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But the same agreement, which the council approved Monday, designates 15 acres for housing, where up to 570 units could be built. On another parcel, which includes the former orphanage, Farrell could put another 200. Of the total number of potential units, 160 units would be affordable.

Protesters on Monday were more concerned about wildlife and the environment. One protester’s sign read simply, “B-E-A-U-T-Y.” Housing advocates said the development is sorely needed. “— e project is really a cause for celebration and not mourning,” said Brenda Torpy, CEO of the Champlain Housing Trust. — at group gets around 140 applications monthly — for about a dozen or so available apartments.

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Yet another person has been charged with threatening workers from the Department for Children and Families — John Ryan Stice, 26, phoned it in, cops say.

2. “Shumlin Weds Katie Hunt” by Terri Hallenbeck. — e state got a new first lady when Gov. Shumlin married his fiancée in a small private ceremony last week.

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In his article about a proposed wind development [“Irasburg Howls Over Wind Turbine Plan,” December 9], Seven Days reporter Mark Davis did not challenge the implication of David Blittersdorf’s desire to “force Irasburg to ‘do its part’ to combat global warming.” Davis and all Vermonters should know that even the head of the Public Service Department is now saying what those who oppose these developments have been saying all along: Industrial wind does not reduce our carbon emissions.

Most Vermonters refuse to be “forced” to trade away the natural world they live in for false, feel-good monuments to greenness that greedy developers are selling to us as solutions. As long as we allow developers to disguise themselves as “greenavengers,” we will be aiding and abetting business-as-usual exploitation and blocking real solutions from being pursued.

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Three weeks ago, yet another mass shooting on American soil left 14 dead in San Bernardino, Calif. A subsequent Seven Days web article discussed the gun-control debate that will undoubtedly be an integral part of the 2016 campaign season in Vermont. [Off Message: “Gun Groups Expect Vigorous Debate

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in Vermont Elections,” December 4] provided a well-balanced examination of a nationwide debate that is becoming increasingly relevant here at home.

Vermont has a long history of supporting gun rights. We are a liberal state and believe heavily in the Second Amendment right to bear arms. However, we must also believe in continuing our 220-year history of being one of the nation’s safest and most peaceful places to live.

The United States finds itself in an epidemic of mass gun violence in 2015.

According to an article by the BBC, more than 12,000 Americans have been killed this year by firearms, and 353 mass shootings have taken place. While arguments for gun rights are made, citing firearms as a way to solve gun violence and preserve personal safety, statistics have shown that the risks and consequences of gun use far outweigh the benefits.

Despite our largely pro-gun population, Vermont must be among the nation’s leaders in creating legislation that will increase background checks for legal gun purchasers, increase limitations on obtaining high-capacity ammunition and semiautomatic weapons, and promote safe gun use. We do not have to get rid of guns, but we must be willing to obtain them legally and possess them in the safest way possible.

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[Re Fair Game: “Suspended Animation,” December 9]: As a young woman from Franklin County, a former state senate candidate and, most importantly, a constituent, I am distressed that Sen. Norm McAllister (R-Franklin) has not yet resigned from office. He is absolutely entitled to the presumption of innocence until he is proven guilty. He is not entitled to a seat in the Vermont Senate.

In addition to the criminal charges he faces, Sen. McAllister has admitted to having a Phil Scott sexual relationship with a minor. While not technically illegal, most reasonable people would conclude that a 60-plus-year-old man engaging in a sexual relationship with a 16-yearold girl is, at best, extremely inappropriate. His accuser worked as his campaign intern and as a legislative aide for him while the Senate was in session. For this reason alone, McAllister should resign.

As a former legislative page and Statehouse intern, I am appalled that McAllister could be permitted to be in contact with these young people. I can guarantee that if this situation had occurred when I was in the building, there is no way my parents would have allowed me to work there. It’s a disservice to the many young people who work, intern and volunteer in our Statehouse for McAllister to continue serving as a state senator.

McAllister should do the right thing: let his constituents be represented by someone who is capable of fulfilling the role of state senator. Resignation would not be an admission of guilt, but rather an admission that he cannot fulfill his obligation to his constituents at this time.

wage. The living wage in Vermont is currently $13. That is not near our current minimum wage of $9.15. Scott needs to realize that people can’t live on our current minimum wage and shouldn’t be forced to.

Phil Scott changed his opinion on the Syrian refugee issue in a week’s time. He originally said we should put a halt to Syrian refugees coming to Vermont. He later said that he supports the program that brings them in. Syrian refugees fleeing from the horrible civil war in their country deserve to know if they are welcomed to our state.

Scott does them a great disservice by flip-flopping on the issue. These are just a few reasons why Phil Scott shouldn’t be elected governor of Vermont. The state doesn’t need someone as governor who takes far-right positions and flip-flops on important issues.

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It took me a few months to adjust to the subtleties of email conversation, although I am now an addict. It took much longer, however, to adjust to the idea that I was working for a magazine that didn’t exist on paper, that merely flickered like a billboard out in the electronic ether.

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Cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s illustrated cause-and-effect inventions such as the Self-Watering Palm Tree and the Automatic Life-Saving Device are the inspiration behind Montshire Museum’s Machine Madness project (pictured).

Families spend one-hour sessions engineering and crafting their own links in an oversize chain-reaction machine, adding to a collaborative contraption that’s sure to put Mouse Trap to shame.

Active bodies get their sweat on in a spectacular mountain setting during the Running of the Bears 5K. ° e picturesque golf course at Stratton Mountain Resort plays host to a 3.1-mile trek, during which athletes counteract holiday calories while vying for cash prizes. Be sure to wear your wackiest duds for a chance at the coveted Best Costume award.

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hen South Burlington High School let out last Friday, 15-year-old CATIE MICHAEL headed to Sen. BERNIE SANDERS’ (I-Vt.) Church Street headquarters to call New Hampshire voters.

“Usually it’s a really positive place, and we have a lot of fun,” she said Saturday.

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But the day after the Washington Post broke the suspension story, Sanders campaign manager JEFF WEAVER let loose Friday at a Washington, D.C., press conference and accused the DNC of trying to “sabotage” Sanders on Clinton’s behalf. During a conference call with reporters that night, Clinton campaign gift manager ROBBY MOOK said his team’s data had been “stolen” and that the intrusion certificates was “totally unacceptable and may have available been a violation of the law.”

After the Sanders campaign sued the DNC in federal court late Friday, the party relented and restored access to its lists.

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After months of defending her use of a private email server as secretary of state, suddenly they could point to someone else’s digital chicanery.

And for the Sanderistas, it reinforced the notion that, as Weaver said Saturday afternoon, “There are establishment forces out there that are very, very concerned about the success of this campaign.”

Weaver made the remark at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, N.H., where his boss was preparing for the final debate of the year — scheduled by the DNC, it should be noted, for the weekend before Christmas. (Only 7.85 million people watched it, according to Nielsen ratings, compared to the 18 to 25

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Across the Merrimack River, at Manchester’s Radisson hotel, Sanders’ loyal supporters trickled into its Armory Ballroom late Saturday afternoon for a debate-watching party. DAVID VOGT, a German photographer who lives in Milford, N.H., showed up in a homemade red Christmas sweatshirt featuring a felt fireplace, snowflakes and the words, “FEEL THE BERN.” “I was honestly shocked,” Vogt said of the party’s handling of Team Sanders’ transgression.

“I’ve been suspecting for a while that the DNC is basically, for lack of a better term, in bed with the Hillary campaign,” he said. “And yesterday it kind of just solidified that belief.”

Vogt wasn’t the only one feelin’ Berned.

Citing an unnamed Team Sanders source, the Washington Post reported that the campaign raised more than $1 million — on Friday alone. As the candidates debated Saturday night, Sanders surpassed President BARACK OBAMA’s 2011 record of most donations at an equivalent point in their respective campaigns.

By Tuesday, Clinton supporters were

telling the media that Sanders might raise more money than their candidate in the fourth quarter — a transparent attempt to lower expectations.

The Vermonter’s campaign may have made the most of an unfortunate situation, but Sanders himself couldn’t have been pleased. In the tit-for-tat between Weaver and the DNC, party chair DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ revealed that it was she — not Sanders’ own staff — who alerted him to the data breach and suspension.

“He was very troubled by that,” Wasserman Schultz said Saturday at Saint Anselm, twisting the knife.

Furthermore, Sanders had to spend valuable time at the start of the debate explaining the behavior of irresponsible staffers and apologizing to a rival. No doubt he’d rather have been talking about how, you know, the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer.

Sanders landed a few good hits on Clinton that night — about her love affair with “regime change” and her coziness with Wall Street — but most of the headlines coming out of the debate featured the words “Sanders” and “Apologizes.”

Let’s be real: Nobody wants that — least of all, the guy who’s built a campaign around hourlong policy speeches.

While occasional skirmishes with the Clinton campaign and the DNC might gin up Sanders’ base and bring a flood of donations, a true knife fight with Clinton probably wouldn’t end well.

“If we launch a vicious, personal, negative campaign against Hillary Clinton, I’ll make one guarantee: We’re going to lose,” senior adviser TAD DEVINE told reporters in the spin room after the debate. “OK? That’s not a winning campaign.”

After appearing in the spin room himself that night, Sanders hopped into a motorcade and raced across town to thank the hundreds of supporters who had gathered at the Radisson to watch the debate.

Sharing the stage with his wife, JANE O’MEARA SANDERS, their adult children and the philosopher CORNEL WEST, Sanders thanked his volunteers and sounded an optimistic note. In several recent polls, he said to cheers, he had outperformed Clinton in hypothetical matchups against Republican DONALD TRUMP. “I think we’re gonna win here, and we’ve come a long way in Iowa, where we’re within single digits of Secretary Clinton,” Sanders said. “Brothers and

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First it was expected in August. After that, by Thanksgiving. Then before Christmas. Now, a long-anticipated report on allegations against Attorney General BILL SORRELL is due out early next year, according to Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs executive director DAVID CAHILL. “Sometimes when you’re dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, which is exactly what we were doing on this report, you find an item that needs some follow-up,” says Cahill, who is managing the investigation. “That’s what happened here, and that’s why we’re pushing our anticipated release date into January.”

Cahill, who is working with independent counsel TOM LITTLE and a committee of eight state’s attorneys on the probe, declined to comment on what “item” requires the follow-up. But according to two sources close to the situation, the holdup relates to new information the committee obtained indicating that Sorrell’s own office has been conducting a parallel inquiry into a group that helped finance their boss’ 2012 reelection.

The internal investigation appears to stem from a June complaint filed

by Vermont Right to Life Committee treasurer SHARON TOBORG. In it, the Barre resident alleged that the Democratic Attorneys General Association failed to disclose the source of $6,000 it donated to Sorrell’s hotly contested 2012 campaign against Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. DONOVAN. It’s unclear whether the scope of the in-house inquiry is any wider than that.

Separately, Charlotte attorney BRADY TOENSING has accused DAGA of exceeding contribution limits in the 2012 race, because it donated the $6,000 directly to Sorrell and then financed $200,000 worth of pro-Sorrell ads through an affiliated super PAC called the Committee for Justice and Fairness. Toensing, who is vice chair of the Vermont Republican Party, argues that the direct donation triggered more stringent contribution limits for DAGA, making the $200,000 super PAC buy illegal.

Though Sorrell’s staff is conducting the investigation into DAGA’s actions, the AG himself says he’s not involved.

“A few months ago I was told by staff there is a complaint against DAGA in

the office, not involving me,” Sorrell told Seven Days by email. “I was advised the office will handle the matter, but according to protocol, I am walled off from any decisions relating to the complaint.”

Griffin and his staff did not respond to requests for comment, nor did DAGA or CJF. Little, tapped last May by Gov. PETER SHUMLIN to lead the external investigation, is responsible for probing all six of Toensing’s allegations, which range from minor to major. The state’s attorneys, who are the top elected prosecutors in each county, must approve Little’s report.

Seven Days spoke with half a dozen people involved with the investigation, none of whom would discuss its progress for attribution. Several indicated that the report isn’t likely to recommend action on Toensing’s “minor” complaints, such as an allegation that Sorrell failed to disclose how he spent campaign money. Another complaint, involving an alleged conflict of interest pertaining to Sorrell’s lawyer, may be referred to the Vermont Bar Association, they said.

But the group is considering whether to refer at least one allegation to federal authorities, according to three of the sources. At issue is whether Sorrell agreed to file suit against 29 oil and gas companies in exchange for campaign contributions from two law firms — and then hired the firms to represent the state and share in any winnings.

The state’s attorneys have reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine whether its public corruption unit is interested in pursuing the matter — and they have met with FBI officials in Vermont.

Sources caution that the FBI has not indicated whether it will pursue the case. And even if the committee refers it to the feds, there’s no guarantee they’ll be interested. Another option would be to keep it in state: Vermont State Police detectives are already involved, and one of the state’s attorneys could be tasked with prosecuting, should it come to that.

“In our jobs, with prosecutions we are always working with and talking with law-enforcement agencies,” Cahill says elliptically. “In this process, we have not departed from our standard practice.”

Federal and state law enforcement declined to comment.

For his part, Sorrell says he always “assumed there would be communication with federal law enforcement,” because some of Toensing’s allegations were “clearly outside the jurisdiction of state prosecutors.”

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t looked like a perfect solution. For decades, Bellows Falls has failed to fill the long-vacant Liberty Mill building with an enterprise that would contribute to the local economy.

Meanwhile, Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark has sought to fix a problem plaguing Vermont’s criminal justice system — a lack of transitional housing and beds for low-level offenders.

So Clark thought he had come up with a winning idea when earlier this year he proposed a $23 million project to turn the mill building into a multilevel jail and rehab facility. His proposal would create up to 60 jobs and relieve the state’s prison-bed shortage. Further sweetening the deal, Clark announced he would build the facility without a nickel from local or state budgets.

The state’s top law-enforcement officials greeted Clark’s idea with enthusiasm. But residents of Bellows Falls have flooded meetings and signed petitions denouncing his plan. Some of them appear determined to stop it.

Conceding, “It’s been well received by those people who are willing to open their minds and listen,” Clark said he was “caught a little off guard” by the ferocity of the opposition. “I thought people would appreciate the fact that I was saving them money. They should be encouraging us to move forward.”

Critics say they aren’t against Clark’s concept. But they don’t want it right in the middle of their village of 3,000 residents, with two schools within walking distance.

“Location, location, location,” Bellows Falls resident Deborah Wright said. “This social experiment should not happen within a tiny village. People are gravely concerned what will happen to the quality of their village, their property values, their taxes… ” The former paper mill, now a sprawling derelict gray building, is actually on the southern end of the village. It closed decades ago and has become a symbol of Bellows Falls’ post-industrial decline.

The town has since become a cultural destination. It hosts a thriving arts scene that includes annual film and music festivals; most of the downtown is on the National Register of Historic Places. But the derelict mill building that looms over the railroad tracks and the Connecticut River remains a ghostly reminder of what Bellows Falls once was.

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Further angering residents is the realization that their opinions may not matter much. Thanks to a unique project plan, Clark doesn’t need the approval of the village trustees or even the state legislature to build what he has dubbed the Liberty Mill Justice Center.

He would only need the go-ahead from the local zoning board and the state Natural Resources Board, both bodies that make their decisions on technical grounds — not public sentiment.

Bellows Falls resident Suzanne Groenewold lamented, “The general

feeling is that we are the last to know, and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

As currently imagined, Liberty Mill Justice Center is innovative — even Clark’s detractors acknowledge that.

The facility would house three groups of inmates. Roughly 80 high-security beds would be reserved for prisoners of the U.S. Marshals Service, which transports and guards federal inmates.

The agency has already agreed to house — and pay for — inmates in Liberty Mill Justice Center if it gets built. Currently, Vermont inmates facing federal charges

are housed out of state, making it expensive to bring them to court in Vermont.

Another 70 lower-security beds would be reserved for state inmates, which would help free up badly needed Department of Corrections prison beds.

Specifically, the Justice Center would house offenders who are awaiting trial.

Liberty Mill would also have hostelstyle transitional housing for inmates who have served their minimum sentences and are eligible to be released — ex-cons who would otherwise remain behind bars because they have no place to live. Today, approximately 200 such inmates are languishing in Vermont prisons. They’d be free to come and go from the Bellows Falls facility.

It costs the state $60,000 a year to house one inmate in a traditional prison.

Clark said that a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service would subsidize additional capacity for the Vermont DOC. It could also help the agency end its reliance on a private prison company, GEO Group, to house approximately 300 Vermont prisoners in Michigan.

“My job is not to reduce the demand on the DOC. However I believe this will do that,” Clark said. “I’m just looking at changing the system and doing it a better way.”

Liberty Mill Justice Center would also host caseworkers, a regional dispatch center and police training facilities.

DOC Commissioner Lisa Menard and Agency of Human Services Secretary Hal Cohen have both voiced support for Clark’s idea. After all, they don’t have to pay to build it.

The center would be constructed using a mix of federal and state grants and tax incentives. The largest chunk of $10 million would come from the federal New Markets Tax Credit program, designed to spur development in low-income areas. That program is available only to private companies, so Clark arranged for DEW Construction of Williston to build and own the facility and lease it back to the sheriff’s department. Under similar arrangements, DEW built Barre City Place and a Community College of Vermont building in Rutland.

The U.S. Marshals Service has pledged to kick in $4 million toward construction of the Liberty Mill Justice Center.

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If it gets built, Clark’s job would project manager and point person. change considerably. In Vermont, sher- Local critics accuse White, who sits on iff’s departments such as the one he the Judiciary Committee and chairs the oversees are charged with transporting Government Operations Committee, of prisoners and guarding courthouses. In having a conflict of interest. tiny communities, they sometimes pro“We’ve seen her more now than vide a handful of patrol hours a week. we’ve ever seen her in her entire length But Liberty Mill Justice Center of service,” Wright said. “She’s reprewould transform the Windham Sheriff’s senting herself as a senator, but in actuDepartment into one of the largest ality she’s an employee. She’s basically law-enforcement agencies in Vermont, lobbying for this project.” rivaled only by the state police and White rejected those concerns. the Burlington police. Clark’s staff of She compared her position to other 45 would grow to more than 100, he temporary jobs she’s held — as interim estimated. development direcFROM ALL OF US AT Clark is known tor in Rockingham [and, yup, still free.] as a smooth-talking and writing grants innovator. A charisfor Brattleboro and matic cop who served the city’s housing as the Bellows Falls authority.

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“As you know, we’re a citizen legislaClark said he is simply trying to imture,” White said.

“We have to have jobs prove the criminal justice system. He to make a living.

There’s no conflict. I asked, “If you’re in a position and have think they are grasping at anything they support to change things in society, can.” shouldn’t you?”

White said she makes $30 an hour as But Bellows Falls residents have a project manager and works 20 hours a history of defeating prison proposals week for Clark, earning $2,400 a month.

— at least when they’ve had a say in the matter. In 1998, after a contentious She said she is leaving the position when battle, they rejected a DOC plan to build the legislature convenes in January.

Opponents, meanwhile, are pushing a prison in the village. The Southern State Correctional Facility, the largest the village of Bellows Falls and the surAt Saint Michael’s College, you can get ahead in your college prison in Vermont, was built 15 miles rounding town of Rockingham to hold nonbinding votes on the project at their away instead — in Springfield. career with our on-campus six-week, eight-credit innovative Critics point out that the facility respective town meetings in March. instructional experience. Make your summer count. is located on an isolated hillside, up a They are confident they will prevail by steep, winding road, four miles from large margins.

Clark has made conflicting statedowntown.

In the case of Liberty Mill Justice ments about whether he would abanCenter, “The homes surrounding the don his plan if the number of naysayers site are a couple hundred feet away,” continues to mount. For now, he said he Groenewold said. “It’s not like they’re is determined to win support, one resiin the middle of nowhere and you pull dent at a time. “It’s slow going,” he said. in a long road to get to them. We feel it “It’s like trying to turn a battleship. It’s would severely impact the day-to-day hard for people to change their percepREGISTER NOW for a live online information session lives of people who live here.” tions.” m January 12 at 12:30 p.m.

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erhaps the biggest concern about Burlington’s controversial Champlain Parkway project is that the new route will create more traffic on congestion-prone Pine Street between Lakeside and King.

Hoping to address that, the city is cooking up a second, lesser-known road plan: the Railyard Enterprise Project.

Officials say its centerpiece — a short road spur that veers off Pine south of Maple and connects it to lower Battery Street — is essential to divert traffic from a historic, low-income neighborhood. It

“willing partner” in the project. That’s because two of the options send the new road right through its rail yard at the southern end of Battery Street.

The rail yard is actually owned by the state but is leased to privately held Vermont Rail until 2054. Located a stone’s throw from Lake Champlain, train cars arrive and depart at all hours, hauling all manner of industrial goods: oil, gas, lumber, road salt, gravel, cement, limestone, animal feed, heavy machinery. Nearby, a series of osculating tracks make up the switching yard, which

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has the potential to change a section of the waterfront that’s largely remained an industrial wasteland.

The project is creeping forward. Over the course of three years, a steering committee has winnowed down 30 different road configurations. On Monday evening, the city council signed off on the final three scenarios, all of which are en route to a federal environmental review that is expected to take at least a year.

Officials emphasize that everything is subject to change. But the current options are stoking anxiety among those who own property in the project’s

1963. Currently, though, he said things are cordial between his company and the administrations of Mayor Miro Weinberger and Gov. Peter Shumlin. In 2013, he and the mayor signed a settlement over the Act 250 appeal after the city and state agreed to fix a culvert and perform “railroad diagnostics” at multiple crossings.

Despite that legal tussle, Wulfson supports the Champlain Parkway — and the Railyard Enterprise Project. His rail yard, he explained, would benefit from having a new route for trucks to enter

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potential path — including private businesses and a bustling rail yard that can’t easily relocate.

At a public meeting at ArtsRiot on December 9, Bob Chamberlin, a city consultant with Resource Systems Group, spelled out the conundrum: “If you avoid the buildings, you impact the rail yard. If you avoid the rail yard, you impact the buildings.”

Either way, the city will also have to contend with contaminants left over from a former coal-gasification plant that once operated near the waterfront’s

Pine Street Barge Canal, which became a Superfund site in 1983. That designation by the Environmental Protection Agency scuttled the original route plan for the Champlain Parkway, which would have extended along the lake to Battery Street. Construction on the polluted land has the potential to unearth toxic materials.

“I think it would be fair to say this is a complex landscape to be working with,” said Chapin Spencer, director of the Public Works Department.

At ArtsRiot, officials underscored that Vermont Rail System must be a

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The railroad and government depend upon one another — Vermont Rail facilitates commerce; the Agency of Transportation helps secure federal railimprovement grants — but the alliance hasn’t always been harmonious. The company sparred with the city over the Champlain Parkway, appealing the project’s Act 250 permit in 2011 over rights of way.

The relationship has had “ups and downs,” acknowledged Vermont Rail’s president, David Wulfson, whose father, Jay, bought the company in

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And it’s not the first time he’s imagined what it would look like. Sitting in his attic-like office at Vermont Rail’s lakeside headquarters, he unfurled a diagram crowded with crosshatched lines. He had the plan drawn up in 2004 in case the city revived plans to link Pine to Battery.

Wulfson’s diagram lays out how existing tracks, terminals, loading stations and storage sheds could be rearranged to make way for a street. The yard would be moved south onto land he already owns,

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One of the three plans would leave the neighborhood, warning: “There are the rail yard untouched, but it’s compli- some small businesses that could be one cated. Referring to a rendering of this construction project away from closing.”

The project might also displace Curtis $15 million proposal, a perplexed observer at the December 9 meeting asked, Lumber, on Pine Street; the Chittenden “What does it mean when the road goes Solid Waste District; a city-owned building that houses through the building?” artist studios; and two Standing in the back, buildings at the corner Jason Adams stayed of Maple and Battery silent, though he knew — home to a dive shop the answer all too well. and, according to His family owns the owner Jacob Albee, Independent Block workshops for artists, building on South musicians and “wingChamplain Street, nut entrepreneurs.” which, under option Peter Owens, No. 3, would need to be the director of at least partially torn the Community & down. Adams, who Economic Development manages the building, Office, called Albee the recently renovated the day before this third space so that Urban C H API N S PE N C E R, option was unveiled.

Moonshine can open BU RL I N GT ON PU BL I C As Albee remembers, a cocktail bar, apothW ORKS D E PART M E N T Owens told him that ecary, health clinic and the road “touched” one herbal learning center.

Adams later said he supports the of his properties — a whimsical building project in principle, but, not surpris- crowned with a windmill.

“Buildings don’t hug,” was Albee’s ingly, he’s not in favor of the version that bisects his building. Dislodging his indignant response to the euphemism.

Albee, a professional goldsmith, tenants would undermine the project’s goal of promoting economic develop- thinks that the city hasn’t been forthment, he said. Even if part of his building coming enough with property owners. remained, he said any loss of already Unlike Vermont Rail, he wasn’t invited limited parking would render the place to join the steering committee. “We’re told we have an equal voice, but I don’t unrentable.

Adam Brooks, executive director feel that way,” Albee said. “There are of the South End Arts and Business chips on the board, and one of them has Association, worries that extended con- to be moved, and I’m a much smaller struction will drive away customers from chip than the Vermont Railway.”

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Albee agrees that the King-Maple Street neighborhood deserves relief from traffic, but he said he’s unconvinced the project will truly reduce congestion.

City officials insist that they’ve been diligently meeting with all stakeholders, including Albee. At the same time, they’ve got other challenges to attend to.

Some of the buildings — including Independent Block, which used to be the Champlain Valley Fruit Company — qualify as historic, potentially limiting the city’s options. There are underground obstacles, too: A buried roundhouse from the original railroad and a coal-storage bin are considered significant archeological sites.

Finally, the contaminants could prove even more stubborn than the people.

The pollution extends north beyond the old Barge Canal and gasification plant.

In constructing the skate park and new sections of the bike path around the Moran Plant, the city had to spend more than $300,000 to dispose of a comparably tiny amount of contaminated soil.

Pointing out that other cities have successfully redeveloped polluted land, the mayor — who champions “infill” development — said he’s optimistic that Burlington will be able to do the same.

Even Albee said he could still be convinced that it’s a good idea. But he qualified it: “If there’s going to be a road, it needs to be the right road.” m Contact: alicia@sevendaysvt.com Disclosure: Seven Days is an Independent Block tenant.

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and new tracks would be constructed — hence all the lines.

“The city has a copy of this and is aware this needs to happen,” Wulfson said matter-of-factly. He’s furnished the state Agency of Transportation with a copy as well. He expects government officials to pick up the tab.

Friction could occur, however, based on how closely the project adheres to Wulfson’s vision and who pays for what. For the two options that require uprooting the rail yard, city planners are budgeting $6.5 million for rail yard “mitigation costs.” That’s in addition to the road construction expenses, which are pegged at $6.8 million or $11 million, depending on the plan. Weinberger is expecting the federal government to pay 80 percent, with the state and the city splitting the rest.

But it’s unclear whether the same ratio would apply to rail-yard work.

“I think we may well face challenging issues with the rail yard,” Weinberger said.

Given the millions it would cost to move the rail yard even a little bit, have planners considered relocating it, away from the lake entirely? Elsewhere on the waterfront, industrial infrastructure has been replaced with parkland and tourist attractions such as the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain.

Wulfson, whose company owns 350 miles of track, said he has scouted other locations, without success: “No one wants a rail yard in their backyard.”

The mayor added: It would be “spectacularly expensive.”

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t a recent Burlington breakfast meeting, House Speaker Shap Smith leveled with members of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility: Don’t expect lawmakers to enact a carbon tax in the coming session, the Morristown Democrat warned, saying that Vermonters aren’t ready for it. On the other hand, he said mandatory paid sick leave, another of the group’s goals, looks poised for passage.

Smith’s predictions weren’t new.

What was? He wasn’t working the crowd of politically active Vermonters for votes. He didn’t have the look of an over-caffeinated, overbooked candidate for higher office. And he was not sporting any campaign stickers.

The event was a powerful reminder of how much had changed since Smith was immersed in an intense bid for the open governor’s seat in 2016. On November 17, he stood alone at a podium on the Statehouse steps and made a somber announcement: “I am suspending my campaign for governor.” His wife, Melissa Volansky, had breast cancer. “A diagnosis like this reshapes one’s priorities. This is a time during which Melissa and the kids need me most.”

Smith’s decision was agonizing for him. He had been seriously considering running for governor since 2009 — if not before.

“It was something I really wanted to do, that the family was all in on. My supporters were all in,” Smith said. “It is hard to shift gears that quickly, but it was so clearly the right decision to make.”

Raised in Lamoille County, Smith is a deeply deliberative lawyer who tends to choose his words, and plot his course, carefully. First elected to the House in 2003, he quickly proved his tax policy prowess. Ditto his willingness to go to the mat for issues. He became speaker in 2009 and, in that same year, muscled same-sex marriage legislation through a close vote.

Smith, considered a moderate Democrat, can also take a more ponderous approach. On issues such as legalizing marijuana and reforming taxes, both of which he supports, he’s moved more slowly than some would like.

He had no control over the timing of events that led him to drop out of the governor’s race. On September 18, just a

month after he launched his campaign, Smith stopped for lunch in Middlebury on his way from a golf tournament in Rutland to a campaign meet-and-greet in Vergennes. His wife, a doctor with Stowe Family Practice, called and said she needed to talk to him in person.

Already well into a nonstop statewide candidate’s schedule, Smith wasn’t due home until late that night. But her tone was urgent, so the couple met that afternoon in Burlington. Melissa broke the news about her breast cancer while they stood on Perkins Pier. “It was a real shock,” Smith said in a recent interview.

The couple discussed how to tell their son, Eli, who is 14, and daughter, Mia, 10.

“Initially the prognosis was that she would only need surgery,” Smith said.

The situation was unsettling, but they believed it would be brief. Smith scaled back his campaign appearances and paused his fundraising. He canceled a trip to the White House, where, as House speaker, he was to attend a meeting with President Barack Obama.

Smith, who has long been adept at

juggling a high-pressure profession with a high-profile political position and a family, conceded, “It was a lot to have on the plate. I was struggling trying to keep all of the balls in the air … I joked with people a bunch during that period of time that I thought I had finally realized what my capacity was — and I was over it.”

Few people knew what Smith’s family was going through. His wife had surgery on November 2. He skipped a candidates’ forum the next day, publicly stating that he was helping his wife recover from unspecified surgery.

Smith said it was hard to watch his wife go from physician to patient, and Melissa didn’t like the idea of being away from her medical practice. The challenges mounted when doctors informed them that she would need further treatment.

Smith hunkered down with friends and family, seeking advice about his fledgling campaign. “Different people had different opinions,” he said. “There were people who were trying to tell me

to stay in the race and not be speaker anymore.”

“I don’t know how realistic any of these other scenarios were,” said Mary Peterson, the state tax commissioner and a close friend who served with Smith in the legislature. “The decision was obvious. Your family comes first.”

Peterson was among several of Smith’s advisers who knew firsthand what Smith and his family would face.

Her husband had recently battled cancer at the same time as their daughter suffered a brain aneurysm. The notion that Smith could go through something like that while also managing a highly competitive statewide race was beyond comprehension, she said: “You just don’t have the bandwidth.”

Smith also turned for advice to Dr. Harry Chen, the state health commissioner, who had served with Smith and Peterson for six years in the legislature.

Peterson described Chen as the group’s Yoda, likening him to the calm, wise Star Wars character. Chen had helped his own wife through cancer years ago.

Chen’s take: Smith had to halt the

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campaign. “I couldn’t see another way resume the campaign,” Smith said. “I that worked,” Chen said. “It was an have had people say to me, ‘I actually incredibly difficult decision. Everybody hope you really mean you’re suspendknew he had to do it, but nobody wanted ing, not ending.’ I’ve said, ‘I just don’t him to do it.” see how you can start a race again in Smith also consulted a friend, May.’” Andrew Savage, who had been about Just how Smith’s departure will alter the same age as Smith’s kids when his the race is still unclear. He isn’t endorsmother was diagnosed with cancer, and ing another candidate, and many of his Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who supporters say they are in no hurry to had spent years caring for his wife, Joan, pick a replacement. while she battled the disease.

Two other Democrats, former state Smith deliberated intently. On Agency of Transportation secretary Sue November 16, he composed an email Minter and former state senator Matt about his decision to a small group of Dunne, are running to succeed retiring friends, then slept on it before hitting Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin. So are “send” the next day. He went with his two Republicans: Lt. Gov. Phil Scott wife to a doctor’s appointment that and retired Wall Street banker Bruce morning. At 2 p.m., he delivered the Lisman. More candidates could emerge. news to the press.

Dunne and Minter Smith said he’s appear to be aphad no regrets. “I just proaching some of can’t imagine what it Smith’s supporters, would be like decidbut neither candidate ing to continue the has done any heavy campaign and being wooing. in Bennington on a “It’s time to reflect,” Wednesday night said Rep. Ann Pugh where maybe my mom (D-South Burlington), or my stepmom were a Smith supporter. “I taking my daughter to feel no compunction basketball practice but SHAP SMIT H to throw my support Melissa was having a to either one of them.” rough day recovering Progressive caucus from chemo,” Smith said. “I would just leader Chris Pearson (P-Burlington) be wondering, Am I in the right place?” is thinking about how Smith’s deciThe place for him in 2016 will be sion will affect the session. He said he with his wife and children, Smith said. wondered whether Smith, now unfetAnd he will be back in the Statehouse tered by the governor’s race, might use for his last year as speaker. his last term to pursue some big goals.

Liz Sortino, who left her job at the “You would want to leave a significant lobbying firm KSE Partners to manage enough mark that in four or six years Smith’s campaign, has since dismantled he can say, ‘Remember? That was me,’” the barely christened campaign office Pearson said. near Burlington’s waterfront, taken the Smith did not describe any such campaign website offline, and packed goals. The former member of the House up the “Shap for Governor” placards Ways & Means Committee has long and stickers. She’s looking for another talked about adjusting the state tax code job. but said he doesn’t think it’s plausible As for Smith, his supporters and next year. He was similarly practical political adversaries seem to be in when asked about the prospects of the agreement that his political career is not legislature legalizing marijuana in 2016. likely over.

“It just doesn’t feel like it’s ready to go “I absolutely think he’ll be back,” all the way through,” he said. said Peterson. “He has this vision for Smith has proven that he can be paVermont, and a lot of people are vested tient. Asked what he planned to do with in that vision, too.” his campaign cash, about $100,000, he Smith, who turned 50 last week, said, “It’s going to stay in an account said he can’t realistically predict his for any future…” then trailed off. “If I’m political future, given the uncertainties going to do something in the future, it’ll of his wife’s illness. But some wondered be there for that.” whether by “suspending” his campaign, So will the “Shap for Governor” he was leaving the door open — for 2016. campaign placards and stickers, stored “Does that mean he’s getting back in a box in his house. No specific year is in?” asked House Minority Leader Don emblazoned on them. m Turner (R-Milton).

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Montpeculiar: An Ice Rink on the People’s Lawn?

It should come as no surprise that Mike Obuchowski considers the Statehouse lawn “sacred ground.” He was elected to the legislature at age 20 and served there for 38 years, including six as House speaker.

Now he’s commissioner of the Department of Buildings and General Services, with an office that’s spitting distance from the Statehouse and its sweeping lawn, a spot where friends and foes of state policy routinely rally. “° e Statehouse lawn is a public forum.

It’s a place where people can come and express themselves,” Obuchowski said. Now it’s up to him to decide whether ice-skating qualifies as a form of public expression.

A group called Put a Rink On It has proposed setting up a 50-by-100-foot ice sheet on the east side of the lawn near State Street. Organizers have the City of Montpelier’s support and have raised about

half of the $20,000 they think they’ll need to erect and operate the rink, said Nate Hausman of Montpelier, who, along with Kim McKee, is championing the effort.

“It’s a space we thought doesn’t get a lot of use in the winter,” Hausman said, noting the idea started off half-baked but has gained momentum around town. ° e group envisions skaters on the ice Wednesday through Sunday afternoons until 7 p.m.

Volunteers would supervise.

Obuchowski said he expects to decide within a week or so. His criteria includes whether events on the lawn pose a legal liability. And Hausman’s group has plans for insurance.

If the group gets the go-ahead, the next big challenge may be making ice. ° e forecast doesn’t offer much hope for freezing.

Rules Committee Votes to Suspend McAllister From Vermont Senate A powerful panel voted 3-2 on December 16 to recommend suspending Sen. Norm McAllister (R-Franklin) from the Vermont Senate. ° e resolution, if approved by the full Senate in January, would bar him from serving until the conclusion of criminal sexual assault proceedings against him. ° e Senate Rules Committee made its decision at a dramatic Statehouse hearing during which McAllister himself made a surprise appearance. ° e 64-yearold Highgate farmer told his colleagues he was “not guilty of any of the charges” and warned against stripping him of his powers.

McAllister was arrested outside the Statehouse last May, a week before the legislature adjourned for the year. He pleaded not guilty to three felony counts of sexual assault and three misdemeanor counts of prohibited acts.

Meanwhile, prosecutors in the McAllister case have subpoenaed three Seven Days journalists — reporter Mark Davis, political editor Paul Heintz and news editor Matthew Roy — seeking information they gathered for news articles in this publication. Davis and Heintz

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wrote stories that included material from interviews with the senator, and Heintz interviewed one of his alleged victims.

Heintz has also written political columns about McAllister.

Franklin County deputy state’s attorney Diane Wheeler said she issued the subpoenas because Seven Days’ staffers spoke directly to McAllister and one of the victims. “Anyone who has any contact with the accused in the case, we depose,” she said. She also said, “It’s not the fact that they’re journalists. It’s the fact that they are witnesses.”

Seven Days is fighting the subpoenas in court. Paula Routly, the paper’s publisher and coeditor, said in a written statement: “As the founders recognized, democracy requires a free and vibrant press. ° at freedom is threatened when lawyers demand to put reporters on the witness stand, peer into their notebooks and otherwise deputize them as agents of law enforcement. Seven Days is serving its readers by reporting this story — and standing up for the First Amendment by challenging these subpoenas.”

° e City of Rutland has agreed to pay $975,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former Rutland police officer, who alleged that he was the victim of racial discrimination.

John Paul Faignant, the attorney for former Rutland police officer Andrew Todd, said the Rutland Board of Aldermen approved the settlement Monday night.

It is believed to be one of the largest civil settlements of its kind in Vermont, according to the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Todd alleged that he was subjected to racial slurs and other abuse from his fellow officers. But his claims extended beyond internal police operations.

Todd accused some officers of racially profiling drug suspects, carrying on inappropriate relationships with female confidential informants and drinking on duty.

Faignant said that Todd, an African American, was pleased that the lawsuit had helped publicize allegations that Rutland authorities had swept under the rug. “° e primary motivation for the suit was to make the information public,” Faignant said. ° e settlement prevents the lawsuit from going to trial next year. Todd resigned in 2012. He is now a Vermont State Police trooper.

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he Countryman Press, long known as “Vermont’s oldest name in publishing,” is now a small, rustic printing house in name only. In 1996, New York-based W. W. Norton & Company purchased Countryman. In March 2015, Norton laid off the press’ last two remaining Vermont employees, closed its Woodstock offices and moved its entire operation to midtown Manhattan.

Countryman, founded in 1973 by PETER and JANE JENNISON in their farmhouse kitchen in Taftsville, earned its New England cred by putting out highquality books and field guides about outdoor recreation, travel, gardening, cooking, culture and crafts.

Today, Countryman still promotes its Vermont roots by featuring titles and authors that reflect the values of Yankee self-sufficiency. From its Big Apple address, Countryman publishes about 70 new titles per year, with a backlist of 350 books, covering such subjects as cider making, maple sugaring, fly fishing, wild-edible foraging, meat curing and construction of backyard ice rinks.

“We definitely try and keep

that outdoorsy sensibility,” says Countryman’s editorial director, Ann Treistman, who visits Vermont often — her husband hails from South Royalton. The company built its name on Vermont-y topics, and, Treistman says, “We’re totally still doing it. Everyone wants to do that stuff these days.”

Treistman says she doesn’t expect readers to notice many substantive changes resulting from the move, because the company has maintained its long-term relationships with Vermontbased organizations and authors.

Notably, Countryman still publishes cookbooks produced by Norwich-based KING ARTHUR FLOUR and back titles from Shelburne-based EATINGWELL. However, the latter company hasn’t published a new cookbook with Countryman since 2011, says editor-in-chief JESSIE PRICE. That was also the year the EATINGWELL MEDIA GROUP was purchased by the Meredith Corp., which had a previous relationship with W. W. Norton’s competitor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

In recent years, the rise of internetbased alternatives has flattened sales of some of Countryman’s international

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travel guides, long a company mainstay. However, Treistman says sales of its domestic travel guides remain strong, as do those of books with high aesthetic appeal.

“In this day and age, people want books that are more objects,” she says. “If you can’t have something gorgeous in your hands, why not just look it up [online]?”

According to Treistman, W. W. Norton opted to close the Woodstock office following the fall 2014 retirement of longtime editor KERMIT HUMMEL. None of Countryman’s three remaining employees — managing editor LISA SACKS WARHOL, production editor DOUG YEAGER and production manager FRED LEE — was offered a position in the New York City office.

Lee, who worked for Countryman for about 21 years and now has a job in Brattleboro, says he wonders how well the company will be able to retain its connections with Vermont authors. In particular, he suggests that Norton has lost the “ear-to-the-ground knowledge” needed to maintain travel and craft books, which require frequent revisions.

A Vermont ‘Recovered’ Poet Brings Verse Back From the Past B Y RA CHEL ELI ZA BET H JONES

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storyteller LEANNE described her newly published book of poems, Tonight Not Even My Skin, like this: “It was like I found poems by somebody else [and thought], These are pretty good.” Ponder rediscovered her own writing in the form of typewritten pages, some 25 years old, that lay forgotten in a cardboard box in a back room of her East Montpelier home.

Seven Days spoke with Ponder and her husband and creative partner, TIM JENNINGS, at Burlington’s Muddy Waters, seated in the café’s curved booth — a piece of furniture that, incidentally, once belonged to Ponder at her home in New Mexico, and later in Vermont.

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collection, Jennings writes, “Leanne was a recovering poet when we met. She’d stopped writing poems for multiple and complicated reasons.” Not surprisingly, one of those was money, or lack thereof.

Before abandoning poetry, however, Ponder had found relative success with her work, publishing in Esquire, Story, the Transatlantic Review, Cricket and others.

Ponder wrote the poems in Tonight Not Even My Skin between the ages of 20 and 40, she estimated. The subject matter is wide-ranging, with a mixture of autobiographical and invented or observed vignettes. In the former category, topics include family tensions, encounters with lovers, the negotiation of a divorce and the desire to be a mother.

“[Having a child] never happened,” she said, “but it brought a lot of poetry.”

The poem “Shadows, Ashes, Desert Prayers” illustrates the vitriolic aspects of Ponder’s relationship with her own mother, with lines such as “I was a child you would not have chosen: / silent, headstrong, and never quite pretty.”

As Jennings put it, “It’ll kick your ass when you hear her read it.”

Ponder began writing poetry in elementary school, after she gave a teacher a Thanksgiving poem, written by her mother, as her own. “I don’t know what the psychology behind that is,” she said.

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Sacks Warhol, who worked at Countryman from 2008 to September 2014 and still lives in Bethel — now freelance copyediting for several Bostonbased publishers — also questions whether the company remains committed to maintaining its backlist titles.

She cites books such as Rink Mann’s Backyard Sugarin’: A Complete How-to Guide, originally published in 1976 (fourth edition due in January 2016), as the sort that helped Countryman Press build its reputation; now, she suggests, those books may not be updated as frequently.

“The Vermont-centric books we did, I don’t imagine they’ll be doing anymore,” Sacks Warhol says, “which is really unfortunate.”

Yeager, who was with Countryman for about seven years and lives in Woodstock, says the company notified all three employees in the summer

A strong element in many of Ponder’s poems is an empathic connection with the underdog, particularly in relation to children. “Rumplestiltskin,” originally published in Esquire in 1976, presents the folk tale’s antagonist as a victim of the pain and humiliation of being an outsider because of his physical deformity. At the same time, the poem evokes Ponder’s desire to have a child. “I was trying to give [Rumplestiltskin] a better deal,” she said.

“Sincerity Paper: A Mother’s Comment” offers a seething commentary based on the Chisso Corporation’s “sincerity paper.” That document expressed regret — but not legal responsibility — for contaminating the water supply of Minamata, Japan, with industrial waste for more than 30 years, inadvertently poisoning and killing residents.

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Ponder and Jennings have received acclaim for their folk-tale storytelling performances and recordings. But when reading her poems, Ponder noted, she enjoys not having to worry about remembering her lines. She attributes this sense of relief in part to a stutter she had as a child.

The couple intimated that they’re interested in recording Ponder’s poetry readings, as well as in publishing a second volume of her work.

“I feel comforted both by what I’ve written and the people who’ve come to listen,” said Ponder. “It’s a good thing for me to do.”

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Transitions and endings of romantic and close relationships are another common thread in Ponder’s poems. In “Parting,” a paramour “started up his car, and drove away / smile, love and all, leaving not a woman / but an audience.”

Asked about this dark poem, Ponder merely laughed and reflected on the (distant) past lover’s goofy grin. “The person that wrote these poems was more … lonesome, wanting excitement,” she suggested.

For Ponder, one of the most exciting parts of giving new life to old poetry has been the opportunity to read her work aloud to an audience. So far, she’s given two readings, one at Muddy Waters in November, presented with poet DAVID HUDDLE and pianist LAR DUGGAN; and another earlier this month at Montpelier’s Kellogg-Hubbard Library, with poet GEOF HEWITT and pianist MICHAEL ARNOWITT. “I felt so happy,” she said. “There were these wonderful people who actually liked my poems.”

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even Days’ writers can’t possibly read, much less review, the number of books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a flock of trained parrots. So this monthly feature, “Page 32,” is our way of introducing you to seven books by Vermont authors. To do that, we’ll contextualize each book just a little, and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32.

Inclusion here implies neither approval nor derision on our part, but simply: Here are a bunch of books, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names, that Seven Days readers might like to know about.

Dream Sender: Poems

Speckled Vanities

Marc Estrin, Fomite Press, 217 pages. $15

“But then, as scripted and assigned, he channeled the ministering angel, and in his best mock-Austrian-fatman-with-little-spectacles accent, said, ‘Hiermit erkläre ich Sie zu Mann und Frau.’”

Speckled Vanities is (at least) the second novel this year from the prolific Estrin, who also heads the Burlington press that released the book. Like several of his other novels, Speckled Vanities (the title refers to a passage from Milton) combines philosophy, music theory and politics into a heady literary bouillabaisse. Set in a small town in the Nevada desert, the narrative bounces from an Air Force base to a temple to a prison, encouraging the reader to draw parallels among these three locations.

The author’s occasional use of German — as in the text just quoted, part of a wedding ceremony — Spanish and even musical notation demands close attention from the reader.

Greeves Passing

Richard Hawley, Short Story America Press, 307 pages. $29.95

“I can’t remember anything about the lecture that came first, only his putting the needle into the groove of Sergeant Pepper and all those surprising, jinglejangling, just-right songs filling the lecture hall.”

This “novel in fugue” by longtime Vermonter Hawley returns to the characters the author wrote about in The Headmaster’s Papers and The Headmaster’s Wife. Like those books, Greeves Passing takes an epistolary approach to narrative, weaving together a story from personal and business letters, poems and even legal documents.

The result is a wide-ranging, multivocal exploration of the lives and struggles of a family that’s on the verge of collapse.

David Huddle, Louisiana State University Press, 76 pages. $17.95

“Soon I will send out an hourglass spider / trained to crawl across someone’s eyelid, a huge / savings account that will quickly dissolve / from someone’s bank, and a wailing child who / can’t be comforted.”

This curious promise is uttered by the unnamed character who lends his or her title to both this poem and the latest book from Huddle, an awardwinning poet, novelist and University of Vermont professor emeritus. The Dream Sender, the reader gathers, is a mystical figure who infiltrates the minds of every human being, steering thoughts and identities in ways unexpected. This poem, one of 50 in the collection, is a fine example of the plainspoken, deeply felt wordcraft that unites this suite of verse. Huddle’s treatment of the real world — he evokes gun shops and basketball games — elevates it to a realm beyond the familiar. Just what poetry should do.

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“˜ e commemoration of soldiers whose bodily remains could not be found presented a different set of problems than those whose remains would be interred either in newly created military cemeteries or, in rare cases, family plots.”

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“[R]ecent scientific discoveries have taught that although we all share 99.9 percent of the same twenty-five thousand genes, it is after birth that we begin to switch them on and off in response to our cells’ interpretation of different environmental signals.”

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“No matter how fancy a place is, if a person looked hard enough, the coming-apart pieces sure enough showed up.”

Though now a Vermonter, author Rivver grew up in Alabama, where she apparently acquired an ear for the folksy language that permeates her first novel. Set in the segregated South during the 1960s, Blackberries and Cream uses the metaphor of the title, among others, to explore the historical and emotional realities of American race relations in a story designed for children and young teens.

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This semi-memoir is less scientifically inclined than that quotation might suggest — but, having established this “Page 32” conceit, we’re going to stick with it. Oehry’s book is an account of the year she spent in search of prana, a Sanskrit word that means, roughly, “life force.” Inspired one night by the rare lunar event of the book’s title, the author embarked on a journey through Vermont that paralleled a spiritual journey of awakening. A good choice for readers who like their campfire stories flavored with a dash of chakra.

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The sentence above refers to the familiar “cast the first stone” passage in John 8:1-11. In that story, Jesus absolves the accused adulterer, thereby flouting a number of scriptural prohibitions of and punishments for adultery and other sexual practices. With good humor and the authority obtained by earning a master’s in theology from Saint Michael’s College, O’Neil lays down the word of God about such contentious sexual/political/ religious issues as homosexuality, abortion and birth control.

Written with the intention of countering the arguments of the Christian right, this is the perfect Jesus’ Birthday gift for the archconservative whose ire you wish to provoke.

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“I think it is safe to say that, for anyone who accepts that this is the written word of God and that Jesus actually said this, then we can just ignore the rest of the Bible’s prohibitions against sexual activity.”

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So far, Swartz has released two episodes. ‰ e first is a lighthearted seven-minute piece on the BERNIE SANDERS ALL-STAR KAZOO BAND, which marched in Bristol’s annual Fourth of July parade.

Bandwagon’s second episode tackles a more somber subject: the efforts of Tyson Manker, a former U.S. Marine Corps infantryman and Iraq War veteran. Manker made national news after he drove six hours from his home in Springfield, Ill., to .com Des Moines, Iowa, to speak at a Sanders campaign rally. In the 16-minute Bandwagon interview, Manker explains how his combat experiences in Iraq left him severely traumatized and suicidal — and why he’s thrown his weight behind Sanders.

Following the release of the first two episodes, Bandwagon was highlighted in iTunes’ “New and Noteworthy” podcast section, which Swartz says attracted several thousand new subscribers.

Future Bandwagon episodes will feature members of the Black Lives Matter movement and its relation to the Sanders campaign, as well as an examination of how the health care issue has attracted new supporters. Swartz says he’s also considering an “antibandwagon episode” about people who vehemently oppose Sanders’ bid. “‰ e podcast doesn’t really depend on Bernie winning. I think the uncertainty of what will happen is one of the exciting parts of doing it,” he adds. “Whether he gets the nomination or not, it’ll be interesting to listen to these stories in that context in the future.”

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A public radio producer and recent MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE grad is devoting the entire inaugural season of his new podcast series to following the presidential aspirations of Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) — or, more accurately, to following people around the country who are “feeling the Bern.”

Bandwagon, which bills itself as “a podcast about being a part of something larger than yourself,” is the brainchild of Josh Swartz, who graduated Middlebury in January 2015. ‰ e 23-year-old radio producer, who lives in Providence, R.I., and works for Public Radio Exchange in Cambridge, Mass., has been following Sanders’ supporters in real time since he launched the series over the summer. In each episode, Swartz profiles a different Bernie backer, or group of backers, as they try to build momentum for Sanders’ national grassroots campaign.

“I’m a big podcast fan,” explains Swartz in a phone interview, “and I love the idea of combining the intimate storytelling of podcasting with the newsy journalistic information that … typical news stories don’t have time to get into.”

Swartz says he conceived the idea for Bandwagon while attending the Transom Story Workshop, an intensive eight-week program in Woods Hole, Mass., that teaches public radio tools and techniques to aspiring producers.

His initial idea for Bandwagon was to profile hardcore music fans, such as Deadheads and PHISH fans, who travel around following actual bands. However, when the political campaign season kicked off, Swartz says he broadened the show’s scope with the goal of delving into one topic per season. When Sanders formally announced his bid for the presidency in Burlington on May 26, Swartz saw it as the most relevant and timely topic with which to begin the project.

Swartz, who’s funding the podcast with a successful $8,500 Kickstarter campaign he conducted over the summer, plans to release

THE STRAIGHT DOPE BY CECIL ADAMS

Dear Cecil,

Why is running with scissors considered so dangerous that moms everywhere chastise their kids for doing it? It seems to me like a pretty oblique way to hurt yourself. Shouldn’t they be telling clumsy kids to tie their shoelaces and sheathe their machetes instead? Are there any actual reports of people falling on scissors?

Tyler thereby introducing the blades into his frontal lobe via the left eye socket. (He, too, pulled through OK.) One small latter-day Phineas Gage isn’t much of a sample size, admittedly. We therefore turn to the data. The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a project of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, estimates consumer product-related injuries by sampling emergency visits to hospitals across the country; in other words, it won’t give us a comprehensive report of all such incidents, but rather a snapshot of what they look like as reported by NEISS-sampled hospitals and thus a decent idea of the rate at which they occur in the larger population. For 2014, my assistant Fierra found 678 NEISS injury records in which scissors factored somehow. Mind you, these include the gamut: stabbings with scissors, suicides with scissors — even, in theory, walking with

scissors. Refining her search to cases where the injured party was rapidly on the move, Fierra found exactly three instances last year: • A 23-year-old man fell while running with scissors, lacerating his forearm.

• A 2-year-old girl fell while running with scissors, lacerating her face.

• Running outdoors, a 10-year-old boy fell on a pair of gardening scissors, injuring his elbow. (This one’s an uneasy fit, I think; the gardener’s at least as culpable as the boy.)

On average, between 2009 and 2014, NEISS collected 3.6 reports per year involving RWS injuries. Of these, 14 befell children under the age of 17; two of four incidents involving people 17 and up had something to do with alcohol. Extrapolating, we can estimate the average number of RWS incidents in the U.S. over the past five years as 131 annually. No fatalities were located.

eye socket) after falling on a wooden chopstick.

Maybe it’s just the season, but to my mind the question that logically follows from this one is, with respect to the classic film A Christmas Story: Can you really shoot your eye out with a BB gun, Red Rider or otherwise? Well, you can certainly shoot out somebody else’s. Way back in the early 1990s, the CDC was reporting about 30,000 incidents a year of eye trauma by way of BB or pellet guns. Twenty years later, the technology’s evolved but the threat remains: Rates of eye injury from newly popular Airsoft guns (convincing-looking replicas that fire spherical plastic bullets) grew 500 percent from 2010 to 2012, according to a study from Stanford University School of Medicine; in 2012 alone, more than 3,000 kids were treated in emergency rooms for eye injuries related to Airsoft guns.

I haven’t been able to find anything on toy gun injuries that were accidentally self-inflicted, as in the movie: It’s safe to say that most of the danger comes from others. Well, happy

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s a rule of thumb, Tyler, for any question of the form “Has anyone ever managed to sustain a significant head injury while [insert name of activity]?” the answer is almost always yes. I’ll refer you to a story from Mississippi earlier this year in which a guy was mowing his lawn when the mower blade launched a three-and-a-half-inch length of heavy-gauge fence wire straight up his nose and into his sinuses.

He was fine, somehow, but I think you’ll find the takeaway from this week’s column to be: From a purely safe-side standpoint, most human behavior is probably best conducted while wearing protective eyewear, if not a full face mask.

So, running with scissors: Sure, suitably cautionary reallife tales are out there. A quick search soon turns up the recent case of a scissors-wielding 3-year-old Australian boy who tripped and fell while running,

Broadening our inquiry, we find a clear pattern — no matter what activity the victim was engaged in (locomotor or otherwise, at high speed or low), the eye was definitely at particular risk: • A study conducted at a hospital in Verona, Italy, found that scissors were the most common cause of eye injury —13 percent — for children under the age of 6.

• In Turkey and Canada both, research suggests that scissors are responsible for around a 10th of all eye injuries.

• Statistics from a hospital in Taiwan implicated scissors in nearly 14 percent of eye injuries.

They seem to be doing a little better in Qatar, where five years’ worth of records from one hospital suggest that their national rate of pediatric eye injuries from scissors is only about 3 percent — tied for prevalence with palm trees. As I say, people will ably hurt themselves with whatever’s at hand: Fierra also, for example, dug up a rather gruesome case study out of Japan about a 4-year-old boy who suffered a penetrating head injury (again, via the

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A Full Life early iteration of a business consultant who achieved fame as an author of several bestselling books. She would accompany him when he did seminars and talks, and she eventually wrote a book of her own called something like The View From the Other Side of the Bed (she couldn’t quite recall).

Her book also sold well, and she appeared on some early TV and radio shows. All in all, this woman had created quite a life for herself in the pre-feminist era.

DESPITE HER FORGETFULNESS IN THE MOMENT,

SHE SEEMED QUITE WITH IT. We drove straight into downtown Montréal, where, despite having come of age in a big city myself, I felt overwhelmed. I’ve been countrified, it seems, by my decades in Vermont. At one point, I spotted a large panel truck in front of us with video ads streaming on screens that covered both sides, plus the rear door! How is that even legal? I fretted, as I negotiated the chaotic, speedy traffic.

I made it to the InterContinental Hotel and pulled up to the front. The short, jovial and helpful doorman was expecting us and hurried in to fetch Gramsy’s daughter, Sharon.

“Mom!” she called out, bending into the open door to give Gramsy a hug. Turning to me, she said, “Jernigan, right? You’ll be back at 3:15 to drive Gramsy to the ceremony?”

“I sure will,” I replied. “Your brother emailed me a minute-to-minute schedule of the day, so I’ll be there. Really, whatever you need, just let me know if there’s any changes.”

In the few hours I had to kill while Gramsy and the wedding party got dressed

And when, pray tell, did men’s clothes get so ultra-tight? Sitting there in my looseygoosey brown corduroy pants, flannel shirt and black fleece vest, I felt like Gomer Pyle.

At 8 p.m., I rendezvoused with Gramsy.

She seemed a little perplexed, but none the worse for wear. I asked Gramsy if she’d had a good time, and she told me she had, though she had to be reminded what the party was for.

As we motored back to Vermont on the dark highway, Gramsy graciously invited me to come visit her “any time at all.”

“I live in Philadelphia, you know,” she clarified.

“I didn’t know that,” I replied. My experience with very elderly folks has taught me simply to go with the flow. Factual accuracy is close to meaningless in these interactions.

“I could take you in my plane, but I had to give up flying a few years ago.”

“Really?” I said, highly intrigued. “You were a pilot?”

“Yes, after the kids left, I learned how to fly, and we had our own plane. We flew all over the United States, and even to Europe.

I crashed it twice before I called it quits.

Once onto a reef in the Atlantic Ocean.”

“Well, I’ll be,” I said. “Just like Amelia Earhart.” It didn’t sound all that likely, but who knows?

The next day, in a follow-up email with Gramsy’s son, I found out her story was all true, including the crashes. If I hadn’t already had it, I would have gained mad respect at that moment for Gramsy — farmer’s daughter, nurse, author, pilot and great-grandmother. m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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o you know where we’re going today? There’s so much going on, I’ve plumb lost track.”

My customer didn’t appear distressed in the least, just genuinely curious. We were sitting in my cab at the entrance to the nursing home where she lived. I reached across to help secure her seat belt before responding to her question. The woman’s name was Jane, but her son — who had set up this fare — told me that she was commonly called “Gramsy,” the name bestowed on her by her greatgrandchildren. Great-grandchildren, wow!

“Sure I know, Gramsy,” I replied cheerfully. “Your grandson Andy is getting married today in Montréal, and I’m driving you up and back to the wedding and the reception.”

“Oh, my goodness — isn’t that just wonderful? I hope you know where you’re going, because I have no idea.”

Gramsy and I enjoyed a laugh together at the comedic mystery of life. She had to be close to 90, but she was relatively sturdy and fit. Her hair had been done in a snazzy perm, courtesy of an early-morning visit from the hairdresser. Despite her forgetfulness in the moment, she seemed quite with it, as they say. As one not entirely with it myself, I appreciated the quality.

“So, Gramsy, did you grow up here in Vermont?”

“No, I grew up on a dairy farm in Connecticut. I left to go to nursing school in New York City. The main building was on Columbus Circle.”

I said, “Holy cow, if you’ll pardon the pun. A country girl in the big city. Did you do OK?” “I did just fine,” she replied — and, gaining a sense of her big personality, I had no doubt.

We chatted the whole way to Montréal.

Her late husband, she recounted, was an

and primped for the ceremony (One day I’d love to get primped, I mused), I found a side street up by McGill University and tucked myself in. Sure, I had all of Montréal to explore, but, as I say, the countrified Jernigan just wanted to stay balanced and focused.

A couple of sandwiches and a good book did the trick. (Plus, my rudimentary French was inadequate for deciphering the complex street signage, and I was too paranoid to take a chance on parking, wandering off and getting towed.)

At the appointed time, I made it back to the hotel to retrieve Gramsy. She looked really great in her wedding duds. The ceremony was taking place at Birks Chapel, an ancient, venerable edifice associated with McGill, which school, I was informed, both the bride and groom had attended.

I dropped off the Great Matriarch at the chapel and returned an hour later for the drive back to the hotel and the reception.

Now I had three hours before the trip back to Burlington. I decided to park in a public garage around the corner from the hotel and loiter in the fancy lobby. I entered the garage at street level (duh) and circled down nine levels, if you can imagine, to reach the non-reserved public parking spaces. Montréalers, I decided, are gophers by nature; the entire downtown seems to be interlaced with connective passages and underground layers.

I set up camp on a huge couch situated between two restaurants. Ostensibly, I was still within the confines of the InterContinental, but with all the high-end shops, perhaps it was an indoor mall? As I observed the flow of people before me, I kept thinking, Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. Burlington has certainly grown more cosmopolitan over the decades, but even at its most fancy-dancy, it remains a hick town compared with La Belle Ville to our north.

Most striking were the people: culturally diverse and dressed to a version of the nines unseen in the Green Mountains.

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Ollie’s Other Place, 13 Washington Street, Middlebury, 382-8558. olliesotherplace.com Until recently, if you were looking to buy kids’ toys in Middlebury, there were a few options, each with its own niche.

T.J.Maxx and Ben Franklin Store for cheap plastic products. Clementine for precious, pretty baby things. And Maple Landmark Woodcraft for wooden classics. Now there’s a place to go for a wide range of highquality toys and books: Ollie’s Other Place.

Becky Dayton owns both Ollie’s and the Vermont Book Shop on Middlebury’s Main Street. She admitted that she opened the kids’ store last month in part because she was “panicking” about the Vermont Agency of Transportation’s plan to make major repairs to the infrastructure that supports two railroad bridges — both smack-dab in the middle of downtown.

Dayton reasoned that if construction forced her to close up shop on Main Street, she could move the contents of her bookstore to the Ollie’s building. “˜ is itty-bitty space would be perfect if the shit hits the fan,” she said of the 900-square-foot store.

But that wasn’t her only motivation.

Dayton and marketing manager Jenny Lyons (also the bookstore’s sales and marketing manager) wanted to create a space where people could buy clever and creative kids’ books and gifts. ˜ ey appear to have succeeded. On a recent afternoon a few weeks before Christmas, the place was swarming with shoppers of all ages.

When you walk into Ollie’s Other Place, it’s obvious the owners are book lovers. ˜ e most prominent display is a shelf filled

Becky Dayton with a young customer

with classic children’s literature — Madeline and The Story of Babar — and newer classics by authors such as Rosemary Wells and Mo Willems. Local authors and illustrators, including John Churchman and Ashley Wolff, are also represented.

The next thing you’re likely to see is a giant — 63-by-36inch — whimsical coloring poster of the United States.

Named Let’s Color America, from a company called Pirasta, it’s tacked on the wall low enough for toddlers to reach. Cups filled with markers are set up nearby so patrons of any age can draw on the walls.

“I want parents and kids to feel comfortable here,” said Dayton.

She noted that Lyons’ influence is evident in the merchandise. “She has an 11-year-old son who is very bright and curious,” Dayton explained. ˜ at curious boy, Jack, was at the store on a recent afternoon showing off some of his favorite toys. He’s tried many, including the Woolbuddy felting kits.

“He didn’t follow the kit,” Lyons admitted, “but I was amused at how he was able to make up his own thing using the materials.”

Jack is a huge fan of KEVA planks, simple pine building blocks, each precisely the same size — a quarter-inch thick, threequarters of an inch wide and four-and-ahalf inches long — that can be stacked and arranged in captivating ways. At Ollie’s, they’re laid out on a low table so children can play with them.

Dayton and Lyons also offer wooden baby and toddler toys from HABA; ecofriendly finger paints, play dough and crayons by eco-kids; ArtFolio sets from the Piggy Story, which each include a drawing pad and 12 crayons tucked in an adorable case; Folkmanis Puppets (there’s even a turkey!); and Miquelrius backpacks.

Some gifts come with altruism: Buy Tegu magnetic wooden blocks, and the company will plant 12 trees or fund one day of school for a child in Honduras.

Cute plush animal heads — fox, lamb, cow — adorn Ollie’s walls; they’re made from eco-friendly materials by a line of kids’ décor called Fiona Walker England.

Smaller versions of these animals, with coat hooks attached, line the narrow hallway to a baby section at the back of the store. ˜ ere you’ll find squeaky toys and slippers that look like monster feet (from the Winooski-based company Rich Frog), and old-fashioned wooden pushand pull-toys by Manny and Simon.

Ollie’s rounds out its dizzying array of colorful merch with a rack of 3D greeting cards, stacks of board games and letters made from recycled board books.

But who is Ollie? ˜ at would be Dayton’s 8-year-old springerdoodle. A cutout silhouette of the dog — all black save for a bright-red tongue — was created

by Vermont artist Woody Jackson. One likeness of Ollie hangs behind the cash register, another above the store’s exterior entrance.

Says Dayton of her pup: “He would be here if he were better behaved.”

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etired guy across the street, Buster McGrath, is a getthings-done sort of guy. I know this because sometimes, when his garage door is open, I can see in there.

Tidy. Buster has his own air compressor.

Guy who owns an air compressor gets things done. I’m not sure what, exactly, Buster gets done these days, but I know he used to be a ferryboat captain. Bins.

Man’s got a lot of bins in that garage.

Always listen to a guy who keeps his stuff in bins.

If you can.

The one time Buster offered me advice, I wasn’t in a position to take it. Part of me regrets that. Sure, some things would be no different if I’d paid heed.

My dog would still be dead, for example.

But at least one guy — Sullivan Waite, two streets over on Poplar — would be in a better place, mentally speaking.

Here’s how it happened. Marie, my ex-wife, showed up one chilly November morning with a U-Haul and her boyfriend, a Portuguese professor, to collect her last worldly possession — a piano — from the home we used to share. Buster must have seen me at the bottom of my porch steps, watching the van pull away, probably looking like I’d just been mugged.

“How you doing, Buster?” I said as he crossed the street, something he almost never did.

“No complaints,” he said and shook my hand. He looked down Willow Street after the U-Haul. His tousled white hair and creased, radish-pink face gave the impression that he was perpetually leaning into a gale. “Was that a piano?”

“It was,” I said.

“Was it yours?”

“Technically, no. But I played it once in a while.”

Buster nodded. “One of my grandsons plays the piano.”

“He any good?”

“Not at all.”

Buster turned in the other direction and looked up the street. “We’ve got new neighbors,” he said. “In the big rental at the corner of Allen.”

“Is that right?”

“It is.” Buster turned back to me.

“Africans. Not African Americans.

Actual Africans.”

I wasn’t sure what to say. Frankly — and Buster had to have known this — there was nothing unusual about Africans living in Ralston. I suppose, at one point, there was probably something unusual about it. But, as long as Burlington had been a destination for refugees — decades — people from far-flung places had been settling across the bridge here in Ralston. While most New Americans lived on the west side of the island, it’s not as if New Americans were anything new here. Not even actual Africans.

What Buster couldn’t have known was that I was planning to run for a seat on the school board that March, so I wasn’t inclined to speak too casually with neighbors about such sensitive matters as immigration. School board would be my first move in a larger political strategy that was partially to blame for my split with Marie. Partially. She doubted that my intentions in running were altruistic, that I really wanted to serve my community and not just become a larger fish in our small civic pond. I resented her doubt, as well as her lack of support in my quest to do something more with my life.

Marie wanted me to do something more, too — we just disagreed on what

that should be. I had my eye on elected office. She wanted to have a baby. That was the other part of our breakup.

Anyway, my more immediate goal in that conversation with Buster was to get out of it. This goal took on urgency when I spotted Sullivan coming down the sidewalk. “Well, the Africans may be in for a shock,” I said, which seemed neutral enough there on the cusp of winter.

“You can say that again,” Buster said, laughing through his teeth in a vaguely sinister way. At the sight of Sullivan, he shook his head, huffed under his breath and crossed the street.

I was glad to avoid having Buster, my possibly bigoted neighbor; and Sullivan, the left-leaning linchpin in my political career, in a confab at the bottom of my porch steps.

And I understood that, by ignoring Buster’s subtle message — the retreat to his immaculate garage, the shake of the head, the huff — I’d turned my back on one path and was about to face another.

Sullivan was abreast of my house in a few confident strides, looking like he’d stepped onto Willow from the pages of a high-end outerwear catalog.

He wore a new-looking barn jacket rimmed with fleece at the sleeves and collar, pressed blue jeans and a pair of high-tech day-hiking boots that I knew cost as much as a good set of used snow tires. Even his simple brown toque with the scarlet-lettered Ralston Youth Hockey patch looked stylish.

“Kelly,” he said, extending a hand.

“Just the person I’m looking for.”

“What’s up, Sullivan?”

“I’ve got a proposal for you.”

“A proposal.”

“How’d you like to save money, your back and the planet when the snow flies this season?”

I crossed my arms as if to ponder the question. Deep down, I knew that, no matter how crazy Sullivan’s proposal might be, I’d accept it. I needed to get on Sullivan’s good side. Anyone who wanted anything in Ralston Wood — or just “the Wood,” as our tree-dappled neighborhood was known — needed Sullivan’s approval.

The source of Sullivan’s power had never been crystal clear to me, but I assumed it originated with his father, Silas Waite, a former and famously antibusiness Ralston mayor who oversaw a rezoning of the neighborhood to strictly residential use back in the 1960s. Silas Waite passed along some shadowy political clout to Sullivan, who started a firm specializing in environmentally friendly historic home restoration.

As the head of my own small graphic design firm, I sensed a grudging respect from Sullivan — grudging because my enterprise laid no claim to being “green.”

I suspected that some of Sullivan’s influence also emanated from his omnipresence. The guy volunteered for nearly every community event of any size. He also founded the Ralston Farmers Market, inaugurated the Winter Carnival fundraiser at Ralston Elementary and, every year, organized the Wood’s float entry in the improbable yet popular Magic Hat Mardi Gras parade in Burlington — always with some eco-friendly theme.

Sullivan liked to be in charge of things, especially things with a liberal tinge.

And people — especially Wood liberals — liked letting him be in charge. “Passive progressives,” I called them.

“I’m intrigued,” I said, which, true or not, sealed my fate.

That’s how I became a one-third owner of a brand-new, battery-powered electric snowblower.

The other members of the collective included Sullivan and a married couple up the street, Caroline and Rachel. At a summit on Sullivan’s front porch, we — that is, Sullivan — established some bylaws: Transfer the blower to the next user with a full battery charge. Make your intent to snowblow known to your comrades by posting a message to a page titled “Sustainable Snowblowing” on Sullivan’s blog, the Good Denizen.

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packed with meetings. Plus, I’d decided to announce my candidacy for the school board.

I walked to city hall and filled a petition to run. Back at my desk, I wrote a press release, which I fired off to The Islander, Ralston’s free weekly; Vermont Public Radio; and, just for good measure, two media outlets across the bridge, the Burlington Free Press and Seven Days. I didn’t notify Sullivan directly, hoping that, when he heard the news, he might think positively of my not sucking up.

I heard from him sooner than I expected — but not about my candidacy.

He texted me just as I was returning from lunch.

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blades of snow cakes, but the rig still faltered.

I removed the battery — about the size of a kid’s lunchbox — and carried it inside, where I plugged it into an outlet in my home office. I figured that, having used the snowblower for an hour, I needed about an hour’s charge to restore it to full capacity. I could spare an hour before going to work, but that wouldn’t leave time to finish the driveway. So, while the battery was charging, I finished shoveling the old-fashioned way. Then I stuck the battery back in the snowblower and the snowblower in the shed, and went to work.

My disappointment with the snowblower’s performance didn’t occupy my thoughts for long. I had a busy morning

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call or email Marie to wish her a happy birthday, or do nothing.

At some point, after I’d nursed more than just that one whiskey, I noticed snowflakes passing across the beam of the streetlight at a rate that any local would know meant accumulation. I took out my phone and posted a reservation to Sullivan’s blog for first thing in the morning. I knocked back one last drink and called it a night.

I wasn’t so naïve as to think I was going to save the planet by using an electric snowblower. I was, however, expecting the machine to blow snow. The rig handled the plow bank easily enough, but when I started blowing a trough up the length of my driveway, it began to flag. I cleared the

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My only request was that people latch the gate after retrieving the blower from my backyard shed. My golden retriever, Dipsy, liked to run around back there, and I liked not having to worry about her taking off. I was afraid that, if she bolted, she’d run straight to Marie and her Portuguese lover boy.

A fairly heavy snow fell on the day after Thanksgiving, but I’d neglected to reserve the rig, so I sat out the inaugural day of snowblowing. The next dump came on December 19. I remember the date because it was Marie’s birthday.

After work that day, I stood for a long time in my kitchen, nursing a whiskey and staring out the window onto my two-car driveway, wondering if I should

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Sullivan was “miffed” — strong language for a neighborly exchange in the Wood — to have found the battery below a full charge when he retrieved the snowblower.

I texted an apology back to him. But, unless I was mistaken, he shamed me in his next post on the Good Denizen blog anyway. He didn’t mention me by name, but in an item titled “Good Words Trump Good Fences,” he wrote the following: “We know that we’re neighbors — true neighbors, people of a common ilk — when our words, our promises, are the chief currency in which we trade.”

I try to be considerate — I really do — but I couldn’t seem to avoid violating the snowblower collective’s code. Ignoring the fact that I could never clear my driveway on a single battery charge, Sullivan was quick to note any occasion when I returned the machine with less than a full charge. He started complaining that I never wiped the machine down after using it, something to which we’d never agreed, since — I mean, come on — a contraption that plows through snow is bound to get wet.

To be fair, I sometimes did forget to toe the line, such as a few days after Christmas, when I did a good deed for my neighbor Kate Patenaude. She’s a lawyer — divorced, with two teenage sons I’d never seen lift a finger around their property. So, after plowing some of my driveway that morning and letting the battery recharge, I cleared her plow bank that night. And who should drive by just then but Sullivan.

I avoided making similar mistakes from that point on by not using the snowblower at all. Until one day when I really had no choice.

This was toward the end of January.

The whole northern part of the state was swatted by a briskly moving nor’easter. Nearly everyone was caught by surprise. I had to get to an important early meeting that morning, and there was no way to get out of my driveway in time without the snowblower. But I hadn’t reserved it. Plus, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to charge

the battery in time for anyone else to use it that morning.

So I did what I had to do: snagged the mower from Caroline and Rachel’s place, cleared my plow bank, and posted a notice to the Good Denizen blog indicating where the snowblower now was — in my shed — and offering a brief but sincere apology for any inconvenience this breach of protocol might cause.

Then I went to work.

I was feeling jittery after my meeting, and the cause wasn’t just low blood sugar: I wanted desperately to know where I stood with Sullivan.

This whole snowblower arrangement had come to seem like a cruel test to which he was subjecting me, a test of my loyalty to the Wood’s communal causes, over which he presided like a cross between Mister Rogers and Mao Zedong.

By noon, I couldn’t concentrate on my work any longer. I sent an intern to get me a sandwich and called up Sullivan’s blog on my computer.

The first image to appear on the screen killed my appetite: Sullivan, Caroline and Rachel manually shoveling out the driveway at the corner of Willow and Allen.

Assisting them were a few African kids — three boys and two girls between the approximate ages of 9 and 16, the girls’ brightly colored hijabs fringing heavy parkas, the boys’ heaping shovels of snow the apparent cause of laughter. The caption read: “When the Mapendos’ landlord and property manager were too busy to help, some neighbors made the time.

NOT PICTURED: A certain candidate for school board and his snowblower.”

As if he were monitoring my presence on his blog, Sullivan texted me: “Disappointed. I have the sb now.”

When I arrived home that night, feeling pretty down, I was further disappointed — and puzzled — not to be met at the front door by Dipsy. Never, in the 12 years or so I’d had the dog, had she failed to greet me at the door, tail wagging, usually with a shoe in her mouth.

But there she was lying on the living room floor, looking right at me, panting.

I called for her, and, with considerable effort, she stood. After taking a couple of steps toward me, she lay down again. As I approached her, I caught a whiff of the

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everything already. If you could just keep an eye out.”

“I will,” Sullivan said as I headed home. “I’ll do that.”

Sullivan called me a few times over the next couple days to see if Dipsy had returned. He sent email and text messages.

More than a few. I tried not to overdo it with the grief, but I let him know that my house was a lonely place without that innocent, affectionate animal. The less grief I showed, the more guilt he seemed to suffer. He said he wanted to make it up to me somehow, but I assured him there was no way to replace a pet like Dipsy. I began to see Sullivan out at night, walking the sidewalks of the Wood with a headlamp and flashlight, as if looking for something he’d lost.

Sullivan became my biggest campaign supporter. I heard he’d talked me up at Winter Carnival. Toward the end of February, he formally endorsed me on the Good Denizen blog. Come Town Meeting Day that March, I was elected to the school board.

I ran for school board to make a difference in my community. That’s not a lie. Truth be told, I also ran because, while I don’t consider myself a natural leader, I very much dislike being led by the kind of clowns who sometimes get involved in city government. So, the route I took to get elected doesn’t read like a civics textbook. Still, I stand by the work I’m doing — for liberals, sure, but also for conservatives, even though I’m not one of them. For families and kids and dogs and cats, even though I don’t have them. For Buster McGrath no less than for actual Africans.

I’m not positive what my next move will be, politically or personally. I’ll probably get another dog. I miss Dipsy.

I also miss Marie and the comforting notion that we were going to share this odd journey through time and space. I’m not complaining. I have it better than most. I have a mortgage I can afford in the nicest neighborhood in the city.

I was at the hardware store the other day and noticed that electric lawn mowers are on sale. I’m thinking of buying one, seeing if I can get some other people on the block to chip in for it.

I’ll ask Sullivan first. I know he’ll be up for it. Sullivan Waite — now there’s a good neighbor. m

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unmistakable scent of vomit. Scanning the room, I found a slick pad of frothy saliva mixed with kibble splattered around a coffee-table leg.

As I was helping Dipsy into my car a few moments later, I noticed the gate to the backyard was open. Apparently, when Sullivan had collected the snowblower, the prick had forgotten to latch the gate: the one condition I’d placed on my membership in the snowblower collective. One simple request. A common courtesy — like something Sullivan himself might have written about on his officious blog.

Somewhere between the gate and my car, I decided that this affront from the know-it-all Prince of the Passive Progressives wouldn’t go unaddressed.

Someone had to take a coat of paint off that guy. For the greater good.

About an hour later, a soft-spoken young veterinarian who looked vaguely like Marie’s younger sister was showing me Dipsy’s X-ray and breaking the bad news: liver cancer. A lot of it. An hour after that, after Dipsy had eaten her fill of the Ben & Jerry’s vanilla ice cream I’d run out to get her, the vet put my companion down. Yet another hour later, I was standing on Sullivan’s doorstep, ringing his bell.

When he answered, I handed him a flyer with Dipsy’s picture on it below the words “Have you seen this dog?”

Sullivan studied the flyer for a moment but didn’t seem to connect the dots.

“Dipsy’s gone,” I said.

“What do you mean ‘gone’?”

“You left the gate open. She got out.”

“But…” Now Sullivan seemed perplexed.

I paused to let him sort it all out.

“I left the gate open?” he said.

“Did you come to get the blower?”

“Yes.” “Well, then.” I turned toward the street. “You mind if I put one of these on that telephone pole?”

“What? Yes. I mean, no, I don’t mind.

Kelly, wait.”

I turned back to Sullivan. He looked on the verge of tears. “Has … she ever run away before?” he said. I swear his lower lip quivered.

“No,” I said. “But then, I always keep the gate latched.”

I began descending his front steps.

“Kelly,” he said.

I took a few steps before stopping and facing him again.

“I’m so … sorry,” he said.

I shrugged. “Maybe she’ll come home. Not much I can do.”

“I’ll tell everyone I know. I’ll—” “Thanks,” I said. “I’ve done nearly

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n the Middle Road, just around the curve below Harts’, a scene. Accident?

Three State Police cruisers, one pulled onto the shoulder, the others in the center of the road, their blue lights dancing. Two county sheriffs’ cars, the deputy driving one climbing out of it, the deputy in the other on his radio. A dirty white van, angled, half on the blacktop, half on the shoulder. Trooper Snodgrass, the one nobody liked, was catching the traffic. Accident? No accident — a bust.

I stopped beside the trooper. I rolled down the window.

“Need any help?” I asked Snodgrass.

At that time, I was Second Constable in Dumfane. For my sins.

Snodgrass shook his head. “Give us a minute,” he said. “And stay where you’re at.”

I took the truck out of gear. I waited.

One of the sheriff ’s cars backed around out of the way, and I could see the people from the van. A couple in their twenties, the man bare-chested, wearing a scrawny goatee beard and a black baseball cap turned backward with printing in white on the front that I couldn’t make out; the young woman striking: tall, white top, bare shoulders, and surrounding her head a beautiful curly blaze of red hair. They were talking to the troopers.

Snodgrass and I watched. From time to time he’d glance back up the road toward Harts’. Two or three more vehicles had come along and stopped behind us.

“What is it, do you know?” I asked Snodgrass.

“Give us a minute,” he said again.

Now one of the troopers lifted the young man’s baseball cap off his head, looked into it, turned it inside out, looked into it again, and laid it on the hood of the cruiser. He spoke to the young man.

The young man raised his hands from his sides and put them on the top of his head, fingers laced. The first trooper spoke to him again. The young man shook his head. Then the second trooper took him by his shoulders and turned him toward the cruisers, while the first brought his arms back down with his hands together behind. They bent him slightly at the waist to lean against the

cruiser and locked handcuffs on his wrists. The young woman watched this.

She put her face in her hands.

The troopers opened a rear door of the cruiser and helped the young man to get in. The two sheriff ’s deputies waited with the girl. She continued to cry into her hands. We watched her shoulders shaking. Nobody spoke to her, nobody laid a finger on her. I understood. They were waiting on the arrival of a female officer. None of the men wanted to touch the young woman, or none wanted to be seen to touch her. Not without a visible reason. Not with half a dozen taxpayers looking on.

One of the troopers made to shut the young man in the back of the cruiser, but his partner said something, and he paused. The other trooper went to the front of the cruiser and picked up the

young man’s baseball cap. He took it to the rear door and tossed it onto the lap of the handcuffed man. When he did, I got a look at the white lettering on the front of the black cap: FUCK COPS ★★★ At the house, I found my mother in flames. She’d just sacked Belinda, who was sitting in the kitchen waiting to be paid off and driven home.

“I don’t want to look at her,” Mother said. “I knew she was a little tart. I didn’t know she was a little thief.”

“Thief?”

“You heard me,” Mother said. “She takes things. She took three silver coffee spoons.”

“Nonsense,” I said. “You mislaid them.”

“I did nothing of the kind. And that wasn’t all. She took your father’s Colorado River book.”

“Powell?”

“It’s gone,” Mother said.

“It’s gone because I took it myself,” I said. “I borrowed it.”

“You? What for?”

“To read.”

“Listen,” Mother said. “I know she’s your little protégée—” “She’s not my protégée,” I said.

“Isn’t she? What is she, then?”

“She’s our neighbor. She has no money. She needs the job. She has a tough time. She has Sean to take care of.

She’s all by herself.”

“She has Sean to take care of because she got herself knocked up by that McCorkle thug.”

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I drove Belinda back to her place.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do now,” Belinda said. “What do I do?”

“Nothing,” I said. “I’ll talk to her. I’ll fix it. It may take a little time.”

“What do I do, in that time? What does Sean do?”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I can help out.

Whatever you need. You know that.”

“I know,” Belinda said. She patted my thigh.

Below Harts’, the white van was still pulled onto the shoulder. Nobody was at the scene. The law was gone. The onlookers were gone.

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“Know whose rig that is?” I asked Belinda.

“It might be Kevin’s,” Belinda said.

“Kevin who?”

“Kevin I-don’t-know-his-last-name.”

“Does he have a girlfriend with a bunch of red hair?”

“Stephanie Collier,” said Belinda.

“We were in school together. Poor Steph. Kevin’s such a jerk. They must have run out of gas.”

“No,” I said. “They were arrested. I went past it. The whole police academy was here. They had the cuffs on the guy. They had him in the back of a cruiser. They were waiting on transport for the girl.”

“Poor Steph,” Belinda said. “No big surprise, though. That’s Kevin.

Kevin can get you whatever you want.”

“Not today,” I said.

“I guess not.”

“Mother said you took some money. She’d left it out, and you took it.”

Belinda turned in her seat to look at me. She raised her eyebrows. “Are you asking me if I took it?”

“I’m telling you what she said.”

“OK,” Belinda said. “I saw the money.

Fifty. I knew what your mom was doing.

I brought it to her. I handed it to her.

I told her she should be more careful. Not leave her money lying around.

Somebody might take it. She got pissed off at me.”

“She sure did,” I said.

“Do you think I’m lying?”

Belinda demanded. “Do you think I took it? You do, don’t you? Fuck you.”

“Take it easy,” I said. “I know you didn’t. I know my mother, don’t I? I ought to.”

Belinda sighed. She leaned toward me and laid her hand on my cheek for a moment. “I’m sorry,” she said.

“I’m sorry. I’m having a really bad day.”

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“So what? None of that makes her a thief.”

“Doesn’t it? There’s more, you know.

I laid a trap. I laid a trap for your little friend. She fell right into it.”

“What trap?”

“I got a fifty-dollar bill and left it out on the hall table. Now it’s not there.

What do you think of that?”

“Not much,” I said. “For that, you fired her?”

“For that, I fired her.”

“Well, then, unfire her.”

“Don’t be silly,” Mother said.

“I’m not silly,” I said.

“You are. Who’s going to do for you?”

“Find someone. There are all kinds of people.”

No, there weren’t.

Not by any means.

Mother was famous. She wouldn’t have a hired man in the house, unless you count me. For housekeepers, she insisted on young women, then she abused, insulted and tormented them. Therefore, Mother’s housekeepers turned over like subalterns on the Somme.

“You’ll find someone,” she said.

“I already found someone,” I said. “I found Belinda. I’ll talk to her. Maybe I can get her to stay. Maybe if you gave her a raise.”

“Stay? A raise? What are you talking about? She didn’t quit, remember?”

“All right,” I said.

“She didn’t quit. I canned the little tramp.”

“All right,” I said.

“Your little game?” Mother said.

“Over.”

“You think?” I asked her.

“Over. Finished. Done with.”

“You think?”

A Party at the Bottom of the World Essay: Remembering New Year’s Eve at the South Pole B Y L EAT H T ONINO

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ew Year’s Eve is always a bright and shining celebration, whether we’re talking neon in New York’s Times Square or a lap on cross-country skis beneath Antarctica’s midnight sun.

Actually, at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station — a collection of dormitories, laboratories, Quonset hut garages and massive telescopes hunched against drifting snow — the holiday is so relentlessly glittery you’d have to watch a ball drop through a pair of tinted goggles.

That is, if there were a ball. As I found out a few winters ago, there’s not.

There is instead a two-mile-thick ice cap upon which even extremophile

bacteria can’t survive and katabatic winds rushing over sastrugi wastelands.

There are dozens of revving snowmobiles and more mugs of hot chocolate than a child’s thirsty fantasy could absorb. There are 250 scientists and laborers from all across the globe, each in desperate need of a break from the never-ending workload that defines life in Antarctica.

And, on that note, there’s one other thing: a crazy party. In the parlance of my high school days at Champlain Valley Union, we would call it “a friggin’ rager.”

I secured my passage to the Great White South — the bottom of the world — as any self-respecting Vermonter

would: I took a job shoveling snow. Boy jeezum, talk about never ending. It was a four-month stint with the U.S. Antarctic Program, and only 10 of us were hired for this minimum-wage honor from more than a thousand applicants. My uncle, a pragmatic Yankee with an achy lumbar spine, laughed when he heard of my post-college career choice, saying, “That’s what plows are for, aren’t they?”

To which I responded, “Nah, it’s what philosophy degrees are for, duh.”

The endeavor was Sisyphean and then some: 60-hour weeks, physical exhaustion, a numbness of the toes that threatened to rise into my very brain cells.

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moment — mostly over meals of peas and sirloins in the galley — to pursue the intellectual topics that had drawn me to the Pole. My interest in Antarctica was environmental, sociological, anthropological. What’s it like for humans to set up shop in the deadest place on Earth?

How do the fierce elemental conditions permeate the community’s social life?

What stories do the members of this strange experiment share?

Antarctica is one huge exclamation mark, one huge superlative, anomalous in so many ways. According to the 53 signatory nations of the Antarctic Treaty, established in 1959, the continent is reserved for the peaceful conduct of scientific research — no standing armies, no resource extraction, no ownership. In light of this wonderfully utopian, smallworld-after-all nongovernment, I found myself repeatedly asking tablemates the same question: “Would you please pass the coffee, and, by the way, now that we’re living together, I’m curious to know what holidays your culture and mine both observe?”

All agreed on the answer, whether offered by a Japanese dark-matter astrophysicist, a Swedish glaciologist-cumsurrealist poet or a Kiwi forklift operator with a staggeringly long and frosty beard: The world celebrates the countdown, the ticking clock, and big, fat drunken kiss.

Gregorian calendar or not, the whole world celebrates New Year’s Eve. Sounds nice, right? But it gets tricky.

Let’s recall that the geographic South Pole is that spot on the globe where all lines of longitude converge — that pinprick in the frigid vastness that transcends the system of time zones superimposed on the physical reality of our planet.

Further complicating the search for an exact instant we might agree to label “January 1” is the pesky reality of high austral summer: 24-hour sunlight.

Without paying close attention to your watch, which you would have last set

in New Zealand, you might find the socalled New Year slipping by unnoticed, just another blinding white hour in the middle of a night that looks like day.

Polies are a resourceful and determined bunch, though, and mere metaphysical space-time confusion didn’t stand in the way of our much-anticipated party. I drank a beer with Gus, the dogsledding Alaskan carpenter, and a wee dram of Irish whiskey with Terry, the depraved but kindhearted electrician’s foreman. Then it was another beer with an Indian engineer whose name I didn’t catch, then back to Terry, then to Jonas, then to Tomo and Laura and a woman I nicknamed Ice Panda Princess.

After this, I made the decision to nip the binge drinking in the bud and head out for a solo ski.

Negative 30 degrees. A thousand miles of clean emptiness stretching in every direction. What better place to reflect on a year passed and a new one just beginning?

Well, it turned out that I didn’t make it quite as far as I intended. Geared up and ready for solitude, for the ultimate

blank slate and fresh start — “This year I resolve to up my compassion, boost my generosity and generally kick more ass!”

— I skied over to the windowless tent salvaged from the Korean War that serves as the local dive bar and smoking lounge.

Hoping to pat a few friends on the back, maybe knock down a quick shot of whatever was handy, I entered the hovel’s cloudy, cancerous dimness. By 4 a.m., I

over more than once, and, yeah, the track I laid was hardly straight. But somehow my personal messiness failed to mar the purity and perfection and beauty of the scene.

For a few vivid minutes, I felt myself a part of the polar clarity, a nameless snowflake, sibling to the infinite, child of the ice. Was it the booze at work? I’d like to think it was the place itself — Terra

I FELT MYSELF A PART OF THE POLAR CLARITY, A NAMELESS SNOWFLAKE, SIBLING TO THE INFINITE, CHILD OF THE ICE. was dancing shirtless in my Nordic boots.

When I finally extracted myself from the wreckage of that Antarctic bash, there was the sun, huge and constant as ever. With its unflinching Cyclopean glare, it seemed to accuse me of debauchery. I went for a half-hour ski, pushing hard into the sparkling nothingness, breathing heavily against my balaclava, trying to sweat out my sins. Sure, I fell

Antarctica, a far more primal and powerful substance to imbibe.

This year I’ll usher in the New Year from the Northern Hemisphere, from good ol’ Vermont, and, boy jeezum, there’s no place I’d rather be. But that’s not to say a part of me won’t linger — won’t always linger — in the frozen memories of a once-in-a-lifetime bacchanal at the bottom of the world.

So if you don’t see me at First Night, shivering my butt alongside the Dancing Dragon Parade and the face-painted children, you’ll know why. I’ll be skiing laps in the snowy fields of Addison County, a rising moon filling in for my dropping mirror ball and midnight sun.

The idea isn’t to re-create a past experience. It’s to remember. To get out there in the wind, the same wind that rushes over the Pole and the entire world, the same wind that blows through all our years — past, present, future. To tip back a mini-bottle of something stiff. To salute the season and the cold. To recall that fleeting glimpse of limitless potential, of bright, shining openness, and keep on going forward, always forward into another lap.

And in case you were wondering: No, a hangover in Antarctica is not any different from one in Burlington or Rutland or Montpelier. This, too, is universal. We’re in it together, friends. m

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ou get no credit for living” is an adage you may have heard bandied about in creative nonfiction classes.

The tidy epigram encapsulates the lesson that writing some sentences about one’s life is not sufficient to produce literature.

The full quote — attributed to British writer and critic V.S. Pritchett — states: “It’s all in the art; you get no credit for living.”

But how does one spin the straw of lived experiences into literary gold?

Readers might find an instructive example in Sydney Lea’s newest book, What’s the Story? Short Takes on a Life Grown Long, published in November by Brattleboro’s Green Writers Press.

Lea is most widely recognized for his poetry: He served as Vermont’s poet laureate from 2011 to 2015 and is the author of 11 volumes of verse, with a 12th due out in early 2016. But he has also produced a short stack of prose books, including a novel, a collection of literary criticism and three prior collections of lyrical essays, the form that What’s the Story? exemplifies. Such essays marry qualities of poetry (use of figurative language, attention to rhythm and diction) to the sentence and paragraph structures of prose.

What’s the Story? is distinguished from Lea’s earlier works by its brevity.

The book contains 68 mini-essays, or “short takes,” that clock in at about 1,000 words each. Grounded in Lea’s septuagenarian vantage point, they explore the terrain the senior author has covered, imaginatively and actually. As he writes early in the book, “It’s as though I were looking on these people here, on my children, my children’s children, on my past — I’m looking from above … I’ve risen over our group like smoke.”

Almost all of these short takes previously appeared in literary magazines.

While each appears crafted to stand alone, collectively, the stories compose a quilt of prose that eloquently stitches together Lea’s ongoing concerns about family, neighbors and friends, and his

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FROM WHAT’S THE STORY?: “PASSING THE ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR — IN MEM. IRVING CHAMBERLIN (1929-2011)” I read the sign on the fence, “Artists Can Heal the Planet,” and I think, Oh no, they can’t.

With few arts of my own to rely on, I liked to visit Irv’s shop, to watch him build a chair you could actually sit on. But I loved him, chair or no chair. ˜ ere aren’t many like him anymore, the soft-spoken old ones, who still know how to farm, how to raise up a house you can live in, how to still-hunt a whitetail. Of course, you have to break down their reticence, which takes patience, always well repaid. But even then, they play their parts in their own stories pretty humbly.

Irv dropped as he tilled the garden next to his and Marion’s house on the river, where today his ivory potato flowers likely display their blooms in neat rows. ˜ e potato flowers would do for his funeral, lovely as they are — more so than whatever the artists may be displaying in their earth-healing fair. Not that I know that; I merely suspect it.

Irv’s gone, and the earth keeps whirling, not to be healed for now, maybe never.

Probably never.

How fine, that almost shy way the man would greet anyone he cared for, his smile barely perceptible, his ice-blue eyes cast down, his words hard to discern at first. Not that Irv was cold, only modest.

He was what he was, irreplaceable among other things. ˜ e day is wind-raked, so Irv’s weathervane rooster must be spinning like the planet in question. He may have wrought the vane himself, for all I know. It must point in every direction. Just to think of it is a grief.

attachments to the more rustic reaches of the Northeast. They also express a grumpy kind of gratitude for life and its finalities.

Many of these short takes contain baffling queries such as “What do I know of psychology? What does anyone know?” Lea’s sentences often course back and forth — setting forth propositions, then contradicting them, yet still progressing toward hard-won revelations. It’s as if, beyond stating the facts, the author sees truth in accounting for the mixed feelings that cling to each matter.

Take the question of words — how many do we need to express our truths?

In a short titled “Whatever I Might Say,” Lea speculates on the legacy of speech in his family. Remembering Creston MacArthur, a woodsman and his son’s

and grandson’s namesake, he chides himself, “I should do more now than merely prattle with these good companions, just as I should have said more to Creston, gone almost forty years, and perhaps he to me. Or maybe not: deep in the woods, barred owls started to chatter that night.

‘Like a good pack of hounds,’ Creston said, and that woodsy locution seemed perfect, seemed pinpoint accurate. I smiled.”

In the fourth section of a four-part short titled “County Home: An Iraqi Suite, 2004,” Lea recounts his visits to Joe, who lives in a group home with a “Pine Sol-and-urine-reeking hall.” “Joe and I are friends by now, to call it friendship, and you always want, of course, to help a friend or any fellow human as much as you can — except you can’t,” he writes. “Or maybe you can but you don’t know how.”

In addition to weaving their way among these “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts,” “cans” and “can’ts,” Lea’s words vault distances of time and space. At the opening of “River, Stars, and Blessed Failure,” he writes, “It’s a joy to behold the moon as it breaches the mountain, though I feel even slighter than one of the beads of froth down there in the rapids, which are

winking back at more stars than I’ve ever seen in New England.”

Faced with this beauty, he makes a turn away from language that is nonetheless beautifully articulated using it: “I’m banishing words for the moment, as if by strange instinct — not just my own words, but all. I find it more than peaceful out here to articulate nothing, to feel myself on the farthest edge of conscious thought.”

Throughout the book, Lea takes this route of certainty followed by backtracking followed by new assertion — a path at once engaging and hypnotic, like a lake’s lapping or a hunting dog’s looping scout and return. The reader often seems to be observing the author as he studies the paw prints his thought made as it went scampering through the underbrush of doubt, regret and love, propelled by its voracious appetite for beauty.

This is not to say that Lea doesn’t deliver a satisfying conclusion to each short essay’s excursion — he does. But his sentences are gorgeous specimens, and readers may find themselves engrossed less by the urge to discover what the story is or was than by the need to savor its telling.

Here’s another elegant gem from “Micah Weeping, 1983,” in which Lea reconsiders his judgment of a veteran crying in public on Memorial Day: “There was so much else in the world I could have imagined, but then again, no one had shot at me, I hadn’t seen anyone bleed to death, so I thought Micah just looked loopy in fatigues and a cap that seemed to be melting down his head, like snow from a roof.”

At times, readers may wonder what occasioned the pieces in this collection.

Did they begin as formal exercises to tie memories and ideas together in the span of a journal’s page? Taken together, they read like a year’s worth of secret weekly columns for an intimate newspaper, where Lea offers a select audience not only what he knows, but the larger sum of what he does not.

“I still don’t know how I’ll ever leave this place, or leave my children and their children, or the wife who’s stood by me no matter,” he confides in “Camp by the River.” In the book’s coda, he asks a kindred question: “Those children’s children: how could I ever have known how much I’d love them?”

Fans of Lea’s work will no doubt hope he pursues such essential concerns, addressing them with his deftly built sentences in perhaps yet another collection of possible answers to his self-imposed question: “What’s the story?”

INFO What’s the Story? Short Takes on a Life Grown Long by Sydney Lea, Green Writers Press, 182 pages. $19.95.

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Alison Bechdel

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I didn’t have an agent for many years.

When I started publishing in 1986,

BY M ARGOT HARRISON it was with a small feminist press that didn’t offer advances. In those days, almost all gay books were f you’re an aspiring author, published by small presses, you may have heard that and sold in gay and women’s it’s almost impossible bookstores — a relatively to get trade published tiny market. But 15 years without having “insider later, the landscape was connections.” Available different. Gay books had evidence suggests otherstarted going mainstream, wise. In an online survey thanks to independent of 257 published authors, presses like the one that posted this month on her had been publishing my blog, YA writer Megan work — and, as a result, Crewe found that “44.8% those independent presses of the total respondents sold were failing. It was time for me their first novel via an agent to go out into the big wide world, they had no prior contact with to and that meant finding an agent. an editor they had no prior contact But by that point I’d published with.” In other words, they cold-queried — 10 books already and was a known with success. quantity, unlike many first-time writers Sixty-eight percent of the authors Crewe surveyed seeking agents. Finding someone to had a literary agent — suggesting that making that represent me was a fairly straightforparticular connection is a vital step on the road to pubward process. I wrote to several friends lication. To find out how that happened, and happens, asking about their agents.

Seven Days surveyed five Vermont One of them recommended writers who represent a diversity her agent, and put in a word of genres and career stages. While for me. Then I had a phone these writers weren’t regulars at call with that agent. I felt Manhattan book launches, they did pretty overwhelmed by keep their eyes open for opportunithat conversation — I was ties to network with publishing pros. not used to thinking about If you’re seeking an agent things like price points, yourself, be sure to explore the paperback versus hardcover, wealth of information available or how to get my books into online, including examples of recent chain stores. Chain stores at successful query letters. (Standards that point seemed to me like and expectations change.) Plenty of the devil incarnate. agents have blogs, and they are not In fact — although this shy about telling the world what they seems absurd to me now like and don’t. (In particular, check AL IS O N BE C H D E L — I felt like the very act of out the acerbic, ever-helpful advice getting an agent was a form of Janet Reid.) of selling out. After my Another tip the pros often offer: Don’t self-publish years of toiling in the subculture, I had your book and then seek an agent to sell it to trade a very outsider mindset. I didn’t make publishers. Yes, self-publication recently worked in a decision about the agent until several spectacular fashion for John and Jennifer Churchman months later, after going to the city of Essex, whose book Sweet Pea & Friends: The and meeting with her in person. At the SheepOver sparked agent interest and then a publisher end of that meeting my head was still bidding war. But they had the world’s cutest sheep on spinning, but she looked me in the eye their side — and a significant Facebook following. Most and said she’d really like to work with of us just have our words. me. And I was sold.

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Pat Esden

Author of various published short stories and the forthcoming A Hold on Me (February 2016), the first in a paranormal romance series from Kensington Books

My path to signing with an agent wasn’t easy or quick. Right from the start, when I e-queried, entered online contests or pitched agents at conferences, I received requests to submit my material. Many agents asked to see future manuscripts. But no one offered to represent me. Seven years and five manuscripts into this process, I was beyond frustrated. Finally, an inperson pitch with an agent confirmed what I’d begun to suspect. Though my manuscripts were well written, they fell into an oversaturated corner of the market, making established agents with larger client lists hesitant to take me on.

But I didn’t give up. I wrote another manuscript. Within a short time, I had that manuscript out with eight agents.

It often takes up to six months for agents to respond to requested material, so I decided to enter an online contest, to approach several unfamiliar agents and keep my mind occupied.

On the first day of the contest, I posted a 60-word pitch. Immediately, I received interest from an agent at a well-respected agency who was just starting to build her client list. The agent requested 50 pages. Two hours later, she asked for the full manuscript.

Less than 24 hours later, she offered representation via email, a pretty amazing experience after years of querying.

Overall, what I learned from my experience is that, while prominent agents are excellent choices, don’t rule out newer agents at good agencies.

It’s not just writing skills and a superb manuscript that hook an agent. It also has to do with the market, the agent’s available time to nurture new writers, and what sort of manuscripts their current clients are working on. New agents can be a golden opportunity.

My agent is Pooja Menon at Kimberley Cameron & Associates in the San Francisco area.

Dayna Lorentz

Author of the middle-grade series Dogs of the Drowned City and the young-adult trilogy No Safety in Numbers

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Author of two nonfiction books and 11 n vels set in Vermont, including God’s Kingdom, published in October

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In 1972, after teaching high school English in the Northeast Kingdom for three years, I decided it was time for me to find out whether I had what it took to be a writer. So I drove west to enroll in the MFA in Fiction program at the University of California, Irvine.

There, although I ended up spending as much time on the tennis court as at my desk, my short fiction impressed the program’s director, Oakley Hall, enough for him to recommend me to his own agent at the time, Don Congdon, then with the Harold Matson Company.

As it happened, both Oakley and Don were capable doubles players, and so it was on the tennis court — one time while Don was out west visiting Oakley — that he offered to represent me. I was surprised — and reluctant. Don was a top-flight agent whose clients included William Manchester, Ray Bradbury and William Styron, but even so, I wasn’t sure I should accept, partly because Don told me he wanted me to write a novel.

I told him I thought I was learning more about crafting fiction by writing short stories.

He said, “All right, then, just write three chapters and an outline, and I’ll see what I can do with that.” One of my workshop stories, about a teenager’s fumbling, first-time attempt at sex, seemed to lend itself to a longer treatment. That story became the second chapter. I wrote two more chapters and a 10-page outline and sent it to New York. In a few months Don sold my first novel, Hard Feelings, to Atheneum. A year later he sold the movie rights to a Hollywood producer and the softcover rights to Bantam Book. I was off and running.

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Then I heard back from Dan Mandel, a brilliant young agent with a strong interest in literary fiction. From the start, Dan became my “first and best” editor, urging me to write what I wanted to write, what “felt right” to me. He helped me find the heart of my Lewis and Clark novel, The True Account — in which there is not one true word — and my baseball novel, Waiting for Teddy Williams. He wasn’t put off by my interest in magical realism but helped me see how, in that regard, less could be more.

Book by book, Dan helped me continue to find and sustain my voice, to take the long view, and to match my stories with the right publishers. Every novelist I know has dozens of horror stories. Sometimes, in the writing life, there are also miracles. For me, signing on with Dan Mandel was a miracle.

Author of six novels, including three Hector Bellevance mysteries set in Vermont, and the young-adult fantasy Polly and the One and Only World (2014)

My agent story is unusual. It begins where my wanting to be a writer began: my love of reading. Our wonderful local booksellers invite the likes of Norton Juster, Laurie Halse Anderson and Kate DiCamillo to read for small groups of excited fans. One time, I went to such an event at the Flying Pig Bookstore that featured middle-grade author Rebecca Stead.

Before things got going, Rebecca was just standing there, and so I started talking to her. It turned out we had a ton in common outside of writing. I told her I had just gotten an offer on a manuscript but was still negotiating the contract, on my own, without representation. Rebecca generously offered to assist me in contacting her agent, who just happened to be at the top of my query list.

On Rebecca’s invitation — and, let me be clear, Do not mention someone’s name in a query without their offering first! — I sent her agent a version of my already highly polished query letter, added a mention of our conversation, and included sample pages of my manuscript. Her agent is now also my agent. I am so grateful for Rebecca’s kindness in making that introduction, and feel so lucky to have my spectacular agent, Faye Bender, in my corner.

There’s no getting around the basic work: You must revise until you have a killer manuscript, write a rockin’ query letter, and research a list of dream agents. But there’s also value in engaging with the writing community around you. Not only will it make the writing life less lonely, building professional relationships might open up unexpected opportunities. m

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SEVEN DAYS: What initially drew you to the epic fantasy genre?

BRIAN STAVELEY: I read tons of fantasy as a kid. I grew up on Ursula K. Le Guin and [J.R.R.] Tolkien [The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings], but I also always had this interest in science and history. I was a pretty voracious reader; in school I always had a paperback tucked in my bag. I’d be surreptitiously reading during class.

I ended up teaching ancient world history, comparative religion and philosophy. I wasn’t writing fantasy at first,

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interesting, the places where characters are struggling with themselves and the people who should be closest to them.

SD: When you were creating the Annurian Empire, how did you come up with such diverse names for its people and places?

BS: I made the map of the world, then subdivided it into linguistic regions and gave each of those a real-world analogue — [for example,] Catalan, Mongolian, Vietnamese and so on.

Whenever I came up with a new character, I’d look at where they were from and find a name from that area of [our] world, but then change it a little bit. It’s a way to avoid that problem of just making shit up. So that when you have characters from the same region, their names have affinity. It makes the world feel a little more robust, even if it’s just on a subconscious level.

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ales of dragons and wizard duels weren’t always cool.

While fantasy fiction has long had its niche audience, Vermont author Brian Staveley says that right now is “an exciting time to be writing in the genre.”

It’s easy to attribute that excitement to the recent success of YA series such as Throne of Glass and adult ones such as A Song of Ice and Fire (commonly referred to as A Game of Thrones after the first installment). But Staveley credits British author J.K. Rowling with opening the minds of pliant young readers to the genre. “I was born in the ’70s. Nobody was reading fantasy,” Staveley says. “But now there’s this generation that grew up on Harry Potter. They’re more willing to try it out.”

The penchant for potions and magiclaced political struggles has paid off for the 39-year-old New Hampshire native.

When Staveley began writing The Emperor’s Blades, the first installment of his successful Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne trilogy, he was teaching at a private school in Massachusetts, cramming his writing time into summer breaks.

That schedule wasn’t working for him, so in 2007 he packed up and set off on his own adventure through Thailand, China and other Southeast Asian countries, writing along the way.

The Emperor’s Blades was eventually picked up by Tor Books, a Macmillan imprint for science and fantasy fiction, and published in January 2014. The second installment, The Providence of Fire, followed one year later. Tor is set to release the final tome, The Last Mortal Bond, in March 2016.

The series is set in the fictional Annurian Empire and centers on the struggle of royal siblings Kaden, Valyn and Adare as they attempt to avenge their father’s death and navigate the dangerous path to power.

Now a full-time writer, Staveley lives in Marlboro with his wife, Johanna, and their 3-year-old son. Seven Days caught up with the author to learn more about his journey through the world of fantasy.

THE GRAY AREAS ARE THE MOST INTERESTING, THE PLACES WHERE CHARACTERS ARE STRUGGLING WITH THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE CLOSEST TO THEM.

SD: So what’s next?

BS: A month ago I signed another deal with Tor to write four more books. The next one is due in June. I’m planning to write a number of stand-alone novels in the same world, focusing on a number of characters [from Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne] that readers have come to like. But their stories will be self-contained and provide entry into the world even for readers who aren’t familiar with the original trilogy.

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but I thought fantasy does offer a portal to explore these concepts that are really exciting. It’s like a little laboratory where you can play with ideas about politics and religion, which was appealing to me. So it was both a childhood love of fantasy and this adult interest in all these other things coming together.

SD: Do people ever place your work in the “grimdark fantasy” genre [a term often used to describe George R.R. Martin’s work]?

BS: There have been a lot of arguments over what is and isn’t [grimdark fantasy]. Somehow, anything that seems morally ambiguous gets thrown in there. I’m interested in exploring moral,

SD: The Emperor’s Blades was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in the fantasy and debut author categories. Even without winning, those nominations are awesome. Can you tell me about other accolades you’ve received?

BS: The Emperor’s Blades won the 2015 David Gemmell Morningstar Award and the reddit Stabby [Award] for best debut novel in 2014. People give you a lot of weaponry when you win fantasy awards. I was given a dagger for the Stabby, and a statue of a badass shirtless dude for the David Gemmell award.

We’ve got it perched between the liquor bottles on our cabinet.

political, psychological and religious ambiguity. I’m not interested in writing depressing work where everything gets smashed. And I shy away from [grimdark] a little bit because it doesn’t seem like there’s a consensus about what it means.

But you get the sense from my books that they don’t fit the mold of the “evil power” versus the “team of good.” If you keep reading, you’ll see that people like Kaden and Valyn don’t agree, and with some pretty harmful consequences. In any arena, the gray areas are the most

SD: Would you ever write outside the Annurian Empire?

BS: I would. But it’s a pretty vast place, and I could write a trilogy set a hundred years later or a hundred years earlier.

There are still a lot of stories I’m excited to write in that world.

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Tracing exactly where those fairtrade dollars go can be difficult. The brand is governed by many different organizations that charge for, and control, certification. The middlemen — buyers and sellers — also take a cut. And, in the coffee industry, the cost of marketing the fair-trade brand is often passed to coffee roasters.

In his new book, Beyond Fair Trade: How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village in Thailand, Mark Pendergrast tackles the fair-trade topic by focusing on the newer “direct trade” model — an unofficial classification that takes the precepts of fair trade one step further.

Direct trade isn’t governed by any international organization; the grassroots movement addresses perceived deficiencies of fair trade by cutting out the middlemen and the requirement to belong to a collective. With direct trade, roasters buy from growers, and profits go directly to farmers.

Pendergrast is familiar with the world of caffeinated drinks. His 2010 book Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World is now in its second edition. And his comprehensive For God, Country and CocaCola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It, now in its third edition, remains the authoritative book on the most American of all beverages.

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His new book has a smaller scope than those two volumes. Rather than promising a comprehensive analysis or exposé of fair trade, it approaches the issue through a single case study.

While the company of the title, Doi Chaang Coffee, has no Vermont connection (the beans aren’t even available locally), the book may find a receptive audience in the state where Pendergrast has lived for more than 40 years.

Beyond Fair Trade is both a profile of an unusual business and a work of cultural anthropology. Doi Chaang (the name means “Elephant Mountain”) was LISTEN IN ON LOCAL FOODIES...

founded and is partly owned by people of the Akha hill tribe, an ethnic minority with a long history of marginalization. As detailed in Beyond Fair Trade, every pound of beans that Doi Chaang sells represents another step toward economic self-sufficiency for the Akha people.

Pendergrast’s book does not argue that the fair-trade model of equal exchange is corrupt or wrongheaded, only that it can be improved, and that Doi Chaang offers a model for that improvement. “I think fair trade has been and continues to be very important, and I’m not trying to denigrate it,” he said. “However, it really sets a minimum wage, and … you have to jump through a

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Pendergrast noted that Doi Chaang not only owns its own coffeehouses but roasts its own beans — “something that is quite unusual ‘at origin,’” he said. “I’d like that to be a model that more people are doing.” The author linked this “single-origin” coffee to the notion of terroir that has become central to eat-local movements.

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20B for a project generally described as the construction of an 1,870 sf office building with sidewalks and ramps. ˜ e Project is located on 121 Gonyeau Road in Milton, Vermont. ˜ e District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications.

Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Milton Town Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Office, and the office listed below. ˜ e application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0550-20B”.

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Sec. 7. No-Parking Areas.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations:

16 Bus stops. (a)˝˝˝˝˜e following spaces are hereby designated as bus stops: (1) - (14) As Written.

(15) [On the east side of University Place for forty (40) feet south of the northern curb cut at Royal Tyler ˜ eatre] On the east side of University Place beginning eightytwo (82) feet south of Colchester Avenue and extending southerly for a distance of sixty (60) feet.

(16) – (20) As Written.

(1) - (525) As Written.

(526) [On the north and south sides of Sears Lane.] On the entire south side of Sears Lane and on the north side of Sears Lane beginning at the eastern side of the parcel at 40 Sears Lane and continuing west to the end of Sears Lane.

Adopted this 18th day of November, 2015 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services Adopted 11/18/2015; Published 12/23/15; Effective 01/13/16.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS ˜ e following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Ap-

Adopted this 16th day of December, 2015 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services Adopted 12/16/2015; Published 12/23/15; Effective 01/13/16.

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(42) Germain Street, southerly from Archibald

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS ˜ e following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Motor Vehicles, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 3 Stop sign locations.

Stop signs are authorized at the following locations: (1) - (310) As Written.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS ˜ e following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Motor Vehicles, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 4 Location of yieldright-of-way signs.

Yield-right-of-way signs are authorized at the following locations:

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(19) At each entrance to the Northgate Roundabout causing all traffic approaching the roundabout to yield.

Adopted this 16th day of December, 2015 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services Adopted 12/16/2015; Published 12/23/15; Effective 01/13/16.

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INVITATION TO BID MIDDLEBURY VISITOR SERVICES PROJECT, MIDDLEBURY SB VT04(006) FABRICATION & INSTALLATION OF INTERPRETIVE SIGN PANELS & PARKING SIGNS ˜ e Town of Middlebury invites sealed bids from pre-qualified contractors

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for the fabrication of digital HPL panels for 7 historic/interpretive sign panels and 8 parking signs. Bidders will be responsible for installation of all signs (ground and pole mounted) and procurement of all materials. ˜ e Middlebury Visitor Services Project is funded by the Vermont Agency of Transportation through its Scenic Byways Program, and, as such, is subject to State and Federal funding requirements.

All bidders on this project must be on the Agency of Transportation’s prequalified list under the category Fencing and Signs or shall have submitted a complete prequalification application to the Agency of Transportation, Contract Administration a minimum of 10 working days prior to the bid opening. For information contact Jon Winter at 802-828-2643.

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Project, Middlebury SB VT04(006)” in the lower left hand corner, will be accepted until 4:00 p.m., Friday, January 15, 2016 at Middlebury Town Office, 94 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753.

To request bid documents and for all inquiries during the advertisement phase of this project, contact the Project Designer, David Raphael or Kimi Tokarczyk, LandWorks, 228 Maple Street, Ste. 32, Middlebury, VT 05753, (802) 388-3011.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION OF WETLAND INDIVIDUAL PERMIT: 2015-411 12/23/2015 A request for An Wetland Individual Permit, required pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 of the Vermont Wetland Rules has been received from Tegatz Family Trust, c/o Frederick Tegatz.

Tegatz Family Trust, c/o Frederick Tegatz Trustee is requesting approval

for an after the fact permit for construction of a driveway to access 1 single family residence from Guinea Road across Mud Hollow Brook to the west, located at 1000 Guinea Road, in Charlotte, VT. ˜ e proposed project will impact 4,190 square feet of Class II wetland and 1,620 square feet of Class II wetland buffer zone. ˜ is wetland has been designated as a significant (Class II) wetland under the Vermont Wetland Rules.

Copies of the application are available for review at the Vermont Wetlands Office in Montpelier, the Town Clerk’s Office in Charlotte, the Regional Planning Commission office in Charlotte, and the Agency of Natural Resources website: http://www.watershedmanagement.vt.gov/ cfm/notices/info. cfm?id=9677 Individual Wetland Permits may only be approved if the Agency is satisfied that the applicant has demonstrated that the

proposed use complies with the Vermont Wetland Rules and the proposed use will not have an undue adverse impact on the functions and values of any significant wetlands or their adjacent buffer zones.

In making the determination that the applicant has met this burden, the Agency will evaluate the potential effects of the proposed use on the basis of (1) the use’s direct and immediate effects on the wetland; and (2) the use’s cumulative or on-going effects on the wetland.

Any person may file comments in writing by referencing Project 2015411 through 1/6/2016 and sending them to: anr.wsmdwetlands@ state.vt.us Watershed Management Division Attn: Wetlands Program Department of Environmental Conservation One National Life Drive Main Building, 2nd Floor Montpelier, VT 056203522

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Ronald L. LaRose late of Burlington, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. ˜ e claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. ˜ e claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402

support groups AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to˛vermontalanonalateen.org˛or˛call 866-972-5266.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

Info, 864-1212. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 & join a group in your area.

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ALTERNATIVES TO SUICIDE Alternatives to Suicide is a safe space where the subject of suicide can be discussed freely, without judgment or stigma. ˜ e group is facilitated by individuals who have themselves experienced suicidal thoughts/ feelings. Fletcher Free Library, 235 College St., Burlington. Group meets weekly on ˜ ursdays, 1-2:30 p.m. Info: makenzy@ pathwaysvermont.org, 888-492-8218 x300.

Address of Court: Vermont Superior Court Chittenden Probate Division

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP ˜ is caregivers support group meets on the

Date: 12/18/2015 /s/ Caren LaRose Signature of Fiduciary Caren LaRose Executor/Administrator: 31 Venus Ave. Burlington, VT 05408 602-793-3342 Name of publication Seven Days

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plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Sat., 10-11:30 a.m., Methodist Church at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington.

Contact Brenda, 338-1170.

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BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. ˜ e support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury.

It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531.

BREASTFEEDING CLINIC AND SUPPORT GROUP Tuesdays, 9-10:30 a.m.

Continues through Jan. 26. Kim Pregger, CLC, will be in the studio to answer your breastfeeding questions and concerns. Come in, have your baby weighed and share stories with other moms. $15. Info: 6608607, kim.pregger@ gmail.com.

BURLINGTON AREA PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP People with Parkinson’s disease & their caregivers gather together to gain support & learn about living with Parkinson’s disease. Group meets 2nd Wed. of every mo., 1-2 p.m., continuing through Nov. 18, 2015.

Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd., Shelburne. Info: 888-763-3366, parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org, parkinsonsvt.org.

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CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life! ˜ is confidential 12-Step recovery program puts faith in Jesus Christ at the heart of healing.

We offer multiple support groups for both men & women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction & pornography, food issues, & overcoming abuse.

All 18+ are welcome;

DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe two or three of us can get together to help each other simplify.

989-3234, 425-3612.

DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership.˛Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington.˛Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754.˛You can learn more at smartrecovery. org.

DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Middlebury for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence.

Starting weekdays in January: Art For Healing.˛ Six-week support group for people who have experienced domestic or sexual violence.

Childcare provided.

Please call our hotline, 388-4205, or email am@womensafe.net for more information.

DUAL RECOVERY ANONYMOUS BURLINGTON Dual Recovery Anonymous Burlington is an independent

FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS ˜ is support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. ˜ e group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Pathways Vermont, 125 College St., 2nd floor, Burlington. Info: 888-492-8218 ext. 104.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one.

FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. 1st & 3rd Wed. of each mo., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Turning Point Center, corner of Bank St., Burlington. (Across from parking garage, above bookstore). thdaub1@gmail.com.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction?

Find support, peer-led support group.˛Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington.

Please call for date and location. RSVP graspvt@gmail.com or call 310-3301.

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12-Step Group for individuals who experience a dual illness. We experience mental health challenges & a chemical dependency. We seek to apply 12-Step work to our “no fault” illnesses.

Our group is open to anyone who desires recovery from mental health challenges & a chemical dependency.

Please join us on Sat. at 4:30 p.m. and/or Mon. at 5:30 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington.

Info: 861-3150.

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CELIAC & GLUTENFREE GROUP Every 2nd Wed., 4:30-6 p.m. at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Free & open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@ gmail.com.

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BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd˛˜ u. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ALZHEIMER’S ramp entrance, 1:30ASSOCIATION 2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury TELEPHONE SUPPORT support group meets GROUP the 3rd Wed. montly 1st Monday at the Grace United monthly, 3-4:30 p.m.

Methodist Church, 36 Pre-registration Central St., 1:00-2:30 is required (to p.m.˛ Colchester˛ receive dial-in codes Evening support group for toll-free call). Please CANCER SUPPORT meets the 1st Wed. dial the Alzheimer’s GROUP monthly at the Fanny Association’s 24/7 Our goal is to provide Allen Hospital in the BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF Helpline 800-272-3900 Board Room Conference a welcoming, friendly SUPPORT GROUP for more information. and supportive space Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Meets every other Calcoku that provides a number Brattleboro meets Mon. Using night, p.m., ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE the6-7:30 enclosed math operations as a guide, fill the grid of tools for navigating Brooks & DEMENTIA SUPPORT & every other Wed., 1 - 6 onlyatonce using the numbers in eachMemorial row and these challenges.

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GROUP 10-11:30 a.m., in the ˜ is weekly, drop-in, 32- monthly 2- from 1:15-3:15 Held the last Tue. of Conference Center 11+ at donation-based supp.m. and the 3rd Mon. every mo., 5:30-7:30 Central Vermont HomeSudoku montly from by 4:15-6:15 Complete the following puzzle using theport group is facilitated p.m., at Birchwood Terr., Health 7+& Hospice in 2÷ 3p.m.in White Jct. Burlington. Info, Kim, numbers 1-9is only once eachRiver row, columnby Liz Perkins, a cancer Berlin. ˜ e group mom, Family Cancer 863-6384.

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Continues through No. 407 Difficulty: Hard Dec. 31. ˜ e Wellness Collective, 431 Pine St., Burlington. 540-0186, info@wellnesscollectivevt.com.

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Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m.

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Info: recovery@essexalliance.org, 878-8213.

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Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. ˜ ey emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in care for a person living with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free and open to the public. Families, caregivers, and friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date and time. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

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Merchandiser Needed for Very Busy Beer and Wine Wholesaler Includes mileage reimbursement and full benefit package. Must have own, reliable transportation and a clean driving record. Duties include but are not limited to: lifting 40-plus pounds on a regular basis, putting product on shelves, building displays, and keeping product clean.

Mansfield Hall is an innovative residential college support program for students with diverse learning needs.

Send resume to tgaren@bakerdistributing.com. No phone calls, please.

SPECIAL EDUCATOR

We are seeking a dynamic Special Education professional to serve as our Academic Case Manager. This position requires excellent teaching, organization, planning, and written and oral communication skills. The ability to multitask and collaborate with our academic partners in the collegiate community is important. Having a commitment to the success of all students and ability to understand and teach to various learning styles is required. Master’s degree in special education or a related field preferred. Applicant information is available at mansfieldhall.org/employment.

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Spring Lake Ranch Therapeutic Community, a uniquely relational therapeutic farm on 650 beautiful acres, supports and empowers people with mental health and addiction 3:05 PM challenges to grow, thrive and gain independence. Nursing assessments, assisting psychiatrist, pharmacy liaison, staff training, on-call support, scheduling appointments and medication administration. Vermont RN license required.

Previous experience in mental health and/or substance abuse recovery and ability to collaborate closely with other staff are essential. Full-time with benefits; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. Resume to tom@springlakeranch.org.

Immediate opening for a Delivery Driver/ Equipment Installer.

Please review job requirements and download an application and submit with resume from: kittredgeequipment.com Careers > Williston, VT

Looking for change?

The Rutland Area VNA & Hospice, a nationally recognized 4-Star Home healthcare agency, shifts is looking for a registered Immediate overnight available nurse to work full-time Tuesday through Saturday.

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Bennington offices. In this position, you will be working firm’s rapidly growing renewable The Parent Child Center of Northwestern Vermont seeks a skilled For more information or to apply e-mail or call Harry Snyder energy project development regularly scheduled 10 p.m.-6 shifts. and energetic leader to join our Children’s Integrated Services team at hlsnyder@ravnah.org; (802)a.m.

770-1510. and management practice. This in the Early Intervention program. The ideal candidate will possess RAVNAH equal opportunity employer (EOE) Ask us aboutis an our per diem benefit package. position will begin on a part-time experience in providing family-centered care to infants and toddlers basis, estimated at 20 to 25 hours with developmental delays and/or genetic disorders.

Experience in For information or to apply, contact per week. home visiting and service coordination as well as knowledge of early

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Harry Snyder at 770-1510, hlsnyder@ravnah.org.

RAVNAH is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).

childhood development and staff supervision is critical. Relevant Master’s degree and experience is required. We offer an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, 403(b), and educational assistance. Position available January 2016.

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OFFICE CLEANERS Part-time work available for cleaning offices in Waitsfield. Must be able to work independently.

Up to four nights a week (maximum 17 hours).

Call 879-6764 for more information.

Champlain Community Services

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Support an individual with a developmental or intellectual disability in your home or in their home. A generous stipend, paid time off (respite), and comprehensive training and supports are available for providing residential support to an individual. We are currently offering variety of exciting opportunities.

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A dynamic Executive Assistant needed to serve as the right hand of president of the Vermont Land Trust, a national leader in land conservation. The ideal candidate is meticulously organized, juggles multiple priorities with ease and a high degree of accuracy, has excellent communication and interpersonal skills, is proactive, and exhibits a high level of personal responsibility and accountability.

Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier continuing care retirement community, is adding members to our team of Dining Room Wait Staff. Wait Staff help to create a fine dining experience for our residents in a restaurant-style environment that rivals most area restaurants. This is a perfect opportunity for students with the time and drive to begin their working experience, or for professionals who wish supplement their current career endeavors.

Experience as a server is preferred but not required. We will train applicants who demonstrate strong customer service skills and a desire to work with an active population of seniors.

Wake Robin offers a flexible schedule to match your goals. If interested, please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to HR, 264-5146.

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Seeking experienced financial manager to join strong, cohesive school staff at Orchard Valley Waldorf School’s 55acre East Montpelier campus.

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Work for One of the Top-Performing Home Health Agencies in the U.S. 4:12 PM The VNA and Hospice of the Southwest Region, consisting of the Bennington, Dorset and Rutland Area VNAs and Hospice, is looking for Home Care Aides (Licensed Nursing Assistants and Personal Care Attendants) to work throughout Rutland County and in select sections of Bennington County. As a member of our team, you will be part of a group of home health care professionals who deliver specialized one-onone care to patients in their homes.

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Champlain Community Services 512 Troy Ave, Suite 1 Colchester, VT 05446

The Wake Robin dining room does not serve alcohol and is the perfect environment for aspiring food servers who are not yet 18.

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The Residence at Shelburne Bay, a premier Level III hospitality-oriented senior living community in Shelburne, is accepting applications for Caregivers for the following positions: •

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A Caregiver’s role is vital to the quality of our residents’ daily lives. You will make a difference in their live as well as your own, including a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in helping others.

Applicants must have good verbal and written communications skills and be nurturing, caring and reliable. Must be comfortable with computers. Previous caregiving experience preferred; however, we are willing to train applicants with strong qualifications and the willingness to learn. Candidates are also eligible to apply for a promotion to medication technician after 90 days of exemplary performance.

Background checks required.

We offer competitive salaries and benefits for full-time positions including health, dental, vision, paid time off and a comfortable and peaceful working environment where our residents are nurtured and allowed to age with grace and dignity.

Send reply with your resume or stop by and pick up an application at: The Residence at Shelburne Bay 185 Pine Haven Shores Road Shelburne, VT 05482

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SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS

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Full and part-time, substitute and trip drivers needed.

Experience preferred. CDL required; will train. Excellent benefits, positive working conditions.

Please apply online at schoolspring.com or call 434-2128 for an application.

Application must include letter of interest, resume and references. Hard copies of three letters of reference required for verification at interview level.

Visit our website, cesu.k12.vt.us, for information about our schools. EOE M/F.

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Access Coordinator/ HUB & Adult Clinicians

Human Resources Director Cuttingsville

Spring Lake Ranch Therapeutic Community, a uniquely relational therapeutic farm on 650 beautiful acres, supports and empowers people with mental health and addiction challenges to grow, thrive and gain independence. The Human Resources Director works collaboratively with a variety of other staff to 4:17 PM fulfi ll the human resource needs of Spring Lake Ranch. Hiring, performance evaluations, orientation, training, employee mentorship, committees, job descriptions, benefit administration, employee assistance program, risk management, employment law and licensing compliance. Bachelor’s degree and minimum of two years human resources experience required. Experience in nonprofit and/or social service HR is preferred. Full time with benefits; 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. Resume to hr@ springlakeranch.org.

Tourism & Marketing: Director of Communications

BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYST The Vermont Judiciary seeks IT pro to embark on a multi-year software project.

Top notch business process redesign and client facilitation skills required. Prefer lean, change management, process modeling and rules engines experience. Position offers salary over $50K, overtime eligibility and excellent benefits. Open until filled.

If interested please visit vermontjudiciary.org.

HUB Clinician: Master’s- or bachelor’s-level clinician position VermontEQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. working with adults as a part of our HUB & Spoke medicationassisted therapyJob (MAT)Description: program. This position will focus on access The State of Vermont Vermont Experienced professional of Tourism to care and provide a bridge from the MAT program tosought referrals to lead the Vermont Department 4t-SpringLakeRanch-122315.indd 1 12/21/152v-OfficeofCourt_122315.indd 11:45 AM 1 12/21/15 For the people…the place…the possibilities. to the treatment options. Work will involve &service Marketing’s public andassessments, trade relations efforts. This mission-critical position The of State of Vermont group and individual therapy, case well as is designed tomanagement generateaspositive tourism-related coverage Vermont in the For the people…the place…the possibilities.

Vermont Psychiatric coordination with the Department of Corrections.

Previous national and international marketplace. The Director of Communications is experience working with people in recovery from addictions is Care Hospital responsible for the development and implementation Vermont Psychiatricof a proactive business preferable. A LADC is preferred. Working hours roughly 6 a.m. to Velan Valve Corp seeks outreach plan consistent with the goalsCare and mission of the Department of Hospital 2 p.m. entry-level candidate for QC Tourism and Marketing as well as maintaining consistent communications REGISTERED NURSE Exciting Opportunities for Experienced Nurses Document Administrator to Substance Abuse Clinician: Master’sor bachelor’sviaTreatment social networking tools.

This position is responsible for tourism media Exciting Opportunities forall Experienced Nurses Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital (VPCH), a 25 bed state-of-the-art, progressive facility work in conjunction with our level clinical positions (LADC preferred) providing outpatient relations in-state and out-of-state; press release development; targeted Exciting Opportunities for Experienced Nurses Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital, apitching 25-bed state-of-the-art, providing excellent care in a recovery-oriented, safe, respectful environment has immediate counseling to adults, adolescents and families dealing with QA/QC team. Document progressive facility providing excellent care in a recovery-oriented, openings for Registered Nurses on all shifts. tourism story ideas to regional and national media; development of press Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital (VPCH), a 25 bed state-of-the-art, progressive facility safe, respectful hasrespectful immediate openings forrange: $52,839substance abuse-related issues. Treatment modalities may be providing excellent care inenvironment, a recovery-oriented, safe, environment has immediate Offering starting pay based on experience.

Psychiatric Nurse II annual salary Administrators create QC familiarization trips and itineraries; management of media contact lists; and openings for Registered Nurses on all Registered on allshifts. shifts. $82,524.Nurses Also offering new sign on, retention bonuses and educational opportunities. provided using group, individual or couples counseling and documentation packages and Tuitionpay reimbursement and loan repayment assistance may berange: available for eligible support forIntensive Vermont’s international public relations The Director Offering starting based on initiatives. experience.

Psychiatric Nurse II annual salary $52,839Offering starting pay based on experience.

Psychiatric Nurse may include some work in our Out-Patient Treatment applicants. $82,524. Also offering new sign on, retention bonuses and educational opportunities. provide customer support will also collaborate with the Agency ofTuition executive in the II Commerce annual salary $52,839-82,524.

Also ering new reimbursement andrange: loan repayment assistanceteam may be available for off eligible Program.

Whether you are a nurse seeking a career path or looking for a change, you can make a applicants. sign-on, retention bonuses and educational opportunities. in conjunction with those development of a proactive travel trade anddifference business recruitment plan.

This in the changing landscape of mental health care, there’s a rewarding opportunity Tuition reimbursement assistance may be Whether you are a nurse seeking a careerand path orloan looking repayment for a change, you can make a at VPCH. Individuals whoposition are interested in being partto of athe dynamic team packages, as well as schedule will report Commissioner of Tourism & Marketing. difference in the changing landscape applicants. of mental health care, there’s a rewarding opportunity available for eligible at VPCH. Apply Online at www.careers.vermont.gov are encouraged to apply. Flexibility, dependability, strong and provide support for Whether you are seeking a career path or looking for a Psychiatric NurseaIInurse – Reference Job Opening ID# 617611 communication, organizational skills and the ability to be a team Apply Online at www.careers.vermont.gov change, you can make askills; diffand/or erence in the changing landscape of Candidates must: demonstrate strong oral and written have a BA in customer-initiated inspections.

Registered Nurses with general psychiatric nursing experience are encouraged to Psychiatric Nurse II – Reference Job Opening ID# 617611 player are essential. We offer a flexible benefit package which can apply! mental health care there’s a rewarding opportunity at VPCH. Registered Nurses with general and/or psychiatric nursing experience are encouraged to Public or match related eld; have aapply! minimum of five years of relevant work Candidate must be proficient be taken as a cash benefit,Relations 403b retirement and fi generous For more information, please contact Kathy Bushey at 802-505-0501 or Kathleen.bushey@vermont.gov Apply online at careers.vermont.gov. experience; demonstrate knowledge of Vermont and Vermont’s tourism industry. with Word, Excel and Oracle, time-off policy. If interested, please send résumé and letter of For more information, please contact Kathy Bushey at 802-505-0501 or Kathleen.bushey@vermont.gov For questions related to your application, pleaseJob contact the Department of Human Resources, Psychiatric Nurse II – Reference Opening ID# 617611 interest to: have strong communication Recruitment Services, at 855-828-6700 (voice) or 800-253-0191 (TTY/Relay Service). The State of For questions related to your application, please contact the Department of Human Resources, For more information, please contact Kathy 802-505-0501 Vermont offers an excellent totalorcompensation package & is anBushey EOE.The Stateat Recruitment Services, at 855-828-6700 (voice) 800-253-0191 (TTY/Relay Service). of Resume, writing samples and a minimum of three references should be skills, and be able to work in a Vermont offers an excellent total compensation package & is an EOE. or kathleen.bushey@vermont.gov.

Rachel Yeager,toHR Coordinator, submitted Kitty Sweet, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community team environment. Experience apply, you must use the online job application at careers.vermont.gov.

Clara MartinOne Center Development, National Life Drive, To Montpelier, VT 05620-0501.

Inand out-ofdesired but not mandatory.

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Multiple Positions Resident Available!

Support Staff

Pathways Vermont, a statewide non-profit organization, seeks Soteria Vermont is an motivated individuals to fill both alternative to &hospitalization programmatic administrative positions. for individuals experiencing

an initial episode of psychosis Since 2009, Pathways Vermont has presented alternatives who wish to minimize their within Vermont’s mental health exposure to medications. system. We are dedicated to The residence is located ending chronic homelessness Multiple Positions and supporting in Burlington and individuals has the chosen paths to wellness in an capacity to serve up five Available! atmosphere of dignity & to choice. individuals at a given time.

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NEW JOBS POSTED DAILY!

PayData Workforce Solutions, Inc. is looking for an additional team member to join our Client Service Department as a

Payroll Processor/Client Service Representative.

Seeking Shared Living Provider(s) to support a 25 -year-old man who

enjoys comic books, movies and activities in the community.

work and/or counseling. Pets are very welcome! Compensation: $25,500 manage ongoing projects is necessary. Attention to detail is a tax-free annual stipend. must. Candidates prior payroll experience experience as well Candidates must must havehave prior payroll as as well as customer service customer service experiencestrong and possess strong communication experience and possess communication and organizational skills.

Seeking female Shared Living Provider(s) to support an 18-year-old and organizational skills.

Candidates should also have proven skills and woman, and college Candidates should also have proven troubleshooting be able to student, who enjoys music, drawing and troubleshooting and be able to adapt to new andClient changing adapt to new andskills changing technology.

Our Service playing card games. This individual is looking for a skilled and patient technology. Our Client Representatives work inand a team provider who can provide support as she becomes an adult and continues Representatives workService in a team environment cubicle office setting. environment and cubicle office setting. Experience handling a to build independence. The right provider will have strong boundaries, clear communication and the ability to work as part of a larger team, and large volume of telephone calls, as well as having strong number Experience handling a large volume of telephone calls, as well as tohaving be able provide on-going care and supervision. This would be an ideal skills or prior payroll experience, is required; working knowledge strong number skills or prior payroll experience is required; working opportunity for a professional or graduate student with experience in the of the Evolution payroll software is desirable. Experience with knowledge of the “Evolution” payroll software Experience withand/or counseling. Compensation: $30,000 tax-free field of social work Windows including Word, Excel and Outlook is requiredisasdesirable. well as annualas stipend.

Windows including Word, Excel, and Outlook is required as well strong strong keyboarding skills. keyboarding skills.

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The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks applicants for a part-time School Programs Coordinator to join our Education team and be a part of northern New England’s premier performing arts center.

SCHOOL PROGRAMS COORDINATOR

The School Programs Coordinator is responsible for arranging workshop and conference logistics with teachers and teaching artists, collecting, entering, and reporting on related data, grant tracking, assisting with the marketing and promotion of school programs, and providing support around our lead teachers and visiting artists in schools. The ideal candidate will have very strong organizational skills, the ability to work independently, grace in problem solving, and knowledge of schools and performing arts education.

For a detailed job description and more information, visit our website at

flynncenter.org/about-us/employment-andinternship-opportunities.html.

Please submit application materials by January 8, 2016 to

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 or email hresources@flynncenter.org.

No phone calls, please. EOE.

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Developmental Services

Our Client Service Representatives work closely with our clients to produce This individual is looking for tactful provider(s) with strong boundaries, accurate payrolls utilizing various import methods including data entry, clear communication, and the ability to provide on-going supervision.

Our Client Service Representatives work closely with our Excel worksheets, and time clock imports.

The ability to perform multiple Providers who can help maintain an active and healthy lifestyle clients to produce accurate payrolls utilizing various import are preferred. to This would be an ideal opportunity for a peer-aged tasks efficiently and manage ongoing projects is clock necessary. Attention methods including data entry, Excel worksheets and time professional(s) or graduate student(s) with experience in the field of social detail is a must. imports.

The ability to perform multiple tasks efficiently and

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PayData Workforce Solutions is looking for an additional team member to join our Client Service Department as a Payroll Processor/Client Service Seeking, Shared Living Providers!

Representative.

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION

Alternative health care practice with locations in Northeast Kingdom and Montpelier area seeks committed member to join our team. Computer, office and communication skills required. Attention to detail, ability to multitask and assist patients in a professional manner is critical. Training in the Hardwick area, 15 to 20 hours per week.

Employment primarily in Montpelier area, 20 to 30 hours per week possible as a permanent position.

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We create multi-platform content marketing solutions powered Meredith Corporation brands including EatingWell, Shape, Parents, allrecipes.com, Better Homes and Gardens and others.

Director, Health and Wellness Content Licensing Sales Seeking experienced, results-oriented salesperson to join our content licensing team. Position is responsible for strategic prospecting, proposal development, contracting and ongoing client relationship management. Your clients will be insurance and pharmaceutical companies, corporate wellness providers, tech companies, and other entities looking for content solutions to power their health-focused adherence, patient support, and marketing and advocacy campaigns.

Java/Play/Scala Developer Help build our content delivery software, meal planning products, hosted client solutions and micro service APIs. We use Java/Scala/Play/Spray; Nginx, Varnish, Jenkins integrations, Elastic Search, MySQL, Mongo, git. Competitive compensation, cool work environment and staff lunches from EatingWell test kitchen.

Positions are located at EatingWell offices in Shelburne.

Send resume and cover letter to: jobs@eatingwell.com.

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Vermont Creamery, a small specialty creamery with 30 years of successful business, is now hiring for several positions, as follows:

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IT SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR PRODUCTION/SANITATION WORKERS Good starting wage based on experience. Benefit package includes medical insurance, retirement plan, vacations/paid holidays, training program and cheese privileges.

Mail or stop in for an application at: Vermont Creamery PO Box 95, 40 Pitman Road, Websterville, VT 05678 or apply online at jobs@vermontcreamery.com.

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Retina Center of Vermont is seeking a friendly, motivated Ophthalmic Technician for a full-time position in our South Burlington office.

Qualifying technicians are responsible for patient intake using computerized health records, assisting in office and operating room procedures, and performing retinal image diagnostic testing. Technicians must be able to rotate on emergency call schedules due to the nature of the specialty. Professional certification is preferred but not necessary; some experience in ophthalmology is required.

Please submit a resume to Aaron Mitton,

amitton@retinacentervermont.com

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DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES

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ADMINISTRATIVE

Service Coordinator: To develop, implement and monitor supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families. This position also develops and provides overall coordination for our community integration services.

Excellent supervisory, organizational, interpersonal and communication skills required. Basic schedule is 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday, but must be flexible to respond to emergency situations and some after-hours calls. BA in a human services field, good driving record and clean background checks necessary. Full time with generous benefit package.

EMR/Billing Associate: Maintain client information, submit claims, apply payments, and scan and release client records. Associate’s degree plus one year of relevant experience or a combination of education and experience required.

Attention to detail a must. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position.

Outreach Clinician: Join our dynamic team of clinicians and work in homes, communities and schools with children, adolescents and families with emotional and behavioral challenges and developmental disorders. We’re seeking creative thinkers for this rewarding position. Master’s degree in a human services field, plus two to four years of relevant counseling experience. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position.

EMR Application, Training and Support Specialist: Responsible for electronic medical record system support, testing and troubleshooting. Prepare documentation and provide end user training and EMR help desk assistance.

Assist with testing for upgrades, patches and other system enhancements.

Minimum requirements: associate’s degree or experience consummate with education. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position.

ADULT OUTPATIENT

Care Manager: Seeking a support worker who will provide psychosocial support services in the community to adult clients. Work closely with therapists and emergency team clinicians. Strong candidates will have knowledge of mental health issues, strong social support skills, excellent judgment and familiarity with community resources. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position.

Clinician: Seeking a Vermont-licensed MSW mental health professional with excellent clinical skills for a full-time benefited position. Provide outpatient psychotherapy primarily to adults on a short-term, long-term and/or intermittent basis. Primary program assignments will be providing clinical services to clients enrolled in our Adult Stabilization Crisis Program. LADC licensure is a plus.

Strong assessment skills and a willingness to collaborate with a larger AOP team are critical.

Eldercare Clinician: Excellent opportunity for a passionate individual with MSW seeking to provide psychotherapy to clients for a wide range of mental health and substance abuse issues. Provide outreach services to homebound elders.

Plan individualized treatment and consult with social service organizations, private therapists, physicians and other health care providers to coordinate treatment services. This position offers excellent supervision, flexibility and the opportunity to grow your clinical skills through training!

YOUTH & FAMILY

School-Based Clinician: Provide in-school, direct counseling, behavioral and emotional support to children and adolescents in crisis, with severe emotional and behavioral disturbances. Master’s degree in a human services field required, license preferred, plus two to four years of relevant counseling experience. Fulltime and part-time positions available.

Student Assistance Professional: Interact with students, faculty and parents in local a local high school to raise awareness of substance abuse issues utilizing prevention and counseling techniques to achieve this goal. Screening and some assessment and early intervention; referrals to appropriate care.

Licensed substance abuse clinician or certification as an addictions counselor or apprentice master’s degree in counseling, social work or related field. This position is five days per week during the school year.

Youth Employment Case Manager: Seeking individual dedicated to making a difference in the lives of local youth. Join our JOBS team — Jump On Board for Success! In this role you will provide employment support services for young adults between the ages of 16 to 26 labeled severely emotionally disabled.

Ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with resources inside and outside of the agency, assist with job development, long-term follow-up and provide specialized rehab services. Bachelor’s degree and two to four years relevant experience required.

To learn more about available positions, please visit csac-vt.org or contact Rachael at 388-0302, ext. 415.

Submit resume and cover letter to apply@csac-vt.org. CSAC is a tobacco-free campus.

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ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES Building Cleaning Services Manager Seeking a responsible person who is self-motivated to be our Building Cleaning Services Manager. This job is directly responsible for all cleaning needs throughout the agency’s 60 sites. Besides working with BCS staff, this person oversees contracted cleaning, temporary workers, cleaning performed by program staff, and cleaning performed by clients. Must have strong and diverse supervisory skills and have the ability to communicate clearly orally, electronically and in writing. The demands of this job require flexibility in work hours and the ability to handle multiple tasks. A strong background in commercial and residential cleaning, and knowledge of both routine and complex cleaning is absolutely necessary. Job ID 3013

MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES Are you concerned about the opioid epidemic that is ravaging our state? Want to work in a fast-paced environment with a multidisciplinary team of enthusiastic and caring professionals?

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Full-time at Founder’s Elementary School in Essex, grades 3-5.

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Counselor, Family, IFBS Do you enjoy working with families and providing in-home family work? Intensive Family-Based Services (IFBS) is looking for a regular full-time family counselor to provide short term (13 weeks) intensive in home treatment to families (five hours a week). The goal of IFBS is to prevent out-of-home placement due to mental health crisis, abuse, neglect or emotional disturbance. Experience required: working with families and children, crisis intervention, clinical assessments, team collaboration, strong written and communication skills. Knowledge of trauma-informed care and the impact of substance use/abuse on families is highly desirable. Some evening work is required, and use of a personal vehicle is a must. Job ID 2995

Crisis Stabilization, Clinician, FCBS

The Chittenden Clinic at Howard Center offers opportunities for employment and development across many disciplines, including immediate openings for laboratory technicians, security, social work, and leadership.

Opportunities for growth/advancement. On our Careers website, enter search term “Chittenden Clinic.”

Interested in family work? Howard Center is seeking an energetic, self-directed, part-time (22.5 hours/week) clinician to join our team. Provide short-term, in-home family work to children and families experiencing crisis. This includes assessment, crisis stabilization, case management and timely documentation. This position is fast-paced and involves some evening hours and use of a personal vehicle. The ideal candidate will be skilled in providing astute clinical assessment and be knowledgeable about community resources. Master’s degree and 2-3 years of experience in children’s mental health required. Significant exposure to trauma-informed care and exciting professional development opportunities are waiting for the right candidate. Job ID 3007

CHILD, YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES

DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES

Autism Interventionist

Intensive Community Support Worker, Floater, Adult and Family Floater

Join Howard Center to work full-time with children ages 2-21 years with autism spectrum disorders. Provide intensive behavioral intervention services in public schools, homes and community settings. Training and ongoing supervision provided. Excellent professional development opportunity. Transportation required. Bachelor’s degree and some experience with children and/or special needs necessary. Job ID 1376

Clinician, School Services Four positions available! All positions are school-based mental health positions that are cohires between Howard Center and the school district served. Clinicians provide various mental health, consultation and case management services while utilizing a school social work model.

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Part-time with K-5 students in Burlington: 24-hour/week at the Sustainability Academy (16 hours) and Champlain Elementary School (8 hours) in Burlington. Job ID 2948

Intensive Community Support Workers provide community-based specialized one-toone support and opportunities to multiple clients who possess a range of intellectual disabilities. Patience, relationship-building skills, and boundary-setting are necessary skills for this position, as some individuals you will work with have challenging behaviors. Other individuals may require assistance with personal care. Candidates must possess good judgment, independent decision-making and crisis-management skills. At least three years of experience in human services, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skill has been acquired. Knowledge and skills in deescalation techniques strongly desired. Candidates must have a vehicle and driver’s license. The schedule is 40 hours per week. This is an excellent opportunity for those interested in the medical field, psychology or social work. Job ID 3009

For more information, please visit howardcentercareers.org.

Howard Center offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental, and life insurance, as well as generous paid time off for all regular positions scheduled 20-plus-hours-per-week.

Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the online application should feel free to contact Human Resources at 488-6950 or hrhelpdesk@howardcenter.org.

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Our mission is to help children thrive by empowering families to break cycles of poverty, addiction and abuse. Lund offers hope and

Champlain Community Services

opportunity to families through education,

CCS is a growing, not for profit human service organization with a strong emphasis on employee and consumer satisfaction.

treatment, family support and adoption. Lund offers competitive pay and paid training,

Community Inclusion Facilitators

extensive time off accrual, and 11 paid holidays per year as well as a full benefit package including health, dental, life and disability insurance and retirement for full-time employees. EEO/AA

We are currently offering several benefitted part time positions supporting folks in the community and at their workplace. This is an excellent job for applicants entering human services as well as those looking to continue their work with people.

PRESCHOOL TEACHER

FULL- AND PART-TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE. Lund’s five-star accredited early childhood education program provides children with an environment that creates a love of learning, fosters creativity and promotes positive social/emotional development in a play-based center practicing emergent curriculum. Join an incredible team that believes in laughter, the importance of fun, community-oriented activities and non-stop learning.

Responsibilities include: love, nurture and respect every child as a unique individual; develop a positive relationship with parents and communicate with them on a daily basis; contribute ideas to weekly curriculum and monthly staff meetings; and provide a safe, clean and positive classroom environment. Lund’s Preschool is a collaborative and supportive team of educators and daily planning time is available. The right candidate will be passionate, inspired and committed to working with a dedicated group of professionals. Among many things, Lund values imagination, curiosity, exploration and discovery. Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education (or related field) and experience working with children and families required.

We would love to have you here during this exciting time of growth!

If you are interested in joining our supportive team and making an impact on the lives of others, send your leter of interest and resume to Karen Ciechanowicz, staff@ccs-vt.org.

Champlain Community Services 512 Troy Avenue Colchester, VT 05446.

(802) 655-0511. ccs-vt.org

LEAD COUNSELOR Full-time position working primarily 9am-5pm Monday through Friday, with one early evening shift weekly. Lead Counselor will provide parenting and life skill education and support as well as emotional assistance to pregnant and/or parenting women and their children in a transitional housing program. The Lead Counselor serves as primary weekly daytime representative for the program and acts as liaison for multiple other partner agencies interacting with the program and clients. Excellent opportunity to participate in a team approach to support young families and coordination of services and resources. Bachelor’s degree in human services related field or five years relevant experience required. Ability to work both with a team and independently, knowledge of community resources to support young families, and flexibility are a must. Solid attention to detail, ability to multi-task, and strong written and verbal communication skills required.

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RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR

Evening, Weekend, and Awake Overnight Shifts: FULL- AND PART-TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE. Counselors provide crucial parent education and life skill support to pregnant and parenting women and their children in a residential treatment setting. Shifts include evening, awake overnight and weekend hours. Ideal for those with alternative schedules and night owls! Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in human services related field and experience providing care to young children; ability to multi-task, work in fast-paced environment, flexibility and adaptability needed. Looking for a candidate who is a quick problem-solver and able to work independently during non-traditional hours. Experience working in residential treatment setting preferred. Valid driver’s license required. Shift differential offered. Great opportunity to work with a strong team of professionals in a fun and fast-paced environment. Ongoing training opportunities available. Starting $14-$16 per hour plus shift differential for certain hours. Sub positions also available.

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Staff Assistant Our Chittenden Central Supervisory Union Property Services Division is seeking a skilled office administrator to effectively serve and assist the property services director by coordinating and performing a variety of skilled bookkeeping duties and key administrative and clerical support functions. The position also involves managing the use and rental of school facilities and will serve as the liaison with other schools/departments within the district as well as other external constituents. For more information about duties and qualifications, please go to schoolspring.com and enter Job ID 2159884.

Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. This opening and others are updated daily.

TRIO/Upward Bound Program Manager - #S515PO - The University of Vermont is seeking a skilled professional to administer the TRIO/Upward Bound program. This individual manages office functions, delivery of services to students, budgets, grant writing, programming, and supervision of staff. Master's degree with three years experience in a university student learning setting or secondary school setting required, or an equivalent combination, to include familiarity with TRIO programs and the unique needs of TRIO students, knowledge of how students learn, and demonstrated success at proposal writing. Must have demonstrated commitment to diversity, social justice, and multiculturalism and demonstrated ability to work well with people; to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; to develop, manage, and evaluate complex programs, including budgeting and using technology effectively. Commitment to diversity and inclusion required.

For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit our website at: www.uvmjobs.com; Job Hotline #802-656-2248; telephone #802-656-3150. Applicants must apply for positions electronically.

Paper resumes are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Applications, from women, veterans, individuals with disabilities and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes seeks a full-time Program Director to provide leadership and oversight to the club’s overall program. Responsibilities will include planning, development and implementation of programs and activities; supervision of program staff and volunteers; establishing strategies for recruitment and retention of youth; and program-related administrative duties.

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Minimum five years of experience working with children required, college degree strongly preferred. Competitive compensation including generous benefit package.

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Join the team that brings public health to local communities! We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated professional to apply their strengths across the public health spectrum. This leadership position in the Division of Local Health holds primary responsibility for essional sought to lead the Vermont Department of Tourism oversight of the health department’s district offices and ensures effective partnerships between blic andthese trade relations efforts. central This office mission-critical position local offices and the department’s programs. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated success in personnel management, supervision, problem solving, communication, nerate facilitation, positiveassessment, tourism-related coverage of Vermont in the planning and evaluation. Additionally, candidates must be comfortable national The Director of with Communications is at a withmarketplace. a range of public health topics and interacting the public health infrastructure variety of levels.

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The Watershed Restoration Manager will provide technical of a proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan. This leadership to the Vermont chapter by planning, prioritizing, coordinating, implementing, and monitoring river and stream port toDMH the ACTIVITY Commissioner of Tourism & Marketing.

THERAPIST protection and restoration projects at the watershed scale statewide, including floodplain forest and wetland protection and restoration and associated hydrologic restoration. Projects may include reclamation of marginal agricultural lands, restoration of aquatic connectivity, enhancement of aquatic organism passage and flood resilience, and removal of tributary and main-stem dams.

The qualified candidate will develop and implement strategies, manage complex projects, employ a full assortment of protection and restoration tools, and actively engage and coordinate a broad range of public and private partners, including NGOs, agencies, municipalities and landowners.

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progress. Must either be an RN or possess a bachelor’s or master’s degree in psychology, counseling or a related field. This is a full-time position, Thursday through Monday, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. For ng samples and a minimum of threeat references should beReference Job ID more information, contact Mark Holderbach mark.holderbach@vermont.gov. #618065.

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We have a fantastic office environment located in Montpelier and offer a competitive salary with great benefits. Bachelor’s degree and five years related experience or equivalent combination required. For a complete position description and to apply, visit nature.org/careers and search “Vermont”. The application deadline is midnight EST January 5, 2016.

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Two Nursing Clinical Associates Vermont Technical College is currently seeking candidates for two Nursing Clinical Associate positions in our ADN Nursing program on the Williston campus working at the University of Vermont Medical Center. Each is a part-time position working in the clinical setting two days per week, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The Clinical Associate provides clinical instruction to students, assisting them to apply concepts learned in the classroom to patient care in clinical areas. The clinical associate serves as a liaison between the College and the clinical agencies.

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Qualified candidates will possess a master’s degree in nursing with significant experience and must demonstrate excellent communication and teaching skills. Individuals with a completed BSN who can demonstrate current enrollment in a master’s degree nursing program will be considered. We offer a competitive hourly rate and the opportunity to mentor future nursing students in a spacious, state-ofthe art facility. These positions do not include a benefits package.

Immediate openings Location: Hinesburg Community School

Intensive Paraeducator CSSU seeks a full-time, energetic paraprofessional to join our special education team. We are looking for a skilled, caring individual to provide intensive support in the areas of multilayered curriculum or curriculum overlapping, communication, behavior and activities of daily living across school settings to a student in our K-8 program. Candidate will be an advocate of inclusive education, a problemsolver and strong collaborator, and a positive team member. Ability to promote child growth and foster independence and a willingness to learn are essential. Please note that lifting is a requirement of this job. Position could include supporting students on the bus ride to or from school.

Vermont Technical College delivers instruction at four traditional campuses (Bennington, Brattleboro, Randolph Center and Williston).

There are also distinct “hybrid” campuses that deliver instruction via telepresence classrooms to the following communities: Lyndonville, Morrisville, Newport, St. Albans, Springfield and White River Junction.

Our students tend to be “nontraditional,” many coming to our program with degrees and experience in other fields. While there is diversity among our students’ backgrounds, there is a common goal to obtain nursing knowledge. Our students perform exceptionally well on licensure exams, with pass rates for the NCLEX PN at 96 percent and pass rates for the NCLEX RN at 94 percent .

Autism Specialist

To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume and required Vermont Tech employment application to jobs@vtc.edu. The employment application can be found on our website, vtc.edu. Please also visit for all current staff and faculty employment opportunities at the college.

CSSU is seeking an Autism Specialist for the remainder of the 2015-16 school year.

Experience and skill in the area of development, implementation and evaluation of both behavioral and academic programming within an inclusive model. Seeking an individual who is skilled in working collaboratively with a dynamic team and id passionate about working with this population of students.

Vermont Tech strongly encourages applications from members of ethnic minority groups and other under-represented backgrounds. Vermont Tech is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of the Vermont State College system. In compliance with ADA requirements, we will make reasonable accommodations for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant.

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The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks applicants for teaching artists in hip-hop dance, breakdance, and vocal/ singing technique to join our teaching faculty and be a part of northern New England’s premier performing arts center.

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Teaching Artists are responsible for planning and leading lessons, collaborating with other instructors and administrators, and evaluating and refining courses. The ideal candidate will have several years of relevant teaching experience, familiarity with youth and child development, classroom management skills, and strong communication skills. We encourage you to submit your resume as a Teaching Artist even if the genre you teach is not one of our current openings.

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Who we are: Tata Harper Skincare is the world’s leading manufacturer of high-performance 100 percent natural and nontoxic skin care. Located in the Champlain Valley, Tata Harper manufactures and distributes a full line of anti-aging skin care and cosmetics to a devout fan base of customers, celebrities and influencers of all stripes. We’re using technology (web, mobile, tablet, social) to radically innovate the experience of shopping for luxury skin care online, and we’re searching for a passionate new to join our team and be a part of that mission.

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Tata Harper Skincare - Whiting

Who you are: You’re a passionate digital designer who can apply your creative design skills to multiple projects including email, landing pages, social media and digital advertising. You’ve got a keen sense for our aesthetic because you’ve already pored over our website and social media pages. You have an interest in the luxury market and are familiar with our channels of distribution and the competitive online business. You are artistic in your career and hobbies but can perform commercially at work. You know how to communicate value, understand the importance of hierarchy of messaging, can take feedback (and adapt quickly) and are action oriented. You can manage a timeline, piece of cake! You are a self-starter and work well collaborating in a fast-paced environment. You have an eye for detail and are exciting and excitable.

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 or email hresources@flynncenter.org.

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Policy Advocate and Organizer Campaign for Vermont is hiring a Policy Advocate to act as our representative in Montpelier during the legislative session and to keep CFV’s extensive network informed and engaged.

• Work primarily on email and other web projects • Brainstorm campaigns with members of the marketing and product teams • Manage and organize creative assets

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• Curate photography and manipulate images in Photoshop

This is a limited-term, part-time position beginning in January and ending when the legislature adjourns in May or June.

• Design and source packaging for online exclusives

• A passion for taking our aesthetic to the next level

This is a remote position, working mostly from inside the Statehouse, but it includes some on-the-road effort as well as weekly updates to our email network and maintenance of our social media efforts.

• A strong digital portfolio

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Maintain consistent focus on Campaign for Vermont’s policy priorities including sustainable budgeting, education reform and government ethics by lobbying our representatives and senators.

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Attending to relationships with our donors.

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To support our mission, we are looking for an individual who can take on a leading role in SQL report writing and database administration. Candidate will be expected to be an active participant in current and future internal IT systems and projects.

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Network Specialist NetworkSecurity Security Specialist CVPH offers a competitive salary package that includes health and wellness benefits, paid time off, continuing education incentives, employee discounts and more!

Requirements Bachelor's degree in IT related field or equivalent work experi­ ence

Responsibilities • Design, implementation and maintenance of data loss preven­ tion, HIPAA auditing and patient information security systems

Minimum 10 years experience performing design, configuration, • Develop and follow best practices and standards around security of installation of large LAN's and patient information.

WAN's Minimum 4 years experience handling high level confidential information Network security and disaster recovery experience

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Technical experience of Microsoft Windows Server

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Experience with SQL 2012-2014 and Microsoft SQL SSRS

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To apply please visit our website at marathon-health.com and upload your resume under careers/positions.

Marathon Health is a tobacco and drug free work environment. We value the richness diversity brings to our workforce and are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and provider (EOE).

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protective veteran status.

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Career Opportunities OFFICE BOOKKEEPER Part-time bookkeeper to assist ASSISTANT

Finance/Property Part-time experienced Office Administrator. Responsible Assistant with exceptional for accounts office skills, including payable/receivable, payroll, Microsoft Suite, flexible, financial reporting, general positive personality for small, ledger, records management; collaborative team at Excel, standard accounting Rock Point practice experience required, Burlington.

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Research Project on Decision Making Group will meet on Monday and Tuesday, January 11 and 12, 2016 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Complimentary food and beverages will be served.

Burlington area.

18 years or older.

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CHT is a socially responsible employer offering a competitive salary commensurate with experience. Our benefit package includes training, health insurance, vacation, holiday, sick leave, 403(b), disability and life insurance. Submit a cover letter and resume by January 8th to Human Resources, Champlain Housing Trust, 88 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email HR@champlainhousingtrust.org. No phone calls, please.

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Now, closures: Elsewhere in Handy-Land, DON JOHNSON, PATRICK STEWART and SAM HANDY JR. abruptly closed the Stowe location of Grazers on December 10. The restaurant — the second iteration of the Handys’ locavore burger joint — opened in early July.

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First, openings: In Jeffersonville, the Martell family will open Martell’s at the Red Fox in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The new pub and sports bar at 87 Edwards Road replaces the El Dorado Tavern, which closed in October after about a year in business.

At Martell’s, MATT MARTELL (most recently of IDLETYME BREWING, which replaced Crop Bistro & Brewery in Stowe this summer) will handle the cooking. His menu will bring pub favorites: nachos, potato skins (with optional chili or pulled pork), wings, artichoke dip, mussels and sandwiches.

Once the restaurant opens, Martell says he expects to start serving weekend brunch within a month or so.

The bar will pour a handful of draft beers — most of them local — and stock a formidable list of bottled suds, plus wines and cocktails. An open stage area will host local bands and other live entertainment on weekends. “We’re hoping people come for the music and the bar scene,” Martell tells Seven Days, noting the pub’s several big-screen TVs. Come summer, the Martells plan to take advantage of their picturesque location just off Route 108 to offer al fresco horseshoes and volleyball and perhaps shows on an outdoor stage.

The new pub’s opening date remains TBD, pending approval of a few final permits; check the restaurant’s Facebook page for updates.

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Fairest of Them A l « P.46 Pendergrast’s meeting with Seven Days on a chilly December afternoon could not have been more thematically appropriate to his book. The conversation began at Winooski’s Tiny Thai Restaurant and continued up the block at Scout & Co. café — where, ironically, the drink of choice was hot black tea.

Pendergrast joked that his next book would be about tea to complete the caffeine trifecta; actually, it’s about the racial and cultural politics of his hometown, Atlanta, and he hopes to complete it by summer.

Despite his choice of beverage, the author emphasized that Doi Chaang’s beans make for a terrific cup of coffee.

He called it “balanced … with a nice acidity, but not too high, so you feel a little snap in your mouth. It’s got a little taste of chocolate … and a little citrusy taste to it. It’s very similar in some ways to [Hawaii’s] Kona coffee: There’s nothing that really stands out, except that it’s a really well-balanced cup.”

Beyond Fair Trade started life as one of the many articles on coffee that Pendergrast has written for Wine Spectator since 2006. (Oenophiles are predisposed to tannic flavors, so a coffee column in a wine magazine isn’t as out of place as it may seem.) Before writing that article in 2012, Pendergrast had never heard of Doi Chaang Coffee, but cursory research suggested it might make for a good story.

“I was just fascinated with the Akha, who don’t have any written language and who have a very rich culture and tradition,” said Pendergrast. “That’s

what really attracted me to this, in addition to the coffee angle.” Over more than two years of research and three trips to Thailand, the story only became more complex and compelling.

Two protagonists emerge from the book’s narrative. One is John Darch, a Canadian investor with business interests in Thailand. The other, the late Akha entrepreneur Wicha Promyong, was the driving force behind the establishment of Doi Chaang and the man who realized that planting coffee could pave the way toward independence for his people.

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EVERY POUND OF BEANS THAT DOI CHAANG SELLS REPRESENTS ANOTHER STEP TOWARD ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY FOR THE AKHA PEOPLE.

Coffee was, if nothing else, a safer and more profitable crop than the opium poppies that once grew on Akha land. Not only did drug kingpins sop up most of the profits from that problematic plant, but the Akha sometimes paid for their crop with their lives.

Pendergrast depicts Wicha (as he was known) as a garrulous and

food+drink FROM BEYOND FAIR TRADE Wicha’s vision continued to grow. Not only would the Akha grow superior coffee, eventually, the beans would become as well known and sought after worldwide as Hawaiian Kona and Jamaican Blue Mountain beans. – e Akha would not be subservient peons working for others. – ey would not be like the coffee slaves of the past. – ey would take charge of their own coffee, their own destiny.

Wicha now lived much of the time in a small thatched hut built for him in [the village of] Doi Chaang, as he and the Akha created their coffee enterprise. His wife and children, down in Chiang Rai, missed him, but they had grown used to his long absences…

Wicha hated the chemical pesticides and fertilizers that the Akha had been sold to grow vegetables, because such products put them into an endless cycle of debt and harmed their health and the environment. – e chemicals also flowed in water down the mountain and affected other villages. He wanted the Akha to grow organic coffee. Patchanee taught them to plant taller shade trees among the coffee plants not only to provide the shade required to allow the beans to develop properly, but also to “fix” nitrogen by taking it from the air and converting it to ammonium to enrich the soil. – e falling leaves from the trees would provide humus, and many of them, such as macadamia or banana trees, were themselves cash crops.

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colorful character who labored indefatigably to bring a profitable plantation to a remote area of a country not typically associated with coffee production.

Doi Chaang grows its coffee plants using traditional methods, under shade trees, a practice that goes well beyond environmental friendliness. “They have reforested the entire mountainside, and biodiversity has returned,” said Pendergrast.

“Wicha used to live in a little grass hut, until the pythons returned — in his bed!”

After investing in Doi Chaang, Darch gave half of the company to the Akha, whose directors have continued to steer it toward and beyond national success. More than 300 Doi Chaang coffeehouses have sprung up in Southeast Asia; Pendergrast called the company “the Starbucks of Thailand.”

Doi Chaang coffee has begun to make inroads in Western nations, too: One can buy it in Canadian cafés and order it online in the U.S. Pendergrast and the directors of Doi Chaang Coffee aren’t the only ones who believe that the fair-trade model could use adjustment to yield even more benefits to small farming operations in impoverished countries. The co-owner of the café where Pendergrast met with Seven Days expressed the same opinion.

The coffees that Tom Green and his Scout & Co. colleagues sell at their three (soon to be four) Burlington-area shops are labeled direct trade. Green called fair trade “a step in the right direction, but I think it falls short of where it needs to be.”

Green’s chief issue with the fairtrade system is that its guarantees are not sufficiently specific or traceable.

“We don’t know how much of [the money we pay for coffee] is making it back to the families, how much of it is going back to the co-ops, what the co-ops are doing with that money,” he said. “What we’re trying to do is trade directly with small farmers so we know where the money is going, exactly. We’re not just giving them money … like a charity case. We’re actually involved in the process of what’s going on in their farms, and in their lives, as well.”

In Beyond Fair Trade Trade, Pendergrast details how the success of Doi Chaang has redounded to the Akha people in the form of infrastructural investments: new roads, schools, water filtration plants. Exactly the kind of quality-of-life improvements to which Green referred.

Just before Pendergrast left the café, he and Green spoke about how they might collaborate to put Doi Chaang coffee into the hands of Scout & Co.’s coffee pros.

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Snyder grew up on a dairy farm in the hamlet Clarence Center outside of Buffalo, N.Y. The second of 12 children, she landed in Burlington in 1976 and picked up a job waitressing at Bove’s.

Aside from two maternity leaves, she’s worked at the restaurant ever since. “[Bove’s] was owned by four brothers and a sister,” she recalled in an email exchange, “and I quickly became fond of them all.”

Snyder met her husband of 31 years through a coworker. As the years rolled by, she took on more responsibility at the restaurant, training servers and bar staff. She also stirred sauces and answered phones, packed to-go orders, and set and reset table after table. She got to know her guests, watched their families grow (and sometimes “shrink again,” she noted) and memorized orders for hundreds of regulars.

Right down to her last shift this week, Snyder devoted herself to the job. (With work, family and the approaching holidays, she couldn’t find time to meet in person for an interview.)

“I have very few moments to think or talk or breathe lately,” she wrote in a 6:30 a.m. email one morning last week. “This is the only private time in my day!” In the thousand words that followed, Snyder reflected on her past: on the restaurant; its owners and customers; on life in Burlington, past and present; and on her own life, which has followed a restaurant-hours schedule since she was twentysomething.

“I need to get ready for the day,” she concluded. “You know where I am.”

Excerpts from Snyder’s memories follow.

SEVEN DAYS: Tell me about your early days at Bove’s.

MARTHA SNYDER: It was busy; we went in at 8:30 a.m. to clean and restock and peel garlic. A lot of us worked split shifts — [we’d] work lunch and [then return] for dinner. The café was open until 11 p.m., and even if someone came in at 10 of [11], they were served.

I was one of the youngest servers. I loved Burlington — it felt smaller then, and more connected. I walked everywhere, often alone, and never thought anything of it.

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She and her sisters had all worked at the restaurant, and it’s a friendship I cherish to this day. We would go to Finbar’s [a former bar/café] between [shifts] and have lunch and shop at Expressions.

Such a time!

SD: Is this your only job?

MS: I have been a volunteer at the Restorative Justice Center in St. Albans for almost nine years — I am very concerned about at-risk young adults. That’s a career I would focus on if I weren’t doing this.

SD: Did you take time off when you had children?

MS: I took time off when Joel III was born and was asked back the following spring. Seven years later, our son Sam was born — my water actually broke at the restaurant when I was six months pregnant. I took another year off because he was three months premature.

I often thought of finishing school, but my husband was beginning his electrical business (he’s a master electrician and sound engineer), and the time wasn’t right. Finally, two years ago, after both my sons received their degrees, I earned mine — an associate in human services from Community College of Vermont — one of Vermont’s finest institutions. Now I am working towards my BA at Johnson State College.

SD: What is your favorite dish at the restaurant?

MS: My favorite sauce is the vodka sauce — I could eat it plain in a little bowl! I’m not a pasta person; I was never served pasta growing up. [And] I had never seen a veal patty until I worked here. Also, the white garlic sauce is overlooked. That’s a winner!

Sometimes I bring veggies from home and pour it on.

SD: What’s something important you learned from your years at Bove’s?

MS: Dick Bove taught me a lot about running a business and how to be fair-minded. He always gives people chances, people that could get overlooked. I so admire him for that.

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SD: What did you like most about the job?

MS: My greatest joys have been the servers I’ve hired, trained and remained close to upon leaving — we stay in touch.

I have watched children grow up and marry and come back with their own young families. I have been part of people’s lives for so many years, they regard me as one of their [own]. I could easily see hundreds of people in a week whose dining habits I’ve come to know, and whose names I know.

SD: How have people’s tastes changed since the 1970s? Are the same things popular now as then?

MS: Back in the day, spaghetti and meatballs was the definite go-to dish.

Now a lot of people prefer Mark’s lasagna, or some of his fabulous signature sauces. It does seem as though people are willing to spend more now than they did when I began.

SD: What will you do when the restaurant closes?

MS: I don’t plan on retiring, but I will take the winter months to breathe a bit.

I want to spend some quality time with my mother, who built a house on the land my family owns. [It’s] across from the farmhouse we were raised in, where one of my sisters now lives. And enjoy some good Buffalo snowstorms. A lot of my [siblings] are in the area there, so I can be with them.

We have two amazing granddaughters who live in Fairfax, and I want to be here in Georgia with my family and be home at night for dinner. Catch the sunsets.

I want to be able to do things on Saturdays!

SD: Any possibility of staying on at the company once things start in Milton?

MS: I would consider it an honor to work with Mark at the plant in the spring, but I’ll enjoy the down time in between. I have movies to catch up on and some writing I’ve been trying to do, and remodeling at home.

SD: What will you miss about the restaurant?

MS: I will so miss the people.

Sometimes I go in early, and the café is dark and quiet, and all you can hear is the ice machine. [Then] I realize it’s the clientele and the staff that light [the place] up, that give it spirit, and I know how very, very much I will miss that. m Contact: hannah@sevendaysvt.com

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Likewise, South Burlington’s WOODEN SPOON BISTRO remains alive and well, reports co-owner LIZA O’BRIEN. “We’ve been getting a lot of calls from people wondering if we’re still open, or if we’re for sale, or what,” she says.

“It’s been ridiculous.”

Most of those calls stem from the departure of WSB chef-co-owner ADAM RAFTERY. He headed to Manchester Center to serve as executive chef at the COPPER GROUSE at Taconic, a swanky new hotel from San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, which opened in November.

But that did not spell the end for the Wooden Spoon or its sister restaurant, Burlington’s ST. PAUL STREET GASTROGRUB. When Raftery left, sous chef JAKE DENNY took over the kitchen, O’Brien says. In fact, she notes, WSB has added fun new features, including a weekend pub menu — burgers, wings and other downscale snacks — and live music on Fridays and Saturdays. m

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chocolatier had closed “People keep coming up to me like, ‘Oh, are you still open in Middlesex?

I thought you were closed.’ At first I thought people were confused, and then it kept happening,” she says.

For the record, Nutty Steph’s retail storefront beside RED HEN BAKING remains open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., selling handmade chocolate, granola and other sweet treats.

Those include a wildly popular new Bernie Bar made with Ecuadorian dark chocolate and a “liberal amount” of sea salt.

Are Top Vermont Restaurants Closing?” The article mentioned that the Richmond restaurant is up for sale; Johnston says he keeps hearing from readers who jumped to the conclusion that it has closed. So let it be known, without equivocation, that both Kitchen Table Bistro and its sister café, PARKSIDE KITCHEN, are still open!

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GETTING STUFF DONE WORK PARTY: Set an intention, complete a task and celebrate your accomplishment in a comfortable atmosphere. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

MEN’S GROUP: A positive environment encourages socializing and involvement in senior center activities. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 223-2518.

crafts

KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

dance

AFROLATIN PARTY: Dancers ages 18 and up get down to the kizomba, kuduro and kompa with DsantosVT. Zen Lounge, Burlington, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; party, 8-10 p.m. $6-12; free for party. Info, 227-2572.

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: Beginners are welcome at a groove session inspired by infectious beats.

Swan Dojo, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $13. Info, 540-8300.

GUINEAN DANCE: Sidiki Sylla leads mixed-level lessons in African steps. Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 5:30-7 p.m. $13-15. Info, 859-1802.

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon-1 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

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‘THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN’: Young Manuel does everything in his power to recover his beloved soccer ball from a Columbian mine field in this 2010 drama. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: Stunning aerial shots and narration by Harrison Ford propel this 2D and 3D salute to the marvels of modern air travel. Northfield Savings Bank ° eater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:45 a.m. & 1:45 & 3:45 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $10.50-13.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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BRIDGE CLUB: Strategic players have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722.

health & fitness

DANCE-BASED CONDITIONING: Melissa Ham-Ellis leads a series of stretching and strengthening movements. No dance experience is required.

Fusion 802 Dance, South Burlington, 7:15-8:15 p.m. $15. Info, 444-0100.

FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with interval training. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 7-8 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

GENTLE YOGA WITH JILL LANG: Students get their stretch on in a supportive setting. Personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: Attendees deepen their understanding of Buddhist principles and practices.

Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694.

MINDFUL WORKWEEKS: WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEDITATION: Give your brain a break at a midweek “om” session followed by tea and conversation.

Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.

MINDFULNESS CLASS: Dogma-free meditative techniques lead to peace, joy and freedom.

Exquisite Mind Studio, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-20. Info, 735-2265.

MORNING FLOW YOGA: Start your day with a grounding and energizing class for all levels. ° e Wellness Collective, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 540-0186.

NIA WITH LINDA: World music and movements drawn from martial, dance and healing arts inspire folks to find their own paths to fitness. South End Studio, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. $14. Info, 372-1721.

POSTNATAL REHAB: Babies are welcome at a class aimed at strengthening the areas most compromised during pregnancy. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

PRENATAL BALLET BARRE: Expectant mothers in all trimesters stay strong and fit. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: Moms-to-be prepare their bodies for labor and delivery. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

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Want to nab the best seat in the house? Arrive early and strap on snowshoes for a guided hike up the Bull Run trail, where an aerial view awaits.

TORCHLIGHT PARADE & FIREWORKS DISPLAY Saturday, December 26, meet for hike, 6 p.m.; kids meet for parade, 6:30 p.m., at Clock Tower Base Area, Okemo Mountain Resort, in Ludlow. Free; $15 for snowshoe rentals; $15 for kids’ parade; preregister. Info, 228-1600. okemo.com

DEC.27 | ETC. Step Right Up Come one, come all! Centered on a freestanding aerial sculpture, the acrobats, contortionists and dexterous jugglers of Nimble Arts create a gravitydefying dreamworld in Mirage! A Circus Life. Audience members of all ages are drawn into an alternate reality constructed through poetry, music and stunning physical feats, where performers manipulate the laws of physics with jaw-dropping results. Boasting talent from renowned outfits such as Cirque du Soleil, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, the eightperson, Brattleboro-based ensemble inspires endless shock and awe. Trapeze artists, aerialists and clowns present a high-flying exploration of identity, community and diversity at the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center.

‘MIRAGE! A CIRCUS LIFE’ Sunday, December 27, 7 p.m., at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort. $2048. Info, 760-4634. sprucepeakarts.org

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The Young Tradition Touring Group is tapping into the universal language of music. Twenty members strong, the section of Young Tradition Vermont presents a preview of its upcoming concert tour of the American West Coast and Ireland, showing off instrumental, dancing and singing chops. Featuring auditioned performers ages 12 through 20, a dynamic program breathes new life into folk music from the United States and Québec, and even boasts a “Kentucky-ized” Irish tune. As member Addison White says on the YTV website, “Young Tradition Vermont does an incredible job of making connections through music, from England to Scotland, to Ireland, to New England, to Québec — connections that bring people together.”

YOUNG TRADITION TOURING GROUP Monday, December 28, 7 p.m., at High School Campus, Lake Champlain Waldorf School, in Shelburne. $10. Info, 233-5293. youngtraditionvermont.org

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R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensi y physical-fitness program. No th End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: A stretching session for all ability levels builds physical and mental strength to support healing. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

VINYASA FLOW YOGA: Breathe in, breathe out!

Students explore a breath-centered practice. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $10.

Info, 540-0186.

ZUMBA: Lively Latin rhythms fuel this dancefitness phenomenon for a l experience levels.

Vergennes Opera House, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 349-0026.

holidays

BLUEBIRD FAIRIES HOLIDAY SHOP: Fairy card readings with artist Emily Anderson offer insight to shoppers who browse her whimsical wares. E1 Studio Collective, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 238-4540.

CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: Families celebrate the holidays 19th-century-style with ornament making and baked treats. See calendar spotlight.

Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $4-14; free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

HELPING HANDS GIFT WRAP: Volunteers deck out packages with paper and bows to benefit ANEW Place.

Food Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 9 a.m.9:30 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 729-0133.

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BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Students build a foundation in reading, speaking and writing.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-3403.

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‘TRIBES’: Billy was born deaf to a family that hears but doesn’t listen in this Segal Centre for Performing Arts production. Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 8 p.m. $24.50-59. Info, 514-739-7944.

music

SONG CIRCLE: COMMUNITY SING-ALONG: Rich and Laura Atkinson lead an evening of vocal expression. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

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SLEIGH RIDES: Giddyap! Horses trot folks over snow-covered open fields. Rides lea e every half hour; seats are first come, first s ved. Call to confirm. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $8-10; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 985-8442.

seminars

‘LABOR IN AMERICA’: Joe Mark leads a lively history lesson as part of “The Skeptics Guide to American History” series. Castleton Community Seniors, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 468-3093.

sports

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: Drive to the hoop! Ladies dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition.

See meetup.com for details. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 8-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, carmengeorgevt@ gmail.com.

WILD LIGHTS FESTIVAL: Revelers bask in the glow of illuminated snowflakes, trees and delicately hanging decorations. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $10.5013.50; free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

talks

INPOWER YOGA: Ambitious yogis take on a challenging sequence in a heated studio. The ellness Collective, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0186.

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.23, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist

BLUEBIRD FAIRIES HOLIDAY SHOP: See WED.23, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: See WED.23.

CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER: Festive foodies fête area farmers with a locally sourced supper featuring seasonal meat and veggies. Timbers Restaurant, Warren, 5-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink; preregister.

Info, 538-6800.

HELPING HANDS GIFT WRAP: See WED.23.

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HARDWICK STORY TIME: Kids up to age 6 sit tight for engaging narratives. Jeudevine Memorial Library, Hardwick, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 472-5948.

PLAINFIELD PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Tykes ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 454-8504.

language

‘TRIBES’: See WED.23.

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NEED TO FEED: The Italian eate y closes its doors to paying customers to serve those in need of a hot meal and holiday cheer. Junior’s Downtown, Burlington, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 862-1234.

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RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.23.

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CHRISTMAS DINNER: Traditional, vegetarian and gluten-free dishes please palates in a rustic setting. Timbers Restaurant, Warren, 5-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink; preregister. Info, 538-6800.

COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER: All are welcome to dig into a hearty, festive feast. Hedding United Methodist Church, Barre, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 476-5569.

HOLIDAY DINNER: A scrumptious spread brings community members together. Delivery is available for seniors. Burlington Elks Lodge, noon-3 p.m.

Free; preregister for delivery. Info, 864-7528.

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FORZA: THE SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon.

North End Studio A, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: Twenty minutes of guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviate stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow.

Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

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TODDLER TIME: Puzzles, puppets, art supplies and books entertain tots ages 4 and under. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

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STORY TIME FOR 3- TO 5-YEAR-OLDS: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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COMMUNITY HATHA YOGA: Students move at their own pace in a gentle, reflecti e workout.

South End Studio, Burlington, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $6.

Info, 683-4918.

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Engrossing plots unfold into projects for kids up to age 6 and their grown-ups. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10 11:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

10:00 a.m. Lessons and Carols and Holy Eucharist

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‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: A dolichorhynchops braves history’s most dangerous oceans in a National Geographic Studios 2D and 3D movie. Northfield Savings Bank Theater: A Nationa Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:45 a.m. & 12:45 & 2:45 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $10.5013.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘MARY POPPINS’: A drab family gets a visit from a magical nanny in this beloved musical presented

by Northern Stage. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $15-65. Info, 296-7000.

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MANDARIN CHINESE CLASS: Language lovers practice the dialect spoken throughout northern and southwestern China. Agape Community Church, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 503-2037.

NAFTALI CITRON: The New ork City rabbi explores the intersection FR I of Kabbalah and psycholER .2 5 NN kids I | H OL D IDAYS | CHRISTMAS ogy in “Jung and Kabbalah! The GO FOR A GOAT CHALLENGE: A visit Archetypes of Creativity, Passion, from a live farm animal inspires themed activiWisdom and Darkness: A Wisdom for Living in ties. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m.

Your Depth.” Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 7 Free. Info, 878-6956. p.m. Free. Info, 253-1800.

KIDS’ OPEN GYM: Physical fitness is disguised RUTLAND DEATH CAFÉ: Folks meet for a conversaas fun for little ones ages 6 to 10. Church of the tion about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life.

Nazarene, Williston, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-8591.

Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m.

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OPEN-LEVEL IMPROVISATION: Structured prompts, imagery and partnering forge adaptive problem-solving skills in motion. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. $12. Info, 363-5544.

Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991.

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DEMON & FAIRY DRAWING SESSION: Artist Emily Anderson shares her penand-paper technique for banishing personal demons and celebrating uplifting thoughts. Fairy card readings are available after the drawing event. E1 Studio Collective, Burlington, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 238-4540.

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CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: See WED.23.

HOLIDAY WEEK EVENTS: Indoor and outdoor amusements such as inflatable games, ba loon sculptures, magic shows, ice cream socials and campfires ente tain vacationers young and old. See boltonvalley. com for details. Bolton Valley Resort, 2-7 p.m. $5-8; free for hotel guests. Info, 434-6804.

REINDEER AT ECHO: Animal lovers meet and greet majestic creatures from the Vermont Reindeer Farm. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. & 12:30 & 2 p.m. $10.50-13.50; free for members and kids 2 and under.

Info, 864-1848.

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INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and SAT ’ .2 6 | FIL M | ‘R E D A R M Y playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

TORCHLIGHT PARADE & FIREWORKS DISPLAY: Kids don glow sticks for a snowy parade before resort employees dazzle spectators with a flame-lit excursion down the Open Slope trail. Pyrotechnics follow. See calendar spotlight. Clock Tower Base Area, Okemo Mountain Resort, Ludlow, meet for hike, 6 p.m.; kids meet for parade, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister for kids’ parade. Info, 228-1600.

film

‘LIFE’: LIFE magazine photographer Dennis Stock captures rising star James Dean on film in this 2015 biographical drama. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m. $4-9. Info, 748-2600.

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.23, 11:45 a.m. & 1:45 & 3:45 p.m.

‘MEDITERRANEA’: Shown in French with English subtitles, this 2015 drama follows two men who face life-and-death struggles on their trek from Africa to Italy in search of a better life. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m. $4-9.

Info, 748-2600.

‘RED ARMY’: Part of the Woodstock Vermont Film Series, this 2014 documentary draws parallels between the rise and fall of a star hockey team and the Soviet Union. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 & 5 p.m. $5-11; free for kids under 3.

Info, 457-2355.

WARREN MILLER‘S ‘CHASING SHADOWS’: The biggest names in skiing and snowboarding tackle daunting peaks in this adrenaline-pumping tribute to 66 years of mountain culture and extreme filmmaking. Spruce Peak Pe forming Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the fla or profiles of four di ferent confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

games

NORTHERN VERMONT SCRABBLE CLUB: Wordsmiths use lettered tiles to spell out winning combinations. Panera Bread, Barre, 1-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 524-1801.

health & fitness

CORE YOGA FLOW SERIES: Creative sequencing leads to the perfect combination of movement and relaxation. Students may attend one class or the whole series. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 9:15-10:15 a.m. $5-10. Info, 448-4262.

FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.23, 8-9 a.m.

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POST-HOLIDAY VINYASA YOGA: Students unwind in a class focused on breath, balance, stability and flexibili y. Zenith Studio, Montpelier, 4:30-6 p.m. $16. Info, 598-5876.

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.23, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED. 23, 9-10 a.m.

WILD LIGHTS FESTIVAL: See WED.23.

kids

‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.23, 10:45 a.m. & 12:45 & 2:45 p.m.

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‘TRIBES’: See WED.23.

outdoors

BIRD MONITORING WALK: Experienced ornithology enthusiasts bring binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 8-9 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 434-2167.

SLEIGH RIDES: See WED.23.

TOUR DE MOON: A moonlit ski or snowshoe up Mount Ellen gives way to a gourmet feast. Mt. Ellen Base Lodge, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 4:30 p.m. $60; preregister. Info, 583-6300.

seminars

VCAM’S DIGITAL EDITING CERTIFICATION: Adobe Premiere users get familiar with the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite of VCAM Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor’s permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 651-9692.

theater

‘MARY POPPINS’: See WED.23.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS WITH THE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING: Peaceful people gather for guided meditation and interactive discussions.

Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5-7 p.m. $10.

Info, 540-0820.

OK ABC PRACTICE: A: Who am I? B: What do I want to be? C: How can I change the world? An open meeting explores these inquiries. Battery Park, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 989-9684.

dance

BALKAN FOLK DANCING: Louise Brill and friends organize participants into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. $6; bring snacks to share. Info, 540-1020.

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‘MIRAGE! A CIRCUS LIFE’: Nimble Arts jugglers, contortionists, trapeze artists and others serve up a stunning display of physical skills for the whole family. See calendar spotlight. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $20-48. Info, 760-4634.

film

‘LIFE’: See SAT.26, 1, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.

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outdoors

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.23, 11:45 a.m. & 1:45 & 3:45 p.m.

‘MEDITERRANEA’: See SAT.26, 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.

WARREN MILLER’S ‘CHASING SHADOWS’: See SAT. 26, Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, Stowe, 7-9 p.m. $12. Info, 253-9911, ext. 203.

food & drink

BUTLER LODGE HIKE: Adventurers take on a moderate 3.6-mile hike gaining 1,500 feet in elevation.

Contact trip leader for details. Preregister; limited space. Info, 899-9982.

SLEIGH RIDES: See WED.23, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

sports

CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.26.

health & fitness

MIXED-LEVEL FLOW YOGA: Students may modify postures to meet their individual needs during a sequence of feel-good poses. ™ e Wellness Collective, Burlington, 4:30-5:45 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0186.

NIA WITH SUZY: Drawing from martial, dance and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potentials. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HD LIVE: A broadcast screening of Mozart’s The Magic Flute dazzles opera devotees. Paramount ™ eatre, Rutland, 12:55 p.m. $23. Info, 775-0903.

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CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS: Flutist Denise Ricker and pianist Arthur Zorn hit all the right notes in new arrangements of classic carols.

Bethany United Church of Christ, Randolph, 2 p.m. Donations. Info, 622-0376.

HOLIDAY WEEK EVENTS: See SAT.26, 2-6:30 p.m.

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‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.23, 10:45 a.m., 12:45 & 2:45 p.m.

S’MORE COOKOUT: ™ e young — and young at heart — warm up next to the fire after a long day of skiing and riding. Patio, Gate House Base Lodge, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 583-6300.

DIMANCHES FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

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‘TRIBES’: See WED.23, 2 & 7 p.m.

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ALL WHEEL FOR THE ARTS CAR RAFFLE DRAWING: Feeling lucky? Folks cross their fingers for a variety of high-value prizes, including a car and a Q Burke season pass. Burlington Eagles Club, 1 p.m. $50 per ticket. Info, 748-2000.

RADIO MINGLE: Broadcasters get out from behind the booth to network with fellow radio makers and podcasters. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.23.

film

‘LIFE’: See SAT.26.

Saturday, December 26, 7PM

holidays

CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: See WED.23.

WILD LIGHTS FESTIVAL: See WED.23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

CRUISERS’ & CRAWLERS’ PLAY & STAY STORY TIME: Babies and toddlers up to age 2 engage in books, songs and social time with blocks, bubbles and parachute play. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-6956.

Boston Roots Rock Band Wednesday, December 30, 7:30PM

DROP-IN STORY TIME: Reading, rhyming and crafting entertain creative kiddos. Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313.

MACHINE MADNESS: See SUN.27.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Young’uns have fun with song and dance. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.23, 10:45 a.m. & 12:45 & 2:45 p.m.

STORIES WITH MEGAN: Budding bookworms ages 2 through 5 open their ears for exciting tales.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216.

montréal

‘TRIBES’: See WED.23, 7 p.m.

music

YOUNG TRADITION TOURING GROUP: Regional musicians ages 12 through 20 dole out dancing, singing, fiddle tunes and plenty of heart. See calendar spotlight. High School Campus, Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 7-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 233-5293.

BEETHOVEN’S NINTH SYMPHONY Green Mountain Mahler Festival Saturday, January 2, 7:30PM

outdoors

SLEIGH RIDES: See WED.23, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

sports

CHAD HOLLISTER BAND

RUNNING OF THE BEARS 5K: Mountain views reward runners in a 3.1-mile race. Golf Course, Stratton Mountain Resort, registration, 7:30-8:30 a.m.; race, 9 a.m. $35. Info, 297-4000.

Saturday, January 16, 7:30PM

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art

‘MEDITERRANEA’: See SAT.26.

community

TRIVIA NIGHT: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.

ADAM EZRA GROUP

CRANKIE WORKSHOP: Modern Times ™ eater’s Justin Lander leads little ones in crafting oldfashioned entertainment centers out of paper and wooden frames. Jeudevine Memorial Library, Hardwick, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5948.

SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE PROJECT: See MON.28.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.23, 7 p.m.

Sunday, December 27, 7PM

kids

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.23, 11:45 a.m., 1:45 & 3:45 p.m.

games

MIRAGE! A CIRCUS LIFE

HOLIDAY WEEK EVENTS: See SAT.26, 2-4:30 p.m.

COMEDIAN ETTA MAY Thursday, January 28, 7:30PM

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

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PURE COUNTRY BAND: Music lovers start with food, then dance the afternoon away to toe-tapping tunes. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., meal, noon; band, 1-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 518-643-2309.

SALSA MONDAYS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of the salsa, merengue, bachata and cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572.

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LGBTQ FIBER ARTS GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 860-7812.

OUTDOOR SACRED CIRCLE DANCING: Folks of all ages welcome winter by holding hands and practicing simple dance steps set to music. Call for details. Private residence, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 777-2964.

SLOW FLOW YOGA: Breath guides a series of seated and standing postures aimed at improving balance. ™ e Wellness Collective, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0186.

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MALI DANCE: Students practice their moves in an African dance class led by Solo Sana. Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 5:30-7 p.m. $13-15. Info, 859-1802.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.23.

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MACHINE MADNESS: Gear-savvy families engineer and construct their own links in an oversize, collaborative chain-reaction machine. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 11 a.m. & 12:30 & 2 p.m. Regular admission, $11-14; free for members and kids under 2. Info, 649-2200.

PRENATAL BALLET BARRE: See WED.23.

ZUMBA: See WED.23.

CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: See WED.23.

kids

POSTNATAL REHAB: See WED.23.

theater

SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE PROJECT: Movers, musicians and artsy types develop material for a one-of-a-kind live production.

Zenith Studio, Montpelier, 3:305 p.m. $50-60; preregister. Info, hannasatt@gmail. com.

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PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.23.

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MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.23, 10-11 a.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.23.

WOMEN’S WELLNESS SERIES: YOGA FOR FERTILITY: Women working toward becoming pregnant hit the mat for a relaxing practice. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. $20.

Info, 829-0211.

WILD LIGHTS FESTIVAL: See WED.23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

GENTLE YOGA WITH JILL LANG: See WED.23.

WOMEN’S PICKUP SOCCER: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while connecting passes and making runs for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3.

Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

‘MARY POPPINS’: See WED.23, 2 p.m.

POST-HOLIDAY VINYASA YOGA: See SAT.26.

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TUESDAY VOLUNTEER NIGHTS: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

dance

BEGINNER WEST COAST SWING & BLUES FUSION DANCING: Students get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com.

INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WEST COAST SWING: Experienced dancers learn smooth transitions and smart stylings. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

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GENTLE YOGA WITH JILL LANG: See WED.23.

FIT SA INSIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.23.

NE YA SS | P O ST-H O LID AY V IN PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Melody makers MINDFUL WORKWEEKS: WEDNESDAY ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the mornNIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.23. ing away. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, MINDFULNESS CLASS: See WED.23.

11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 264-5660.

READ TO DAISY THE THERAPY DOG: Budding bookworms join a friendly canine for ear-catching narratives. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.23, 10:45 a.m. & 12:45 & 2:45 p.m.

MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.23, 10-11 a.m.

NIA WITH LINDA: See WED.23.

POSTNATAL REHAB: See WED.23.

PRENATAL BALLET BARRE: See WED.23.

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.23.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.23.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.23.

SHAKE YOUR SOUL INTO THE NEW YEAR: YOGA DANCE: Active bodies leave their mats behind and groove to feel-good music, setting fresh intentions for 2016. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 9:30-11 p.m. $10. Info, 448-4262.

VINYASA FLOW YOGA: See WED.23.

‘LIFE’: See SAT.26, 7:30 p.m.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage folks engage in dialogue en français. ¡Duino! (Duende), Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: See WED.23.

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.23, 11:45 a.m. & 1:45 & 3:45 p.m.

‘MEDITERRANEA’: See SAT.26, 5:30 p.m.

‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’: Audience members are treated to a few of their favorite things in the classic 1965 musical starring Julie Andrews. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018.

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BURLINGTON COCKTAIL WALK: Imbibers mingle with makers of local spirits and bitters over Vermont-inspired libations and light fare. Various downtown Burlington locations, 5:15-7:30 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 922-7346.

health & fitness

BRANDON FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Hop to it! Folks get fit with strength, endurance, agili y and coordination exercises. Otter Valley North Campus Gym, Brandon, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

BUTI YOGA: A fusion of power yoga, tribal dance and deep abdominal toning boosts the flow of e ergy throughout the body. The ellness Collective, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 540-0186.

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.23, 4:30-5:30 & 6-7 p.m.

holidays

BOLSHOI BALLET: ‘THE NUTCRACKER’: The Sugar Plum Fairy twirls across the stage in this professional production, broadcast to the big screen.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-18.

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MACHINE MADNESS: See SUN.27.

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‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

MINDFULNESS CLASS: See WED.23, 12:15-1 p.m.

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GENTLE DROP-IN YOGA: Yogis hit the mat for a hatha class led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.23.

KNIGHTS OF THE MYSTIC MOVIE CLUB: Cinema hounds view campy flicks at this ode to o fbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776.

GAMING FOR TEENS & ADULTS: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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DANCE-BASED CONDITIONING: See WED.23.

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TODDLER STORY TIME: Good listeners up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

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‘FROZEN’: Families lift their voices to “Let It Go” during a screening of this 2013 animated favorite. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 775-0903.

SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different styles, including the Lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.23, 7 p.m.

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CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: See WED.23.

HOLIDAY WEEK EVENTS: See SAT.26, 2-5 p.m.

WILD LIGHTS FESTIVAL: See WED.23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

montréal

‘TRIBES’: See WED.23.

outdoors

SLEIGH RIDES: See WED.23, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

TOUR DE MOON: See SAT.26.

theater

‘MARY POPPINS’: See WED.23, 7:30 p.m.

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SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE PROJECT: See MON.28.

community

GETTING STUFF DONE WORK PARTY: See WED.23.

crafts

KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: See WED.23.

dance

AFROLATIN PARTY: See WED.23.

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.23.

GUINEAN DANCE: See WED.23.

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.23.

film

‘LIFE’: See SAT.26, 1 & 7:30 p.m.

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.23, 11:45 a.m. & 1:45 & 3:45 p.m.

‘MEDITERRANEA’: See SAT.26, 1:30 & 5:30 p.m.

‘MY OLD LADY’: Kevin Kline plays a New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment, live-in tenant and all, in this 2014 comedy. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

games

ADULT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS NIGHT: Quick thinkers 14 and up rely on invented personas to face challenges and defeat enemies. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free.

Info, jmuse@colchestervt.gov.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.23.

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ZUMBA: See WED.23.

holidays

HOLIDAY WEEK EVENTS: See SAT.26, 2-8 p.m.

WILD LIGHTS FESTIVAL: See WED.23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

kids

KIDS’ DUNGEONS & DRAGONS NIGHT: Experienced and novice players ages 9 through 13 take on challenges to defeat enemies in this pen-and-paper role-playing game. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, jmuse@colchestervt.gov.

KIDS’ OPEN GYM: See WED.23.

MACHINE MADNESS: See SUN.27.

‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.23, 10:45 a.m. & 12:45 & 2:45 p.m.

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: See WED.23.

TODDLER TIME: See WED.23.

TRAVELING STORYTELLERS: “The Gingerbread Boy” captivates kiddos with songs and puppets.

Jeudevine Memorial Library, Hardwick, 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 472-5948.

language

BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.23.

montréal

‘TRIBES’: See WED.23.

music

ADAM EZRA GROUP: Roots-rock rings out courtesy of this socially conscious crew. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $20-40. Info, 760-4634.

outdoors

SLEIGH RIDES: See WED.23, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

sports

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: See WED.23.

theater

‘MARY POPPINS’: See WED.23.

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MAJOR JACKSON: The Uni ersity of Vermont professor shares passages from his latest collection of poetry, Roll Deep. College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8600. m

classes

and printing! No experience necessary. Instructor: Dan Lovell.

Weekly on Wed., Feb. 3-Mar. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $170/ person; $153/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $13.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

art CLASSICAL REALIST PAINTING: Eight-week sessions in portrait, still life and landscape emphasizing a logical approach to observational drawing and painting. Class size limited to five students per class; individual instruction tailored to your needs. Beginners welcome! Jan. 2-Feb. 20. Portrait: Tue./Thu., 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Still Life: Wed., 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Landscape: Sat., 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $250/8-week session; classes are 3 hours each. Location: Brickworks Studios, 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Emilie Lee, 303827-5854, emilie@emilielee.com, emilielee.com.

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DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: Learn the basics of working with vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator. Setting up documents, working with layers, color tools, selecting and transforming objects, working with type, freehand drawing and more will be covered. Bring a Mac-compatible flash drive to the first class. No experience necessary. Instructor: Jeremy Smith. Weekly on Thu., Feb. 4-Mar. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $205/person; $184.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

DRAWING: Learn a variety of drawing techniques including basic perspective, compositional layout and light and shadow using a variety of media including pencil, pen and ink, ink wash and charcoal. Comics and illustrations may be incorporated based on student interest.

No experience necessary.

Students responsible for some materials (see materials list online). Instructor: Marc Nadel.

Weekly on Wed., Feb. 3-Mar. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $224/ person; $201.60/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

DROP-IN: FAMILY WHEEL: Explore BCA’s clay studio while hanging out with the family. Try the pottery or hand building while our staff gives demonstrations. ° ere is a $5 additional fee per clay piece to be kept, fired and glazed. No registration necessary, but access to wheels is limited. Please call to inquire.

All ages. Instructors: Alex Costantino, Lily Gewirz. Weekly on Fri., Feb. 5-May 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $8/participant; $7/ BCA members + $5 piece to be fired and glazed. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

DROP-IN: LIFE DRAWING: ° is drop-in life drawing class is open to all levels and facilitated by one of our teaching artists.

Spend the evening with other artists, drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary.

No class Feb. 15. Age 18+. Weekly on Mon., Feb. 1-May 16 (no class Feb. 15), 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

JEWELRY: Learn basic jewelry techniques including sawing, piercing, filing, annealing, soldering, texturing, cold connections, basic hollow construction, ring sizing and more. Explore different styles of contemporary and historical jewelry, design process and the use of alternative materials. Class includes copper, brass and all basic tools. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Wed., Feb. 3-Mar. 9, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $225/ person; $202.50/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Burlington.

JEWELRY: RINGS: Come check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your own silver

ring. Open to all skill levels. All materials included. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Mon., Feb. 8, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $35/person; $31.50/BCA members. Location: Generator, Memorial Auditorium, 250 Main St., Burlington.

LASER CUT PRINTMAKING: ° is new class combines BCA’s Print Studio with the Generator’s state-of-the-art laser cutter.

Learn basic Adobe Illustrator techniques and prepare images to be etched into cardboard or wood using a laser cutter. ° en practice printmaking techniques to make artwork from the laser cut plates. Class includes all basic materials, plus a monthlong membership at both the BCA Print Studio and Generator. No experience necessary. Instructors: Katie Loesel and Annika Rundberg.

Weekly on Tue., Feb. 2-23, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $270/person; $243/ BCA members & Generator members. Location: BCA Print Studio and Generator, 250 Main St., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatorvt.com/classes.

OIL PAINTING: Learn a variety of painting techniques using fun exercises, photographic reference and still life. ° is supportive class will have a nice balance of studio time, gentle group discussion and critique.

Class includes basic materials.

Students are responsible for some materials (see materials list online). Instructor: Linda Jones. Weekly on Tue., Feb. 2-Apr. 5, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/ person; $252/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PHOTO: DIGITAL SLR: Explore the basic workings of the digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision.

Demystify F-stops, shutter speeds, sensitivity ratings and exposure, and learn the basics of composition. Pair this class with Adobe Lightroom and learn the ins and outs of photo editing

DROP-IN: PRESCHOOL ART: ° is popular drop-in program introduces young children and parents to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social.

Participants will create paintings, sculptures, prints and more, with a variety of changing projects to keep everyone engaged. Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided. No registration necessary.

Instructor: Alexandra Turner.

Ages 6 months to 5 years.

Weekly on Thu., Feb. 4-May 19, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $6/child; $5/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PATCHWORK I: NEW 2016 CLASS!: In this two-part class, learn the basics of how to make and put together quilted projects. Participants will make a patchwork top during the first part of the class and continue to build skills during the second class by learning how to sandwich, quilt and bind their patchwork top. Tue. & Wed., Jan. 5 & 6, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $105/2 3-hour classes. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

LEARN TO SEW AT NIDO: Take nido’s Learn to Sew I, Mon., Jan. 4, to learn machine basics and fundamental sewing techniques.

Leave with a finished tote bag!

No experience necessary. Nido has kids’ classes, too! Kids Learn to Sew offers beginners the basics of sewing while constructing fun projects! Sat., Jan. 16, 9 a.m.-noon. Mon., Jan. 4, 6-9 p.m.

Cost: $53/3-hour classes; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

craft FEMMECHANICS: Learn to fix your bike! Female-identifying people learn bicycle maintenance and repair in a supportive environment. Students learn systems and parts of the bicycle and practice common repairs and adjustments on their own bikes. Taught by a female mechanic from Old Spokes Home.

Scholarships available. Mon., Jan. 4, 11 & 18, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $95/3 3-hour classes. Location: Bike Recycle Vermont, 664 Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: Christine Hill, 339-223-0722, christine@bikerecyclevt.org, bikerecyclevermont.org.

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ADULT: METALS 1: Instructor: Sarah Sprague. ° is class will focus on jewelry design, small sculpture, or functional art. Each student will complete a series of practice pieces before designing and creating a wearable finished piece out of sterling silver.

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DROP-IN: ADULT WHEEL: Curious about the pottery wheel? Spend a Friday night with our pottery instructors learning the basics of wheel throwing with clay. ° is is a great introduction to our studio. No registration necessary, but space is limited. Please call to inquire.

Ages 18+. Weekly on Fri., Feb. 5-May 20, 8-10 p.m. Cost: $12/

participant; $11/BCA members + $5/piece to be fired & glazed.

Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

SELLING YOUR WORK WITH ETSY: Are you ready to take the leap and open an Etsy store?

Laura Hale, owner of Found Beauty Studio, will walk you through opening a shop, setting up policies, listing items, and filling sold orders, as well as looking at the various marketing tricks you can work from day one.

Mon., Feb. 8, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $35/ person; $31.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: ° is class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio.

Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. No previous experience

DIY: CROCHET CUP COZY: Kim will show you step by step how to make a hot beverage cozy using soft yarns and fun buttons.

Leave with a finished product along with ideas for other easy crochet projects. No experience necessary. All materials provided. Instructor: Kim O’Brien.

Thu., Feb. 4, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $28/ person; $25.20/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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CLAY: MIXED LEVEL WHEEL: Mixed Level Wheel supports students across a range of skill and experience levels. ° is eight-week class is rooted in fundamentals and encourages individual projects. Demonstrations and instruction will cover centering, throwing, trimming and glazing, as well as forms and techniques determined by students. Class includes your first bag of clay and 30 open studio hours per week to practice.

All glazes and firings included.

Prerequisite: Wheel throwing experience. Option 1: Weekly on Thu., Feb. 4-Mar. 24, 9:30 a.m.noon. Option 2: Weekly on Thu., Apr. 7-May 26, 9:30 a.m.-noon.

Option 3: Thu., Apr. 7-May 26, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

needed. Class includes your first bag of clay and 30 open studio hours per week to practice.

Extra clay sold separately at $22/25-pound bag. All glazes and firings included. Option 1: Weekly on Thu., Feb. 4-Mar. 24, 12:30-3 p.m. Option 2: Weekly on Thu., Feb. 4-Mar. 24, 6-8:30 p.m.

Option 3: Weekly on Wed., Mar. 30-May 18, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

IMPROVISATIONAL QUILT WORKSHOP: Nido presents Quilt Local author Heather Jones for a full-day workshop creating improvisationally pieced quilt blocks, emphasizing line work and the formation of secondary patterns. Using solid fabrics in a range of values and colors, you will create a modern take on traditional string blocks using an intuitive creative process.

Sat., Feb. 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $165/7-hour workshop. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington.

Info: 881-0068, info@nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org.

Teacher bios are also available online.

PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL: Take your work to the next level. Guided sessions to help you improve your printing and film-processing techniques and discussion of the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside of class printing and processing. Instructor: Mary Zompetti.

Prerequisite: Black and White Darkroom or equivalent experience. Weekly on Wed., Feb. 3-Apr. 6, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $295/ person; $265.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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Every week there will be several demonstrations including sawing, drilling, piercing, annealing, texturing, jump rings, forming, and soldering techniques. Price includes, copper brass and silver wire. Additional silver can be purchased. 8 Wed., Jan. 27-Mar. 16, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $293/ person; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: Sage Tucker-Ketcham.

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ADULT: MIXED LEVEL WHEEL: Instructor: Rik Rolla. ˜ is course is great for beginners and potters with some experience who are looking to learn the fundamentals or brush up on basic wheel-throwing techniques. You will learn how to center, throw, trim and glaze. After crafting your pottery on the wheel, Rik will guide you to create finished pieces for the electric oxidation kiln. You will leave with several functional pieces. 8 Wed., Jan. 13-Mar. 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Cost: $248/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Sage Tucker-Ketcham.

ADULT: SHAKER HALL TABLE: Instructor: Ryan Cocina. A comprehensive introduction to woodworking, this course explores the basic principles of lumber selection, hand tool and machinery usage, milling, joinery and finishing. Students will build their own Shaker-style hall table, taking the project from blueprint through completion, learning to both organize and conceptualize a furniture project, and gain familiarity with the woodshop environment. 10 Mon., Jan. 11Mar. 21, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $483/ person; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: Sage Tucker-Ketcham.

ADULT: ABSTRACT PAINTING: Instructor: Brooke Monte. ˜ is class is about exploring different ways of abstracting form, meaning and composition. Each class will focus on a different demonstration and technique.

Using acrylics or water-base oils, you will explore impasto, layering with glaze and dry brush, taped edges, acrylic transfers. We will discuss sacred geometric phenomena and apply it as patterning and motif. You will study and apply concepts in color theory such as additive color, subtractive color and dynamics

in hue, value, saturation, tints and shades. We will also discuss and apply concepts in compositional theory including movement, pattern, repetition, scale, and compression. You will practice painting exercises that will sharpen your art chops: grey scale, color modulation scales, color field studies, and brush work and gesture exploration. ˜ is class builds foundation for a lifetime of painting. It is geared toward people who have some painting experience.

Critique or feedback will always be constructive. Discussion will always be reflective. 8 Wed., Jan. 13-Mar. 2, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $248/ person; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: Sage Tucker-Ketcham.

ADULT: LIFE DRAWING: Moderator: Jean Masseau.

Practice the traditional art of drawing the human figure with a live model. Participants bring their own supplies and are welcome to use a variety of media (painting, drawing, or clay). Pose lengths will vary from quick “gesture” poses to longer poses for finished drawings or painting. ˜ is class is an uninstructed class with a moderator to keep the time. ˜ e atmosphere is supportive and respectful. All ability levels are welcome. 4 Wed., Jan. 13-Feb. 3, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $60/ person; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: Sage Tucker-Ketcham.

ADULT: STAINED GLASS: Instructor: Sarah Sprague. ˜ is class will teach you the basics of working with stained glass using the copper-foil method pioneered by Louis Comfort Tiffany. ˜ e class will start off with a small “learning” project that will introduce you to all of the steps involved in creating a stainedglass panel from raw sheets of colored glass and strips of copper foil. You will learn about pattern selection and creation, different types of glass, cutting and fitting glass pieces, and how to foil and solder everything together to create a beautiful stained glass panel. ˜ e remainder of the class sessions will give you the opportunity to apply your new skills and create a small panel using a design of your own choosing. 8 Thu., Jan. 21-Mar. 17, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $303/ person; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: Sage Tucker-Ketcham.

WORKSHOP: TOWN AND COUNTRY: Instructor: John Brickels. John Brickels will demonstrate how to create wall mounted buildings and barns using slab and extruded clay. We will be using John’s signature mocha-colored clay and will explore hand-building techniques that exploit the many wonderful qualities of clay and discuss successful design ideas. From country barn to city row house, you will end the day with an architectural themed sculpture that, after firing, you will be able to hang proudly on the wall. Sun., Mar. 6,1 day, 10-4 p.m. Cost: $105/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Sage Tucker-Ketcham.

dance BEGINNER SWING DANCE CLASSES: Learn the basics of jitterbug/swing from Vermont’s premier swing dance teacher, Terry Bouricius. No partner necessary. 4 Wed., Jan. 6-27, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $40/person for the whole series. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: Vermont Swings, Terry Bouricius, 8648382, terrybour@gmail.com, vermontswings.com.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa.

Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! ˜ ere is no better time to start than now!

Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $12/1-hour class.

Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.

design/build BICYCLE MECHANICS 101: Learn to repair and maintain your bike!

Bicycle Mechanics 101 is sevensession introduction to bicycle mechanics. Students receive instruction on the systems and parts of the bicycle and bicycle anatomy, practice common repairs and work one-on-one with professional mechanics to learn all the basics. Thu., Jan. 28-Mar. 10, 6-8 p.m., or Fri., Jan. 29-Mar. 11, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $175/14 hours total instruction. Location: Bike Recycle Vermont, 664 Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Bike Project, Christine Hill, 264-9687, christine@bikere cyclevt.org, bikerecyclevermont. org.

drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African Drums! Drums provided!

Burlington Beginners Djembe, Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Jan. 20, $48/4 weeks; Mar. 9, $60/5 weeks (no class Apr. 6); Apr. 27, $72/6 weeks. $15/ drop-in. Djembes are provided.

Montpelier Beginners Djembe, ˜ u., 7-8:20 p.m. starting Jan. 21, Mar. 10 & Apr. 28, $72/4 weeks; $22/walk-ins. Six-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington, & Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class, Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Jan. 19, $48/4 weeks; Mar. 8, $60/5 weeks; Apr. 26, $72/6 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners, Mon. & Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m. starting Jan. 18, $192/4 weeks; Mar. 7, $144/3 weeks; Mar. 28, $96/2 weeks. Kids and Parents’ Class, Mon. & Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m., starting Jan. 18, $80/child or $152/parent-child for 4 weeks; Mar. 7, $60/child or $112/parentchild for 3 weeks; Mar. 28, $40/ child or $76/parent-child for 2 weeks (no class Apr. 4 or 6); Apr. 25, $60/child or $112/parentchild for 3 weeks. Five-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO IN MONTPELIER!: Kids and parents’ taiko drumming, ˜ u., 4:30-5:20 p.m. starting Jan. 21, Mar. 10 & Apr. 28. $48; $91 for pair. 4 weeks. Montpelier taiko class, ˜ u., 5:30-6:50 p.m. starting Jan. 21, Mar. 10 & Apr. 28. $72/4 weeks; $22/walk-ins.

Six-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Please register online or come directly to the first class!

Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 9994255, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment JUNG THE MAN: Learn about the life of Carl Gustav Jung, his interests, hobbies, shadow side and complexes, in this course that focuses on the man behind the ideas. Our text is Jung the Man: His Life Examined. Led by Sue Mehrtens. 4 Wed., Jan. 6, 13, 20 & 27, 7-9 p.m. Snow date: Feb. 3. Cost: $60/person. Location: 18 N. Main St., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

WOMEN’S HERSTORY: A survey of women’s experience since the Middle Ages, in a reading/discussion format. Contact Sue for the reading list and CD with supplemental essays and articles. Thu., Jan. 7, Feb. 4, Mar. 3, 7-9 p.m.

Snow dates: Jan. 14, Feb. 11, Mar. 10. Cost: $10/session; 5 sessions remaining Jan.-May. Location: The Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

Feldenkrais FREE UP YOUR SHOULDERS SERIES: Six weeks of gentle Feldenkrais Awareness ˜ rough Movement lessons: Participants will experience how to release tension, increase their range of movement and experience comfort with their shoulders. ˜ is is a must for those who experience shoulder pain or just want to lift that heavy burden off their shoulders. Series starts second week in January in Burlington, RIchmond and Middlebury. For details visit website. Weekly on Thu., starting Jan. 14, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Cost: $90/6-week series.

Location: Sacred Mountain Studio, 215 College St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: Uwe Mester, 735-3770, info@vermontfelden krais.com, vermontfeldenkrais. com.

gardening MASTER GARDENER 2016 COURSE OFFERED ONLINE: Learn the keys to a healthy and sustainable home landscape from your home computer as University of Vermont faculty and experts provide live, interactive webinars on gardening in Vermont. ˜ is 13 week noncredit course covers a wide variety of horticultural topics: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany basics, plant pests, soil fertility, disease management, healthy lawns, invasive plant control, introduction to home landscaping, and more! Registrations will be accepted by credit card online at uvm.edu/mastergardener or by phone through the UVM Extension Master Gardener Program office. A downloadable registration form also is available on the website if paying by check. Weekly on Tue., Feb. 2-Apr. 26, 6:15-9 p.m. Cost: $395/ person; incl. online Sustainable

Gardening book. Printed copy can be ordered for an additional $55. Noncredit course. Location: Live webinar, online course statewide. Info: 656-9562, master.gardener@uvm.edu, uvm. edu/mastergardener.

STONE WALL WORKSHOP: Our introductory stone wall workshops for homeowners and tradespeople promote the beauty and integrity of stone. ˜ e one-day, hands-on workshop focuses on the basic techniques for creating dry-laid walls with a special emphasis on stone native to Vermont. Workshops are held inside warm greenhouses in Hinesburg. Space limited.

Jan.-Mar. Cost: $100/each 1-day workshop. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Queen City Soil & Stone, Charley MacMartin, 318-2411, macmartin@igc.org, queencitysoilandstone.com.

healing arts SACRED MOUNTAIN STUDIO CLASSES: We are a healing arts sanctuary dedicated to providing a quiet, intimate and safe space for sacred and soul-felt community gatherings and workshops to individuals of all ages and backgrounds.

Our studio space has been used for a variety of workshops and classes, including different styles of body movement, creative expression, meditation, group work, student workshops, and corporate wellness. A few of our ongoing classes include Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Feldenkreis, Conscious Breathwork, and Sound Healing.

We currently have open space in our calendar and invite you to consider bringing your workshop or class to our well-appointed studio space. Location: Sacred Mountain Studio, 215 College St., 3rd Floor, Burlington. Info: Gardner Orton, 863-9355, gardner@sacredmountainwellness. com, sacredmountainstudio. com.

language ALLIANCE FRANCAISE WINTER WARM-UP!: Six-week French classes designed to refresh and firm up your skills, readying you for your next full-term class.

Morning and evening classes available in our Burlington and Colchester locations. Evening classes only in Montpelier. For more information, please contact our Language Center director, Micheline Tremblay. Starts Jan. 11. Cost: $135/course; $121.50/ AFLCR members. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Colchester, Montpelier & Burlington locations. Info: 881-8826, michelin eatremblay@gmail.com, aflcr. org.

ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Join us for adult Spanish classes this winter.

Our 10th year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always

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Lesson packages for travelers.

Also lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details. Beginning week of Jan. 4; 10 weeks. Cost: $225/10 classes of 90+ min. each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanish paravos@gmail.com, spanishwa terburycenter.com.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibili y, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. e offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself.

The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Sunday of each month, noon-2 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambha lactr.org.

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EMPOWER PILATES: Groove With the Oov is a new class allowing the core to move correctly in a 3D way. Not a BOSU or roller! Stability, Mobility & Spinal Health will prepare you for training for the marathon, upcoming golf season or dreaded housework. Classes taught

by Physical Therapist Ma y Grunvald. Starting Jan. 7, weekly on Thu., 5-5:45 p.m., or by appt.

Please pre-register. Cost: $15/ class. Location: Empower Pilates, 905 Roosevelt Hwy., Ste. 100, Colchester. Info: 316-7249.

THE HEART OF SOUND: Sound can heal, enliven and nurture us. Explore the nature of sound to uncover fresh possibilities in our connections with others, our communities and our earth.

Participants will learn vocal toning for health and wellness; use sound to facilitate movement/ yoga to balance chakras with sound; open areas of the body/ mind in need of release; learn how sound affects our physiology and psychology; use music consciously to affect your mood for stress reduction, discovering your voice, a feeling energized, joyful and more. Meg Ruby is a classically trained concert pianist, certified oga instructor and sound/music healer. megruby.com Fri. Jan. 22, 7-9 p.m., Sat. Jan. 23, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., & Sun. Jan. 24, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Cost: $175/3 days; $50 dep. required. Location: Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St., Suite 9, Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail. com, journeyworksvt.com.

tai chi SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The ang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibili y, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

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Check out our special offerings: New Year’s Eve Yoga, an energizing sequence followed by nurturing restorative. Let go of 2015 and welcome 2016 with an open heart and mind. W/ Kathleen Fleming: Dec. 31, 4-5:15 p.m.; preregistration encouraged. Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Shelburne Green Business Park behind Folino’s.

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Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington.

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Hot Yoga Burlington is Vermont’s first Far Infrared heated hot oga studio, experience it! Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt.com.

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s the old song goes, there’s no place like home for the holidays. And no matter how far away you go, there’s nothing like Vermont-made holiday music. (In certain cases, literally nothing.)

With that in mind, we’ve dug through decades of Vermont music to put together a playlist featuring the best — and sometimes strangest — local holiday music we could find.

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Physics Club, “It’s Christmas”

Any true discussion of Vermont-made holiday music — and thus any playlist —should start with Physics Club. The Swale-related trio has produced three original Christmas albums: A Very Special Time Together (2007), A Physics Club Christmas (2008) and CHRISTMAS (2011). They’re all local classics.

Don’t expect to find sentimental chestnuts such as “White Christmas” or “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” What makes the PC records great is their blend of idiosyncratic humor and minimalist production, which serves to create a gently dysfunctional take on the holidays.

Think A Charlie Brown Christmas if Chuck were in his early thirties and still, well, Charlie Brown. With little more than keyboards, a drum machine, singsong melodies and the occasional sleigh bell, the trio riffs on less celebrated holiday traditions, such as being penniless (“Broke,” 2007), being drunk at the Christmas Eve late service (“Tipsy at Midnight Mass,” 2008) and, as on this cut from the 2011 record, hitting the bars with old friends when you go home for the holidays.

Jazzin’ Hell, “Sleigh Ride to Heck”

James Kochalka is Vermont’s reigning king of puerile rock. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he’s been responsible for some quirky Christmas classics.

“Sleigh Ride to Heck” actually predates his Superstar status, as it was written with his old band, Jazzin’ Hell, in the 1980s. “The elves are full of cheer / The kids are tucked in bed / But Santa ain’t comin’ / We’re on a sleigh ride to heck,” he sings over sleigh bells and

the kind of rudimentary Casiotone beat that would become a Kochalka signature.

Diane Zeigler, “December in Vermont”

Not all Vermont holiday music is weird. In fact, some of it is beautiful. Exhibit A: “December in Vermont”

by Diane Zeigler, from her 2004 holiday album of the same name. The song is a rootsy, evocative ballad made for cozying up in the warm hearth of kith and kin.

Francesca Blanchard, “Petit Papa Noël”

Speaking of beautiful Christmas music, it doesn’t get much prettier than “Petit Papa Noël,” from bilingual chanteuse Francesca Blanchard. Released on the 2014 Putumayo comp French Christmas, the tune bears all the elegance and grace of a French-language carol, with none of the grating Celine Dion-ness.

Eastern Mountain Time, “Not on Christmas Eve”

If you’re sad and lonely — and tipsy — at Christmas, this alt-country tearjerker could be the perfect gift for you. Or the worst possible gift.

Woods Tea Co., “The Waterfall”

“The Waterfall” is one of two songs recorded by local folk icons the Woods Tea Co. for a holiday album that never materialized — both tunes appear on the end of WTC’s 2008 album, The Passage. Fun fact: Late WTC

founding member Chip Chase kept a fully decorated Christmas tree in his house all year long. Meaning he probably would have liked this next one…

Amber deLaurentis & Tom Cleary, “All Year Long”

This jazzy little pop tune captures the excitement of waiting all year for Christmas to come. Given deLaurentis’ soaring delivery and the near-orchestral arrangement, we could see spinning this one in July.

The Plastic Billionaires, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”

If you really listen to the lyrics of the original “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” the song becomes a little, well, unseemly. (“Say, what’s in this drink?”) So maybe try this 2009 version reimagined by the Plastic Billionaires, in which the predatory wolf-mouse dynamic of the original is set to financial, rather than sexual, coercion.

Swale, “Snow Angel”

Swale’s recently released Christmas EP, Kiss Mess, is in some ways precisely what you’d expect from the revered local art-rock band. It is by turns gloomy, pretty, sad and slyly funny. On “Snow Angel,” vocalist Amanda Gustafson, backed only by sparsely plucked banjo and ghostly chimes, delivers a haunting turn that evokes the beauty and desolation of a bleak midwinter. (Disclosure: The author’s brother, Tyler Bolles, plays bass in Swale.)

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In the meantime, Potter enjoyed her biggest year to date. She toured with the ROLLING STONES. She sang the national anthem to open the 2015 NFL season in front of a national prime-time TV audience. And Midnight, on which she ditched blues-rock in favor of dancepop, has largely been a critical success — though it didn’t chart quite as highly as either of the last two Nocs records.

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rock star, she’s one of the most divisive.

That trend continued in spectacular fashion in 2015.

In April, Potter announced she’d be releasing a solo album, Midnight, and would tour in support of the record that summer sans NOCTURNALS. Rumors that Potter would one day ditch her longtime backing band to reap the spoils of solo stardom had run rampant in Vermont for years. The announcement, coupled with a website redesign that omitted any mention of the Nocturnals, seemed to finally lend the rumors some credence. Then shit got weird.

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2015 was a fascinating year in the local music scene. January through December was marked by major milestones, major controversies (both real and imagined) and, as always, killer music. So before we turn the page to 2016, let’s take a moment and look back on some of the stories that rocked us in the year that was.

Shortly after Potter’s announcement, Nocs guitarist SCOTT TOURNET made an announcement of his own on his Tumblr page: He wouldn’t be touring with Potter in support of Midnight.

On the surface, that wasn’t exactly a revelation. Midnight is, after all, a solo record. Potter didn’t tour with Tournet to support his solo efforts, either. But what he wrote next ignited speculation that Potter was not only striking out on her own for Midnight; the move might be permanent.

“At this time I can’t comment any further on anything except to say THANK YOU for all the support you have shown the band and me over the years,” Tournet wrote. “It has been a tremendous ride and meant the world to me. I sincerely mean that. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.” In an August cover story in Seven Days, Potter said, “I have every intention of bringing the Nocturnals back.” But she also cautioned that she

2015 saw several venerable music institutions reach significant milestones.

Radio Bean, the little hipster haunt that could, turned 15. Honky Tonk Tuesday, the popular weekly country residency hosted there by BRETT HUGHES, turned 10. Shortly after that birthday, Hughes handed the reins to a new ringleader, local songwriter ERIC GEORGE. Fabled Burlington punk club 242 Main celebrated its 30th(ish) anniversary. The hardcore haven in the basement of Memorial Auditorium scored some national shine from online media outlet VICE, which picked up on a Seven Days cover story on 242 in January. That story revealed how Vermont senator and presidential hopeful BERNIE SANDERS played a role in the club’s birth in the 1980s, when he was mayor of Burlington.

The VICE headline, “How Bernie Sanders Shaped the Northeast Punk Scene,” might be a case of clickbait-y overreach. But it is true that the teen center would not have come into being without the Mayor’s Youth Office, which Sanders installed, or had he not overturned a previous mayor’s Footloose-like ban on rock music performed in public spaces. On that, we can all feel the Bern.

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This calypso-tinged number from Barbados native Victor Rudolph Gittens is like Vermont’s answer to “Feliz Navidad,” but with way more sleigh bells. It also takes a Christmas miracle to find.

Electric Halo, “O Holy Night” “O Holy Night” is easily one of the most frequently covered devotional Christmas songs in history. And from “South Park”’s Eric Cartman to Josh Groban, the variety of ways it’s been performed is mind-boggling. But we’ll take Electric Halo’s version, from the duo’s 2012 album, A Very Electric Halo Christmas.

Why? Because the famous melody is played on Johnnie Day Durand’s spooky musical saw, that’s why.

James Kochalka Superstar, “Beautiful Christmas Lights”

This twinkling little gem comes from JKS’ 1997 major-label record Monkey vs. Robot. (Spotify erroneously lists it as “Beautiful Christmas Girls.”)

Like Kochalka’s best work, the song juxtaposes his singular brand of childlike innocence with darker undercurrents and more adult urges.

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife / But you sure have beautiful Christmas lights,” he sings.

Myra Flynn, “Harvest” There’s nothing explicitly Christmasy about “Harvest,” the 2010 single from Myra Flynn, until about halfway in.

That’s when Gregory Douglass drops in and the song becomes sort of like a modern postscript to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” “Christmas means I’ve already moved on,” sings Flynn as Douglass responds, “So goodbye for now. I’ve already lost you.” It’s actually way more uplifting than that sounds.

Terri Conti, “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”

Merry Christmas From Burlington is a goldmine for local holiday music. So here’s another cut from that compilation: accordionist Terri Conti’s take on the high-pitched classic from Alvin, Simon and Theodore. It’s instrumental and actually way less grating than sped-up singing chipmunks.

Strange Manor, “Weez Wish You a Merry Christmas”

This mashup of Weezer’s “My Name Is Jonas” and the traditional “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” comes to us from California by way of Vermont expat Arthur Adams (the Lazy Songwriter) and his band Strange Manor. Featured on their recently released Strange Manor Christmas Volume 9, it sounds exactly like what would happen if you fused those two songs together. (Hint: like a goddamn Christmas miracle.)

The Mountain Says No, “Christmas Sled” “Christmas Sled” is actually the first recording t´he Mountain Says No ever released. It’s sweet and sentimental and rockin’. It’s also a fine dissection of the varying steering mechanisms available on sleds these days. It’s especially recommended for Lemonheads fans. “A sled without a rudder’s like a sled without a rudder…”

Scott Mangan & Joshua Guster, “Carol of the Glass, “Santa Claus Is Meows” Coming to Town”

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Adopting a sinister Tom Waits rasp over Glass’ minor-key arrangement, he growls the line “Santa Claus is coming to town” not as celebration but as threat.

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It was a good year for festivals in Vermont. In May, Waking Windows enjoyed its biggest and best showing yet, turning all of downtown Winooski into a giant rock club. In October, WW also branched out into a new market — Portland, Maine — for a one-day mini-fest.

The Burlington Discover Jazz Festival was a smashing success, highlighted by the great MAVIS STAPLES throwing down on the Flynn MainStage.

Given uncertainty around its adopted home in the fields behind Burlington College, the Precipice downsized to a weekend-long, prom-themed bash at Radio Bean. Look for a return to larger, outdoor environs in 2016.

The Tweed River Music Festival returned in spectacular fashion in July, after a one-year hiatus. In its new location in Waitsfield, the three-

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There were some huge shows in Vermont this year, perhaps none bigger than NEIL YOUNG at the Champlain Valley Exposition in July. Following an unfortunate ticketing snafu in April that led to lengthy waits — and wild accusations of foul play directed at Higher Ground Presents and FlynnTix — Young thrilled a near-capacity crowd in Essex Junction.

Last but not least, we said goodbye to some talented friends in 2015.

Songwriter MARYSE SMITH left Burlington for the City of Brotherly Love in December. Before she moved to Philadelphia, she was kind enough to leave behind one of the best Vermontmade records in years, The Way It Is. Doom Service’s JUSTIN GONYEA also left town in December for Seattle. Maybe he’ll run into songwriter RYAN FAUBER, who landed in the Emerald City earlier in the year.

2015 also saw the passing of some important and beloved figures in local music. Trombonist, bandleader and educator RICK DAVIES died in early December after a long battle with cancer. Vermont Reggae Festival founder, WRUV faculty adviser and internationally renowned debate professor DR. ALFRED “TUNA” SNIDER also passed in December.

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And the early returns have been glowing.

While the club’s weekly slate of regional and national touring comics and improv troupes is impressive, the

real boon is to the local comedy scene itself, which finally has a legit home.

Comedy has exploded in Vermont in recent years, both in terms of quality and quantity. With a dedicated stage on which to hone their chops, local comedians will likely make even greater strides in 2016.

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In geological terms, gneiss is a highgrade metamorphic rock formed by the metamorphosis of granite or other sedimentary rock under high temperature and pressure. It is similar to slate, in that it’s composed of distinct mineral layers. However, gneiss is stronger and harder than slate and often has dazzling coloration. Fun fact: The oldest crustal rocks on Earth are 3.5-billion-year-old gneiss found in western Greenland. In other words, the stuff is practically the foundation of the planet.

In local-music terms, Gneiss are a Burlington rock band formed by the metamorphosis of foundational jamband elements. The group’s recently released debut EP, Release EP, is composed of six cuts that reveal distinct layers of influences. Unfortunately, it appears the quartet’s metamorphosis isn’t quite complete. While Gneiss ably mimic the feel-good vibes of the

Grateful Dead and the 1990s grooves of Strangefolk and Phish, there is little transformative about the EP. That’s not to say it’s an unpleasant listen. “Change” is built around a bouncy mid-tempo groove, sunny guitar and keyboard riffs. “Mountain High” is a heartfelt ode to communing with nature. “Piano in Every Room” is a funky, spunky ode to music itself.

“Northern Lights” shimmers and shifts with ethereal guitar and rippling keys.

“Too Much” offers fat bass grooves. “Ice Jam” closes the EP with ominous space jams.

The problem is simply that there’s nothing new here. If you’ve paid even passing attention to the jam scene over the past 20 years, Gneiss don’t offer anything you haven’t heard done before, and often better. Release EP parrots the

same noodle-y grooves, limp rhyme schemes and now-predictable song structures that have kept the festival scene wiggling for decades. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, except that the band seems capable of so much more.

Johnny Meli is a technically proficient and at times fiery guitarist.

Drummer Jacob Blodgett and bassist Jesse Cowan form a sturdy rhythm section that consistently locks in the groove. And keyboardist Naomi Galimidi has some sparkling moments that suggest she could be a special talent. Each member is a capable vocalist. The elements are there.

Perhaps with a little more artistic heat and pressure — particularly in regard to arranging and songwriting — Gneiss could forge those elements into something more like their namesake: strong, beautiful and unique.

Gneiss play the Jericho Café & Tavern on Friday, January 1. Release EP is available at gneissmusic.com.

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On the second verse, his brass stabs accent the vocal and guitar melodies before providing a swelling bed on which the vocals rest.

“How to Live” offers traditional altcountry sentiments in the guitar leads and vocals. Lines such as “I’ve gotta put the hammer down / Get the hell out of town / Keep running to the end of the line” bring to mind hitting an empty highway in a ’69 Super Bee and gunning it in hopes of leaving problems in the rearview.

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Upon finishing the 40-ish minutes of Little Slugger’s self-titled debut album, one could be forgiven for assuming they had just listened to a veteran band whose members spent a few years becoming comfortable in their sound, road-testing their catalog of songs to create their tightest set for an album release. It might come as a surprise to discover that the Burlington group is less than a year old.

Though the band itself is still in its infancy, its members have legit local pedigrees. Multi-instrumentalists Ben Chugg (guitar, bass, vocals, trumpet) and Sam Bevet (vocals, guitar, bass) logged time in Busted Brix — the latter also plays with Fridge and the Spins and Eastern Mountain Time. Erin CasselsBrown (vocals, guitar, bass, drums) is a member of North End Honeys and You Know Ono. Lead guitarist Greyson Webb and drummer Matt Usifer play with YKY and Fridge, respectively.

Each of the album’s 11 tracks contains a blend of biting vocals and guitar riffs that are equal parts twang and crunch. Chugg’s trumpet provides

development. Here they unveil the album’s most powerful series of songs. Untitled-9 “Sophia” is a high-energy love story driven by Tex-Mex-tinged trumpet melodies. That feel carries through to “Burlington Bar Scene,” where Chugg is joined by fellow Busted Brix alum Meghan O’Daniel on trumpet.

“Whiskey Nights” presents the album’s strongest songwriting. The John McCauley-esque vocal grit is complemented by a melodic sensibility you could hear on the better albums by the Decemberists or Band of Horses.

And once again, brass punctuations are used strategically.

By album’s end, listeners may feel like they’ve emerged from a roadhouse brawl. You’ll get two black eyes from “Autopilot.” “Whiskey Nights” cuts like a broken bottle shank — but it also offers the warmth of a new girlfriend stolen from the 300-pound leader of a biker gang. The album has rowdy appeal, worth experiencing again and again.

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band. Fortunately for us, Glens Falls, N.Y.’s Joe Mansman chose the latter. Backed by the MIDNIGHT REVIVAL BAND, Mansman delivers a hairy, muscular take on blues, rock and country that brims with twangy grit and seedy swagger. Joe Mansman and the Midnight Revival Band play Radio Bean in Burlington on Saturday, December 26.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Chris Peterman (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome With DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

FRANNY O’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Rumblecat (rock),

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7 p.m., free. Funhouse: DJs Rob Douglas & Chia (house), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Alicia Phelps (folk), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Jennifer “Oh Lord” & the Riders of the Apocalypse (jazz, cabaret), 8 p.m., free. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Mike Pedersen (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free. Grippo Funk Band, DJ Rekkon, 10 p.m., $7.

RADIO BEAN: Paige Thibaul (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Reid_SP (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: The Odd 9 p.m., $5.

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WHAMMY BAR: Bob Hannan (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

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MOOGS PLACE: Blue Fox (blues), 9 p.m., free.

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RUSTY NAIL: Holiday Party with D Jay Baron, KLEAN (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $7/10.

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THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: New Suede Blues (blues), 10 p.m., free.

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middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

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FRANNY O’S: Kyle Stevens’ Happiest Hour of Music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., $3.

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THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Old Sky (country), 4 p.m., free. Al Teodosio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase, 8:30 p.m., free. Let’s Be Leonard (jam), 10:30 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Rock & Roll Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

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FEATURING: Kat Wright & The Indomitable Soul Band Ray Vega & Tales From The Boogie Down Madaila • The Gregory Douglass Band Myra Flynn • The Bluegrass Gospel Project

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RED SQUARE: Wobblesauce (rock), 7 p.m., $5.

Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul, 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (open jam), 10:30 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: D-Maz & Friends (funk, rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Home for the Holidays (standup), 7 p.m., $20. Comedy Roulette (standup), 11 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Tatlock (rock), 6 p.m., free. Alicia Marie Phelps (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Deep River Saints (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Latin Sessions with Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10:30 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: MacKenzie, Delaney & Slim (blues), 5 p.m., free. The Hitme (rock), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.

(Ages 13+) ($20 on December 31)

Student Buttons $10* (With valid student I.D.)

RED SQUARE: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 8 p.m., free.

Kids’ Button $5*

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz Music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.

(Ages 3-12)

Ticketed Events - $5*

barre/montpelier

SWEET MELISSA’S: Kelly Ravin (country), 8 p.m., free.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Re-gift Bingo, 8 p.m., free.

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RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

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Joshua Glass Trio (post-traumatic rock), 10 p.m., free. Joe Mansman and the Midnight Revival Band (rock), 11:30 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Dave Moore (folk), 11 a.m., donation.

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CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set: Re-creating 1983 Grateful Dead Performance at UVM’s Patrick Gym, 10 p.m., $3/5. 18+.

THE DAILY PLANET: Thomas Pear (rock), 8 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Learic (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Ray Vega and Son De Los Montes (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., free. Film Night: Indie, Abstract, Avant Garde, 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Vinyl Night with Disco Phantom & Guests, 6 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Chris Heller (pop), 7 p.m., free. Caleb Jenkinson (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Sammich (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Pat (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda’s Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Standup Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. 18+.

ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free. Country-Rock Roadhouse, 10 p.m., $5. 18+.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Plastique Mammals (instrumental rock), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with Collin Craig Trio, 7 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

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PHAT KATS TAVERN: Jay Natola (solo guitar), 9 p.m., free.

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Dana Barry, 9 p.m., free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5. Dead Set: Re-creating 1978 Grateful Dead Performance at UVM’s Patrick Gym, 10 p.m., $3/5. 18+.

DRINK: Drink Comedy Open Mic, 9 p.m., free.

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JP’S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Dan Liptak Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: The Losers Circle: A Comedy Show, 8 p.m., free.

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Christmas night, once the presents have been unwrapped, the goose eaten, the eggnog drained and the 14th viewing of A Christmas Story is over, we need to get out of the damn house. And, for some of us, as far from family as possible. There’s no better destination than

BLUES CHRISTMAS

at Nectar’s. The free annual bash has become a Burlington

tradition and is one of the liveliest gigs of the holiday season. This year, local blues ace SETH YACOVONE hosts. And he’ll be joined by a cavalcade of Vermont blues giants. If you’re

in need of one last Christmas miracle, you’ll find it at Nectar’s on Friday, December 25.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. The Shan y Rats (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

MOOGS PLACE: Dead Sessions Lite (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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NECTAR’S: Binger, Sleepy Hahas (funk, rock), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

barre/montpelier

RADIO BEAN: Waves of Adrenaline (folk), 7 p.m., free. Zack DuPont (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., free.

Honky Tonk Tuesday with Eric George & Friends, 10 p.m., $3.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Bruce Jones (folk), 5 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Girls Guns and Glory: A Tribute to Hank Williams Live!, the Mallett Brothers (country), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia, 7:30 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: The Peoples Café (poetry), 6 p.m., donation.

MOOGS PLACE: Jason Wedlock (rock), 7:30 p.m., free. Dead Sessions Lite (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

middlebury area

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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n her essay “Almandal Grimoire: The Book as Magical Object,” Genese Grill writes, “A body, more than any other physical object except maybe a book, is a powerful portal to the spirit.” The treatise by the local artist, writer and educator is hand-bound with a letterpress cover. It is tucked among other handmade books on view at “BOOKBODY,” the current exhibition at Burlington’s New City Galerie. Grill’s words should be emblazoned on the wall, as they perfectly capture the show’s thesis, and the essay is a gem that many gallerygoers are likely to miss.

The juried show features 13 artists selected from approximately 20 submissions. Works were chosen by New City Galerie artist-in-resident and assistant curator Susan Smereka, comic artist and illustrator Glynnis Fawkes, and Ben Aleshire of Honeybee Press.

The concept of “BOOKBODY” arose from the fruits of Smereka’s labor while in residence at New City from May to October. “[The book] is an interesting form on multiple levels,” she tells Seven Days. Smereka claims that she’s “anxious to push the boundaries of the book,” and that it’s the “nuts-and-bolts way of looking at a book” that really interests her. She’s particularly fascinated by the correlation between the book body and the human body: Both have spines and faces, for example.

At its heart, “BOOKBODY” is a show about text — what it is, how we record it, how accurately it can capture the truth of a person or experience, and how powerful it can become. The only work that references a specific volume is an oversize carved and painted wooden Bible

by Memphis-based artist Edwin Jeffery Jr. Titled for Jeffery’s chosen cover illustration, “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” is an invented Bible fashioned from a single solid piece of wood — a symbol of a book.

In the same vein of book-as-sculpture are two textless works by Burlington artist Gregg Blasdel. One of these is “Graphite sewn book,” which he made in 1980. It is a sealed volume, its pages stitched tightly together and saturated to complete blackness with India ink.

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THE SHOW IS ANYTHING BUT NARROW, PROVOKING

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE USE OF TEXT TO PRESERVE INFORMATION AND ENHANCE MEMORY.

Detail of “Not Not Bubbly Flow” installation by Susan Smereka

Physically bound as the book is, the effect is violent and exclusionary. Though it’s unclear whether the tome is the perpetrator of the violence or the perpetrated, it has been granted a body through a challenge to what we understand a book to be — a collection of visible, turnable pages.

The most traditional books on view are artist books by Nina Dubois, Steve Kostell, Donna Stepien and Smereka.

Visitors are invited to flip through them, so long as they don white gloves.

“The Little Biscuit” is Dubois’ riot grrrl-inspired journal featuring a handwritten introduction that pays homage to punk musician and activist Kathleen Hanna and the feminist ’zine movement she helped fuel in the early ’90s.

Only about half the pages in Dubois’ notebook are filled with collages and cutout poetry — it’s a work in progress.

Altogether, it seems more artifact than art; however, its inclusion is a thoughtful nod to the political potential of the handmade book — self-published, selfdistributed material as a critical tool of self-expression.

Kostell’s books — “self-reflective” and “hot+cold” (a set); and “movement through arcana” — portray bodiesin-arrested-motion through digitally altered photographs and film stills.

Craft is important to both books, with their nontraditional bindings: “self-reflective” and “hot+cold” can be viewed as books but also unfold into posters, while “movement through arcana” has a “piano hinge” interlocking binding that gives it a distinctly mechanical look.

Stepien’s “Widzi mi się / It seems to me” is a handmade book with a stitched binding. Instead of cutting the threads, Stepien left long ones attached and

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CALL TO ARTISTS ‘VISIONARY CONSPIRACY’: Members of the Surface Design Association Vermont chapter are invited to apply for inclusion in SPA’s July/ August exhibition, which intends to incite compassion and beauty through deploying fiber artists to craft “extreme examples of exquisiteness” with threads, textiles, wool, needles and looms. Interested artists should submit proposals to Eve Jacobs-Carnahan at ejcarnahan@gmail.com by May 1. To join the SDA, visit surfacedesign.org. Studio Place Arts, Barre. ˜ rough April 1. Info, 479-7069.

1 - 2 - 3 - : MATH AND ART: Studio Place Arts seeks submissions of work that address the many concerns of both art and math. Details at studioplacearts.com. Studio Place Arts, Barre, ˜ rough April 15. Info, 479-7069.

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST: Ninth annual contest pays tribute to the social phenomenon of the selfie. Deadline: January 13, 6 p.m. Details at chaffeeartcenter.org. Chaffee Downtown Art Center, Rutland. Info, 775-0356.

ART FOR SWITCHBACK TAP ROOM: ˜ e brewery seeks local artists to showcase their work at 160 Flynn Ave., starting in March. Each selected artist will have a two-month

exhibition with an opening reception on First Friday Art walk. If interested, email Dani Casey, dani@switchbackvt. com, with bio, art samples and preferred months. ˜ e Tap Room at Switchback Brewing Company, Burlington. ˜ rough March 1. Info, 651-4114.

ARTIST RESIDENCY: CARVING STUDIO & SCULPTURE CENTER: Sculptors are invited to apply for residencies from one week to three months, with access to comprehensive facilities for creating works in many mediums, as well as a stipend, housing and meals.

Details at carvingstudio.org.

Deadline: January 25. ˜ e Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, West Rutland. Info, 438-2097.

‘ENCOUNTERING YELLOW’: Artists are invited to submit work that interprets and incorporates the color yellow.

E-mail applications to info@ studioplacearts.com OR mail to: Studio Place Arts, 201 North Main Street, Barre VT 05641. Deadline: February 20.

Info, 479-7069.

THE GALLERY AT LCATV: Lake Champlain Access Television is looking for artists to exhibit visual art at a spacious community media center in northern Colchester. Artists must meet the criteria of LCATV membership (live, work or attend school in Colchester, Milton, Georgia, Fairfax, Westford, South Hero, Grand Isle or North Hero).

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‘ALTERNATIVE CAMERAS: PINHOLE TO PLASTIC’: Cameras have become more and more sophisticated. However, some photographers prefer to work with less sophisticated cameras, producing images that are direct and often quite lyrical. December 23-January 15. Info, 388-4500.

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‘SOFT BOMB BARRE’: Artists are invited to submit proposals for outdoor installations, “art explosions” involving fibers and intended to be a comforting, exhilarating form of art-as-resistance. Email proposals to info@studioplacearts.com. Deadline: April 1. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 application fee; free for SPA member artists. Info, 479-7069.

‘BEGINNINGS’: ˜ esis exhibition of recent Rhode Island School of Design graduates Cameron Breck, Jacob Sienkiewycz and Abigail Stoner, with work that asks how traditional ways of making and thinking fit into the modern world. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog in Burlington.

‘BLUE-PLATE SPECIAL’: Color reproductions of midcentury food signs, which originally hung in the Woolworth’s on Church Street. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington.

‘BOOKBODY’: Juried group exhibition featuring work exploring the relationships between the book and the body, including artist books, installation, video and sculpture. ˜ rough January 26. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington.

CHRIS ALLEY: “˜ e Science of Flaws and Miracles,” works by the Burlington College professor. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 860-4972. Vermont Art Supply and Black Horse S.P.G. in Burlington.

‘GO FOR BROKE’: Works by Christy Mitchell and Benjamin Peberdy exploring excess and addiction in consumer culture. ˜ rough January 15. Info, 578-2512. ˜ e S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

‘HOLGA SHOTS’: Jordan Douglas presents a variety of square black-and-white darkroom prints, all produced with a $25 plastic camera. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 651-8834. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington.

HOWARDCENTER ARTS COLLECTIVE Select works from art collective members. ˜ rough February 29.

Info, 598-6698. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

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‘MADE’: Work from 21 South End artists highlighting the wide variety of arts and making in the Enterprise Zone. ‘THE ARTS UNKNOWN’: SEABA-curated group exhibition with work including photography, painting, stained glass and drawing by local artists. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

RED SQUARE NEEDS ART!: Busy establishment on Church Street currently booking monthlong shows for 2016.

All mediums considered.

Please contact Diane at redsquareart802@gmail.com.

Red Square, Burlington. Info, redsquareart802@gmail.com.

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SOUTH END HOLIDAY SHOP: A monthlong art-sales opportunity in support of the local creative economy, hosted by the South End Arts and Business Association. South End Arts District, Burlington. ˜ rough December 24. Info, 859-9222.

OPEN FARM AND STUDIO TOUR: ˜ e 10th annual Discover the Heart of the Islands invites artists to participate in an event July 9-10, taking place at community hubs across four island towns. Deadline: April 15. More information at openfarmandstudio.com.

Grand Isle Art Works. $50 early bird; $75 after February 15. Info, 372-4556.

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PAINTING SOCIAL: ‘SNOW MAN’: A local artist provides step-by-step instructions on the painting of the night, “Snow Man,” while guests paint and enjoy a beverage in a social atmosphere.

Materials included. Shooters Saloon, St. Albans, Wednesday, December 23, 6-8:30 p.m. $40. Info, bookings@paintingsocial.net.

Exhibitions can be one, two or three months and include a reception. Group shows are welcome. Proceeds from any sales go to the artists. Lake Champlain Access Television, Colchester. ˜ rough August 1.

Info, 862-5724.

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trailing behind the book, directly evok- “unseen,” “darkness,” “hesitant” and ing the connection between the book “alone.” arts and textile art.

Smereka’s “Not Not Bubbly Flow” Works from Nina Gaby, Josh Oliver is decidedly at the “body” end of the Turk and Noah Riskin are more experi- “BOOKBODY” spectrum. Born from mental riffs on the structure of books and her preoccupation with loops of all text. Gaby’s “When I Was Japanese: 500 kinds, the installation features large, Bowls, Guilt vs Shame, Imperfection, sculptural forms hanging from the Mottaini” is tableau-as-scrapbook, an ceiling. These are made from white arrangement of four porcelain vases clothes that belonged to a friend of so delicate as to look like paper. Each Smereka’s who died last year. Shaped contains rolled documents with words like especially curvy windsocks, the soft in English and Japanese. structures taper to thin, cuff-like openTurk’s “body” is similar in its agglom- ings. Smereka explains that her original eration of unbound “documents,” which intention was to attach the openings to include an empty pack of Marlboro create whole loops, but she decided at menthols. His is the only work that the last minute to leave the structures directly addresses the transition from as they were. Projected onto the severed print format to digital, an excerpt from loops are video of shadows and wind his lengthy prose turbines, which Smereka asking, “and really likens to a book’s how different is a cell rapidly flipping phone from a body?” pages. The artist Enlisting simple says she wanted science to enchanting the “video image to effect, Riskin’s instalbecome something lation, “Evolutionary else based on what Exuberance,” reflects it’s projected on.” a poem onto the ceilInstalled in a ing with a projector gallery corner, the and a hanging plane backdrops to these of water. Visitors nontraditional are invited to shake “screens” are drawthe plane, which is ings from Smereka’s suspended by wires, brother’s notebook. casting ripples on the She describes Peter projected image and as a mathematialtering the appearcian and says that, ance and visibility of after his death, “Graphite sewn book”

by Gregg Blasdel the text. she found the similarities Smereka says that before between her work and his to starting her residency she knew that she be uncanny. “His mind was extremely would be working with video installa- creative,” she says. Before he died, tion and that she wanted to make a book Smereka was already “grappling with with multiple copies. In September, the idea that death was a part of this”; Smereka’s older brother Peter commit- afterward, she says, she “put both feet ted suicide. The sudden loss infuses in,” incorporating her brother’s work both of her works on view, the book “not into her own. not still” and the video installation “Not The relationship between materialNot Bubbly Flow.” ity and loss is central to “BOOKBODY.” The perfect-bound softcover book The show is anything but narrow, “not not still” is dedicated to Smereka’s provoking questions about the use brother. Copies are available for sale, of text to preserve information and lined up beneath the originals of the enhance memory; it also asks how pen-and-ink drawings inside the bodies can be viewed as texts. volume. These, most of which Smereka Ultimately, the chosen works suggest says she did in 2008, use fine lines to that books and bodies face the same create silhouettes of a human head. The conundrum: Both are communicative most poignant image is also the sim- vessels made from fragile materials. plest: a head in profile split in two, with a crack of white where no lines connect. Contact: rachel@sevendaysvt.com While the drawings are not inherently dark, they take on weight in the INFO context of the book, which narrates a “BOOKBODY,” on view through January 26 “countdown to forever” and features an at New City Galerie in Burlington. aggregation of single words, including newcitygalerie.org

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DICK BRUNELLE: Exhibition of new abstract paintings and watercolors by the Vermont artist. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 316-4265. Firebird Café in Essex Junction.

JEAN CHEROUNY: “Fresh Daily,” new works from the Ripton painter. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee, Pine Street, in Burlington.

FOCUS ON MT. MANSFIELD: Exhibition of six local photographers’ images of Mt. Mansfield. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 434-2550. Mt. Mansfield Community Television in Richmond.

JORDAN DOUGLAS: “Images of Havana,” darkroom photos of Cuba taken last January. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 864-2088. ˜ e Men’s Room in Burlington.

H2O: Photographs that speak to the role of water in human life, selected by Gary Braasch. ˜ rough January 3. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction.

KAREN DAWSON: ˜ e winter 2015 featured artist presents new work. ˜ rough February 28. Info, 264-8191. Community Health Center of Burlington.

HARALD AKSDAL: “Art of Words,” an exhibition of original watercolor and ink illustrations for three books, as well as new landscapes and framed prints. ˜ rough December 27. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

MAREVA MILLARC: “Shapeshifters,” a collection of new abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. ˜ rough January 16. Info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington.

LINDA DI SANTE: “˜ e Nature of ˜ ings,” works in watercolor, graphite and pen and ink by the Vermont artist. ˜ rough February 28. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

MATTHEW THORSEN: Works from the acclaimed Vermont photographer, including family photos, Vermont notables, and selections from his “Sound Proof” collection of rock performances and artists. ˜ rough February 27. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington.

MILTON ARTISTS GUILD: Twenty artists share photographs that represent meaningful passageways in life. ˜ rough February 5. Info, lstech@ comcast.net. Milton Municipal Building.

MAX FEHR: “Poemography,” original photographs paired with the artist’s poetry. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 865-7211. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

‘PASSAGES’: A group exhibition featuring work

by Bonnie Acker, Miriam Adams, Elizabeth Allen, Annelein Beukenkamp, Kevin Fahey, Byron Geigel, Kate Longmaid, David Maille, Janet McKenzie, Virginia McNeice, Gail Salzman, Dianne Shullenberger, David Smith, Adelaide Murphy Tyrol, Shaio-Ping Wang and Jon Young. ˜ rough January 30. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

‘NIGHTMARE APOLLO: ADVENTURES IN ASIA’: New photographs from southern Japan and other destinations in Asia by Robin Katrick. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington.

SAGE TUCKER-KETCHAM: “Spacescapes,” new abstract paintings by the local artist, inspired by the natural world, chemistry, science and alchemy. ˜ rough January 31. Info, 861-3155. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

‘SHADES OF RED’: Works by more than 30 Vermont artists, including photography, painting, stained glass and collage. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 899-4936. Jericho Town Hall.

‘SEX OBJECTS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY’: An exhibition of everyday and ceremonial art and artifacts curated by 40 anthropology and art history students. ˜ rough May 22. Info, 656-0750. University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington.

‘VISIONS OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND BEYOND’: Local landscape paintings by Carolyn Walton, Helen Nagel and Gail Bessette; pastels by Athenia Schinto and Betty Ball; and jewelry by Tineke Russell. ˜ rough December 30. Info, 985-8223. LuxtonJones Gallery in Shelburne.

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ST. CHRISTOPHER: “Trajectory,” bold graphic paintings by the self-taught artist. ˜ rough January 4.

Info, 865-6223. Battery Street Jeans in Burlington.

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TOM CULLINS: “A Creative Life,” retrospective of the work and legacy of the Burlington architect and fourth-generation Vermonter. ˜ rough January 16.

Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

ALMUTH PALINKAS AND JEANNE CARIATI: “Interface,” alabaster sculptures and works in fiber and watercolor. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 828-0749. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

TRINE WILSON: “Sand Wash Basin Wild Horses,” photographs taken in northwestern Colorado. ˜ rough January 31. Info, 355-4834. ˜ e Swingin’ Pinwheel Café & Bakery in Burlington.

‘ANIMAL’ RETROSPECTIVE: Photographs from the dance-based interdisciplinary project directed by Montpelier dancer/choreographer Hanna Satterlee. ˜ rough December 23. Info, hannasatt@gmail. com. Info, 223-4712. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier.

VERMONT PHOTO GROUP: Eight photographers exhibit images of landscapes, nature and animals on media including aluminum and cotton rag paper. ˜ rough December 28. Info, 434-5503. New Moon Café in Burlington.

Matthew Thorsen If you’ve been photographed for Seven Days,

WORKS FROM BELLCATE SCHOOL: Students of Josh Linz’s art class present work influenced by diverse art movements. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

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images published in various media. A selection of Thorsen’s work is currently at the

‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’: An exhibition exploring the illusory and deadly beauty of American wildfowl decoys, featuring models of 13 different bird species. ˜ rough May 1. ‘EYES ON THE LAND’: Installations, sculpture, paintings and photographs by 13 artists who were matched with 15 farms and forests conserved by the Vermont Land Trust over one year’s time. Artists include painters Mark Nielsen, Cameron Davis, Bonnie Acker, Charlie Hunter, Susan Abbott and Neil Riley; sculptors and multimedia artists Brian D. Collier, Dan Snow, Karolina Kawiaka and Gowri Savoor; and photographers Tyler Wilkinson-Ray, John Willis and Caleb Kenna. ˜ rough January 3. Info, 985-3346.

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

took his first shot for the paper in 1995, and to date has had more than 6,000 of his Flynn Center for the Performing Arts’ Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington. The walls are brimming with an array of subject matter, from portraits of his family to bicyclists in Tibet to a large-format color panorama of Johnson’s lumberyard in Bristol. Thorsen shows no signs of slowing down. (Plan your visit ahead, as the gallery is only open to the public from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays or to Flynn patrons during performance intermissions.) An artist talk is scheduled for Saturday, January 16, at 1:30 p.m. Through February 27. Pictured: “Dad in Meditation.”

ART RESOURCE ASSOCIATION MEMBERS SHOW: ˜ e artist group celebrates its 40th year. ˜ rough January 2. Info, aggiesmee@tds.net. City Center in Montpelier.

‘CELEBRATE!’: A 15-year anniversary celebration of local arts featuring a wide variety of fine art and crafts by SPA member artists. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

CHARLES FISH: “Blue Ribbons & Burlesque,” photographs taken at Vermont country fairs. ˜ rough July 1. Info, 479-8519. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

ED EPSTEIN: “Friends and Stories,” recent paintings by the Montpelier artist. ˜ rough January 8. Info, 371-4100. Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre.

‘IN MINIATURE’ HOLIDAY EXHIBIT & SALE: Work from Newbury artists including paintings, prints, mixed media, fine art photographs, wood turning and wood carvings. ˜ rough January 5. Info, 866-5366. Tenney Memorial Library in Newbury.

JONATHAN VANTASSEL: “Wemosphere,” new abstract oil paintings by the Vermont artist. ˜ rough December 31. Info, 828-5657. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

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‘TURN TURN, TURN’: A joint art exhibit of artists Matthew Peake, Barbara Baker-Bury and Scott J. Morgan. Also, works from the WPA collection are simultaneously on view. A special holiday pop-up gallery is selling artist cards, prints and pottery.

Through December 23. Info, 262-6035. . W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

‘WOMEN OF NORWICH: TRAILBLAZERS AND TORCHBEARERS’: Photographs, documents, uniforms and objects celebrating the women who were “first,” from the first ladies of un ersity presidents to the first women in the Corps of Cadets and so-called nontraditional fields. Throug December 31. Info, 485-2183. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield

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‘2015 LEGACY COLLECTION’: Landscapes painted by 25 living and 13 now-deceased artists that reflect the legacy of museum namesakes and artists Alden and Mary Bryan. ‘GEMS’: An exhibition of 135 small-format works by gallery members. Through December 30. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

CRAIG MOONEY: “Featured Paintings,” semiabstract landscapes in oil. Through Janua y 31. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

GABRIEL TEMPESTA: “Our World, Charcoals & Casein,” highly detailed paintings rendered from photos of the natural world. Through December 31.

Info, 253-8943. Upstairs at West Branch Gallery in Stowe.

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RIVER ARTS PHOTO CO-OP: Images from 18 dedicated participants of the monthly photographers’ meetup. Through Janua y 4. Info, 888-1261.

River Arts in Morrisville.

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TOD GUNTER AVIATION ART: Illustrations currently include the F4U Corsair, a WWII fighter and the F-4 Phantom II, a fighte -bomber active in Vietnam.

More drawings and renderings are continually added. Through December 31. Info, 734-9971. Plane Profiles Ga lery in Stowe.

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BLAKE LARSEN: “Introducing Color,” abstract expressionist and abstract figure paintings.

Through Janua y 18. Info, 583-5832. The Bundy Modern Gallery in Waitsfield

Roy Vestrich For “Papered Walls: Photographs From Around the World”

at Castleton Downtown Gallery, the local photographer trains his lens on a ghostly site: Vestrich’s images are described as capturing “fleeting moments of culture and place while evoking an almost timeless painterly abstraction in composition, texture and palette.” Rich with layers, his framing of the public-announcement detritus as an incidental, vernacular art form is a pleasure. Through January 16. Pictured: photograph by Vestrich.

‘OUTSIDER ART INSIDE’: Works from nine self-taught artists associated with Grass Roots Art and Community Effort. Through December 31. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

ART LISTINGS AND SPOTLIGHTS ARE WRITTEN BY RACHEL ELIZABETH JONES LISTINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO ART SHOWS IN TRULY PUBLIC PLACES.

‘CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS’: Artworks and crafts by more than 45 artists working in wood, fibe , ceramics and glass; hundreds of items priced under $50. Through December 31. ‘CERAMICS: DECORATIVE & FUNCTIONAL’: Work by Vermont potters Judith Bryant, Laura Fall, Kileh Friedman and Ken Martin. Through Februa y 29. Info, 877-3850. Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes.

‘FROM FARM TO FEAST’: Art, craft and photography by 22 local artists celebrating Vermont agriculture.

Through December 31. Info, 388-1436. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theate , in Middlebury.

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NICK NEDDO: “Elements and Allies,” work made with wild-crafted art materials by the local artist and author. Through Janua y 30. Info, 426-3581.

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MEMBER ART SHOW: First annual MSAC member art show, featuring work including photographs, pastels and watercolors from more than a dozen artists. Through December 31. Info, 262-6284.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center.

MARY HILL: New work by the local artist. Through December 31. Info, 496-5470. Three Mountain Café in Waitsfield

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JOHN BISBEE: “Branded,” wall-hung sculptures solely using hand-forged nails, reflecting the artist’s three-decade exploration of the material.

Through Janua y 30. Info, 617-842-3332. Walker Contemporary in Waitsfield

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HOLIDAY GROUP EXHIBITION: Vermont artists Jason Boyd, Hope Burgoyne, Kate Cahill-Vansuch, Marilyn Gillis, Gloria Lynn, Shannon Morrison, Gerald Stoner and Sarah-Lee Terrat exhibit works in a variety of mediums. Through Janua y 16. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury.

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art ‘FINE ART GIFTS FOR HOLIDAY GIVING’: Exhibition and sale of affordable artwork by guild members.

Through December 29. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

VICTORIA PATRICK ZOLNOSKI: “Altared,” new altarpieces and digital and altered method photographs. Through December 26. Info, 472-9933. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick.

ROY VESTRICH: “Papered Walls,” photographs evoking painterly abstraction that feature degraded posters, chipped walls, aged objects and natural formations found in Europe, China, Australia and North America. Through Janua y 16. Info, 468-1266.

Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.

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champlain islands/northwest DECEMBER FEATURED ARTISTS: Work by photographers Cassy and Frank McDonough and painters Natalie LaRocque-Bouchard, Pat Murphy and Martha Ohliger. Through December 31. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

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COLLECTIVE FALL SHOW: Hooked rugs by Janet Avery, jewelry by metalsmith Susan Riach, ornaments and whistles by Mary Stone, and hand-molded beeswax candles by Vermont Honey Lights. Through December 31. Info, 457-1298.

Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock.

‘FEATHER & FUR: PORTRAITS OF FIELD, FOREST & FARM’: Portraits celebrating the beauty, intelligence and grace of animals by nine artists.

Through April 30. Info, 885-3061. The Great H l in Springfield HOLIDAY PRINT SHOW: Prints by local artists, available for viewing and sale. Through Janua y 30.

Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

‘ICE AGE MAMMALS IN THE MEADOW’: Outdoor exhibition of life-size sculpture by Bob Shannahan and Wendy Klemperer, featuring artistic renditions of a woolly mammoth, a short-faced bear, a North American camel, a dire wolf and an American lion.

Through April 30. Info, 359-5001. ermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center in Quechee.

TOM SCHULTEN: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock.

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Collin Leech The local painter and art teacher at Brattleboro’s River

Gallery School celebrates her debut solo exhibition this month at Main Street Arts in

Saxtons River. Focusing on recent works made with a wide variety of media, Leech is particularly lauded for incorporating encaustic painting techniques, which employ wax combined with resins and coloring instead of traditional oil paints. Much of Leech’s

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GREG BERNHARDT AND HANNAH SESSIONS: “Our Song,” landscape and farm-life paintings by the married artists. Through December 31. Info, 458 0098. Edgewater Gallery, Mill Street, in Middlebury.

MODEL TRAINS: Annual three-level model train diorama, running against a backdrop of the Green Mountains, painted by local artist Gayl Braisted.

Through Janua y 9. WARREN KIMBLE: “AllAmerican Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective,” works by the internationally known Brandon artist, along with works from his own folk art collection. Through December 31. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

‘PORTRAIT OF A FOREST: MEN AND MACHINE’: Contemporary images from Weybridge photojournalist George Bellerose presented alongside archival material from the logging industry.

Through Janua y 9. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

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‘THE ART OF GIVING -:- THE GIVING OF ART’: Art enthusiasts can shop from a selection of handcrafted, one-of-a-kind artwork, jewelry and other gifts. Through January 9. Info, 247-4295.

Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

‘BOXCARS: RAILROAD IMAGERY IN CONTEMPORARY REALISM’: Realist paintings with trains as subject, curated by Charlie Hunter.

Through March 12. ‘DRAWING ON, IN, OUT’: Drawings by Christina de Gennaro, Terry Hauptman, Monique Luchetti, Craig Stockwell, Jane Sutherland and Scott Tulay. Through Februa y 8. ‘SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE WORKING FOREST’: A multidisciplinary examination and celebration of the working forest featuring paintings by Kathleen Kolb, poetry

by Verandah Porche and exhibition design by Mark O’Maley. Through Janua y 3. EVAN CORONIS: “Penumbra,” hexagonal forms made with unrefined industrial glass. Through March 12. LINN BRUCE: “Stories in Color,” vibrantly colorful paintings.

Through Janua y 3. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

COLLIN LEECH: Recent paintings by the Vermont artist, showcasing her mixed use of collage, drawing, painting and encaustic work. Through December 28. Info, 869-2960. Main Street Arts in Saxtons River.

JOSH BERNBAUM: Intricate blown glasswork by the Vermont artist. Through Janua y 3. Info, 251-8290.

Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro.

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CHIP TROIANO: Photographs of landscapes from Patagonia to Vietnam. Through Janua y 4. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

LISA ESHLEMAN FOSTER: “Ancestors: Going Way Back,” a one-woman show. Through Janua y 23.

Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

‘THE BOWL, A CELEBRATION’: A collection of special and treasured bowls from the Tunbridge community and beyond, each accompanied by a story about its meaning to the owner. Organized by art teacher and potter Stephanie Loeffle , the show marks the establishment of a bowl lending library with pieces from local artists available for checkout. Through December 31. Info, 889-9404.

Tunbridge Public Library.

‘HOT HOUSES, WARM CURVES’: Exhibition of Anda Dubinskis drawings, Peter Moriarty photography and colorfully painted shoes by Rick Skogsberg.

Through Februa y 29. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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he third time is not exactly the charm when it comes to writerdirector David O. Russell’s latest collaboration with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.

It’s by far the least compelling and cohesive of the three films the group has made.

Lawrence plays Joy Mangano, the woman who invented the Miracle Mop and 100 or so other household wonders (“Skinny velvet hangers make neater closets. Who thinks of things like that? Joy did.”), and went on to become a QVC icon.

The story is not the problem. Mangano’s rags-to-call-in-riches saga is so kitschy and improbable that you can imagine Tim Burton drooling at the thought of taking a seriocomic stab at it. The problem is that Russell decided to tell a different sort of story, and much of it is a snooze.

He lavishes too much time, for example, on a treacly depiction of Joy’s childhood. She was a creative girl who liked to make things.

Russell’s not content to establish that and move on. Instead, he concocts the character of Joy’s grandmother, Mimi (Diane Ladd), and lingers on scene after scene in which she assures the girl she’s destined for greatness.

Eventually Russell jumps forward to the early ’90s, and we meet a woman whose

dreams are on hold. Joy is divorced from a small-time Latin singer (Édgar Ramírez), who lives in her basement. The crowded house is also home to the couple’s two kids; Mimi; Joy’s divorced, shut-in mother (Virginia Madsen); and Joy’s father, Rudy (De Niro), a twice-married romantic who owns an auto shop. What would a Russell film be without a wacky family?

Lightning strikes one evening in a clumsily handled sequence that has Joy suddenly mumbling to herself, as if possessed, while her family looks on in bewilderment. Earlier, she had mopped up a spill and cut her hands on broken glass while squeezing water out of the mop head. As we learn, she hasn’t had a stroke. She’s had a brainstorm.

Soon Joy is assembling Miracle Mops by the hundreds in Rudy’s shop. The selfwringing design ensures that neither she nor anyone else with $19.95 need ever befoul their hands on a mophead again. Now all Joy needs is a place to sell her invention.

Where’s Bradley Cooper when you need him? Running a nascent QVC, it turns out.

He’s Neil Walker, a friend of a friend of Joy’s ex-husband, the guy with the final word on which products the network will push.

With a running time of 124 minutes, the film contains a stretch of about 20 that’s

MOTHER OF INVENTION Lawrence does her best to sell Russell’s latest, but even she can’t save this tentative, sketchy effort.

absolutely enchanting. It extends from the moment Joy and Neil meet through her triumphant on-air debut and her recordshattering success. If you’ve seen Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, you may think you know how the relationship between Joy and Neil will play out. You may be surprised.

Instead, the third act is a downer that abruptly switches tones to chronicle attempts made by business associates and family members to rip off Joy. It’s an odd choice.

I wish Russell had devoted that time to fleshing out the major characters.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens ★★★★

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t’s difficult to be objective about a movie that was painstakingly engineered to evoke one of the most powerful experiences of your childhood.

I can’t see Star Wars: The Force Awakens from the perspective of someone who has never thrilled to the first notes of the John Williams score. Nor can I see it from the perspective of someone who cherishes fond memories of George Lucas’ prequel trilogy.

(Such people must exist, though their voices aren’t very loud on the internet.)

I can only see Star Wars VII as a member of the audience that the franchise’s new owner, Disney, was presumably targeting when it hired J.J. Abrams to cowrite and direct. Abrams is a master mimic who specializes in reviving franchises’ original recipes even as he tweaks them to fit the palate of the modern blockbuster viewer. Having made Star Trek bankable again, he took on the Force — a huge assignment, but perhaps an easier one, given that most of those modern blockbuster formulas are based on 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope.

It won’t surprise anyone familiar with Abrams’ work to hear that The Force Awakens plays like a reverent remix of elements from the first two (and most beloved) Star Wars movies. The opening text crawl suggests that someone hit the reset button after Return of the Jedi. The defeated Empire has risen again as the First Order (now with even more blatant Nazi imagery!), opposed by a

FORCE OF HABIT Ridley and Boyega lead a new generation of Star Wars characters fleeing from old threats in Abrams’ Episode VII.

plucky Resistance. The latter’s only hope is a map to the refuge of the semilegendary Luke Skywalker — a map that, in early scenes, is secreted inside an adorable droid on a desert planet remarkably similar to Tatooine.

That’s enough spoilers, but the parallels don’t end there, clustered as thickly as the familiar motifs in the musical score. While the prequels ventured out boldly — and badly — to explore things new to the Star Wars universe (trade negotiations! tragic hubris!), Abrams plays it safe.

But it’s a good kind of safe, because, for the first time in ages, the Star Wars saga has personable leads. Besides bringing back old favorites, Disney had the challenge of introducing a new generation, and the casting is solid — which also makes Star Wars look a bit more like the diverse world we live in. As Rey, a scavenger on the aforementioned desert planet, Daisy Ridley has a graceful alertness and is never a damsel in distress. Playing off her poise with comic awkwardness is John Boyega (Attack the Block) as Finn,

Joy Mangano’s life has been a singular and fascinating one. She’s currently a legend at HSN, and I’d love to have come away with a better sense of what makes her tick. I suspect Russell couldn’t decide which parts of her story to tell or how, and that’s why the movie frequently feels so sketchy and tentative, despite Lawrence’s game efforts. The filmmaker may claim what’s on the screen is what he wanted, but I don’t buy it.

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Both these characters suffer from cloudy backstories — exposition isn’t the film’s strong suit. Unpretentiousness is. All that ponderous Jedi mythology aside, the original Star Wars trilogy had a frequent awshucks goofiness, perhaps lifted from Lucas’ beloved Saturday morning serials. It’s back in the Force Awakens script, where you can feel the presence of Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark).

While a dearth of Han Solo-type smart-asses rendered the prequels dour, this film has almost a surplus of them. (Besides Finn channeling the wisecracks, and a certain wellpublicized return, there’s Oscar Isaac as a dashing Resistance pilot.) Some of the original trilogy’s endearingly low-tech effects are back, too — such as the Millennium Falcon’s stop-motion chess set.

It’s all about trends, of course. When Lucas made the prequels, he was a kid in a digital toyshop, eager to upgrade everything; now that digital cinema is the norm, Abrams can arouse nostalgia simply by shooting on 35mm. He has an audience eager to feel that nostalgia for the perfect popcorn movie, and feel it they will — along with affection and elation. Whether future Star Wars installments will deliver the even greater excitement that comes from originality remains to be seen.

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by Nick Hornby. With Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson and Jim Broadbent. (111 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 12/2) CREEDHHHH The Rocky franchise gets a new lease on life in this boxing drama in which an aging Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) trains the son of his one-time arch-rival, Apollo Creed (Michael B. Jordan). Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) directed.

(132 min, PG-13) THE GOOD DINOSAURHHH1/2 The latest family animation from Pixar imagines an alternate Earth where dinosaurs survived into the era of people — and one especially cute ’saurus makes a young human friend. With the voices of Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand and Marcus Scribner. Peter Sohn cowrote and directed. (100 min, PG)

THE DANISH GIRL: In this fictionalized biopic, Eddie Redmayne plays Einar Wegener, an early-20th-century artist who made a pioneering transition from male to female. Alicia Vikander is his (and then her) wife. Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) directed. (119 min, R. Roxy)

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY — PART 2HHH1/2 The dystopian saga concludes, as Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and the rebels prepare to bring down the tyrannical Capitol. With Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore and Natalie Dormer.

Francis Lawrence again directed. (137 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 11/25)

JOYHH1/2 Director David O. Russell (American Hustle) takes on the colorful story of the woman who invented the Miracle Mop (Jennifer Lawrence) and her oddball family. With Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Diane Ladd and Édgar Ramírez. (124 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 12/23. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Stowe)

IN THE HEART OF THE SEAHHH1/2 Based on the 1820 events that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick, Ron Howard’s survival-adventure film fo lows the travails of a whaling crew who find the whale attacking them for a change. Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson star. (121 min, PG-13)

MACBETH: Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard play the Scottish schemer and his wife in this new (and reportedly bloody) version of Shakespeare’s classic, directed by Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders). With Paddy Considine and David Thewlis. (113 min, R. Sa oy)

KRAMPUSHH1/2 In this scare comedy, a kid accidentally summons a Christmas demon for ho-ho-horror. With Adam Scott, Toni Collette, and David Koechner. Michael Dougherty (Trick ’r Treat) directed. (98 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 12/9/15)

NOW PLAYING ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIPH1/2 The intrepid animated chippies t y to save their human friend (Jason Lee) from a marriage they believe will be disastrous in the fourth installment of this pun-happy family series. With the voices of Justin Long and Matthew Gray Gubler. Walt Becker directed. (86 min, PG)

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SPECTREHHHH Daniel Craig returns as James Bond, now on the trail of the sinister organization of the title, which has resurfaced from his past.

Ralph Fiennes takes over as M, still beleaguered; Sam Mendes again directs. With Christoph Waltz, Ben Whishaw, Monica Bellucci and Léa Seydoux.

(148 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 11/11) SPOTLIGHTHHHHH Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Stanley Tucci are among the all-star cast of this gripping drama about the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Catholic sex-abuse scandals uncovered in the early aughts. Tom McCarthy (The Visitor) directed and cowrote. (128 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 11/25)

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THE NIGHT BEFOREHHH Riffing on influence as opposite as a popular Christmas poem and The Hangover, this yuletide ride follows three childhood friends (Seth Rogen, Joseph GordonLevitt and Anthony Mackie) on a wild search for an epic X-mas party. With Lizzy Caplan, Ilana Glazer and Miley Cyrus, and directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50). (101 min, R)

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THE MARTIANHHHH Stranded on Mars, the last member of a manned mission (Matt Damon) must survive, contact NASA and help engineer his own rescue in this sci-fi ad enture directed by Ridley Scott and based on the science-savvy novel by Andy Weir. With Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig and Jeff Daniels. (141 min, PG-13)

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defend it from forces that compromise, pollute, colonize, shrink and sterilize it, and to cultivate those that illuminate, expand and nourish it.”

It’s always important for everyone to attend to this work, but it’s especially crucial for you to focus on it in 2016. You will be exceptionally creative, and therefore likely to generate long-lasting effects and influences out of the raw materials that occupy your imagination.

Capricorn (DEC. 21-JAN. 19)

The coming year will be a favorable time for you to nourish a deeper devotion to truth, beauty and goodness.

Anything you do to make your morality more rigorous will generate benefit that ripple through your life for years to come. Curiously, you can add to the propitious effect by also cultivating a deeper devotion to fun, play and pleasure. There is a symbiotic connection between the part of you that wants to make the world a better place and the part of you that thrives on joy, freedom and wonder. Here’s the magic formula: Feed your lust for life by being intensely compassionate, and vice versa.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You know what

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman won three Academy Awards and was nominated for eight others.

Numerous filmmakers have cited him as an important influence on their work. His practical success was rooted in his devotion to the imagination. “I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality,” he said. Can you guess his astrological sign? Cancer the Crab, of course! No other tribe is better suited at moving back and forth between the two worlds. At least potentially, you are virtuosos at interweaving fantasy with earthy concerns. The coming year will afford you unprecedented opportunities to further develop and use this skill.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Avoid pain and pursue pleasure. Be kind, not cruel. Abstain from selfpity and ask for the help you need. Instead of complaining, express gratitude. Dodge timewasting activities and do things that are meaningful to you. Shun people who disrespect you

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(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of the atoms that compose your flesh and blood were not part of your body 12 months ago.

Thats because every year, 98 percent of you is replaced. Old cells are constantly dying, giving way to new cells that are made from the air, food and water you ingest. This is true about everyone, of course. You’re not the only one whose physical form is regularly recycled. But here’s what will be unique about you in 2016: Your soul will match your body’s rapid transformations. In fact, the turnover is already under way. By your next birthday, you may be so new you’ll barely recognize yourself. I urge you to take full charge of this opportunity! Who do you want to become?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The English word “ain’t” can mean “am not,” “is not,” “are not” or “have not.” But it ain’t recognized as a standard word in the language. If you use it, you risk being thought vulgar and uneducated. And yet “ain’t” has been around since 1706, more than 300 years. Most words that are used for so long eventually become official. I see your journey in 2016 as having resemblances to the saga of “ain’t,” Libra. You will meet resistance as you seek greater acceptance of some nonstandard but regular part of your life. Here’s the good news: Your chances of ultimately succeeding are much better than ain’t’s.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My old friend John owns a 520-acre farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Blueberries are among the crops he grows. If he arranges their growing season so that they ripen in July, he can sell them for $1.75 a pint. But if he designs them to be ready for harvest in late summer and early fall, the price he gets may go up to $4 a pint. You can guess which schedule he prefers.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1803, the U.S. government bought a huge chunk of North American land from the French government. At a price of 3 cents per acre, the new republic doubled its size, acquiring what’s now Louisiana and Montana and everything between. I don’t think you’ll add that much to your domain in 2016, Sagittarius, but it’s likely you will expand significantl .

And although your new resources won’t be as cheap as the 1803 bargain, I suspect the cost, both in terms of actual cash and in emotional energy, will be manageable. Theres one way your acquisition will be better than that earlier one. The Americans bought and the French sold land they didn’t actually own — it belonged to the native people — whereas your moves will have full integrity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict that 2016 will be your Year of Fruitful Obsessions.

In giving this positive spin to the cosmic tendencies, I’m hoping to steer you away from any behavior that might lead to 2016 being your Year of Fruitless Obsessions. One way or another, I think you’ll be driven to express your passions with single-minded intensity.

Focused devotion — sometimes verging on compulsive preoccupation -- is likely to be one of your signature qualities. Thats why it’s so important to avoid wasteful infatuations and confounding manias. Please choose fascinations that are really good for you.

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(Feb. 19-March 20): Your symbol of power in 2016 will be the equal sign: =.

Visualize it in your mind’s eye every morning for 20 seconds. Tattoo it on your butt. Write it on an index card that you keep under your pillow or on your bathroom mirror. Gestures like these will deliver highly relevant messages to your subconscious mind, like “Create balance and cultivate harmony!” and “Coordinate opposing forces!” and “Wherever there is tension between two extremes, convert the tension into vital energy!” Here are your words of power in 2016: “symbiosis” and “synergy.”

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(May 21-June 20): Your mind sometimes works too hard and fast for your own good. But mostly it’s your best asset. Your versatility can sometimes be a curse, too, but far more often it’s a blessing. Your agile tongue and flexible agenda generate more fun than trouble, and so do your smooth maneuvers and skillful gamesmanship. As wonderful as all these qualities can be, however, I suggest that you work on expanding your scope in 2016. In my astrological opinion, it will be a good time for you to study and embody the magic that the water signs possess. What would that mean exactly? Start this way: Give greater respect to your feelings. Tune in to them more, encourage them to deepen and figur out how to trust them as sources of wisdom.

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We can host. We are both DD-free and require the same. breadchuckle, 24,l

I have known this guy for most of my life. We were friends as children, and as teenagers we loved each other. But then my family moved away and we drifted apart. Recently he showed back up in my life. He loves my family, and they love him. A couple of weeks ago, we had sex. It was random and fun, but since then I haven’t heard from him. The weird thing is, he’s still in contact with my family. Just this week I saw on Facebook that he is dating someone, and I was horrified. I thought we were rea ly reconnecting.

I don’t know what to do or what to tell my family. I am so upset. I was so open with him about my past disappointments, and then he totally ditched me. I thought I was more important to him than that.

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Dear Burned,

Burned by an Old Flame

Of course you’re upset! What a jerk! I wish I could clobber him for you. I wish I could make it all better.

But the only thing that will make this better is time — truly the best medicine. It’s not a quick fix, and it’s not as fun as lashing out at him, but, as much as you may want to drop a bag of dog shit at his doorstep, you’d be wiser to move on.

He messed up, big time. He clearly took advantage of you, and he’s got to go. I wouldn’t bother trying to connect with him, but if you feel you need closure, you could write him a letter. It might be cathartic to tell him that he hurt you, particularly given your long history. But know that, if you send this letter, he might not respond, and I doubt very much that he will change. Your letter needs to be a step toward moving on, not a tactic to get him back.

Then I suggest ou delete his phone number and stop following him on social media. Ask your family to do the same. So what if they have fond memories of him from the past? Given how he’s treated you, they should understand and be sensitive to your side of the situation.

While it’s tempting to analyze what went wrong here, don’t bother. His actions were careless, thoughtless and selfish, period.

It might take time before you feel you can trust someone again. But the good news is, there are good guys out there, too — guys who would be psyched to be with you. The sooner ou let go of this dud, the sooner you’ll be ready to meet one of them.

Yours,

Athena

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LOOKING FOR A SEXY LADY Hot and fun couple looking to invite a sexy lady into our bedroom. This is my girlfriend’s first time with a woman, and she’s very excited! I’ll hopefully be invited to join the fun soon. Doesn’t matter if you’re experienced with a woman.

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EROTIC ADVENTURES, SECRET LOVERS I’m full of desires and seek partner(s) who want to release their wild sides!

I’m clean and want same. I’m 51 but feel 36, have a happy, caring, exciting attitude and personality! We can be FWB, or LTR, or just have a discreet secretive rendezvous. Have your/ our extra naughty needs met! Let’s have fun together. It’s on you now; respond! :). Inspirations, 51

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WINE WONDER WOMAN IN WATERBURY Curvy beauty in glam glasses: You suggested a Fermint that blew my mind while I was distracted by a cascade of auburn locks. Let’s go somewhere quieter and enjoy something bubbly; you can let your hair down in more ways than one. Love your style, but love it more on the floo . Smile at this lanky redhead sometime.

When: Friday, December 11, 2015. Where: Waterbury. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913295 AFTERNOON AT THE WATERFRONT DOG PARK You: with your partner/friend and two pups at the waterfront dog park in Burlington. I wish I had told you that I appreciated our talk. I’ve been having a hard time lately, and it was so refreshing and pleasant to make simple small talk with someone who doesn’t know about or is related to my anxiety. Thank ou! When: Monday, December 14, 2015. Where: Waterfront Dog Park. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913294 HANDSOME MAN AT GROCERY CHECKOUT We were in line together on a Sunday morning. You were in front of me. We exchanged smiles, and it made my day. Thank ou to you and your yellow lab.

When: Sunday, November 29, 2015. Where: Essex Price Chopper. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913293 FERRISBURGH MOBIL My day definitely got better! What ou did was very sweet and definitely made a di ference! Thank ou!

When: Wednesday, November 18, 2015. Where: Ferrisburgh Mobil. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913292 PLANE RIDE WITH HER DOG You were seated next to me wearing a hoodie, coming back to Vermont for the holidays from New Orleans with your lab.

When: Saturday, December 12, 2015. Where: plane. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913291 REDHEAD AT CITY MARKET, SAT. I was talking to a friend by the salad bar. You were walking away from the deli, and we made eye contact for a while. I fantasized about asking you out for the rest of the day.

Short red hair and glasses, blueish-purple top. I was wearing a North Face jacket you wouldn’t lose in a crowd. Remember the color?

When: Saturday, December 12, 2015. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913290

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HARVEST MARKET, STOWE Your eyes and personality are awesome. If you read this, you will know exactly who you are and who I am. When: Friday, December 11, 2015. Where: Harvest Market. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913288 HITCHIN’ A RIDE Will, you picked me up last week and were kind enough to bring me all the way to my mechanic.

I really enjoyed talking with you, and I regret hopping out of your car without telling you so. If you feel the same, perhaps we can meet again?

When: Thursda , December 3, 2015. Where: in your jeep. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913287 MONTPELIER POST OFFICE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON My hands were full of packages. You opened the door, around 2:30 p.m. I appreciated the chivalry — but really appreciated the spark. If you are available to follow up on the spark, let me know. I wish I’d said more than thanks! I should have turned around. Maybe we can change that. Chance encounters! When: Thursda , December 10, 2015. Where: Montpelier post office. ou: Man. Me: Woman. #913286 HUNGER MTN COOP, WED. MORNING A split-second leap into the unknown of Lalita Lila Linda’s love laboratory: How can a single spark of a glance have such long-lasting effects? When may I look into your eyes again? When: Wednesday, December 2, 2015. Where: Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913285 DECEMBER 7 I can’t take my eyes off of you whenever you’re around. You look like wildflowers and sunshine, and you have the most incredible storm-gray eyes I’ve ever seen. Happy half birthday, pretty girl.

When: Monday, December 7, 2015. Where: my dreams. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #913283

BUY YOU A CUP? I have not seen you in a while, but I still make my way to my favorite coffee spot in hopes of seeing your red truck. You: tall, quiet, dark-haired quarter-of-seven coffee consumer. Me: short, giggly, curly dark hair 10-of-seven coffee crazy, often with my ginger coworker. I am intrigued by your friendly, handsome face. Coffee? When: Friday, November 20, 2015. Where: Colchester CoffeeFields. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913282 VIBES AT NO. 9 You were working at the antique shop in the back. I was pretending to be interested in some pillows, but really I just wanted a chance to chat with you after exchanging smiles. I had a swimming pool-print bag and probably flushed cheeks. Meet me for a beverage? When: Tuesday, December 8, 2015. Where: back of No. 9 Boutique, Montpelier. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913281 UPPER DECK PUB, WINDJAMMER To the beautiful brunette with glasses who walked by me and gave me a look before you left: You should have said hi. You are beautiful, and if you ever wanna talk, I hope you see this. I would love to meet you. When: Monday, December 7, 2015. Where: Upper Deck Pub. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913280 BICYCLE SUMMER SMILE I’d just gotten back from a long trip and landed on my sister’s porch with my backpack and a G&T. It was a euphoric summer morning, and then you coasted by and flashed us a smile.

I’ll never forget that moment, radiant bicycle girl. When: Friday, May 30, 2014. Where: East Ave. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913279 U-MALL PACKERS FAN We chatted briefly while ou were shopping for your twin brother, and I was hoping I’d run into you again on Saturday. I didn’t, though, so I-Spy it is.

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COSTCO BLIND DATE With a bag of dog food and a flannel in our cart, you sat and ate lunch as I approached. We shared a few glances — your handsomeness made me nervous. I tried to sit at your table, but it seems you may have been off to work. How about a proper “hello”? When: Thursda , December 3, 2015.

Where: Costco. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913275 GURUS KNOW BEST! Sweet, sweet reminders of Vermont and of friendship. Thank ou, my loving, thoughtful, brilliant, extraordinary friend. Distance may not make the heart grow fonder, but Seven Days and Vermont-grown rice care packages certainly can!

“One does not become a guru by accident.” —James Fenton. When: Tuesday, December 1, 2015. Where: Charlotte. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #913274 CUMBERLAND FARMS, PINE ST. We chatted about how young we weren’t. I’d love to chat more. You have beautiful eyes. When: Wednesday, December 2, 2015. Where: Cumby’s, Pine St. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913273 RED AUDI, ST. J I spy sideways glances from an absolutely stunning vision of earthly delights. Your smile melts me.

The compliment ou gave me at the party still plays over and over in my mind. You little devil.

I was never given a chance. When: Monday, November 9, 2015. Where: going in the wrong direction. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913272 SIERRA TRADING CURLY, LONG-HAIRED BLONDE You bought the same pair of boots for your son as I had for myself. Kicked myself for not asking if you’d like to get together for coffee or a drink.

Hope you see this and would like to. When: Tuesday, November 24, 2015. Where: Sierra Trading Co. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913271 YOU MAKE EVERYONE SMILE Every time I go in and you are working, I know I will leave with a smile on my face. Whether it’s something you say or flashing those big brown eyes and gorgeous smile, you know how to make a girl’s day. Just wanted to let you know it doesn’t go unnoticed or unappreciated. ;) When: Sunday, December 6, 2015. Where: Trader Joe’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913278

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SATURDAY SUBARU SMILER Thanks for flashing me that grin. It mad my day! When: Saturday, December 12, 2015. Where: North Winooski and Pearl.

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