities. As part of our team, you'll lead our fundraising and communication efforts, crafting engaging stories, and securing support for our 501(c)(3) conservation non-profit. If you're an experienced, passionate professional with a track record in fund development and communications, we want you to play a pivotal role in our growth. Your diverse perspective will be valued, & you'll help us preserve the ecological health of the Stowe region. Application review begins December 1 for this exciting opportunity!

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This full-time role comes with a competitive salary of $50k-60k and a host of fantastic benefits, including medical coverage, career development opportunities, and more. As we approach our 40th Anniversary, you'll play a pivotal role in fostering community involvement and engagement. Your responsibilities will encompass managing communications, nurturing partnerships, and organizing impactful events. If you're passionate about conservation and community, we invite you to apply through our online application. Please refrain from making phone inquiries. Our application review process begins on December 1. Be a part of our growth and help us preserve the ecological health of the Stowe region.

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(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.

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NEK Broadband is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Sales and Marketing Director to lead our efforts to ensure NEK residents are aware of the high-speed internet options from NEK Broadband and maximize subscribers.

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• Teachers and Special Educators • Classroom Counselors & One to One Staff • Family Engagement Specialists • Administrative NFI VT is a private, nonprofit, specialized service agency within the Vermont statewide mental health system. We are a healing organization, grounded in trauma-informed care. We are hiring for Full-Time, Part-Time and Relief positions. Regular positions of 30+ hours per week are eligible for our generous benefits package, which includes competitive salary and tuition reimbursement. Please apply online at: nfivermont. org/careers.

NFI VT is an E.O.E. and, as such, prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, ethnic background, disability, or other non-work-related personal trait or characteristic to the extent protected by law.

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HOLIDAY CASH

Are you recently retired or between careers? Just looking for something for a few weeks or months? We have seasonal positions to make The World’s Finest Ham, Bacon and Smoked Meats, as well as postitions in our call center and warehouse fullfilling orders. Flexible shifts to meet most schedules, paid training, a fun work environment.

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Chief Executive Officer

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.

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.

About the Opportunity

Director of Buildings & Grounds: Focuses on ensuring that The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Howard Center is a pivotal role, meticulously developed for a the campus infrastructure is safe, functional, and aligned with the College’s seasoned, collaborative leader eager to propel the mission of Howard Center further into the community. operational goals.

The CEO, under the guidance of the Board of Trustees, is the cohesive anchor for the operations, functions, and programs of the agency, aimed at the consistent achievement of the agency’s mission, vision and Social Media Marketing Specialist: As the College’s “story teller,” they play a critical role in amplifying Sterling’s mission of ecological values. The CEO is expected to exhibit exemplary leadership, fostering a spirit of collaboration among thinking and action. staff, agency stakeholders, donors, and community partners. Establishing fiscally responsible short-term and long-term goals aligning with the mission, vision, and values of the agency is a key aspect of this role To read the full position description and application instructions, visit: with a budget of $134.5M. The CEO will also be instrumental in developing effective relationships with sterlingcollege.edu/employment. the legislature, state agencies, local community leaders, and other relevant local and statewide providers to promote the agency, its myriad of services, and a statewide community-based system of care. The successful candidate will navigate through challenges, capitalize on opportunities, and foster innovation 11/6/23 4:53 PM to maintain financial viability, working collaboratively with the Board of Trustees on regular programmatic 5v-SterlingCollege110823.indd 1 and financial reporting, and ensuring the agency meets requisite accreditation standards while maintaining certification and licensure.

About the Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate for the CEO position at Howard Center will reflect a deep understanding and have extensive experience across the human services landscape. The successful candidate will have an advanced degree in related human services field or completion of behavioral health or business management credentials, supplemented by over 10 years of progressively responsible leadership positions within community mental health, substance use disorder treatment and/or developmental disability services, including five years of supervisory experience in an executive leadership role. The successful candidate will demonstrate a proven ability to develop strong relationships with donors and funders and the ability to fundraise on behalf of the Agency. The successful candidate will have experience working with unions, showcasing the candidate’s capacity to navigate through complex labor relations landscapes. Engaging with state and local government entities, understanding legislation, and advocating for policies that advance the mission of Howard Center is a significant aspect of this role. The successful candidate should possess media experience and be capable of representing Howard Center across various media platforms, projecting a positive agency image, while effectively articulating the agency’s mission, vision, values and impact to the public. The ideal candidate will have the ability to translate strategic visions into actionable goals, ensuring sound fiscal and organizational management that aligns with the agency’s overarching mission and values. The capability to adapt to evolving community needs, innovate solutions, and lead the agency in a manner that resonates with the core values of Howard Center is what will set apart the ideal candidate in fulfilling the dynamic responsibilities of the CEO role.

Event & Operations Specialist As a member of the Employer Relations team, this role supports employer recruiting events, activities, and resources, provides administrative & logistical support to the Career Center, maintains a career services database, and serves on cross-department teams to help students and alums build bridges to “real-world” experiences which helps prepare them for post-graduate pursuits.

How to Apply

Qualifications: Associate’s degree and one to three years of related experience are required. Effective communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills are required. Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications is required. Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively as a team member and engage positively and effectively with persons with diverse identities required. Ability to effectively and efficiently assist clients and stakeholders, online and in person, required. Demonstrated commitment to multicultural competence and to fostering a collaborative environment required.

Inquiries regarding the CEO position should be directed to Jami Armstrong, Senior Consultant at Nonprofit HR at: jarmstrong@ nonprofithr.com. Please submit your CV/resume and cover letter outlining your interest and qualifications specific to the role to: nonprofithr.applytojob.com/apply/PiTnTeXINj/ Chief-Executive-Officer-Howard-Center. Howard Center is an equal-opportunity employer.

Learn more uvm.edu/career/join-our-team. Applicant review begins November 27, 2023. UVM is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The University encourages applications from all individuals who will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution.

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Restorative Community Connections Coordinator The Town of Essex Community Justice Center (ECJC) is recruiting for a full-time, benefited Community Connections Coordinator.

The primary responsibilities of this position include: • Providing support to people reentering their communities from incarceration in Chittenden County

Program Assistant for Exchanges

Development & Communications Manager

Full-time Program Assistant will join a diverse team implementing international exchange programs. The Program Assistant will provide support for logistics, planning, communications, social media, data entry, and chaperoning exchange groups as needed. Start date as soon as possible but flexible.

Full-time Development & Communications Manager will support PH’s development, fundraising, communications, and marketing efforts. Responsibilities include researching grant opportunities, developing concept papers and proposals, and assisting with fundraising and outreach. The position will be the communications lead for overseeing PH’s social media sites and the development of a new website.

PH International (Project Harmony, Inc.) is an international non-profit with 38 years of experience focusing on civic engagement, cross-cultural learning, and increased opportunities in the digital age. The U.S. headquarters office is located in Waitsfield, VT, with field offices in Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Republic of Georgia, and Moldova with projects implemented in ten additional countries. PH is an equal opportunity employer.

• Co-coordination & staffing of the Circles of Support & Accountability Program (CoSA) in Chittenden County

FULL JOB DESCRIPTIONS & APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS AT www.ph-int.org/vacancies/ Application deadline: November 19, 2023

• Recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers for the CoSA program

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• Coordinate a Community Conflict Assistance Program collaboratively with the Burlington CJC • Provide outreach, information and support to victims of crime The Restorative Community Connections Coordinator position requires a flexible schedule allowing for some evening/weekend hours.

Training, education, course work and/or lived experience in the areas of substance abuse, mental health, domestic and sexual violence, trauma, poverty, crime, and other challenges is desirable, as well as knowledge of local resources. The ideal candidate will be passionate about social/racial/economic justice and restorative approaches to crime and conflict. Strong boundaries and computer, data tracking, communication, and phone skills are desired.

The Essex Community Justice Center is committed to equity, and inclusion, recognizing and respecting that diverse perspectives and experiences are valuable to our team and essential to our public service. BIPOC, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ applicants, and people from other underrepresented groups, are encouraged to apply.

Applicants with a criminal record need to be at least one year past the completion of their supervision/sentence in order to be considered.

The minimum starting salary for this position will be $24.00 per hour.

Applications can be submitted online at: essexvt.bamboohr.com/ careers. An application will not be considered unless it is accompanied by a cover letter outlining why you think you are a good candidate for the position and three references. This position is open until filled.

Full job description: https://bit.ly/ECJCcoord.

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Town of Essex is an equal opportunity employer.

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Director of Development 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.

Employment Specialist Why not have a job you love?

Benefit package includes 29 paid days off in the first year, comprehensive health insurance plan with premium as low as $13 per month, up to $6,400 to go towards medical deductibles and copays, retirement match, generous sign on bonus and so much more. And that’s on top of working at one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” for five years running. Great jobs in management, and direct support at an award-winning agency serving Vermonters with intellectual disabilities.

Job Highlight – Employment Specialist: Work in our award winning supported employment program with individuals to develop career goals, seek and secure employment, and build partnership with local businesses for long term employment.

The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, enjoy working in a collaborative environment and have the desire to make an impact on their community.

This is an excellent position for someone who is looking for the next step in their career or to continue their work in this field. Rate of pay is $21 per hour plus $1,000 sign on bonus at six months. Send resume to staff@ccs-vt.org.

All positions at ccs-vt.org/current-openings. Make a career making a difference & apply today!

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Personal Assistant Looking for female to assist with ambulatory care of elderly female.

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“Vermont Adult Learning opens the door to a world of possibility for our students.”

Household Help

• Meal preparing • Shopping • Help getting personal things done • Flexible Hours weekly - 2x a week • Pay rate negotiable

NEW JOBS POSTED DAILY!

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Saint Michael’s College is seeking applications from dependable and efficient workers to fill a custodial position. The shift is Sunday 6am-2:30pm & MondayThursday 5am-1:30pm. Successful candidates will join a team that cleans College buildings including dormitories, restrooms, offices, and classrooms.

Training will be provided for the right candidate. Benefits include health, dental, vision, employer-paid life and disability insurance, voluntary life, critical illness and accident insurance options, parental leave, flexible spending accounts (healthcare and dependent care), 401(k), generous paid time off, paid holidays, employee and dependent tuition benefits, employee and family assistance program, well-being programs and opportunities, discounted gym membership, paid volunteer time, use of the athletic facilities and the library, and countless opportunities to attend presentations, lectures, and other campus activities.

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Human Resources Coordinator $24 - $28 hourly, DOQ Full-time with flexible scheduling available and excellent local government benefits.

LPN/RN

The Town of Shelburne team has grown to require a dedicated human resources professional. Help all our staff achieve their best, and cultivate the spirit of public service in our town. This coordinator will support all of our departments in the full suite of HR routines and special projects. The ideal candidate has related education and experience in human resources work, including recruiting, benefits administration, training, and problem solving. We have opportunities to grow, and to shape this position to the skills and interests of the right candidate.

LPN Start at $35/hr RN starting at $45/hr $7500 Sign on bonus — $5,000 yearly retention bonus

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.

Valley Vista is seeking caring and motivated Recovery Specialists and Recovery Coaches at our Bradford facility, for all shifts. This position will help patients have a positive and successful recovery by ensuring the patient understands his/her responsibilities in the program and giving guidance when needed.

Valley Vista is a comprehensive drug & alcohol rehab center in Vermont offering treatment for substance abuse and dual diagnosis therapy. The LPN/RN are a key part of our team assisting in medical detox and behavior interventions.

Recovery Specialist Starting at $20-22/hr

This new position is a priority for the Shelburne Selectboard, to enhance all of the Town’s services.

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Education & Leadership Coordinator

Shared Living Provider

Outright Vermont is looking for an Education & Leadership Coordinator to join our Transforming Team! Do you love to work with youth? Enjoy facilitating experiential learning and practicing direct democracy? Then this job is for you!

Looking for a skilled Shared Living provider to assist a cultured gentleman. Collaborate as part of a team to establish the perfect living setup. Offering a generous annual stipend of $66,000.

The role involves assisting a young man with developmental disabilities in acquiring skills for independent living and enhancing his ability to cope with strong emotions. He takes pleasure in discussing historical topics, enjoying music, and savoring Mexican cuisine. He thrives in a calm and predictable setting, making someone with a relaxed and easygoing demeanor an excellent fit. The ideal candidate should be patient and affirming. Trauma-informed preferred, but training can be provided.

This is a 35hr/week FT position with comprehensive benefits. Salary $51,000-$56,000; applications welcome by December 3. Outright Vermont is an EOE. Queer & trans people of color & trans feminine candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Visit outrightvt.org for full description & hiring details.

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UVM Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Special Education The University of Vermont’s Department of Education in The College of Education & Social Services seeks to hire a Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Special Education for a full-time, 9-month appointment to begin August 2024.

This position includes teaching core courses in the undergraduate and master’s special education programs and providing field supervision. Courses in the program are delivered in hybrid, online, and in-person modalities.

Full description and to apply go to: uvmjobs.com/postings/68391

RUTLAND COUNTY SOLID WASTE DISTRICT CAREER OPENING

WASTE DIVERSION OUTREACH COORDINATOR

POSITION SUMMARY: The Rutland County Solid Waste District (RCSWD) seeks a passionate and highly organized professional who is a self-starter with exceptional planning, marketing, and verbal and written communications skills to serve as RCSWD’s Outreach Coordinator.

This position will work closely with the management team to coordinate all phases of assigned programs in areas such as community and business materials management, education and community outreach, research, and technical assistance. This is a full-time position based in our office in Rutland, VT.

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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)

Icelandic singer Björk is a triple Scorpio, with sun, moon and ascendant in your sign. Neptune is there, too, giving her even more Scorpionic intensity. It’s not surprising that she describes her daily practice like this: “I have to recreate the universe every morning when I wake up and kill it in the evening.” In another quote, she places greater emphasis on the rebirth: “To wake up in the morning and actually find the day exciting is the biggest victory you can have.” In accordance with current astrological omens, I invite you to exalt and celebrate the post-resurrection aspects of your life’s work. It’s time for you to shine and sparkle and shimmer and bedazzle.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): In accordance

with astrological omens, I would love you to experiment with blending the sacred and mundane. Bring your deep self into the daily routine and imbue ordinary rhythms with tender care. Here are a few fun rituals to get you in the groove: 1) Say prayers or chant ecstatic poems while you’re shopping. 2) Build a shrine in a parking lot. 3) Stir up an inspired epiphany while doing housework. 4) If you find yourself in a confusing or awkward situation, dance like a holy person to conjure a blessing. 5) Commune with the Divine Creator during crazy-good sex.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): I’ve met many people who feel their love lives are jinxed.

Often they believe this nonsense because a creepy fortune teller declared that they would forever be denied a satisfying intimate relationship. I hate that! Any astrologer who delivers such crippling bewitchments should be outed as a charlatan. The good news for you, Taurus, is that you are in a grace period for all matters regarding romance, intimacy and togetherness. If you have ever worried that there is a curse, obstruction or bad habit inhibiting your love life, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to free yourself from it.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): Gemini comedian Drew Carey says, “If I didn’t run from my fears, I wouldn’t get any exercise at all.” Let’s discuss his approach in relation to you. After analyzing the astrological omens, I believe that, as 2023 draws to a close and 2024 unfolds, you will feel less and less motivated to run from your fears.

In part, that’s because you will face them with more courage and poise; they won’t have the same power over you. In addition, I suspect your fears will become objectively less scary.

They will be less likely to come to pass. More and more, your fine mind will see how they trick you into imagining they’re more threatening than they truly are. Congratulations in advance, Gemini!

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): I would love

to see you intensify your devotion to your masterpiece — however you understand “masterpiece.” It could be a work of art or an innovation in your job or business. It could be a new baby, an adopted pet, a redefinition of what family means or an invigorated community. Might even be a beautiful alliance or enhanced connection with the divine or a refinement of the best gift you give the world.

Life will conspire to help you in unexpected ways during the coming months if you rededicate yourself to this treasure.

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): Dear Sun, our one and

only star: We love you and appreciate you! It’s amazing that you consume five million tons of yourself every second to generate the colossal energy you send in our direction. Thank you, beloved Sun! Is it OK with you if we think of you as a god? You are a superpowered genius of nourishment! And by the way, do you know

who adores you the best? I’ll tell you: the Leo people here on Earth. They comprehend your grandeur and majesty better than anyone else. Would you consider giving them extra rewards in the coming weeks? They need and deserve a massive delivery of your bounty.

Please fill them up with even more charisma, personal magnetism, vitality and generosity of spirit than usual. I promise they will use it wisely.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): Virgo musician and actor Shirley Manson has a message for you. She testifies, “I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.” This will be especially helpful and inspirational counsel for you in the coming months, dear Virgo. The wish to appear chic or trendy or hip should be so far down on your list of priorities that it drops off the list entirely. Your assignment is to be passionately devoted to your deepest truths, unique desires and imaginative experiments.

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): If you’re given a choice to advocate for either a dull, mediocre truth or a beautiful, invigorating truth, give your love to the latter. If you wonder whether you should ask a polite question that engenders harmony or a provocative question that pries loose agendas that have been half hidden, opt for the latter. If you feel nostalgic about an old tradition that stirs up little passion or fresh insight, let it go. Instead, dream up a new tradition that moves you emotionally and excites your mind.

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risk of sounding melodramatic, I prophesy that what has been lost will be found. What was last may not catapult all the way into the first spot, but it might — and will at least be close to the first. Here are more zingers for you as you move into the climactic stages of the Season of Turnarounds and Switcheroos: A difficult test will boost your intelligence; a rut will be disrupted, freeing you to find a smooth new groove; an unsettling twist will ultimately bring you delightful support. To get the best out of the upcoming challenges, Sagittarius, welcome them as opportunities to expand your understanding of how the world works.

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cultures throughout history have staged rites of passage to mark the transformation from childhood to puberty. In ancient Greece, for example, kids formally relinquished their toys, symbolizing the intention to move into a new phase of their destinies. In accordance with astrological omens, I want to tweak this custom for your use, Capricorn. I propose that you embrace your second childhood.

Fantasize about how you might refurbish your innocence, curiosity, playfulness and spontaneous joy. Then select an object that embodies a burdensome or unpleasant aspect of adulthood. Discard it. Find an object that signifies the fresh young spirit you’d like to awaken within you. Kiss it, sing to it and keep it in a prominent place.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): For advice about money, I talk with a banker who sometimes analyzes financial trends using tarot cards. To keep abreast of politics on the ground level, I consult with a courtesan who has a PhD in political science and cultivates intimate relations with governmental leaders. For guidance about rowdy ethics and etiquette, I seek input from an activist singer in an all-women punk band. How about you, Aquarius? Now is a favorable time to take an inventory of your posse of teachers, helpers and counselors.

Make sure it’s serving you well and providing maximum inspiration and support. Hot tip: It may be time to add a new facilitator or two to your entourage.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Now and then, you glide through a phase I describe as Freedom from Cosmic Compulsion. During these grace periods, fate has a reduced role in shaping your destiny. Your past doesn’t have its typical power to limit you or entrance you. According to my astrological analysis, you are now enjoying such a chapter. That’s why I predict that an infertile status quo will soon crumble. A boring, inflexible rule will become irrelevant. These and other breakthrough developments will give you extra leeway to innovate and invent.

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Where: Montpelier Shaw’s market.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915865 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

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Dear Reverend,

I don’t have any family, nor a partner or children. It’s lonely and hard over the holidays.

Often my friends are with their families and don’t invite me.

What do you recommend?

Joyless Noelle

(WOMAN, 65)

It’s difficult enough for holidays to live up to our often unrealistic expectations when friends and family are around. (Thanks, Hollywood.) Being on your own at this time of year can certainly be depressing, but it doesn’t have to be. You just need to reframe your mindset.

Instead of focusing on what you feel you’re missing, concentrate on finding joy in the things you can do — which is whatever the heck you want. Go all out decorating your house — or don’t. Cook yourself a fancy feast — or order your favorite takeout. It’s up to you!

There are plenty of people who would trade places with you in a heartbeat to avoid their families, so embrace the freedom of doing what makes you happy.

Traditions are great, but they have to start somewhere, so make up your own new ones. Go for a hike. Plan a trip. Buy yourself

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 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 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

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 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 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 TIN QUEEN IN CENTRAL VERMONT Hi, Tin Queen! You are very, very pretty! I want that date! Dreaming about garlic, mermaids, ants ... Can I be your Iceman? Hope you read this!

When: Thursday, September 14, 2023.

Where: 10 miles from Montpelier.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915845

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 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

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 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

something you’ve been eyeing for a while. Whatever you do, treat yourself with extra kindness.

If your friends are always busy on the actual holiday, find another time when you and your pals can celebrate. If you have a hankering for community on the big day, look for volunteer opportunities in your area. If you still find yourself feeling down, reach out for support, whether that’s to a close friend or a therapist.

This is a good reminder for everyone to check in on friends who might not have holiday plans and invite them to join yours if you can. As with any party, the more the merrier!

Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend What’s your problem?

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