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A large Panton dairy farm At trial, the must make changes to stop Vorstevelds conturbid runoff and foul odors tended that the from contaminating the increased discharges property of a downslope were a symptom of neighbor, a state judge ruled the climate crisis. on Monday. Teachout was unperThe decision by Superior suaded. Court Judge Mary Miles The judge deterTeachout, following a civil mined that the court trial held in December and does not have the January, does not specify authority to impose how the three Vorsteveld specific fixes, only to brothers, who operate one require the Vorstevelds of the largest dairy farms in to stop the nuisance Vermont, should act to stop and trespass. the pollution. As Seven Days “To prevent previously reported, the future trespasses case highlighted the plight and damage from of Vermont dairy farmers nuisance, it is not necand how the state regulates essary for Vorsteveld them. Farm to change its Neighboring landownfarming practices; it ers Vicki and Dennis Hopper is only necessary that sued Vorsteveld Farm in it manage its own 2020, alleging that its runoff waste,” she wrote. was interfering with life at The Vorstevelds their lakefront home and the have previously faced operations of their daughstate and local enter’s grass-fed livestock farm, forcement action over known as Aerie Point. their land manageThe problems began ment practices, inwhen the Vorstevelds cluding a $21,750 fine installed a tile drainage levied by the Agency system in 2017 as part of of Natural Resources From left: Gerard, Rudy and Hans Vorsteveld a farm expansion project, in 2020 for improperly Teachout concluded in a 32dredging and filling page decision. The drainage wetlands. The state system turned periodic streambeds into constant flows of environmental agency has received more than two dozen brown water and “black sludge” that had high levels of E. complaints about the farm over the last five years, but it did coli and phosphorus. One of the Hoppers’ grazing fields was not intervene in the runoff issue, saying drainage disputes eventually covered with water, preventing livestock from between adjoining property owners don’t fall within its using it. Aerial photos displayed at trial showed the dairy jurisdiction, Seven Days previously reported. The Agency of farm runoff flowing into Lake Champlain. Agriculture, Food and Markets didn’t get involved, either. The pollution amounts to a nuisance and trespass “The Agency of Agriculture utterly failed to address the of the Hoppers’ land, Teachout ruled. Vorsteveld Farm environmental problems here,” the Hoppers’ attorney, Rob “shifted to the Aerie Point owners the consequential Woolmington, said in an interview following the decision. costs of its changed agricultural practices, thereby “It required the court to do the job the agency should have damaging Aerie Point land through erosion and condone.” tamination and flooding,” she wrote. “It essentially The Vorstevelds’ attorney did not respond to a request discharged its waste onto Aerie Point land and let the for comment. consequences fall on Aerie Point as owner in a manner Read Derek Brouwer’s full story and the judge’s decision not done prior to 2017.” at sevendaysvt.com.

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From Paris With Love As part of its season-long celebration of the cello, Middlebury College’s Mahaney Arts Center hosts an intimate, virtual concert with chamber music power couple David Finckel and Wu Han. The cellist and pianist, respectively, take streaming audiences into their Westchester, N.Y., home for a delightfully Frenchflavored program of sonatas by Camille Saint-Saëns and César Franck. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 61

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Into the West Dancers can imagine they’re tucking and turning in the warm California air at the Queen City Westie Social at Burlington’s Champlain Club. The newly formed 802 Westie Collective, an organization dedicated to teaching and celebrating West Coast swing, invites beginners and old hats to boogie all evening to irresistible tunes from DJ Oscar Hampton and DJ River Peterson. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 62

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Every Monday in April, egg lovers ages 12 and up stop by the Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock for Pysanky Eggs: Ukrainian Egg Decorating Drop-in Sessions. Librarian Danelle Sims demonstrates this ancient, intricate style of painting, and the library provides all the necessary supplies, though anyone may bring their own eggs.

The admission is free and the music is mindblowing when Alash play at the Lebanon Opera House. Hailing from the tiny Central Asian Tuva Republic, the trio combines the region’s traditional, improbable throat singing (xöömei) — a method of singing two notes at the same time — with modern inflections such as beatboxing and dance-worthy doshpuluur riffs.

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The Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho hosts a show by the Vermont Comic Creators Group, a collective of more than 100 artists. Members display their stunning variety of cartoons and comic strips alongside vintage pieces by Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr., one of the group’s first members and the creator of the long-running political cartoon “Mr. Brunelle Explains It All.” SEE GALLERY LISTING ON PAGE 48

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What do John Brumsted, Rita Markley and Jeanne Collins have in common — other than very long job titles at the University of Vermont Health Network, Committee on Temporary Shelter and Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, respectively? The same thing that ties former Vermont medical examiner Steven Shapiro, Main Street Landing “redeveloper” Melinda Moulton, TV meteorologists Tom Messner and Sharon Meyer, and state representative and Winooski city councilor Hal Colston. All are high-profile Vermonters who have retired — or announced plans to retire — during the pandemic. At first I thought I was imagining an increase in the number of semi-senior leaders leaving the workforce. Most of these people are around my age, 61, and they’ve been making headlines for the 30-plus years I’ve been a journalist; of course I’m going to notice their names. But national data confirm more of us are giving up work earlier than planned — in some cases, altogether. Analysis by the Pew Research Center, which tracks this stuff, shows that in September 2021, 50.3 percent of U.S. adults ages 55 and older said they were out of the labor force due to retirement. Two years earlier, before the onset of the pandemic, it was 48.1 percent. Countrywide, a 2.2 percent increase amounts to a “silver tsunami.” In Vermont, population 645,000, that means 14,190 more retirees might be strolling contentedly on the Burlington bike path on a weekday afternoon. The numbers are likely higher, in fact, because the state skews older — more of its residents are in the affected age range. As I prepared to write this column for our annual Money & Retirement Issue, I emailed Seven Days staffers, asking for local examples of the trend. Art director Diane Sullivan replied: “Not big-name or pandemic-related, but my vet, mechanic, eye doctor and physician all retired at about the same time. That was something. I don’t think I’ll be retiring ’til I’m dead.” Why the exodus? Beyond baby boomer demographics, I have some theories. Vermont is a hard place to make a living. In some sectors, the pandemic — and resulting staffing and business challenges — made it next to impossible. The situation demanded an investment of energy and innovation that many workers and employers of a certain age weren’t willing to make. And being stuck at home for two years, facing down the last chapter of your life, has a way of changing your priorities. Of course, you need money to stop working. In a story from last November, Pew reported that many older adults have profited from the pandemic — that is, household wealth has been rising since the onset, leaving them better off financially than their predecessors during the Great Recession. During that economic downturn, from December 2007 to June 2009, many seniors had to postpone their retirements. Recent rising inflation could have the same effect, slowing the plans of Vermonters who are starting to think about riding into the sunset. Last week, while walking home from the chiropractor, I ran into the Flynn’s founding executive director, Andrea Rogers, my first boss in Burlington. I worked for her in the early ’80s, when the performing arts center was getting off the ground, and I profiled her for Seven Days in 2009, the year she announced her retirement after three decades running the place. She had been incredibly honest in the interview for that story. “I’m not at my best anymore,” she told me then, when she was 69. “I started forgetting people’s names. I’ll have a really great conversation with somebody and, three days later, I’ve totally forgotten it. What makes you good at this job is that you build on every connection you If you like what we do and can afford to help make.” pay for it, become a Seven Days Super Reader! I admired and learned from Rogers but never Look for the “Give Now” buttons at the top of considered her a contemporary. The 20 years between us sevendaysvt.com. Or send a check with your seemed vast then. Now, not so much. We chatted about address and contact info to: old times and our respective ailments on the corner of South Union and Cliff streets. She mentioned a recent SEVEN DAYS, C/O SUPER READERS P.O. BOX 1164 hospital visit so, when we parted, I offered to help her BURLINGTON, VT 05402-1164 across the street. “I should help you across the street,” she shot back playfully — a reference to my bad back. For more information on making a financial With that, we promised to have lunch some day and contribution to Seven Days, please contact went our separate ways, choosing each step very carefully. Corey Barrows:

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ike Pieciak has been such a prominent part of Vermont’s pandemic response that it would be easy to forget he has a day job. Beyond his regular COVID-19 data presentations — a central feature of Gov. Phil Scott’s televised pandemic press briefings — Pieciak also runs the state’s sprawling Department of Financial Regulation. The department plays an important but largely unseen role in the financial well-being of Vermonters by ensuring that banking and insurance companies follow state laws and make good on their promises to consumers. Under Pieciak’s six-year leadership, the DFR has recouped about $13 million from settlements or restitution from companies and individuals who’ve run afoul of Vermont law. With the state now entering what many hope will be a new, less disruptive phase of the pandemic, Pieciak is starting to refocus on his behind-the-scenes money responsibilities. 14

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“For the first time in two years, the majority of my time has been spent on DFR work,” he said last week. “Which is great, because these are the items that I think are impactful.” Pieciak (pronounced P-check), a licensed attorney, oversees roughly 100 staffers tasked with regulating hundreds of local, national and international companies that do business in Vermont across the banking and insurance industries. As a Democratic holdover from the administration of former governor Peter Shumlin now serving under a Republican, 38-year-old Pieciak says he views his role as apolitical. “We are a consumer-driven organization,” he said, describing the department’s mission as “making sure Vermonters’ financial health is strong and that companies are treating them fairly.” One of the items most urgently jockeying for the commissioner’s attention is the fast-evolving but lightly regulated world of cryptocurrency. In 2020, Vermonters made

224,000 crypto transactions worth $83.7 million — more than five times the previous year’s sum. Pieciak’s department recently spearheaded an investigation into a firm called BlockFi, which offers what amounts to a crypto version of a savings account promising an unusually high interest rate of up to 9 percent. When BlockFi applied for a state banking license, one of Pieciak’s employees realized that the company was, in effect, offering a security product without registering it as one. The agency called other states’ regulators and brought the matter to the attention of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That led to a landmark settlement that called for crypto lending services to register as securities and comply with associated regulations. The $100 million federal settlement called for a $1 million payout to every state, including Vermont. ALL IN THE NUMBERS

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Northern Stage, a nonprofit theater company in White River Junction, plans to build 30 apartments for its workers and visiting artists on a site that the theater purchased on Monday. The new property, once home to an insurance company, is half a block down the street from the theater. The buildings on-site will be demolished to make way for the new apartments. Founded in 1997, Northern Stage employs between 10 and 20 people full time and draws about 250 artists each year on short-term contracts. The theater company owns about 30 homes and apartments in Quechee and White River Junction that it rents to staff for 30 percent below market value, said Ryan Klink, the company’s director of sales and marketing. Northern Stage also rents 14 apartments in the area because the company is contractually obligated to provide housing for its visiting artists, he said. Klink said it’s not yet clear when construction on the new building — which is expected to include rehearsal and studio space — will start or how much the project will cost. But he expects groundbreaking to be at least a year away. “We’re going to be entering a fundraising stage, and it’s going to be a multiyear campaign,” Klink said. Once the new building is ready, Northern Stage will vacate the 14 apartments it’s renting now. White River Junction, a village in the town of Hartford, is experiencing the housing shortage that is affecting the region. Many employers, including nearby Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical center, have said that housing issues have made it more difficult to recruit workers. While many employers have looked for ways to ease the tight housing market, few have taken the step of buying property to build more homes. Being landlords is “definitely not what we started out to do,” Klink said. “It’s a totally different field than producing nonprofit theater.” But, he added, buying or building housing is something that many other regional theaters have done for years. And Northern Stage has received valuable help from its board members who serve on the organization’s housing committee. Many are in the real estate business, Klink said. “They have years and years of experience in this and have been with us every step of the way,” he said. “We have learned a lot.” m

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hen Natalie Miller and Nathan board members, Jerome Diamond and Hartswick sought a loan to Kimberly B. Cheney, both former state open a comedy club in Burl- attorneys general, say it would undo ington, the reaction they got was no joke. the hard work that went into creating “We went to a bunch of different banks a credit union designed to focus on its and credit unions, and no one thought it members’ needs. They’ve created a was a feasible business idea,” Miller said. website, callingallmembers.org, to make The husband-and-wife comedy impre- their case. sarios were industry veterans after “This year VSECU will be celebrateight years of lugging sound ing its 75th Anniversary and equipment to their shows in honor of that occasion the in venues around Vermont. CEO and Board of Directors have decided it is time to But their plan to renovate a merge VSECU out of exisbuilding for a club scared off conventional lenders. tence,” the website says. The “There had never been credit union has been open to RETIREMENT anyone in Vermont, not just a comedy club in Vermont before,” Miller said. “They state employees, since 2009. ISSUE were like, ‘Yeah, we don’t VSECU has 70,000 think it’s going to be members, and NEFCU has successful.’” 90,000, 83 percent of whom have The two eventually prevailed at Vermont addresses. The newly merged Opportunities Credit Union, a tiny entity would have 160,000. Winooski-based lender Banks and credit unions that was created to serve provide very similar services, but banks are usually forthe businesses that larger institutions might turn away. profit businesses that serve Opportunities discussed the customers, while credit concept with them in-depth; unions are nonprofits that Miller said she got to know are owned by the members. the lending officer person“If you’re a co-op member ally. She and Hartswick and you are one vote out of opened Vermont Comedy 70,000, that’s a much stronClub in a former armory ger voice than one vote out on Main Street in 2015 and of 160,000,” Post said. He’s now offer shows five nights hoping members will speak a week. against the proposed merger Institutions that offer at VSECU’s annual meeting that sort of personal on Wednesday, March 30. A service and flexible lendformal vote on the merger, KATE L AU D ing are becoming scarcer in though, wouldn’t come until Vermont. Like companies in after regulators approve it. other sectors, Vermont’s banks and credit While VSECU’s leaders describe the unions have been consolidating over the proposal as a chance to provide better years into larger institutions. services, such as more online offerings The latest proposed merger involves and more branches, Post’s group says the two largest credit unions in VSECU is doing just fine on its own. Vermont: the Vermont State Employees “We all worked really hard for a Credit Union, known as VSECU, and lot of years to create a Vermont credit New England Federal Credit Union, union that was really custom-built for or NEFCU. The two have applied for Vermont,” said Post, who served as the regulatory approval to become one credit union’s CEO from 1989 to 2013. entity. With assets of nearly $3 billion, “We think it’s worth preserving.” it would be the largest financial instituNEFCU is Vermont-focused, too. tion based in Vermont. Based in Williston, it was started in 1961 Some of VSECU’s champions are as the credit union for IBM employees. not happy about the prospect. Former CEO Steven Post and two former LENDING AN EAR » P.18

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Pieciak is also focusing heavily on cybersecurity. The month-old war in Ukraine has placed financial institutions around the world on alert for possible cyberattacks by Russia. His department has been checking in with Vermont entities under its watch to make sure they are “up to the task.” The bulk of the department’s work doesn’t tend to generate headlines, however. An average day can find staff reviewing registration applications from investment advisers, investigating consumer complaints about an insurance company or inspecting one of Vermont’s six state-chartered banks to ensure that they are financially sound. Pieciak’s work has won praise even from representatives of the industries that his department regulates. “He is very open-minded,” said Chris D’Elia, president and treasurer of the Vermont Bankers Association, who served in former governor Howard Dean’s administration. “He’s enjoyable to work with. That cannot be said of other regulators in our industry down in Washington.” Rich Smith, the recently retired president of the Vermont Captive Insurance Association, cited Pieciak’s ability to quickly make sense of complicated matters. “He can take something really complex and describe it to others in a way that we mere mortals can understand,” Smith said. Vermont lawmakers who deal directly with Pieciak’s department seem to agree. Kitty Toll, a former state representative who chaired the House Appropriations Committee until last year, said her colleagues often commented after Pieciak testified before them that they had a full understanding of the work he was doing. “You had confidence in his testimony,” Toll said. “You felt it was truthful and accurate.” Toll said that same approach helped Pieciak win over the broader public during COVID-19. “When people were so anxious and there were so many unknowns during the pandemic, he brought a voice of reason and calmness.” Pieciak was born and raised in Brattleboro, then completed his undergraduate studies at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., where he also played on the football team. He graduated from the University of Miami School of Law and spent five years working for law firms in Vermont and New York City. He was recruited to the Shumlin administration in early 2014 by thenfinance commissioner Susan Donegan, who had heard he was interested in government work and wanted to return

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Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Peter Walke is leaving state service to lead Efficiency Vermont, the organization that runs key energy conservation programs. He’ll start on May 9 and serve as the nonprofit’s new managing director. Walke said he has enjoyed being commissioner for the past two years and is eager to expand programs that could help the state meet its ambitious climate goals. “I’m looking forward to being able to be on the implementation side of things,” Walke told Seven Days on Monday. The Vermont native moved back to the state in 2017 to be a deputy secretary for the Agency of Natural Resources after stints in the U.S. Navy and as chief of staff at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. In the latter role, he worked on efforts to clean up drinking water in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., that had been contaminated by PFAS, the same class of fluorinated chemicals discovered in Benningtonareas wells in 2016. Walke took a lead role in efforts to get Bennington residents with contaminated wells hooked up to clean water supplies and to hold responsible Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, the owner of a former North Bennington factory that polluted the wells with PFAS. In 2019, the company agreed to spend approximately $25 million to run water lines to 245 homes. Affected residents reached a $34 million settlement with the company in 2021. Walke was the administration’s point person to explore the state’s possible participation in the Transportation Climate Initiative, a multistate tax-andregulate program for vehicle emissions. Walke’s boss, Gov. Phil Scott, ultimately declined to join. Walke also served on the yearlong Climate Council that sought a strategy to help the state comply with the Global Warming Solutions Act, which Scott also opposed. Walke declined to address whether these challenges put him at odds with the Scott administration on key environmental issues or whether those contributed to his departure. Scott has been widely criticized by environmental groups for not doing enough to ensure that the state meets its goals of reducing climate pollution. Walke’s last day is April 15. The commissioner thanked Scott, Agency of Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore, and the “amazingly passionate and competent” staff at DEC. m

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to Vermont. Not long after starting his gig as a deputy finance commissioner, Pieciak began looking into what proved to be one of the biggest financial frauds in Vermont history — the EB-5 scandal. He would eventually help uncover the full extent of the development scheme and produce the complex “spaghetti map” that showed how the fraudsters misappropriated investment funds meant to build projects in northeastern Vermont. A federal judge later cited the chart in a ruling against the fraud’s mastermind, Ariel Quiros.

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Pieciak and other state officials have since faced questions about why they allowed the fraudsters to continue raising money for several months after they had referred the case to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In an interview with Vermont Public Radio last year, Pieciak said he was “not in favor” of allowing the operators to continue collecting from investors but that it wasn’t his “call at the end of the day.” Pieciak credits his interest in public service — and his spirit of collaboration — to his parents. He grew up in a politically divided household: His father, who is a partner at a small accounting business, is a Republican, while his mother, who

volunteers at a local food pantry and soup kitchen she founded four decades ago, is a Democrat. He recalls them competing for his political loyalties during the 1988 presidential campaign, when he was just 5 years old. “They would ... say: ‘You like George Bush Sr., don’t you?’ ‘You like Michael Dukakis — he has the same first name as you,’” Pieciak said. “Bipartisanship was in my DNA.” Pieciak, who now lives in Winooski with his partner, eventually gravitated toward his mother’s politics but jokes that he has worked for both of his parents during his time in state government: first serving Shumlin and then Scott, who was elected in 2016. Since then, Pieciak has become something of a Swiss Army knife for the Republican governor. When the administration needed a representative on the legislative pension task force formed last summer, Pieciak was the guy. And when the Agency of Human Services launched an investigation into long wait times for medical care in Vermont a few months later, Pieciak and his DFR staff pitched in. But his most visible — and perhaps surprising — role has been as part of the pandemic response. Pieciak said he was summoned to meet with fellow cabinet members in early March 2020, expecting that Scott wanted to discuss health insurance matters related to who would pay for COVID-19 testing and hospital stays. But he was met with a bigger request: Someone was needed to create forecasting models of the spread of the virus to determine whether the state had enough ventilators, hospital beds and health care personnel. Scott turned to Pieciak. He in turn tapped members of his staff with skills that could be applied to predicting the ebbs

and flows of a public health threat, and he connected with national experts, too. The finance commissioner regularly offered data presentations during Scott’s COVID19 press briefings over the next two years. “We knew, without a playbook, that modeling and data would be essential in charting our course,” Scott said in a written statement to Seven Days. “I realize putting the Commissioner of Financial Regulation in charge of this wouldn’t necessarily be the first choice for most. But I knew Mike was the perfect person, who had the necessary skillset and talent to do the job and do it well.” Betsy Bishop, president of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, recalled that businesses would come to a halt around 11 a.m. during the early days of the pandemic so that their owners could tune in to the governor’s press conferences — and specifically to Pieciak’s updates. It was no small matter that Pieciak was the one who updated the state’s temporary travel map, which had a direct impact on tourism. “Before COVID, I’m not sure many people would have been able to pick Commissioner Pieciak out of a lineup,” Bishop said. “But as he became the ‘data guy,’ people started not only to recognize him but started looking forward to his presentations.” Pieciak’s insights were in such high demand that Bishop’s organization invited him and Health Commissioner Mark Levine to its annual retreat in January 2021 so that business owners could quiz the two officials directly. Ahead of the virtual event, the chamber printed hundreds of stickers displaying pictures of the two men, labeled “Levine & Pieciak Fan Club.” Bishop later joked that the two could repurpose the stickers as campaign material for a joint ticket if Scott decided not to run again this year. (The governor has yet to announce his plans.) Pieciak says he isn’t sure where the future will take him. He says he wants to remain in public service and muses that elected office would pose an “appealing” opportunity. But he said he isn’t ready to hit any campaign trail, noting it would be a “big leap” to go from his job to, say, the governor’s office. Pieciak said he has more than enough to keep him busy, from the rapidly shifting challenges presented by cryptocurrency and cybersecurity to other demands on his multifaceted finance department. “That’s really what’s kept me here for so long,” he said. “That mixture of business and financial services, enforcement and policy, all coming together in a unique way.” m Untitled-7 1

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Vermont-Based Feds Pursue Fraud Claims Against Health Records Company B Y D EREK BR OUWE R • derek@sevendaysvt.com Federal prosecutors in Vermont are pursuing yet another electronic health records company for false claims related to its medical records software. Newly unsealed court records show that a former executive of Modernizing Medicine filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the Boca Raton, Fla., company and its cofounders, Daniel Cane and Dr. Michael Sherling, in 2017. Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office informed the court that it would take up the whistleblower’s case. The complaint alleged that ModMed’s patient records software didn’t work as purported and that the company cheated federal certification tests and created incentives for doctors in ways that violated federal anti-kickback laws. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont has been at the forefront of investigating electronic health records companies that tapped federal incentives as part of an Obama administration effort to modernize health care. The industry, however, has been rife with problems. Federal prosecutors in Vermont got involved several years ago after an assistant U.S. attorney noticed that a software error may have contributed to the death of a Vermont woman. A $155 million settlement with eClinicalWorks followed, then a $57.3 million settlement in 2019 with Greenway Health. In 2020, another vendor, Practice Fusion, agreed to pay $145 million to resolve civil and criminal investigations, including a criminal probe into a kickback scheme with Purdue Pharma designed to boost opioid prescriptions. The whistleblower complaint against ModMed alleges that its software, used by providers in Vermont and around the country, had persistent bugs that the company, in particular CEO Cane, was slow to acknowledge or address despite complaints from users. The software sometimes recorded incorrect times and dates of patient office

visits and even placed patient notes in the wrong chart. Following one such mix-up, according to the complaint, a physician couldn’t determine to which patient a biopsy result belonged. The complaint also alleges that some errors were baked into the software so ModMed could make more money. One way electronic health records vendors win clients is by offering algorithms that can code patient visits to maximize reimbursements. But ModMed’s software used incorrect codes that yielded higher fees, a technique court records refer to as “upcoding.” The practice drew complaints from physicians who worried that the errors would put them at risk of federal audits. “No major modifications were made to correct the upcoding errors on the assumption that any billing problems would be attributed to providers as they could override claims,” the complaint alleges. In a statement, ModMed denied the allegations and said it plans to “defend vigorously against them.” “At ModMed, we stand behind the integrity of our products and our people,” the statement read. “We remain steadfast in our mission to place doctors and patients at the center of care through an intelligent, specialty-specific cloud platform.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office will file a new complaint outlining which of the whistleblower allegations the federal prosecutors intend to pursue. The office declined to comment on the pending litigation. The whistleblower, former ModMed vice president of product management Amanda Long, is represented locally by former U.S. attorney for the District of Vermont Tristram Coffin. “I am pleased the Justice Department recognizes the seriousness of this matter and is intervening in the case after investigating my allegations,” Long said in a statement. m

Most of its branches are in Vermont’s northwestern corner, though it acquired a Detroit credit union in 2014 and has five employees there. “We respect Vermont State’s focus on Vermonters,” said John Dwyer, NEFCU’s CEO. “I think we share it.” Like independent country stores, dairy farms and a host of other businesses, small, independent local lenders were once a mainstay of Vermont’s cities and towns. The number of banks peaked in 1925, with 59 state-chartered institutions. Credit unions proliferated in later decades; in 1968, 72 of them were based in Vermont, according to the Department of Financial Regulation. By 2020, consolidations and closures had reduced the number of locally chartered banks to six and credit unions to 20. In recent years, larger regional and national banks have absorbed small, independent banks. Others, such as Chase, have opened Vermont branches for the first time. The mergers leave Vermont’s smaller lenders as lifesavers for nontraditional borrowers. They can provide flexible, personalized loan access that is vital but impossible for larger lenders to offer because of their more rigid guidelines. “We end up being a lender to a lot of diverse Vermonters: BIPOC communities, New Americans, women-owned businesses, historically disadvantaged groups,” said Opportunities president and CEO Kate Laud. She described how the credit union helped get a single mother’s family back into their home after a bank foreclosed on it. The family had been living in a car. Opportunities connected them with grants and other assistance and offered financial counseling. “That’s our sweet spot: people who aren’t really able to borrow in traditional banking situations,” she said.

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Opportunities is a community development financial institution, which means it has access to federal guarantees for some of its loans. That means the tiny credit union, with assets of $53 million, can take some risks other lenders might not. But even without that advantage, there’s a place in the market for small, for-profit banks that don’t have a social mission. Local entrepreneurs have proposed establishing the Bank of Burlington to help fill that niche. They’ve gotten initial approval from the state to open the first business-to-business lender in Vermont. It would also be the first new

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general store in 2015. But he didn’t have the cash to put 20 percent down. “They wouldn’t take the risk with us,” he said. So Buxton headed down the street to the First National Bank of Orwell. Buxton grew up in town and has known the owners of the 158-year-old, familyowned bank for most of his life. It gave Buxton and his wife, Mary, the loan they needed, and they bought Buxton’s Store in 2017. The bank knows the history of the store and its customers well enough to be confident that the business will succeed, said Bryan Young, the Orwell bank’s president and CEO. With assets of $84 million, it’s

the smallest bank in New England, Young said. Underwriters at large out-of-state banks might not recognize the value of a general store with low margins and an upstairs apartment where the owners live. But Young sees the store as a critical institution in the town — and a good risk. “We look at it and say, ‘Andy and Mary, their heart and soul is in the business,’” Young said. “We know the location of the store and what the clientele looks like and how important it is to the community. We have just about every country store within our lending area as a customer for that reason.”

Officials at the two merging credit unions, as well as Pieciak, noted that being bigger has advantages, too. Lenders that grow larger have access to economies of scale that enable them to offer the latest digital tools and security options, said Yvonne Garand, VSECU’s senior vice president for marketing and business development. And with its greater assets, the new entity would be better positioned to focus on the environmentally conscious banking and affordable housing that has been a priority at VSECU, she said. The merger would also allow NEFCU to enter the field of cannabis-related

lending, something VSECU is already doing, Dwyer said. “It’s the type of thing we’d have to invest in and develop on our own, when they already have that capacity and have demonstrated it,” Dwyer said. But loan officers at the larger institutions must follow rigid guidelines that rule out quirky projects and unconventional borrowers, Pieciak said. “As you get bigger, by necessity you need to become more bureaucratic,” he said. “It’s just the nature of what happens.” The merger will need an OK from federal regulators before it goes to VSECU members for a vote. No one expects all 70,000 members to weigh in. For example, Garand said she expects 100 to attend the virtual annual meeting on March 30, when members will vote to elect directors and disburse charity money. (Under federal regulations governing such mergers, NEFCU members don’t have a vote because they would be acquiring VSECU and would not give up their name in the transaction.) NEFCU expects the merger to be final late this year or early in 2023. Once it’s complete, Dwyer said, the newly formed organization will come up with a new name. Will its customers recognize the larger entity for all the reasons they were drawn to credit unions in the first place? Miller, of the Vermont Comedy Club, said the loan from Opportunities has changed life for a lot of local performers, some of whom have moved on to larger stages. The club’s shows often sell out. Its improv and standup comedy classes fill up fast. She and Hartswick recently opened a café in the space. The club paid off its loan in February. “They understood what we were trying to do,” she said of Opportunities. “Having this community space where people can come and be with their friends and try out new stuff and have a good time has allowed people to get better faster, and it’s kind of putting our scene on the map.” m

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The Town of Woodstock’s Economic Development Commission wants to pay property owners who turn their short-term rentals such as Airbnbs into long-term housing. The incentive program — which would require the approval of the Woodstock Selectboard — would use $35,000 from the commission’s $303,000 budget for grants this year. Short-term rental owners would get $3,000 if they signed a one-year lease with a tenant and $7,000 for a two-year lease. The plan, which the commission approved last week, is loosely based on a new program called Rent Local in the ski town of Big Sky, Mont. Payments there depend on the size of the rental unit and length of the lease. The Woodstock incentives would be an experiment, commission chair Jon Spector said. They’re aimed at making the switch worthwhile for people who own homes or apartments that would be affordable to the teachers, police officers and other workers who have been priced out of real estate in the area. “We’re not trying to convert luxury housing to long-term rentals,” Spector said. “The housing we’re trying to create is what we call workforce housing. Those are not going to be houses that rent for $3,000 for a weekend.” Big Sky’s Community Housing Trust launched its incentive program last fall and converted 21 homes to rentals for locals in its first three months, according to its website. That number would be a boon for Woodstock, which has long been seeking solutions to its affordable housing problem. Woodstock is a classic Vermont town with historic homes, a green, museums and restaurants. It’s popular with outof-state visitors and is located just a half-hour drive from Killington, Vermont’s largest ski area. As in other resort towns, the housing shortage is amplified there. Jill Davies, who is on the board of the Woodstock Community Trust, estimated that the town of about 3,000 residents has 50 short-term rentals, which are often listed on sites such as Airbnb and Vrbo. According to the Vermont Housing Finance Agency’s latest Housing Needs Assessment, there are 33,000 year-round homes and camps in Windsor County, about 25 percent of which are vacation homes. Statewide, about 17 percent of homes are vacation homes, the report said. Half of the homes in Woodstock are second homes, said Rep. Charlie Kimbell (D-Woodstock). “It’s great for the economy in some ways, but it’s horrible for the people who are trying to live and work in Woodstock,” said Kimbell, who’s running for lieutenant governor. Woodstock is one of a few Vermont towns with regulations intended to

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limit the impact of short-term rentals on the housing market. Rentals must be registered with the town, and some cannot be rented more than six times a year. Burlington worked for two years to come up with limits on short-term rentals and approved new rules on February 23. But Mayor Miro Weinberger vetoed the rules on March 18, saying they were too strict. The Woodstock Economic Development Commission was initially created to oversee the money raised by the local 1 percent sales tax on rooms, meals and alcohol that voters approved in 2015. For a few years, the commission focused on general economic development. But these days, the priority is housing, said Davies, who leads the commission’s housing working group. Some of the local tax money goes to the economic development grants program. This year’s grant proposal, which the commission approved last week, includes the $35,000 for the incentive program and $25,000 for a new housing adviser who would help shepherd property owners through the permitting needed to build an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU. The grants proposal would also set aside funds for ADU construction grants that would go to property owners willing to rent the units at a specified below-market rate. Encouraging the construction of ADUs — often in owners’ homes and yards, or above their garages — is a housing solution that several towns and state lawmakers are closely examining this year. Three members of the Woodstock Selectboard did not respond to requests for comment on Monday. The whole group is expected to discuss the spending proposals on April 5. If the board approves the proposed incentives, the commission will reach out to short-term rental owners and gauge their interest, Spector said. “We don’t know whether these incentives will be high enough, but this is taxpayer money,” Spector said. “We thought it was important that if we’re going to err, we err on the side of being too low.” Kimbell has high hopes for the ADU program, and he is also curious to see whether the rental incentive will prompt action. “I don’t know, but at this point, it seems that we have to try everything,” he said. “There’s no one solution that is going to work.” m

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Company officials and South Burlington city planners put forward a proposal to create a temporary public park until the commercial building is constructed. The idea was that the park would fall under a regulatory exemption for lots where the principal use is public recreation. The Development Review Board, however, concluded that the principal use of the overall “lot” was not recreational, so the park “is therefore insufficient to permit the parking as proposed,” members wrote in a 16-page decision issued on March 22. Beta contends that the board has the authority to waive the rules under an “unusual hardship” The Beta facility at Burlington exemption in the city’s municipal International Airport regulations. The board voted on Tuesday to reopen Beta’s application and hold another hearing in late April. The decision followed a brief closeddoor session with little public discussion of members’ thinking. “In the course of our deliberations, the board identified some additional information that would help the board reach a decision,” Scott addressed the matter at his chair Dawn Philibert said when the weekly press conference on Tuesday, just meeting began. as the municipal board was voting to Underhill entrepreneur and engineer reopen Beta’s application, a sign that it Kyle Clark founded Beta several years ago may reconsider its recent decision. Failure with the backing of United Therapeutics to do so, Scott told reporters, could prompt CEO Martine Rothblatt, who is seeking to Beta to move its manufacturing plant to use electric aircraft to one day transport Plattsburgh, N.Y., where it already tests its artificial human organs. experimental aircraft, or elsewhere. Beta emerged last year as a leader in “We can’t let that happen,” he said. the still-speculative electric aircraft field. “This is too important.” With just two full-size prototypes, the Scott said he would ask state legislacompany landed a purchase agreement tors to step in should South Burlington with UPS and secured $368 million in officials fail to waive the city’s parking lot new investment, including from Amazon’s requirements or otherwise resolve the Climate Pledge Fund. issue quickly. The governor’s willingness to insert “This is not just about jobs for himself into a municipal parking matter Chittenden County; this is going to have reflects how much clout the startup has a ripple effect across the entire state,” accrued with elected leaders in a state Scott said of Beta’s proposal. “I think this that lacks large private employers. is as big as when IBM decided to locate in Beta is headquartered in an airportVermont. This is going to have that big an owned building south of the main passenimpact on us.” ger terminal. It currently employs around South Burlington land use regula350 people, according to the company. tions require that parking lots for The expansion project, if realized, could newly constructed buildings be located add another 500, Beta said at the time behind or alongside them, not in it submitted initial plans to South front. Beta’s master plan calls for its Burlington in the spring of 2021. 344,000-square-foot manufacturing In a statement on Tuesday, Beta called and office building to be placed as the board’s latest action an “important close to the airport tarmac as possible, step” but said the project “still remains pushing the 300-plus-space parking lot uncertain.” toward the front. “As we have said all along, we believe The company’s long-term plan that the best outcome, both for us and includes a commercial building along the greater community, is to grow here in Williston Road that would block the lot Vermont,” the statement read. “We want from view, but Beta can’t afford to build to stay here in Vermont so are continuing it without diverting funds from core to work with the City of South Burlington operations. Until the building goes up, the to find a quick resolution in hopes of lot would be out of compliance. keeping this site, and the jobs, here.” m

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I was really disheartened to read your nasty piece about Peggy Luhrs [“Turf Wars,” March 9]. Your descriptions of her played into all the clichés about lesbian feminists and, frankly, read as though in a time warp. Ironically, Peggy was one of the women who, with many others, worked so hard to change the derogatory view of lesbians with her early talks in schools, her unflinching activism throughout many decades, and her refusal to give up in light of the misogyny toward women and lesbians in the present day. She was respected internationally and still spoke with vigor and clarity very recently, in her late seventies. D e s p i t e yo u rselves, everything Peggy Luhrs Peggy has done, and her strength, shines through in your ungenerous article. You seem unaware of the huge number of women internationally who supported Peggy. At our Million Women Rise march two Saturdays ago, Peggy came up, as the march two years ago was where we women in the UK met her. One lesbian recalled that women had been crying in the virtual breakout room of Women’s Declaration International after they heard of her death. You clearly have no idea of what she did for women; the impact she had; how she fought; of her brilliant chapter in Not Dead Yet; her capacity for friendship, both in Vermont and in London; and her humor. We in the UK were looking forward to seeing her this summer at a women’s U RT

was ground zero for an intense mascot battle, and I had relatives on both sides. [“Murad’s Indefinite Role as BurlingI can pile on reasons to support the ton’s Acting Police Chief Raises Ques- bans, but I write to encourage all Native tions About Mayoral Authority,” March people and our allies to start implement16]: Here’s an idea: The Burlington City ing this ban within our existing spheres of Council members who voted against influence. Here are a few ways. Jon Murad as permanent chief of police 1. Host an apparel swap. At your should actually try one day on school/workplace, allow people to trade RY the job as a police officer. UKE AWT in their oppressive mascot apparel L Maybe two days, if they ILE: for some other kind of apparel. could last that long? Best-case scenario: Trade for Like with every police apparel from your organiforce in this country, zation. This puts more certain things do of your organization’s need to change spirit into the world and and evolve with takes oppression out of how the Burlington the world. At the end, do Police Department not donate the oppressive Acting Police Chief Jon Murad handles certain types apparel; destroy it. Find of conflict and dangerdonors or raise the funding to ous racial biases. But these purchase the new apparel. I have men and women are risking oppressive mascot apparel I need to their lives every day — yes, even in little exchange. ol’ Vermont — and it’s incredible that any 2. Ban these symbols at your school or of them has stuck around this long with in your place of employment. Wherever so little gratitude and support from the you cannot display a swastika, do not community. display an oppressive logo. Is Murad warm and fuzzy? No. You 3. File complaints for a hostile work or wouldn’t survive as a police officer if you learning environment. If someone wears were warm and fuzzy. The things police an Atlanta Braves logo in my workplace officers face and deal with every day or at my school, they are creating a hostile would make most citizens run and hide. environment. The Burlington City Council should be We already have some power to supporting growth and change in how influence our own schools and our own BPD handles certain types of conflict and workplaces. Within our existing spheres racial biases by offering opportunities to of influence, we can be the change that we learn instead of constantly condemning want to see in the world. them all. A few bad apples don’t define the Justin Salisbury whole bushel. There are a few bad apples BURLINGTON in every career category on this planet — including teachers, doctors, librarians, accountants, etc. FURTHER FEEDING The BPD is mostly filled with brave [Re paid post from Hunger Free Vermont: individuals who have dedicated their “Vermont Schools Are Feeding All careers to keeping your city safe. Say thank Students. Let’s Make That Permanent,” you. Work with them instead of against March 14]: As someone who always had them. Enough with all this toxic drama. It’s a cafeteria account in the negatives in not working, and it’s ridiculously childish. elementary school, I teared up reading It’s time to support Murad in making BPD about Hannah Prescott’s efforts to provide a solid, educated and thoughtfully empow- snacks to make sure students don’t go ered part of what makes Burlington such a hungry and the efforts of others urging for wonderful place. legislation that will continue pandemicGinger Vieira era relief for children in poverty. The temporary government efforts during ESSEX JUNCTION COVID-19 to help low-income families and children need to remain in place. We NATIVE SON all know that the majority of the kids who [Re “‘School Branding’ Bill Would Ban didn’t have lunch money before would go Discriminatory Mascots,” March 2, right back to being hungry if relief ceased. online]: I support efforts to ban oppresA recent report from the Center on sive mascots in Vermont and anywhere Budget and Policy Priorities shows that else. I am a mixed-race person, including government interventions during the Wabanaki Indian (Mi’kmaq and Passa- pandemic were amazingly successful maquoddy), white, Black, Latino and and that in 2020 the poverty rate actually Ashkenazi Jewish. Skowhegan, Maine, went down in the U.S. That was thanks to

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gathering and were shocked to hear of her illness and far-too-early death. Shame on you. Elaine Hutton BRISTOL, UK

Editor’s note: At the end of her life, Burlington activist Peggy Luhrs was a participant in online discussion groups organized by Women’s Declaration International, a volunteer-run organization open only to women who were designated female at birth. Seven Days received numerous letters from WDI members all over the world. Find those and other feedback about Luhrs and “Turf Wars” online at sevendaysvt.com.

‘TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN’

In reading the letters to the editor referencing “Turf Wars” [March 9], I was appalled by the flagrant transphobia. It is clear that Peggy Luhrs was an accomplished activist who supported a lot of incredible organizations, and I am grateful for her work with survivors and the lesbian community. Transphobic ideas (like “trans women aren’t women’’) are rooted in racism and misogyny: If someone doesn’t fit the traditional view of a “woman” (childbearer, homemaker), one is otherized and treated as less than. This is a common discourse in conservative circles and, I believe, only serves to perpetuate misogyny, racism and sexism. However, just like women still face oppression today, trans women experience that same oppression (and more). There is no benefit in stoking a divide within women as a group that only creates more infighting and further detriment to our fight for equality. Marsha P. Johnson, a trans woman, led the LGBTQIA movement in New York for 25 years. At age 23, she was a leader of the Stonewall riots, which served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States. But she wasn’t the only one: Sylvia Rivera, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Stormé DeLarverie were all key leaders of the Stonewall riots, and they were trans women. I wonder if Peggy, and those who wrote to the editor, are aware of the amount of work trans women have done for the rights of women and the rights of the queer community. Trans women are women. End of story. Olivia Taylor

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Diane Haskins

AUGUST 17, 1925-FEBRUARY 3, 2022 SHELBURNE, VT.

MAY 19, 1944MARCH 24, 2022 ESSEX JUNCTION, VT.

Diane R. Haskins, age 77, of Essex, Vt., passed away unexpectedly on March 24, 2022. Diane was born in Rutland County, Vt., in 1944 to Dorothy (Sprague) and Frank E. Ross. She grew up on the family farm in Pawlet, Vt., and graduated from Granville (N.Y.) Central School in 1962. Diane earned her certificate of nursing in 1965 from Mary Hitchcock Hospital School of Nursing in Dartmouth, N.H. After working a year in the operating room at Glens Falls Hospital in New York, Diane moved to Burlington, Vt., to begin her 40-plus-year career as an operating room nurse at what is now the University of Vermont Medical Center. She eventually earned her credentials as a registered nurse and was a published author in the AORN Journal. Following a short courtship, she married Roger B. Haskins, who was also from Pawlet and living in Burlington. In the early 1970s, they moved to their current home in Essex, Vt., where they raised two daughters, Amy Haskins (husband Jacob Burke) of Berlin, Mass., and Carol Haskins of Woodbury, Conn. Roger and Diane celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2020. Diane was an avid crafter known for her handmade gifts. She was rarely seen without a project in tow, be it counted cross-stitch, embroidery, knitting, crochet, quilting or another sewing project. In her retirement, she was a frequent volunteer at blood drive events with the American Red Cross. Diane found great pleasure in the simple joys of catching old television reruns of “Gunsmoke” and “M*A*S*H” and listening to Johnny Cash, the Highwaymen, Garth Brooks and other country music favorites. She also enjoyed books, puzzles and word games. Roger and

Diane traveled frequently to visit their family in southern Vermont and to camp in their RV. In addition to her husband and children, Diane is survived by her sister Mildred Corey of Granville, N.Y.; brother James (Deborah) Ross of Pawlet, Vt.; sisters-in-law Mary Sheldon of Brookfield, Fla., Vickie Haskins of Dorset, Vt., and Blanche Ross of Lake George, N.Y.; several nieces and nephews and greatnieces and -nephews; and a number of cousins. Diane was predeceased by her parents and older brothers Leon and Roy “Bud” Ross; and nieces Judy Ross and Jennifer and Andrea Corey. Calling hours will be held on Wednesday March 30, 2022, 4 to 6 p.m., at Corbin & Palmer Funeral Home, Pleasant St., Essex Junction, VT. Additional hours will be held on Thursday, March 31, 4 to 6 p.m., at King’s Funeral Home, Church St., Granville, NY. A graveside service will take place at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 1, at the Mettowee Valley Cemetery, Cemetery Hill Rd., Pawlet, VT. Reception to follow at the Pawlet Community Church. Donations in memory of Diane Haskins may be made to the Vermont Chapter of the American Red Cross, 32 N. Prospect St., Burlington, VT 05401, or to the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research, 1820 W. Webster Ave., Suite 304, Chicago, IL 60614. Those able to donate blood are encouraged to do so.

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Oda Waller Hubbard, a longtime resident of Shelburne, Vt., died on Thursday, February 3, 2022. She was 96 years old and lived independently. Oda was born in Hilversum, Netherlands, on August 17, 1925, to Jacob Marinus Waller, a Dutch engineer, and Caroline Warner Schoverling of New Milford, Conn. Oda studied horticulture at the Tuinbouwschool Huis Te Lande institute and, following the Nazi occupation of Holland during World War II, immigrated with her parents and sister to the U.S. in 1946. She attended Harvard University Graduate School of Design, first in landscape design before transferring to architecture, where she was among the first female architecture students at Harvard. At Harvard, Oda met her husband, fellow architecture student Charles Joseph Hubbard. In 1956, the couple moved to Burlington, where Charlie established his architecture practice with Barr, Linde, Hubbard Architects. In 1961, the couple designed and built a home in Shelburne, where they raised their four children. Charlie died in 1989. While Oda never practiced architecture professionally, she loved design and put a great deal of thought into the

visual experience, both in her gardens and her home, where she created beautifully balanced interiors of antiques and midcentury-modern style. Oda brought her talents to her work at Shelburne Museum, where she volunteered for many years in special collections. From 1993 to 2015, Oda served on Shelburne’s Historic Preservation and Design Review Commissions, where she was recognized for “her commitment to attractive, contextually appropriate and sensible (or shall we say, ‘not too fussy’?) design.” Oda retained her love for design until her death and liked nothing better than to be driven around to look at old and new buildings and critique façades, window placements and roof lines! Both Oda and Charlie were very keen to preserve Vermont’s woods and farmland and worked with the Nature Conservancy to add 100 acres of their property to the conservancy’s land to the west of Shelburne Pond in the 1970s. They donated nearly 100 acres to the Vermont Land Trust in the 1980s. Oda was committed to a progressive education for her children and was a very involved parent in the early days of Burlington’s Overlake School and the Children’s School, the Schoolhouse in Charlotte, and the Alpha program at the Shelburne Middle School. Oda also took a great

deal of interest in all of her grandchildren’s education. Oda remained “very Dutch” throughout her life with a progressive, down-to-earth view of the world and old-world reserve. She remained connected to her Dutch family still living in the Netherlands, and until her death she would sing Dutch patriotic songs before getting out of bed in the morning and liked nothing better than a bit of Deventer Koek spice cake and a cup of tea in the afternoon. A few days before she died, Oda, a keen reader of archeology and history, was deep into a 1920s German-language account of the Bolshevik Revolution, amazed that she could still read in German at 96. Oda’s wisdom, interest in others and cheerful outlook on life enabled her to form relationships with people of all ages. In the last year of her life, Oda continued to connect with others whenever possible and, in doing so, made several new and wonderful friends. Oda is survived by her four children and their spouses, David Hubbard, Alexandra Hubbard and Michael Gourlay, Alice Hubbard and Christophe Lissarrague, and Jonathan Hubbard and Merrill Buice. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Carson Hubbard; Sebastian, Nina and Markos Lissarrague; Alexandra HubbardGourlay; and Caroline and Wynant Hubbard. A garden celebration of Oda’s life will be held in early June. Gifts in her memory can be made to the Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS), Shelburne Farms, the Vermont Land Trust and Camp Glen Brook in Marlborough, N.H.

IN MEMORIAM Anthony Audy 1976-2021

Dear Anthony, Not one day has gone by that I haven’t thought about you. I miss working with you. I miss our conversations. There are no words to express how much I miss you every day. Rest in peace, my friend! With love and respect, Bald Bill at Yankee Tattoo

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ill Calfee had no work experience in the tech sector when he dreamed up Myti. Founded in 2020, the e-commerce platform will soon enable online shoppers to buy from retailers in their own communities and get their products delivered in two days or less. Consumers will have no membership dues, while local retailers — or “shopkeepers,” as Calfee calls them — will be charged only a modest transaction fee. Calfee, 64, believes that Myti can take a bite out of the massive revenues of Amazon, the world’s third-largest company, and keep some of that money recirculating in local economies. According to his research, in 2020 Vermonters spent $423 million through Amazon and a comparable amount shipping products to Vermont. “That’s just short of a billion dollars extracted from Vermont each year,” Calfee said during a recent interview at Myti’s headquarters in Burlington coworking space Hula. “Just imagine if we could keep even 10 percent of that within the state.” Myti’s aim, he said, is to serve people who would prefer to support local businesses but can’t for reasons of cost or convenience. Think of the single mother who works three jobs and needs a new set of onesies for her infant, or the homebound senior who needs new socks but lacks the mobility to travel from store to store. Calfee also intends to tap the millions of consumers who have negative opinions of Amazon but still use it because they have few alternatives. “Our target audience are the people who are already buying online,” he said, “whether they feel guilty about it or not.” Is Myti a David taking on a Goliath — or a Don Quixote tilting at windmills? Calfee clearly saw himself as the former when he named the company. With fewer than a dozen employees, however, and plans for the website to go live in Chittenden County later this year before expanding to other markets, Calfee’s goals currently seem mighty ambitious. “At the end of the day, most people would prefer to buy local, all other things being equal,” said Thomas Funk, a visiting assistant professor of marketing at the Robert P. Stiller School of Business at Champlain College. “But ‘all other things being equal’ means selection, price and delivery speed.”

Calfee believes that Myti can compete on all three fronts. But he emphasized that he doesn’t envision his business becoming merely a smaller, localized version of Amazon, with its own fulfillment centers and centralized shipping network. Rather, he wants to create a hybrid model that combines the advantages of shopping in person with the speed and convenience of 21st-century e-commerce. And he wants to use the data Myti collects on consumer purchases to help local merchants invest their money and grow their businesses. “Think of Chittenden County. It’s a virtual warehouse full of stuff, but nobody has easy access to it,” Calfee said. “If you want Legos and a toaster and a shower curtain right now, and you want to buy them locally, you have to find out who has them, go to their individual websites and make three separate orders.” Myti’s algorithm will simplify the process by searching all of the Chittenden County businesses that are enrolled with Myti and carry Legos, toasters or shower curtains. Like other e-commerce sites, the

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platform will have photos, prices, descriptions and product reviews. As Myti grows, Calfee plans to add other search filters that might enable shoppers to, say, select businesses owned by women or people of color. When retailers enroll in Myti — at no cost to them — they’ll simply link their point-of-sale computer system to Myti’s, enabling consumers to shop their inventory and see what’s in stock. Once the consumer makes a purchase, Myti’s system will automatically adjust the store’s inventory to reflect that sale. The shopkeeper will set the item aside and

click a button indicating that it’s ready for delivery, and a Myti driver will pick it up and deliver it to the customer’s doorstep. Key to Myti’s success, Calfee said, is a feature not found on other e-commerce sites: a button that enables consumers to communicate with the shopkeepers via live video chat. Consumers will be able to ask merchants questions about each product, compare items and get recommendations before purchasing. While Myti will also offer free returns, Calfee believes that the live video chat will make them less frequent. One of the main reasons consumers return items to Amazon, he explained, is that they order multiple versions of the same product, then choose the one they want and return the rest. Such a system is wasteful and environmentally unfriendly, Calfee pointed out. Because Amazon frequently ships items long distances, it’s often cheaper for the company to discard a returned item than to restock it in an Amazon warehouse or ship it back to the third-party vendor. By contrast, all of Myti’s goods will ship

locally, so returned items will go back to the store they came from. Short shipping distances reduce not only the amount of solid waste going into landfills, Calfee said, but also greenhouse gas emissions, especially because he plans to use all-electric delivery vehicles. Beyond cutting down on waste, Calfee believes the video chat feature will provide an intangible benefit. It will help “personalize and humanize” each transaction, he said, by reminding consumers that behind every local business is a human being who lives in their community. “Myti’s vision,” he said, “is that online shoppers will develop personal relationships with their local stores and the people who work there.” The idea for Myti has been brewing for years. Ironically, it arose soon after a From left: Andrew Donahue, Ari Abedon, Lara Calfee, Bill Calfee, Isobel Calfee, period in Calfee’s life when he was as far Rebecca Brookes and Daniela Arias of Myti. Not present: Emma Arian from an internet connection as a human can get. From 1981 to 2002, the Washington, technology hub and incubator on Lake becoming what founder Jeff Bezos later described as an “everything store.” D.C., native ran Water Works, a water Champlain, and the two became friends. Creating a tech startup required techniStill, the desire for Amazon alternatreatment and consulting business in Manchester Center. Calfee spent another cal expertise, which Calfee could hire, and tives can’t be underestimated. Funk noted five years as an energy auditor and build- investment capital, which he already had. that many Vermonters aren’t happy with His longtime passion for climate science the company for a multitude of reasons, ing science consultant, a job that had inspired him to make an early including its labor practices and its he said gave him a passion for investment in Tesla, from which he tendency to drive small merchants out of climate science and electric vehicles. reaped a tidy sum. business. Though Calfee had no difficulty “A funny aspect of all this is, you can be In 2008, Calfee and his finding interested investors, few anti-Amazon, but there are over 2 million wife sold virtually all of their possessions — including MONEY & shared his values, he said, so he businesses selling through Amazon,” he his business, the couple’s RETIREMENT had been funding this project said. “People do tend to vote with their himself since Myti incorporated wallets, and even though they dislike two cars, his wife’s house ISSUE in 2020. Now that the company Amazon, they still buy from them.” and some real estate — and has plans to go live, Calfee set a For Myti to succeed, Funk continued, moved aboard a 38-foot goal of raising $2 million in outside capi- the company will need to master a catchsailboat. After two years of sailing between Maine and the Bahamas, the tal from like-minded investors; in the last 22: Merchants won’t sign up unless the company has enough customers to make couple and their then-6-month-old week alone, he said, he raised $200,000. Funk, who teaches digital marketing at it worth their time, while customers won’t daughter set sail for the Caribbean, then on to South America. In 2014, the family Champlain College, foresees big oppor- use Myti unless they can find a good selecleft the Panama Canal for the Galápagos tunities and equally big challenges ahead tion of vendors there. (Though Calfee Islands, where they lived for three months for Myti. He knows online sales, having won’t say yet how many shopkeepers have before charting a 3,000-mile course across worked for a number of e-commerce busi- enrolled, Myti has already begun testing its nesses; he’s currently the e-commerce system with 147 products currently sold by the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia. Upon his return to the United States in director at Ann Clark in Rutland, Ameri- Chittenden County merchants.) One Burlington businessman who’s 2017, Calfee began planning his next busi- ca’s largest maker of cookie cutters. Ninety ness opportunity. He seized on the idea percent of that company’s revenue comes agreed to be a Myti “guinea pig” is Mark of creating an e-commerce company that from Amazon. Bouchett, co-owner of Homeport, a home “Myti’s business model sounds ambi- furnishings and lifestyle store on the builds community, addresses the climate crisis and serves local businesses rather tious,” Funk said, noting that most new Church Street Marketplace. entrants to the e-commerce industry start Bouchett described his store as “bazaarthan competes with them. In 2018, Calfee returned to Vermont in one sector — think chewy.com for pet ish”: a warren of displays that encourage and set up shop in Burlington. Fortuitously, supplies — before expanding to a broad shoppers to linger and explore what’s he moved in next door to Russ Scully, range of products. Amazon itself launched around each corner. While he acknowledged founder of Hula, the 150,000-square-foot in 1995 as an online bookstore before that online shopping seems antithetical to

the browsing experience at Homeport, Bouchett said he’s intrigued by the idea of “hybridized” shopping trips during which he can chat with customers online. “It seems wildly complicated, but if that element works, it’ll be brilliant,” he said. While he’s unsure how he and his staff will manage incoming video calls, he’s willing to give it a try. “It’s almost all plus and no negative,” Bouchett added, “because interacting with our customers is always a plus for us.” For his part, Calfee plans to start plugging businesses in to Myti in the next few weeks. In the coming weeks, he expects to hire another four developers, and he will need to bring on drivers once Myti goes live. Calfee expects to hire another 14 people by year’s end. “If all goes swimmingly,” he said, “we would be able to run in Chittenden County before the holiday season.” Calfee acknowledged that encouraging people to buy local could end up affecting Myti’s bottom line by inspiring more people to shop in person. But that’s a price he’s willing to pay. “We feel that, if we have brought you from [shopping] online to walking into the store,” he said, “that’s even better than buying through us.” m Anne Wallace Allen contributed reporting.

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Finances play a significant role in how a person spends their time in retirement, but income and savings don’t always equal happiness and satisfaction. If you can’t afford to retire and live on a yacht in the Mediterranean, it might be time to let that dream go. Being flexible and creative with your resources, however, can lead you to delightful places. Hiland told a story about a friend who retired from his job as an executive. He was interested in wine, so he approached a local wine store and offered to work for free. Hiland and Kaufman suggest treating every potential endeavor like a hobby,

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Connection with others is important. Taking the time to form deeper relationships with new friends can improve your outlook, as can cultivating your relationships with your old friends, your partner or your children. It can be hard to relax and enjoy a slower pace, a shift that may generate frustration and depression. “That’s where professional help can make a great difference,” Hiland said. He acknowledged that some members of his generation may still be reluctant to address mental health issues because of stigma, and he encouraged people who are struggling to talk to a doctor, a counselor, a clergyperson or even a friend.

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with no pressure on yourself, no expectations of mastery and no timeline. Work at a wine store, coach an elementary school lacrosse team, volunteer at an animal shelter. That’s where the bravery comes in. It’s hard to try something new, especially when you’ve spent an entire career building confidence and expertise in a different field. Kaufman said that shifting your perspective on goals is important. Don’t get caught up in the pressure, he said: “You’ve got to look on this project you’re working on as a hobby, not [approach it with the attitude] that you have been raised for your entire life to believe, which is ‘I’m on the line. I’ve got to deliver.’”

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The things you take for granted as a younger person come into sharp focus after you retire, Kaufman said. At that point, he said, the one thing you have a lot of is ironically also what’s running out the fastest: time. “You have time to go and visit people. You have time to talk to people on the phone; you have time to write to people; you have time to do all these things,” he said. “This is a real positive of our situation.”

It’s important to remember that you’re not going to have the same physical capabilities as a 75-year-old that you did in your fifties. Kaufman said he had every intention of spending his retirement on the tennis court and golf course, enjoying sports he’d loved his entire life. Then he tore his rotator cuff. It couldn’t be fixed, and there went his overhead shot and his golf swing. Writing, playing cards, painting, building birdhouses, teaching a tax prep class for a local community-education program — you can do all of these things without straining arthritic knees or raising your blood pressure (although a good bridge game can certainly get it up there). Despite your reputation as an eagleeyed putter, it might be time to let those dreams go. “Don’t get all tied up in who you were,” Kaufman advised. “You’ve got to get out of that. You can still do incredibly positive things.” Though Kaufman and Hiland wrote the book with the intention of inspiring retirees, they said they’ve found that their advice resonates with younger people in the wake of the pandemic and the Great Resignation. One key point they stress over and over is welcoming change and uncertainty. “There’s rarely ever an aha moment,” Kaufman said. “But, like every good planning effort, you’re shaping and clarifying your options. Most of the time, if you make a decision and it doesn’t work out, you can change it. You can change your mind. You can change your direction.” m

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ads. “Wasn’t that weird?” he said. “I’ve never seen anyone advertising money before.” “What do you mean?” I asked. “Well, this stuff is supposed to be money, right?” he said. “The new, worldwide secret money or something?” “Yeah.” “You ever seen a bank advertising money, to make you want it?” he asked, rhetorically. “People already seem to want it pretty well on their own. There’s no ads like: ‘U.S. dollars are the best! People will work hard for you if you give them these.’” Or, he went on, “‘Swiss francs: We know how to keep a secret.’” I chimed in: “Russian rubles! So much history. Now on sale cheap!” Frank gave me a look that said, “One step too far, Mark.” I get that a lot. But what he said was, “Can you explain to me what a crypto actually is? What do I get for my money?”

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“All of it is based on tokens,” I explained, “which are sort of like a unique ID, whether it’s attached to a cryptocurrency or an NFT, which stands for ‘non-fungible token’ and is usually a picture. And there’s a worldwide database that keeps track of these tokens and who owns them, except it doesn’t have your real name, so it’s anonymous.” “So it’s just like your username and password for something?” Frank asked. “That’s a unique ID.” “Exactly, except it’s on this worldwide blockchain database, with an anonymous identifier.” “So how do you prove you own it?” he asked. “You log in to your e-wallet.” “With a username and password?” “Yeah. Oh.” “What if you lose your password?” Frank continued. “Or someone finds it written down on a piece of masking tape on your keyboard?”

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here sure is a lot of talk about cryptocurrency these days, and NFTs and the like. I couldn’t get through 10 minutes of the Super Bowl without some Hollywood actor making fun of me for being a wuss because I wasn’t putting all my money into “crypto.” That sounds a little too much like a crypt for me to be entirely comfortable. I don’t want to put my hardearned savings into an early grave. But I’ve been hearing all the smart people, like Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton and Elon Musk, talking about buying doggy coins and bored apes, and I like animals, so I figured I should read up on it. You hate to be the only guy who didn’t buy Apple Computer stock in 1989 when it was 5 cents a share or whatever, and you can be damned sure that all the crypto people will be more than happy to remind you about it for the rest of their hopefully short lives. “I told you man. I told you! Hey, want to go to Paris with me and the missus Friday? Oh, I forgot. You don’t have the money.” So I read and I read, and I thought I had it mostly worked out, but not quite. When I was in fifth grade in health class, they separated the boys and girls and showed us a slideshow about reproduction that was full of diagrams with lots of circles and arrows. After it was over, one guy said, “I don’t see how it all fits together.” That’s how I felt after reading all of the explainers and trend pieces about blocks and chains and tokens. So I met up with my friend Frank, who’s pretty smart. He’s got a good little business getting people’s basements dry. No pumps or anything; he moves dirt around their yard, and the water just goes somewhere else. Frank has all the business he wants, which isn’t very much. Because as soon as he makes enough money for the year, maybe including a mud season vacation somewhere sandy, he stops working and does more interesting things. Like I said, he’s pretty smart. The thing is, he’s not big on schooling and doesn’t even read that much. So he can’t ever explain anything to you, unless it involves water, dirt or concrete. But he asks good questions, and somehow after you talk to him for a while you know more than when you started. Frank actually brought the subject of crypto up because of all those Super Bowl

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uring the pandemic lockdown, when his cobbler shop was closed, John Welsh carried a cruller and a cup of coffee to the storefront he rents in Williston and showed up for work anyway. There were no shoes to repair, but he kept himself busy at Town Cobbler. Welsh used needle, thread, powder dye and rawhide to make tom-tom drums. “I need a place to go to do this,” Welsh said. “This is my place to go.” Welsh, 81, originally opened his business in Shelburne and operated it there for roughly 25 years before moving it to the strip mall in Williston, where he’s spent another quarter century. Town Cobbler is a throwback to a simpler time, when young people learned a trade through apprenticeship or family tradition, and folks were more likely to repair an item than to throw it out and buy a replacement. 32

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“The old-timers always got their shoes to create a workmanlike scent of their repaired,” Welsh said. “They know the own. Pairs of shoes lined up on a rack, game, and they threw money at it.” heel side out, offer intriguing evidence Due to health issues that sent Welsh of the feet that typically fill them. Each to the hospital in recent months, fallen arch and wrecked sole he does little repair work these is a hands-on problem to be days. But he still goes to the solved with precision and shop two or three times a dexterity. week to “do the bullshit,” he “We’ll dress that shoe up so said, such as answering the it looks like it did when you bought it,” Welsh said. phone, taking orders and managing paperwork. All of this is familiar and RETIREMENT ordinary Town Cobbler employs to Welsh, but it’s ISSUE three cobblers (one is part neither of those things to time), who repair handmany people — or in the bags, baseball gloves, belts, wider cultural landscape. backpacks and — mostly — shoes. They Welsh gained a new sense of gratificafix stitching, craft leather patches, replace tion in his shop’s work 10 days ago, when heels and rebuild soles. he happened on a PBS television show The shop smells like cement, leather about a multigenerational Italian shoeand polish, the aromas commingling making outfit.

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“I said, ‘Holy shit,’” Welsh recounted of his reaction to the show. “‘We’re doing what that guy’s doing at the factory.’” His is a dying craft. According to the Shoe Service Institute of America, a trade organization, there are roughly 4,000 cobblers in the country, down from 7,500 in 2000. Over the course of a century, the decline has been steep: In 1928, the nation was home to 120,000 cobblers. “No one’s learning the trade,” explained Jim McFarland, 56, a third-generation cobbler in Lakeland, Fla., and the organization’s historian and past president. Welsh expressed the same idea in different words: “If you were born into the cobbler business, you got involved in it,” he said. “Today, the kid says, ‘I want to be a computer something.’” Yet, as McFarland noted, “There are 300 million people in the country. There’s plenty of shoes to repair.” The 2015 closure of Winooski’s Onion River Cobbler made Town Cobbler the sole shoe repair shop in Chittenden County. In Barre, Boisvert’s Shoe Repair is a five-generation family business that has occupied its current location since 1950. In addition to repairing shoes, it sells belts, boots, wallets and other leather products. Welsh grew up in Winooski, where he was kicked out of high school for “being a piece of work,” he said. Cobbling was not in his family; his father was an assistant manager at the Grand Union in Burlington. In 1970, Welsh was working as a cop in Shelburne and looking for a hobby. He wasn’t interested in fishing, he joked, but he had a hunch that cobbler work would interest him. One Friday evening after his police shift, he walked into DePaul’s Shoe Service in Winooski (now gone) and asked proprietor John DePaul to teach him the trade. He told DePaul he didn’t want any money, just to learn shoe repair. When the “hobby” became a more serious commitment, the two agreed that if Welsh ever went into business on his own, DePaul would buy him his first set of supplies, such as rivets, needles and thread. “So I go in after work, hang my gun up in the corner, and I did shoes,” Welsh recalled. “I got pretty good at it.” The cop’s interest in shoe repair grew. He learned about the products, got to know the salesmen and became skilled at running the sewing machines and the buffer. He liked seeing what he had accomplished at the end of the day. When he heard that a warehouse of used shoe repair machinery was for sale in Boston, Welsh borrowed a flat-bed truck, “got a few guys who owed me from my police” work and drove to the city to purchase the machines.

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He put the equipment in his Shelburne basement and started doing repair work — fixing the straps on women’s handbags and mending broken heels. “I put all the money back into the repair business,” he said. “All the money went back into the game.” In the mid-’70s, while still a sergeant on the force, Welsh opened Town Cobbler in a barn on Shelburne Road. He trained high school students in shoe repair and leather work through a vo-tech program at Champlain Valley Union High School.

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Along with doing repair work, they made gun holsters. At one point, Welsh discovered that the kids were selling pot out of his shop. “I leaned on them pretty big-time, and they stopped,” the ex-cop said. “They were kids that didn’t have a chance.” In the early 1990s, when highway work on Shelburne Road restricted access to Town Cobbler, Welsh started looking for a new location. He eventually moved his business to Williston.

Jared Place has worked at Town Cobbler for the past 11 years. A graduate of Winooski High School, he specializes in leather work that often involves sewing and patching, he said. “You have to get to know the tools and how to repair things, but every job is different,” Place, 46, said. “It’s a lot of thinking on your feet, a lot of improvising and a lot of adapting.” Many mass-manufactured shoes are made to be thrown out, Place said. But there are brands producing quality footwear worthy of repair, such as Birkenstock, Frye, Red Wing Shoes and Thursday Boot. He’ll offer a straightforward appraisal of when and if a shoe is ready for repair. Last week, Place advised one wouldbe customer that a crack in a leather boot could have been forestalled (with oiling) but could no longer be fixed. He also punched a hole in a customer’s leather belt free of charge. “We just ask for a donation to the food shelf,” he said. Welsh said he has no plans to retire. The shop gives him a place to go, people to talk with and side projects to work on. In addition to the drums, he crafts reproductions of other Native artifacts, such as pipes and bear-tooth necklaces. He displays and sells the objects at Town Cobbler. Welsh’s two children died as young adults. His daughter, Celeste, died in 2008 as a result of traumatic brain injuries she suffered in a horrific car accident 15 years earlier, Welsh said. “The doctors told us she was going to be in turmoil all her life if she lived,” he said. “They forgot to tell us we were going to be in turmoil all our lives.” His son, David, who was learning to be a cobbler, died of a drug overdose in 2014 at age 32, Welsh said. His ex-wife also predeceased him. “I live alone,” he said. “I got to have a place to go every day.” Business is down by about 45 percent since the pandemic, Welsh said. Still, he’s trying to hang on in the strip mall. We live in a disposable society, both Williston cobblers said. Consumers are more inclined to purchase items in quantity than for quality, Place observed. With the supply of cobblers dwindling, people need to realize that shoe and handbag repair won’t always be available to them, Welsh said. His succinct message to potential customers: “Use it or lose it.” m

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fit. He had worked with them on their farm purchase and been impressed by their motivation and business savvy. “I couldn’t think of a better prospective buyer,” he said. He noted that Animal Farm’s business model was unusual in its reliance on a few personal relationships. “It’s one of the things that make that business viable,” Smith said. “It’s also one of the things that make the transition somewhat risky.” It could also make financing challenging. Sarah Isham, director of agricultural lending at Vermont Agricultural Credit, signed off on a loan that includes the value of the deal’s intangible assets, including future cash flow. She felt comfortable doing so because the Haighs were taking on “a 20-year-old established business of premium products,” Isham said. “They were handpicked by Diane St. Clair, and they put together a very good business plan. They really checked all the boxes for us.” Hilary acknowledged that she was a little nervous about stepping into St. Clair’s shoes, especially with the cornerstone restaurant accounts. But, after St. Clair made introductions, all have been “easy to talk with and so supportive,” she said. On March 16, Hilary reached into the churn to pull out the butter. “This is the best part,” she said. “It feels like soft, silky play dough. It makes you want to stuff your whole arms into it.” She kneaded the golden mass under running water to remove any traces of buttermilk and used an ice cream scoop to shape four-ounce butter balls. These would be chilled and then packed four to a zippered plastic bag. The no-frills packaging is how St. Clair has always shipped butter, even to three-star Michelin restaurants such as the French Laundry and the Inn at Little Washington. Julian Eckhardt, executive sous chef of the latter Virginia restaurant, said via email that the Inn at Little Washington has ordered 25 pounds of Animal Farm butter a week for almost a decade. The butter stands out, Eckhardt wrote, for its exceptionally high butterfat, minimal processing, freshness and subtle, seasonal flavor shifts. “We serve it as simply and unadulterated as possible,” he said: whipped with a little sea salt beside house-baked bread. The ownership transition has been smooth, Eckhardt added. “It is moving to see an artisan like Diane so focused not only on the integrity of her butter,” the chef wrote, “but also on … sharing her methods with a new generation.” m

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then added cool water to the churn and ran it slowly to rinse the butter. She repeated the drain and rinse twice more. Six weeks earlier, on February 1, Hilary had driven the eight miles from Rolling Bale to Animal Farm to pasteurize cream for her first solo run of butter. Then she and St. Clair loaded seven Jerseys onto a trailer and drove them to their new home. “It was really hard,” St. Clair said. But she knew all too well that it would be even harder to keep her business going herself. Although her husband, large animal veterinarian Al Clarisse, helped her out, the physically demanding operation was largely a one-woman show, and it had taken its toll. “We do everything by hand,” St. Clair explained. “When the cows are in, we’re shoveling shit by hand. We don’t have a pipeline; we carry our buckets of milk. I lift 50 pounds a day of milk and cream and buttermilk all day long.” Her chiropractor was among those who suggested she try to take it easier. “I was like, ‘That’s impossible,’” St. Clair said. In early summer of 2021, St. Clair contacted Sam Smith, a farm business planner at the Intervale Center, who works with about 30 farms each year. Smith came out to Animal Farm to discuss options. Selling the farm along with the business was a nonstarter, since the couple did not want to move. “I told her she’d get the most money from selling it as a trophy farm to someone who had heard about the butter,” Smith recalled. But St. Clair resolved to find a successor before winter. “If every farmer I talk to who said they wanted to transfer [their business] had that level of motivation,” Smith said, “we would have a bunch of different farm owners right now.” Around the same time, Clarisse headed over to Rolling Bale for a routine vet visit. He mentioned to Ben that he and St. Clair were considering slowing down. The potential sale of the butter business came up. “Al’s usually a man of few words, but we were talking a long time,” Ben recalled. The Haighs had always hoped to have a small dairy herd. Both had worked at Ben’s uncle’s organic dairy in Shoreham. The couple talked it over, and Ben handwrote a one-page letter on yellow legal paper. It essentially said, “If you’d be interested in selling the business in a few years, we’d be interested,” he recounted. A couple days later, St. Clair called. She wanted to sell — but soon. St. Clair thought the Haighs were a great match for her business. “It was critical that they already had a farm,” she said. More important than their previous work in dairy was their understanding of how to manage

pastured livestock. “You have to learn to make the butter, but the real issue with this business is farming. It’s all about the cows,” St. Clair said. “I’ve known Hilary since she was a little girl,” she added. Auspiciously, Hilary and Ben met in 2008 at Animal Farm. Hilary, who grew up on Doolittle Farm in Shoreham, was houseand cow-sitting. Ben comes from Lowville, N.Y., but his mother is from Shoreham. He was helping an uncle roof St. Clair’s creamery. Hilary and Ben started dating after they earned their degrees: hers in animal science from the University of Vermont and his in forestry from Paul Smith’s College in New York. In 2014, they began farming together in Shoreham on leased land. Two years later, through a stroke of small-town luck, the couple bought a 100-acre Shoreham farm with affordable owner financing. On Rolling Bale, the Haighs raise beef, lamb, chicken and pork. After having their second son in 2019, Hilary focused on farming full time, while Ben continued to do custom sawmilling. The new creamery business has both

Ben Haigh with son Emitt, Diane St. Clair and Hilary Haigh

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The New Deal pops up with seitan in Burlington B Y JOR D AN BAR RY • jbarry@sevendaysvt.com I’m not a regular seitan eater. But when I walked into Simple Roots Brewing around 5:30 p.m. on March 17, it seemed like I had been missing out on Burlington’s latest craze. Local seitan biz the New Deal was hosting a pop-up, and the place was packed. Eventually, I realized everyone in the New North End brewery was wearing green and drinking Hearthside stout. But, Saint Patrick’s Day or not, people were clamoring for plant-based wheat meat. There were plates on every table. The New Deal’s pop-up menu offered seitan in taco and sweet-and-sticky form, along with meat dishes such as corned beef and bacon-wrapped dates. I paired a holiday-inappropriate elderflower saison with a heaping plate of seitan tacos ($10 for two, available vegetarian or vegan). Layered corn and flour tortillas were loaded with hefty chunks of seitan, ginger-balsamic black beans, pickled red onions, other veggies, cilantro and avocado crema. A few bites in, I vowed to make seitan a Saint Patrick’s Day tradition — or at least a regular part of my diet. Jeff Hodgdon started making seitan while working as head chef at Drifters, the now-closed neighborhood spot in the Old North End. He founded the New Deal in 2018, hosting pop-ups and selling seitan in bulk to City Market, Onion River Co-op. This winter, Davis and Sophronia (Sophie) Williams joined the New Deal as co-owners. The couple are longtime restaurant pros who met while working at the Farmhouse Tap & Grill. Hodgdon is their neighbor, and Davis had helped him at several pop-ups that fall.

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The trio makes batches of seitan together each week, combining vital wheat gluten — a flour-like powder made from wheat’s natural protein — and water into loaves, which they poach and pack in a mixture of soy sauce, water and salt. “Jeff came to us because he wanted to expand his business,” Sophie, 28, said. “Now he’s able to be the chef and focus on the food while we do all the background stuff.” “With COVID, we realized we’ve given so much time to other people’s restaurants,” Davis, 28, added. “Why not give that time to our goal of opening a restaurant of our own?” For now, the New Deal is selling seitan to local restaurants, including the Daily Planet, Butter Bar & Kitchen, Deep City and Zero Gravity Beer Hall, and doing more pop-ups — look for another one at Simple Roots on March 31. This summer will see the launch of the New Deal’s food cart, which will park at Foam Brewers every Friday and Sunday, starting at Foam’s anniversary party on April 29, and at Shelburne Vineyard the first Thursday of every month from May to September. The menu will highlight seitan, of course, but also offer options for omnivores, such as burgers and gumbo with andouille sausage and chicken. “We’re chefs, and we like to experiment with everything,” Sophie said. “But the meat industry isn’t sustainable; we want people to know you don’t have to eat meat for every meal.” “We just want people to give seitan a chance,” Davis said. “It’s like a sponge for flavor, and it’s pretty limitless.” m

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Lyric Theatre cast members rehearse a scene from Matilda the Musical

ully costumed in school uniforms of short pants, knee socks, pleated skirts, ties and blazers, the young cast of Lyric Theatre’s Matilda the Musical buzzed around the community theater group’s offices in South Burlington. Gathering for a Monday night rehearsal a couple of weeks ahead of the play’s April 7 opening at the Flynn Main Stage in Burlington, the kids created a cacophony of sound that bounced off the warehouse walls and floor. Unapologetically keyed up, they were kids being kids, rehearsing a show with themes that examine the resiliency of children. Adapted from the 1988 Roald Dahl novel, Matilda centers on a young girl with burgeoning telekinesis who endures bullying from her abusive parents and domineering headmistress. The musical debuted on London’s West End in 2011. It hit Broadway two years later. After vocal warm-ups, the players took their places for “When I Grow Up,” an ensemble number that utilizes four playground swings suspended from the 24-foot ceiling. Their long chains created broad arcs as the kids began to glide through the air, adding a dreamlike, nearly slow-motion 40

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quality to the scene. Similarly dreamy, the song’s lyrics describe hopes and wishes about what life might be like when its singers reach adulthood. The children muse about, when they’re older, being “smart enough to answer all the questions that you need to know the answers to” and “strong enough to carry all the heavy things you have to haul around with you.” Watching from the corner as they sweetly harmonized, I fell down a mental rabbit hole about what the past two years must have felt like for kids. COVID-19 forced them all to grow up faster than they should. How many years (decades?) will elapse before the pandemic’s impact on their generation is fully understood? I had full-body chills. Matilda was originally scheduled to open in April 2020. Like all Lyric shows, planning

began about 18 months ahead of its original production date, meaning the musical is now more than three years in the making. In the past two years, the company has shown flexibility, endurance and creativity as it has adapted to the disrupted performing arts world. Matilda marks a return to normalcy and a triumph for the theater group. Postponing Matilda was a first for Lyric and extremely painful, since rehearsals stopped only a few weeks before curtain. Never in its almost five decades had a show been canceled or delayed. “There was no playbook,” the company’s executive director, Erin Evarts, said about shutting down production. A longtime member of Lyric serving in many capacities, Evarts took the top slot in March 2019. “When I started talking to other arts

executives and cultural leaders, we were all like, ‘Huh? What’s next?’” she continued. “Nobody had an answer.” But that didn’t mean they would be idle, Evarts explained. The City of Burlington reached out to Lyric to see if the volunteerrun organization could help make masks. Utilizing hundreds of helping hands in its network of crafty folks, Lyric produced approximately 27,000 cloth masks, which were distributed all over the Queen City in the pandemic’s early days. Though traditional indoor theater was out, Lyric found ways to stay busy and produce work. From fall 2020 through New Year’s Eve 2021, Lyric produced eight small-scale shows. They ranged from solo-heavy outdoor concerts such as “New Leaf,” performed in Stowe, South Hero, and Burlington in September and October 2020, to Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night, a dance musical performed live at Lyric headquarters in November 2021. Meanwhile, Matilda was, quite literally, waiting in the wings. Set pieces sat untouched, and its cast and crew patiently twiddled their thumbs. At no point did Evarts consider scrapping the show. “When you have something that’s sitting

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there and ready to go, it felt wrong to move Ferris said keeping morale high and on and do something different,” she said. “I the cast connected was paramount during don’t think it was ever even an option for the hiatus. A few months in, he organized us to not do it. Or, at least, it wasn’t for me.” and edited together a virtual choir rendiThe cast remained largely intact, tion of “When I Grow Up,” with each cast though its youngest members shot up a member recording their part separately. few inches. Director Ian Ferris said that Ferris and Raphael stressed the imporwhen rehearsals resumed in November tance of bonding between castmates. 2021, he had to make sure the kids could Raphael mentioned that her parents still fit in their classroom desks, lest they recently reminded her that, upon the need to be rebuilt. show’s initial cancellation, she told them Several adult cast members chose not she wasn’t as sad about losing the role as to return, mainly because of pandemic- losing her Lyric family. prompted life changes. Auditions were Though he certainly had the opporheld again in January to replace the outgo- tunity, Ferris said he wasn’t tempted to ing actors and add a few more. retool the show, though it was hard to shut Phoebe Raphael, 13, who plays Matilda, his brain off and let it lie. said she felt like a great “I could have rededeal of time had passed signed the show six times and that she’s “definitely in the downtime we had,” changed a lot in that time. he said. “But I didn’t want “I kind of feel like a to create a domino effect of different person,” she changing all sorts of design continued. “I feel like [the stuff.” show] is going to be 10 For Evarts, the pandemtimes better now.” ic’s challenges tested her “She was great two mettle in a role she’d been E RIN E VARTS years ago — she’s better working toward for years. now,” Ferris said of She quoted the show’s Raphael. “There’s just a little more texture song “Revolting Children” as a metaphor for the company’s malleability. The song to some of her work.” Raphael said remembering everything plays up the two meanings of the word about the show was challenging but not “revolting”: one an adjective, the other impossible. a verb. “The blocking was completely gone,” “[The line] keeps resonating,” Evarts she said. “But once we got comfortable, it said. “These are revolting times. And we became such a great experience.” got through it.” m Ferris and Raphael pointed to one song, “Quiet,” as a part of the show that’s INFO benefited from the time away. Ferris Matilda the Musical by Tim Minchin and described it as Matilda’s emotional peak. Dennis Kelly, directed by Ian Ferris, produced “[Matilda’s] been building up these by Lyric Theatre. Thursday and Friday, April 7 emotions … It all kind of bursts, but in a and 8, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 9, 1 p.m. and calm way,” Raphael explained. “I feel like 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, April 10, 1 p.m. and 6 I can kind of relate to that song a little bit p.m., at the Flynn Main Stage in Burlington. more than I could two years ago.” $19-44. lyrictheatrevt.org

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When the Me2/Burlington orchestra posted a job online on March 17 for a parttime conductor, executive director Caroline Whiddon got a surprise: Two of the first four applicants were from Russia. “I mean, literally, we’re talking about conducting a small orchestra in little Burlington, Vt., one night a week,” she said. “We posted the salary at $12,000. You don’t expect to get international applicants.” The first application arrived about 48 hours after the job was posted on musicalchairs.info. In a cover letter, the applicant cited his training — a master’s degree in violin in 2015 and a second master’s degree in symphonic and opera conducting in 2020 — as well as his conducting experience. But a single sentence struck Whiddon. “In January 2022, I won a competition for the conductor position…” the applicant wrote, “but due to political reasons, I had to leave the country.” He named the Russian group he was to conduct, but Whiddon didn’t reveal it to protect the applicant’s identity. Neither he nor the other Russian applicant — who said she was born in Moscow, trained in Russia, and has dual citizenship in Russia and Italy — included a mailing address. While millions of refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24, Russia has faced its own exodus. Tens of thousands have fled, the New York Times reported last week, as sanctions have made it impossible for some to work; others disagree with the war and fear arrest. Those leaving include bloggers, journalists, activists, engineers and video game developers, reported the Times. Musicians, it appears, are willing to go at least as far as Burlington for a part-time gig. Whiddon and her husband, Ronald Braunstein, cofounded Me2/ in Burlington in 2011 as a classical music organization for people with mental illnesses and those who support them. “No Auditions. No Fees. No Stigma,” the group’s home page reads. Now based in Boston, Me2/ has orchestras in Burlington, Boston and

Manchester, N.H., as well as a flute choir in Boston; it plans to start a chorus in Boston this fall. Burlington’s orchestra has about 50 members, most of whom are amateur musicians. Braunstein conducted the group until 2019, when Kim Diehnelt took over. She resigned late last year to focus on composing and her family, Whiddon said. Among the qualifications Me2/ seeks in its next Burlington conductor, according to the job description, are the “ability to select music and conduct rehearsals that will challenge more advanced musicians without alienating those who are less experienced” and enthusiasm for “leading performances in both traditional and non-traditional venues, including hospitals, gymnasiums and correctional facilities.” “It’s a very unusual job,” Whiddon said. “And we really look for someone who is, in many ways, unusual.” She noted that while personal experience with mental illness is not a requirement for the position, it will be considered an asset. “So you’re managing a room not only musically but also keeping an eye out for people’s mental health and whatever emotions they may be processing while they’re also playing Dvořák and Beethoven and whatever else,” she said. “So, yeah, we’re a unique ensemble, for sure.” Me2/ will accept applications until April 15. Its hiring committee, composed of orchestra members, will have to decide how to proceed if the Russian applicants are among the strongest candidates, because an in-person tryout is typically part of the hiring process. “We plan to have the final candidates come in, in May, and work with the orchestra,” Whiddon said, “because so much of what we’re looking for is not just the skill and the right education or the right experience that you can see on paper, but you’re looking for chemistry.” m

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laire Black, 36, has never owned a couch. Instead, two grand pianos fill the living room of her South Burlington apartment — a Kawai and a Steinway Model L. The room serves as Black’s studio, where the pianist, who earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Music, gives lessons to 29 young students. Currently, it’s also her rehearsal room for her first solo concerts since 2015. From April 3 through 10, Black will perform three in-person concerts at churches and a library in Chittenden County and livestream a fourth from her living room. Her thoughtfully crafted program, “Poetic Unity,” centers on Clara Schumann (1819-1896), an acclaimed German solo pianist of the romantic era 42

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who was also a composer, piano teacher, mother of eight and wife of composer Robert Schumann. These concerts mark Black’s return to Vermont after two years away and a reset of sorts. Originally from Long Lake, N.Y., a remote town in the Adirondacks, Black worked as a staff pianist at Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio after earning her degrees. In 2012, she and her thenpartner decided to move to Vermont “for a new adventure,” the pianist said during a phone call. In the Green Mountains, Black taught and played with chamber groups, including Vermont Virtuosi and Stellaria Trio. She also discovered a real need for her skills as an accompanist, she said, collaborating with everyone from students

auditioning for conservatories to local choruses to visiting musicians giving recitals. Occasionally, she found time to give a solo concert. “Claire is a wonderfully collaborative player, very open to ideas but also very creative with her own input,” said John Dunlop, a Vermont Symphony Orchestra cellist who formed Stellaria with Black and Letitia Quante. “Her chamber music chops are excellent. Technically, she could play whatever we could throw at her.” Flutist and Vermont Virtuosi founder Laurel Ann Maurer has a similar regard for the pianist. “When I first met Claire, I was so impressed with her sight-reading ability,” she recalled. “I brought some pretty hard pieces. She played them like they

were a piece of cake.” Black and Maurer will be featured on a CD of music for flute and piano by David Gunn, Maurer’s husband. In 2019, Black moved to Spokane, Wash., with her partner. “I was so sad to leave Vermont,” she said. She spent a year at Whitworth University as staff accompanist and faculty member before moving back to the Adirondacks to regroup. There, with the pandemic in full swing, she regained enough Vermont students through online lessons to return to the Green Mountains in the summer of 2021. In the meantime, however, Black had developed carpal tunnel syndrome. She underwent surgery on both hands. “I really doubted I’d recover,” she said.

“I thought I’d be compromised, but I’m a better player than I used to be.” Black said Clara Schumann has been “such a refuge” for her during the difficult last two years. The pianist immersed herself in both Schumanns’ music, as well as in books about the loving couple. Atypically for the times, the Schumanns supported each other professionally: Robert encouraged Clara’s concertizing while she promoted and performed his music, which was deemed radical at the time. The program begins with the first three of Clara’s six Soirées musicales, Op. 6 (1836). She began composing them at age 15 — at the start of her romantic relationship with Robert, who was nine years her senior. As Black will explain during the concerts, a motif that emerges in the Soirées, known as the “Clara motif,” reappeared in several of Robert’s works. It opens his Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 (1836-1839). Much later, Clara featured the

motif again in her Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20 (1853), composed as a birthday present to her husband. Both works are on the program.

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The Schumanns’ trading of a motif back and forth was “a way to pay homage to each other,” Black explained. “Sometimes it’s really not obvious, either. Sometimes they’ll steal a little something in each other’s pieces and then announce to the world that it’s in there. It looks like secret code.” Black’s program also includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1, completed in 1801. Both Schumanns revered and found inspiration in Beethoven. Like Robert’s Fantasie, the

sonata is subtitled a “fantasia,” or freeform work. Black’s playing, samples of which she posts on her YouTube channel, is well suited to the fluid, soaring expressions of romantic music. As Dunlop commented, “Some pianists are very energetic and rhythmically oriented; Claire has a beautiful, melodic sense of the piano, sort of belying its percussive family roots.” “Speaking for the music community,” Dunlop added, “we’re thrilled that she came back.” Black has been focused on her solo project for the last five months, to the exclusion of any collaborative projects. “There’s such a need around here for piano collaborators that, preparing a solo program, I have felt kind of selfish,” she admitted. But “Poetic Unity” is an offering, too. For Black, the program is about the idea of connection — not just between the

Schumann spouses but “between me and this music, me and Vermont. “The Vermont audience is a special thing,” Black continued. She cited a recent University of Vermont Lane Series concert featuring pianist David Kaplan and friends that drew more than 100 people on the night of the worst snowstorm of the season. “They’ll come out,” Black marveled. “There’s genuine enthusiasm. It’s so neat to be in a largely rural place where classical music is held in such high regard.” m

INFO “Poetic Unity,” performed by pianist Claire Black: Sunday, April 3, 3 p.m., at Richmond Free Library; Friday, April 8, 7:30 p.m., at Charlotte Congregational Church (RSVP required; email claireblackconcerts@gmail.com); Saturday, April 9, 7:30 p.m., at First Baptist Church in Burlington; and livestreamed Sunday, April 10, 3 p.m., on Facebook and YouTube. Suggested donation: $20 adults; $5 children.

KEN PICARD

HISTORY

As New Holocaust Exhibit Opens, War in Ukraine Looms Large B Y KEN PICAR D • ken@sevendaysvt.com As more than 70 Vermonters gathered in Burlington last Thursday evening for the opening reception of a new traveling exhibit that examines the causes and consequences of the Holocaust, the exhibit’s message felt less like a history lesson on the defining genocide of the 20th century than a call to action to stop the next one of the 21st century. “The idea of ‘never again’ is the password that we all have learned,” said former Vermont governor Madeleine May Kunin, in her keynote address at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. “As we watch the situation unfolding in Ukraine, bombs falling as we speak, we realize that ‘never again’ [is] difficult and has been breached so many times.” “The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust 1933–1945” is a 40-panel exhibit that traces the history of the Nazi genocide. The timeline of text, historical photos, illustrations and maps begins with the origins of German antisemitism, quoting Martin Luther from his 1543 book On the Jews and Their Lies. It continues with Nazi propaganda films of the 1930s, the creation of industrial death camps in Europe and the camps’ liberation in 1945. More than 10 million people in 40 countries have seen the traveling exhibit, created by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County in New York. On display in Burlington through May 1, the exhibit will be accompanied by other free programs at the library, including film screenings, book discussions and author talks.

All three former or current government officials who spoke at the exhibit opening — Kunin, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger and state Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D-Chittenden) — have Jewish roots in Europe. But all three spent more time talking about the present than the past. Calling the Holocaust, “inexplicable,” Kunin, a Jew born in Switzerland in 1933, drew stark parallels between what happened in Nazi Germany eight decades ago and what the Russians are doing in Ukraine today.“‘Death by design’ is what happened in the Holocaust,” Kunin said, quoting the title of one of the 40 panels, “and death by design is what is happening right now.” But even as “never again” has long served as a rallying cry against ethnic cleansing and mass extermination, all three politicians emphasized how often that message is ignored. Weinberger, a descendant of European Jews who immigrated to the United States to escape antisemitism, noted that there have been seven major genocides on four continents since the Holocaust. Weinberger quoted from a paper written by Samantha Power, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 under president Barack Obama. “Genocide has occurred so often and so uncontested in the last 50 years,” Power wrote, “that an epithet more apt in describing recent events than the oft-chanted ‘Never Again’ is in fact ‘Again and Again.’” Ram Hinsdale, a Jewish woman of color who has ancestors from Ukraine,

Panels from “The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust 1933–1945”

emphasized the importance of courage, both in remembering history and in acting upon its lessons. She mentioned one such courageous act by Kunin during her time as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. Kunin pressed the Swiss banks to return to Holocaust victims and their families money Nazis had stolen from them during World War II. “We can look back now and say, ‘Of course!’” Ram Hinsdale said. “But every act like that requires incredible courage. That’s a lot of discomfort to put people in.” Kunin noted that many of the images emerging from eastern Europe today — of children, mothers and the elderly fleeing bombed-out buildings — are eerily reminiscent of World War II. But Kunin also highlighted some of the important differences between what happened in the

Holocaust and what’s happening in Europe today. In the 1930s, she said, the world was largely unaware of the Nazi death camps. Even when stories about gas chambers began emerging, the reality was far too horrible for most people to believe. And while the Nazis were highly successful at keeping their atrocities secret, Kunin said, the same cannot be said about what Russia is doing in Ukraine. “The Russian people might not know everything, but they will eventually,” she said. “It won’t stay locked up forever. We, the public, know what’s going on.” And therein lies the importance of “The Courage to Remember” exhibit, Kunin said. It reminds us, as free people, of our ongoing obligation to teach history, learn its lessons and act upon them while we still can. m SEVEN DAYS MARCH 30-APRIL 6, 2022

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or many families, surviving the pandemic has been a long and arduous road. And for local musicians Jeremiah and Annemieke McLane, 2020 was particularly brutal. The McLanes lost their home in Sharon to an early morning fire on August 4, 2020. Fortunately, they were vacationing in Maine with their son, Luke, when the tragedy occurred, and no one was hurt.

In Tune

family, this was a devastating blow, and the community support shows how beloved they are, far and wide. Annemieke’s friends in the Netherlands even raised money for her new piano. Listening to her play in her recently built study, with the fragrant smell of hyacinths in the air, was truly a magical experience. In addition to classics by [Claude] Debussy and [Franz] Schubert, she performed a modern piece called “Home” by a young Norwegian composer and pianist from New York named Ola Gjeilo. Ola was kind enough to allow us to include his work from his Winter Songs album in the “Stuck in Vermont” video, and Annemieke was visibly moved while playing it. The title was fitting, but more than that, Annemieke said she was just happy to have new music to play. Annemieke lost her extensive library of sheet music in the fire, which she had been collecting since she was 7 years old. She has been slowly rebuilding the collection, and Ola’s work is a recent purchase.

Friends in Vermont and beyond rallied to help the McLanes rebuild and begin anew

Musicians Jeremiah and Annemieke McLane Move Into Their New Home [Episode 661]

Unstuck: Episode Extras With Eva SEVEN DAYS: How did you meet Annemieke? EVA SOLLBERGER: I met Annemieke years ago through mutual friends. I featured Annemieke and her magnificent piano playing and nature photography in a “Stuck in Vermont”

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The McLanes lost everything, including two pianos, two accordions, Luke’s upright bass, an extensive library of sheet music and the family cat. The metal frames of the pianos were still visible, smoldering in the ashes. The community rallied around the beloved musicians, raising funds for new instruments and donating clothing, home items and books for Luke. Almost two years later, after living in four different apartments, the McLanes have moved into their new home on the same land in Sharon. For the latest “Stuck in Vermont” episode, Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger spent the afternoon with Annemieke, talking about the experience and hearing her play her new piano. Jeremiah and Annemieke perform together as the Cassotto Duo and will be playing some concerts in May. Annemieke has monthly concerts at the United Church of Strafford, and she will play a benefit concert on May 8 for the Malayaka House, which supports Ugandan children, at the Charlotte Congregational Church.

Annemieke McLane

video in 2012. At that time she was dating very long, steep and twisty back road in Jeremiah McLane, a renowned accordion Sharon. We were lucky because there had player. Soon after that video came out, they been a recent snowstorm that froze the had a son together, Luke, and got married. ground, but it still felt like a roller coaster. We have stayed in touch over the years Annemieke instructed us to keep our on Facebook. In April speed up, and my little 2020, I interviewed Prius made it safely. Annemieke and Luke via I hear it is a different Zoom about how musistory now that the mud cians were handling the has arrived. Gulp. pandemic with no live music. Annemieke was SD: The community posting performance support for the videos to Facebook and McLanes after playing her beloved this incident was Ibach piano, which had immense. E VA S O L L BE R GE R just turned 100 years ES: The number of old. As Annemieke grassroots fundraisers says in this latest video, she had a special was astonishing. Annemieke sent me connection to this piano and shipped it here a long list of people and groups who from her native country, the Netherlands. rallied for the family, helping them raise Tragically, it was lost in the fire. the money to replace their instruments. I hadn’t seen Annemieke since the fire Annemieke and Jeremiah each lost a and asked her if she would be willing to let piano, the remains of which are still me make a video about their new home. outside, buried underneath the snow. The couple plans to make a sculpture of them someday. SD: I hear getting to their house was tough. Jeremiah lost two accordions, and their ES: Yes, the McLanes live at the end of a son lost his upright bass. For a musical

LISTENING TO HER PLAY … WITH THE FRAGRANT SMELL OF HYACINTHS IN THE AIR,

WAS TRULY A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE.

SD: So the music continues? ES: Yes, Annemieke and Jeremiah performed at Randolph’s Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival just three weeks after they lost everything to the fire. Annemieke said the performance was good for her soul. The couple performs together as the Cassotto Duo, and their combination of the piano and the accordion is very unusual. You can watch some videos of them playing together on their Facebook page. My parents are both flutists who also played the accordion, so this unique pairing is particularly interesting to me. SD: Why did you make this video? ES: I think losing your home to a natural disaster is everyone’s worst nightmare. And in the midst of a pandemic, when life is already so difficult — well, that is just too much to imagine. But this story has a real silver lining, which is the way the community rallied to support the McLanes. And they rose from the ashes, rebuilt their house, and are continuing to perform, teach and share their music. As Annemieke notes in the video, Luke’s favorite song, “I’m Still Standing,” became the family’s hymn. And soon, the Dutch tulips that Annemieke planted in their burnt bathtub on the lawn will bloom, and new life will begin again.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series, “Stuck in Vermont,” since 2007. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday and air the following night on the WCAX evening news. Sign up at sevendaysvt.com to receive an email alert each time a new one drops. And check these pages every other week for insights on the episodes.

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THEATER

Gina Stevensen

The Medium Is the Message Theater review: The Thin Place, Vermont Stage B Y A L E X BROW N • alex@sevendaysvt.com

spooky mist surrounds the stories in The Thin Place, an engrossing new play by Lucas Hnath that uses the supernatural as a setting. The Vermont Stage production proves theater’s power to pull viewers to the edge of their seats. It’s not so much a ghost story as an experience of the ghost story’s essence — the need to believe the uncanny, the rapture of listening, the skin-crawling dread of what happens next. Atmosphere, not events, sends the chills. But the play’s idea is unsettling, too: People believe when they’re told what they want to hear. Hilda, a delicate young woman, describes playing a game with her grandmother — an impossible mind-reading effort in which she tried to guess a word her grandmother had written down. The two practiced this to improve their communication and to build a bridge that might last beyond the grave. This keen need to connect left Hilda trained to listen, to hope for messages. After her grandmother’s death, she wants to get close to the thin place between the living and the dead. Hilda wants this place to be real. And, as she says, it’s almost too easy to start seeing what you’re looking for. When she encounters Linda, a medium, she is fascinated to learn that people can communicate with spirits. Hilda attends a sitting, and Linda channels Hilda’s grandmother, making statements that take cues from Hilda’s reactions. The ethereal Hilda and the pragmatic Linda become

friends. Linda is not precisely a cynic. She admits to lying about what she can sense from another world, but she’s listening very closely to what’s said in this one. It’s a talent. And it hasn’t made her contemptuous of her customers, to whom she offers resolution of the emotions that haunt them. Her work, Linda says, is like psychotherapy, except it actually works. Telling a young woman that her dead dad is proud of her could heal her. Even when Linda tells Hilda that what she does is essentially a trick, Hilda can’t surrender her hope that connecting with spirits is possible. The story widens to include Jerry and Sylvia, well-off friends whom Linda has cultivated. When they all gather for drinks, Hilda tells them about the last time she saw her mother alive. That eerie story is only one of several in a play that’s essentially about storytelling. Hnath writes naturalistic dialogue but turns it to a purpose, using a rambling pace to hint that anything might happen. Suspense rises in the theater like a fog in the evening chill. The play is about listening. The actors reveal what the characters are experiencing as much by attention to each other as by what they say or do. We watch them think. When someone is speaking in this play, it’s worth wondering whether the words are true or simply what the listener wants to hear. To create a somber atmosphere, director Jordan Gullikson refines the actors’ movements to precise, limited gestures. Hilda’s deliberate steps to reach a chair

SUSPENSE RISES IN THE THEATER

LIKE A FOG IN THE EVENING CHILL.

or Sylvia’s placement of a wine glass are measured enough to be a tinge otherworldly. A sense of stillness descends as Gullikson elicits performances in which actors connect by concentrating on each other. Nothing is grand or loud; the mood is intense because the crucial exchanges occur when someone grasps what’s said. As Hilda, Gina Stevensen succeeds at the difficult acting challenge of making a prim, quiet character absorbing. Stevensen uses a flat, slightly mannered delivery and buries every hint of sorrow. It’s up to the viewer to decide what kind of pain lies within. She radiates a sense that she’s withholding something powerful. As the play unfolds, viewers learn to listen harder and harder. Linda is from England, just exotic enough to impress her American clients. Chris Caswell portrays her by mastering the Midlands accent and making Linda a powerful presence, nearly the opposite of Hilda. She speaks firmly, even coarsely at times, and has an athletic dare-you set to her shoulders. She’s tough enough to take people’s money but gentle as she draws them out. Caswell makes Linda impossible to pin down on any moral spectrum. Jerry is a rich, self-satisfied modern bro played by Andrew Cassel. Just like Linda’s clients, he knows what he wants to hear, but in his case it’s ready rationalizations for every question about privilege. Cassel’s best work comes when he explores another thin place, the loss of inhibition. He makes Jerry just slightly drunk when he questions Hilda about her connection to Linda. As Sylvia, Linda Wolfsen displays the character’s affluent, regal bearing with a dancer’s facility for movement. Wolfsen also captures the character’s need for some spiritual purpose. Hnath has written Sylvia as both entitled and empty, and Wolfsen airily lurches on her beautiful high heels between satisfaction and neediness. Scenic designer Chuck Padula makes a small island of a set within the Black Box Theater at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, marooning a table and two highfashion chairs on a rug. The austerity nearly crackles. That emptiness becomes a canvas for lighting designer Dan Gallagher to define moods with forceful lighting. Gallagher uses natural color to make the world seem solid, then drains all natural hues away when the action, or Hilda’s thoughts, become surreal. Light does a lot of the haunting here, along with Jess Wilson’s enjoyably unsettling sound design. Costume designer Sophia Lidz tells much of Hilda’s story by giving her drab knit pants and a blouse with a droopy tie. Lidz dresses Linda in a too-busy blend of patterns and gives Jerry a vest that doesn’t fit, but she hits the shorthand of the very rich by giving Sylvia just-right slacks and a beautifully draped tunic. From start to ambiguous finish, the play toys with truth and imagination. At last Thursday’s performance, an audience of strangers gathered in the dark were gripped. The play’s events are intentionally insubstantial, and viewers can’t be sure of anything except the need to listen very, very hard. m

INFO The Thin Place, by Lucas Hnath, directed by Jordan Gullikson, produced by Vermont Stage. Through April 10: Wednesday through Saturday, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, 2 p.m., at Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, in Burlington. $31-38.50. Masks and proof of vaccination required. vermontstage.org SEVEN DAYS MARCH 30-APRIL 6, 2022

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Going All In

Athena Petra Tasiopoulos inventively manipulates space in encaustic collages B Y PA M EL A POL ST O N • ppolston@sevendaysvt.com

ometimes an art show just doesn’t grab you; one quick glance, and you walk on by. Other times, the work reaches out and gently but firmly pulls you in. Athena Petra Tasiopoulos’ mixed-media collages are in the latter camp. Her exhibition “Inner Spaces,” on view at Soapbox Arts in Burlington, is filled with abstract compositions that enticed this viewer to stay and look for a good long while. In previous work, Tasiopoulos employed 19th-century “cabinet card” portraits and delicate textiles to produce compositions with a feminine, vintage sensibility and faded hues. It was a style entirely her own. “Inner Spaces” maintains visual consistency with that earlier work in vocabulary, palette and concept. But, though the new works are recognizably hers, they are more dynamic, with strong angularity and assertive mark making. And Tasiopoulos has, for now, traded figurative elements for geometry. She has also branched out into three dimensions, interspersing her 2D wall pieces with 4-by-4-inch totem-like columns of wood, most with additional tiny wood blocks attached randomly to the sides. Tasiopoulos originally trained in photography, and the nearly abstract images on her website presage the work she’s now creating in other mediums. She begins her collages with myriad geometric shapes, piecing together cutout recycled or vintage paper such as sheet music, then proceeds with paint, a coat of encaustic and marks incised with pottery tools. Though most of the shapes are rectilinear, there are no perfectly straight lines; the artist’s hand is evident everywhere. While many of her pieces appear quite similar, each is in fact a distinct architectonic variation. Part of the appeal for a viewer lies in observing all the ways Tasiopoulos imagines the arrangement of space. In a phone conversation, the artist talked about her process, the seduction of the old and pushing toward the new.

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have held steady. How do you see the evolution in your art? I feel like any time you try something different, you think, Oh no — it’s a little scary. But as I progressed into more abstract mixed-media work … I had this weird fear of letting go of photography. But using the antique photographs helped. It was a bridge. Then one day I said, “Let me just not use the photographic image at all.” Have you moved on from using the cabinet-card photos, then? I never want to say definitely, but I’m probably not going to be working with them in the near future. I’m ready to explore different avenues.

“Reconstructing” triptych

I have to ask about your awesome name — three Greek words, one of them a goddess. I take it your family is Greek or of Greek descent? I’m half Greek. My father was born in Greece and moved to the U.S. in the mid-’70s. I know you’re from Pennsylvania, but is that heritage significant to you? Definitely. One parent is an immigrant; the other [side] has been in the States a long time. I’m an only child, and I’ve always been a little introverted. You tend to feel you don’t belong in either world. You feel like you’re floating in between. I think that translates in my work, [that] I’m trying to replicate a sense of being present, of just what is. I’m also influenced by old things. In Greece, you feel like you’re so small; you’re just seeing these old marble walkways and thinking about how many people have walked there. It’s humbling. Over the years that I’ve seen your work, some aspects have evolved and some, such as your general palette,

In the past, you’ve exhibited textile-based work, but that’s absent from the current show, too. I have all of that [material], as well. I really explored textile work when I was in residency at Studio Place Arts [in 2016-17]. I love delicate line work, and the marks I make [on the encaustic] resemble sewing and stitching. Right now, I’m just enjoying the collage work.

On your website, you state that you “gravitate toward soft, muted colors.” Can you talk about your attraction to the gentler end of the color spectrum? There are a few reasons: I do use a lot of old, found material — book pages, photos, sheet music — and they just naturally have an old, stained quality. And I love the warmth. I didn’t realize this at first, but I think [the colors] do remind me of the old smooth marble surfaces [in Greece] … And I like the quietness — you want to go and just be with it. In the current exhibit, you introduce, in small doses, a bit of dark orange-red. You also incorporate more charcoal or black. Did this feel like a daring deviation to you? Does it indicate a new direction? Honestly, I don’t know if the timeline matches up, but the heaviness in the world the last few years — I felt like I was carrying this dark, heavy pit in my stomach. I feel like, aesthetically, [the darker shades] create good accents. But emotionally, it felt like these little windows or portals into the night sky where you could escape. GOING ALL IN

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f ‘FOOL ME ONCE’: A group show featuring works

that utilize different mediums than the artists are used to, are made with the nondominant hand, show off mind-altering content or were entered under a false name. Reception: Friday, April 1, 5-8 p.m. April 1-May 21. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

f ‘GREEN DOOR STUDIO TAKES OVER ARTSRIOT’: Paintings by Nicole Christman, Steve Sharon, Scottie “SK” Raymond and Will Clingenpeel, members of the 20-year-old South End art space. Reception: Friday, April 1 5-9 p.m. April 1-30. Info, 540-0406. ArtsRiot in Burlington.

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JAN GHIRINGHELLI: Paintings, prints and note cards by the central Vermont artist. April 4-May 11. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

f ‘THE MATTER OF LOSS: HOLDING SPACES’: An exhibition that explores resilience and loss: collages that pay homage to victims of COVID-19 by Daryl Burtnett, and house forms in a variety of mediums by Axel Stohlberg. Reception: Friday, April 1, 5-8 p.m. April 1-May 8. Info, 224-6827. The Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier. f SHOW 48: Artworks by Sam Thurston, James

Secor, Kathy Stark, Ned Richardson, Elizabeth Nelson, Richard Moore, Michelle Lesnak, Hasso Ewing, Marjorie Kramer, Melora Kennedy, Chris Jeffrey, Glen Coburn Hutcheson, Alice Dodge, Monica DiGiovanni, PJ Desrochers, Cheryl Betz, Daryl Burtnett and others. Reception: Friday, April 1, 4-8 p.m. April 1-May 1. Info, info@thefrontvt.com. The Front in Montpelier.

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f MIYA TURNBULL: “Face to Face,” self-portrait masks by the Nova Scotia-based artist. Reception: Friday, April 1, 5-9 p.m. April 1-May 1. Info, 347264-4808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

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f LYDIA KERN: “Passages,” a multimedia exhibition including wall pieces, video and sculptural installations in doorways. Reception: Friday, April 1, 5 p.m., with live music from Fievel Is Glauque. April 1-June 25. Info, jamie.mohr78@gmail.com. Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro.

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f ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’: An exhibition of paintings past and present that explores the history and artistic depictions of Vermont’s state parks and other formally designated natural areas. Contemporary works on loan from the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Spring Party and Gallery Tour: Saturday, April 2, 4-6 p.m., with live music and refreshments. Register at bennington museum.org. April 1-November 6. MARION HUSE: “Picturing Pownal,” paintings and silk-screen prints by the artist (1896-1967) whose successful career spanned 40 years and who maintained a studio in Pownal. April 1-June 22. THE STUDENT ART SHOW: Artwork in a variety of mediums by students at Mount Anthony Union High School, Southwest Tech, Grace Christian School, the Vermont School for Girls, Hoosac School and Hoosick Falls Central High School. April 1-June 5. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum. f SPRING MEMBER EXHIBITION: SVAC artists and

members of the Vermont Watercolor Society exhibit works in a range of mediums including painting, photography, textile, wood, glass and more. Reception: Saturday, April 2, 2-4 p.m. April 2-May 22. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

ART EVENTS ARTIST PRESENTATION: TOM DUNNE: The wood turner gives a slide talk about the work he made for

current exhibition “Tools of the Trade.” Edgewater Gallery on the Green, Middlebury, Saturday, April 2, 2-4 p.m. Info, 989-7419.

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ARTIST TALK: ERIC AHO: The BCA Center presents the Vermont artist in a virtual discussion of his paintings in a current exhibit, “Headwater.” Register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Online, Wednesday, April 6, 6 p.m. Free. ARTIST TALK: KATE GRIDLEY: Middlebury’s Edgewater Gallery presents the artist in “Tools of the Trade,” an exhibit including Gridley’s paintings. Register for the Winter Lecture Series Event at info@edgewatergallery-vt.com and call the restaurant for dinner reservations at 496-6350. The Pitcher Inn, Warren, Thursday, March 31, 5-8 p.m. Info, 496-6350. ARTIST TALK: M. CARMEN LANE: In a Zoom event, Lane discusses “(í:se) Be Our Guest/ Stolen,” an examination of the impact of Indigenous displacements, Black fugitive migrations and the unfinished business transmitted through intergenerational traumas of removal. Register at brattleboromuseum.org. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Thursday, March 31, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 257-0124. ARTIST TALK: RACHEL MONTROY: The mixedmedia sculptor discusses her works in a current exhibition. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H., Saturday, April 2, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 603-448-3117. OPEN STUDIO FRIDAYS: Wind down from your week with a self-initiated project or activity — from art to writing to reading — in the companionable company of others online. Details at poartry.org. Online, Friday, April 1, 6-8 p.m. Free; donations appreciated. Info, poartryproject@ gmail.com.

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paintings by Brecca Loh (McClure 4); and acrylic paintings by Michelle Turbide (Pathology hallway, ACC 2). Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through May 31. Info, 865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. ATHENA PETRA TASIOPOULOS: “Inner Spaces,” a solo exhibition of mixed-media encaustic collages by the Barre artist that explore themes of interconnectedness, isolation and the delicate nature of equilibrium. Through April 2. Info, 324-0014. Soapbox Arts in Burlington. ‘COURAGE TO REMEMBER: THE HOLOCAUST 19331945’: An exhibit from the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County composed of 40 panels on the Nazi Holocaust. Through May 1. Info, 863-3403. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. ‘DARK GODDESS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE SACRED FEMININE’: An exhibition of photographs by Brattleboro-based Shanta Lee Gander that employ ethnography and cultural anthropology to consider the meaning of the male gaze and the ways society confines females. Through December 9. ‘UNPACKED: REFUGEE BAGGAGE’: A multimedia installation by Syrian-born, Connecticut-based artist and architect Mohamad Hafez and Iraqi-born writer and speaker Ahmed Badr. The miniature sculptures of homes, buildings and landscapes ravaged by war are embedded with the voices and stories of real people. Through May 6. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington. DOUGLAS BIKLEN: Abstract fine-art photographs by the Vermont-based artist and author. Lorraine B. Good Room. Through June 15. ERIC AHO: “Headwater,” monumental paintings that capture the Vermont artist’s sensory experience of nature reconstructed through memory and invention. Through June 5. SARAH TRAD: “What Still Remains,” an exploration of personal and cultural identity using single- and multi-channel video and textile installations by the Philadelphia-based Lebanese American artist. Through June 5. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington. MALTEX ARTISTS: Paintings by Dierdre Michelle, Judy Hawkins, Nancy Chapman and Jean Cherouny, as well as photographs by Caleb Kenna and Michael Couture in the building’s hallways. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through March 31. Info, 865-7296. Maltex Building in Burlington. MELANIE BROTZ: “Water = Life,” paintings by the Burlington artist that express appreciation for water and honor our connection with the bodies of water around us. Through April 30. Info, 540-6400. City Market, Onion River Co-op (Burlington South End). PIEVY POLYTE: “Cloud Forest,” paintings by the Haitian-born, Vermont-based artist; sales benefit his community in Peak Macaya, Haiti. Through April 20. Info, jasmine@thekarmabirdhouse.com. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

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‘100+ FACES OF WINOOSKI’: Daniel Schechner of Wishbone Collective photographed more than 150 residents in conjunction with the Winooski Centennial Celebration. The collection can also be viewed online. ‘MILL TO MALL: HISTORIC SPACE REIMAGINED’: An exhibition that tells the story of the public-private partnership that enabled the preservation and rebirth of a formerly derelict industrial building into a shopping center. Visitors are encouraged to add personal memories of the space to the community recollections. Through July 29. Free. Info, legacy@winooskivt.gov, 355-9937. Heritage Winooski Mill Museum. ERIKA LAWLOR SCHMIDT: Relief monotypes. Skyway. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through March 31. HOWARD CENTER ARTS COLLECTIVE: Sixteen members of the collective address the theme “Arrival and Departure” in a variety of mediums. Skyway. Through

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CALL TO ARTISTS 2022 PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOT-OUT: The theme for this year’s competition is “Reflections.” First-place winner gets a solo show at Axel’s in 2023. Two entries per photographer. Rules and details at axelsgallery.com/news. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury. Through October 8. $20. Info, 244-7801. 2023 SOLO EXHIBITIONS: AVA offers three or four Main Gallery opportunities featuring exhibitions that range from thematic, group shows to single/solo artist shows. Deadline: March 31. Find the link for applications at avagallery.org. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117. ‘ABLUTIONS’: The museum is seeking items for its 2022 exhibition featuring the act of bathing or washing the body and the implements and tools associated with it. All manner of contributions will be considered, from vessels and bathing implements to narratives about purification rituals. Contact Clare Dolan about donations or volunteer installation workdays in May through museumofeverydaylife.org. The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover. Through May 10. ART SHOW AT HOWARD CENTER: Artists who have lived experience with substance use or mental health challenges (through work, friends and family or their own lives) are welcome to submit 2D visual art for the Howard Center Arts Collective’s show at the Flynn Avenue offices. The show will hang April 8 to August 12. Howard Center, Burlington. Through April 1. Free. Info, brunkhorst@ howardcenter.org. BCA COMMUNITY FUND: The Burlington City Arts Community Fund provides grants of up to $3,000 for Burlington-based practicing artists, creative professionals or small arts organizations to create or advance projects that engage and benefit Burlington’s community. Find details and application portal at burlingtoncityarts.org. Deadline: April 25. Online. CHELSEA ARTS ON THE GREEN FESTIVAL: Artists, artisans and food vendors are welcome to apply to this Labor Day weekend event. Deadline: August 1. Details at chelseavt-arts.com. Online. Info, chelseaarts collective@gmail.com. CREATION GRANTS AVAILABLE: Intended to support the creation of new work by Vermont artists, creation grants can fund time, materials, some equipment costs and space rental for artists and artist groups. An independent panel of practicing artists and arts professionals reviews applications. Both established and emerging artists are encouraged to apply for this $4,000 award. More info and application at vermontartscouncil.org. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier. Through April 4. Info, 402-4614. DIANE GABRIEL VISUAL ARTIST AWARD: Established in 2021 by the family of the late Burlington artist, the award for a Vermont-based emerging artist provides $1,500 cash and $1,000 value toward the use of any BCA Studio facilities. Info and application at burlingtoncityarts.org. Deadline: March 31. BCA Center, Burlington. Info, cstorrs@burlingtoncityarts.org. DIGITAL CAPACITY GRANT PROGRAM: The VAC has launched a new grant program to address the digital divide, thanks to $1.15 million in funding approved by the Vermont legislature last year to help build the virtual capacity of Vermont cultural organizations. The council is now accepting applications for organization grants and collaborative grants, which aim to support Vermont’s arts and culture communities by providing skills, equipment and expertise to serve their audiences and community. Apply at vermontartscouncil.org. Deadline: April 20. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier. FAIR HOUSING MONTH ART CONTEST: Arts So Wonderful and the Fair Housing Project of CVOEO invite artists to submit work that answers June 1. MAREVA MILLARC: Acrylic paintings. Gates 1-8. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through March 31. SAM MACY: Shadow box wood constructions. Gates 1-8. Through June 1. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington. ‘EYESIGHT & INSIGHT: LENS ON AMERICAN ART’: A virtual exhibition of artworks that illuminates creative responses to perceptions of vision; four sections explore themes ranging from 18th-century optical technologies to the social and historical connotations of eyeglasses in portraiture from the 19th century to the present. Through October 16. ‘IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDISCOVERING CHARLES SUMNER BUNN’S DECOYS’: An online exhibition of shorebird decoys carved by the member of the ShinnecockMontauk Tribes, based on extensive research and resolving historic controversy. Through October 5. ‘OUR COLLECTION: ELECTRA HAVEMEYER WEBB, EDITH HALPERT AND FOLK ART’: A virtual exhibition that celebrates the friendship

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the question: “What makes a thriving, inclusive community?” Open to all ages; cash prizes for youth and adults. Submission details and drop-off dates at fairhousingmonthvt.org. Online. Through April 24. Info, contact@artsso wonderful.com. GENERATOR ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: Burlington’s makerspace invites artists, designers and other creatives to apply for summer and fall residencies. Includes $500 materials stipend, up to $600 credit in Tool Trainings, a studio, and four months’ access to its facility. Deadline: April 3. Details and application at generatorvt.com. Online. GREEN MOUNTAIN WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION: Mad River Valley Arts seeks entries for the 10th edition of this annual show in the Red Barn Galleries at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield, held June 19 to July 23. Submission form at onlinejuriedshows.com (scroll down). Deadline: April 22. Online. Free. Info, 583-2224. JUNETEENTH MURAL PROJECT: Burlington City Arts and the Office of Racial Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are accepting proposals for the second annual public art mural that creates space for reflection on the history, culture and resiliency of Black Americans. Application at burlingtoncityarts.org. Deadline: April 7. Online. MICRO-GRANTS FOR ARTISTS: The Montpelier Public Arts Commission is offering a micro-grant program for Vermont-based artists for up to $1,500 for permanent or temporary art installations throughout the city. The request for proposals is open for an indefinite period; artists may submit at anytime during the year. The commission will review and award grants twice yearly; the next deadline is March 30. For more info and to review the RFP, visit montpelier-vt.org. Info, 522-0150. ‘NOW YOU SEE IT’: This show, scheduled for May 10 through June 25, involves illusion art that plays with perception of space and depth through paintings, sculptures and other works. Details at studioplacearts.com; call or email submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com. Deadline: April 2. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 entry fee; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069. SOCIAL JUSTICE-THEMED PROJECT: The Chandler is accepting proposals for a $4,000 artist-in-residence project grant to be awarded to a single artist or pair of artists in collaboration with community members for the Vermont Social Justice Festival in July. Details at chandler-arts.org/ vsjf. Deadline: April 15. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph. Info, vsjf@ chandler-arts.org. SPRING 2022 JURY APPLICATION: The gallery and nonprofit organization is accepting applications for new exhibitors, reviewed by a professional jury. Details at froghollow.org. Deadline: May 15. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery, Burlington. Free. Info, froghollowdaniel@gmail.com. TEACH ART IN THE GARDEN: The gardening center invites artists to teach their own custom classes in its outdoor setting. The nursery is free to use and artists receive all portions of their class cost. Details and application at horsfordnursery.com. Deadline: April 1. Horsford Gardens & Nursery, Charlotte. THE VERMONT PRIZE: Four art institutions, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Burlington City Arts, the Current and Hall Art Foundation, are collaborating on a new annual award for an artist who is producing “the best visual art” in the state. The winner will receive $5,000 and an online showcase. Find details and application at vermontprize.org. Deadline: March 31. Online. WATERBURY ARTS FEST: Applications are now open for vendors at the 21st street festival July 8 and 9. Arts, crafts, music and food trucks welcome. Application form at waterburyartsfest.com. Online. Through April 8. $20. Info, 793-6029.

between the museum founder and her longtime art dealer, featuring archival photographs and ephemera, a voice recording from Halpert, and quotations pulled from the women’s extensive correspondences. Through February 9, 2023. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum. ‘FERAL STITCHING: FOUR ARTISTS GO WILD’: Sarah Ashe, Janet Fredericks, Kari Hansen and Lily Hinrichsen, painters who began a weekly exploration of textiles a year ago, show the results of their individual and collaborative creations. Through May 7. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. ‘THE GIFT OF ART’: An off-season exhibition featuring a changing collection of artworks. Open by appointment or during special events. Through April 30. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. HANNAH MUSE: “My Mother’s Daughter,” portraits that explore the SMC senior’s ethnic, cultural and religious identity. Through April 1. Info, bcollier@

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smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester. LINDA FINKELSTEIN: Eco art, mixed media and archival prints. Through April 2. Info, 425-6345. Charlotte Senior Center. LISA BALFOUR & KELLY O’NEAL: Acrylic paintings (Merrill Community Room) and photographs exploring place (Pierson Room), respectively. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through June 15. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne. VERMONT COMIC CREATORS GROUP: Cartoons and comic art by members, along with items from the vintage cartoon collection of Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr. Through April 24. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

barre/montpelier

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living with chronic illness. Through March 30. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

Through April 9. Info, 253-8358. The Current in Stowe.

CAROLE NAQUIN: “Roaming the Rivers, Roads and Hills,” oil and pastel paintings. Through April 8. Info, moetown128@gmail.com. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

KATHERINE CLARKE LANGLANDS: “Visual Rhythms,” a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures made from driftwood and recycled vinyl records. Through May 7. Info, kyle.minemagallery@ gmail.com. Minema Gallery in Johnson.

‘THE CATAMOUNT IN VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the feline symbol of Vermont through the lenses of art, science and culture. Through May 31. ‘VOICES OF ST. JOSEPH’S ORPHANAGE’: An exhibition that documents the abuse of children who lived at the former Catholic Diocese-run orphanage in Burlington, and the stories of former orphans that led to changes in child-protection laws. Through July 30. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

f ‘DRIP’: A group exhibit of installations and 2D artwork exploring water issues. Main Floor Gallery. f CHARLES LYSOGORSKI: “City Scenes,” drawings by the Vermont artist. Third Floor Gallery. f DEBORAH BARNWELL: “Of Fire and Rust,” mixed-media artworks. Second Floor Gallery. f JAMIESON C. GALLAS: “Art Fur Animals,” drawings; sales to benefit the Central Vermont Humane Society. Masks required. Art Social: Saturday, April 2, 4-5:30 p.m. Through April 2. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. CYNTHIA CAGLE: “The Light of Truth Upon Them,” a painting that addresses the multiracial struggle for equal access to the ballot box from the 19th century to the present; commissioned by the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance, a project of the League of Women Voters. Through March 31. Info, cynthia.cagle.studio@gmail.com. Card Room, Vermont Statehouse, in Montpelier.

f ‘LET’S COLLAGE ABOUT IT!’: A community exhibition of contemporary collage art featuring Kristin Bierfelt, Liz Buchanan, Katherine Coons, Anne Cummings, Elizabeth Dow, Ren Haley, Holly Hauser, Lily Hinrichsen, Jean Kelly, Jess Quinn, Rachel Marie Rodi, Cariah Rosberg, Anne Sarcka, Peggy Watson and Olivia White. Curated by Quinn. Closing reception: Friday, April 1, 5-7 p.m. Through April 15. Info, jess@cal-vt.org. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier. PRIA CAMBIO: “Warmth for You, Right Now,” paintings, drawings and collage. Sales benefit Studio Place Arts programs. Through April 30. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre. STAFF ART SHOW: An exhibition that shows how eight NBNC employees connect with nature through photography, painting, woodcarving, wire sculpting and more. Through March 31. Info, 2296206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

f STEPHANIE KOSSMANN: “Living Space: Portraits Through Appreciative Inquiry,” paintings of trauma survivors, Nuquist Gallery. f VERMONT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY: Central Vermont and Northeast Kingdom members of the association exhibit their paintings, Contemporary Hall. Reception: Friday, April 1, 4-7 p.m. Through May 12. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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2022 LEGACY COLLECTION: An exhibit of works by 16 distinguished New England landscape artists plus a selection of works by Alden Bryan and Mary Bryan. Through December 24. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. ‘ABSTRACTION DISTRACTION’: Acrylic paintings by Maryellen Sullivan and black-and-white photographs by Robert Fahey. Through March 31. Info, info@riverartsvt.org. Morrisville Post Office. ‘THE ART OF THE GRAPHIC’: Eight displays of snowboards that let viewers see the design process from initial conception to final product; featuring artists Scott Lenhardt, Mark Gonzalez, Mikey Welsh, Mishel Schwartz and more. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe. CATHERINE OPIE: Photographs of rural and urban American scenes that investigate the parallels between natural and political landscapes and their connections to a sense of identity and community.

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KATHRYN SHRIVER: “I Spent Some Time at Home,” older and newer mixed-media works incorporating painting, sculpture, drawing, video, writing and fiber arts by the Savannah, Ga.-based artist. Through March 30. Info, 373-1810. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson. ‘LISTENING OUTSIDE THE LINES’: A multimedia group exhibition exploring what it means to be a Person of the Global Majority (Black, Indigenous or other person of color) in Vermont, featuring oral history, visual art and poetry by Sarah Audsley, Alexa Herrera Condry, Harlan Mack, Crystal Stokes, Isadora Snapp and Madeleine Ziminsky. A Lamoille Art & Justice project. KATHY BLACK: “Women and Girls,” paintings that explore the experience the changing perspectives of females over time and the connections that run between women at different points in life. Through April 9. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville. ‘MASKED’: Visual artwork by 22 Vermont artists with disabilities; each piece is the artist’s creative expression of the title, which arose early in the pandemic. Presented by Inclusive Arts Vermont. On view by appointment. Through April 14. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort. TARA THACKER: New works in ceramic sculpture. Through April 1. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson.

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f ELLEN LANGTREE: “A Retrospective,” paintings from the 1990s and new clay figures of imaginary women by the Vermont artist. Meet the artist: Saturday, April 2, 4 p.m. Through April 2. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury.

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ALEXIS SERIO: Abstracted landscape paintings that explore perceptions of time and memory. Through March 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

HANNAH SESSIONS: Landscapes and barnyard scenes by the Vermont farmer and painter. Through April 30. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes. ‘ITTY BITTY: TINY TEXTS IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS’: Books from the 17th to 21st centuries that measure between 1.8 and 10 centimeters, from religious manuscripts to cookbooks, children’s books to Shakespeare. Visitors are not currently allowed in the library but may view the works online at go.middlebury.edu/ tinybooks. Through May 31. Davis Family Library, Middlebury College. ‘OF A NATURALE NATURE’: A live snowseason sculptural exhibition that explores curious contrasts and connections of human with nature as shaped by a sixtysomething female artistic observer. Leashed dogs welcome; weather dependent. Text ahead. Through April 18. Free. Info, 377-3376. Robert Frost Interpretive Trail in Ripton. ‘TOOLS OF THE TRADE’: A group exhibition featuring works that honor the process of crafting fine

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f ‘VISIONS IN OIL’: Paintings by 22 artists working in the oil medium in various styles and techniques. Reception: Saturday, May 14, 1-5 p.m. Through May 14. Info, 496-6682. The Gallery at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield.

f ALICE ECKLES: “Come What May,” floral, abstract and landscape paintings and wearable art. Reception: Friday, April 1, 5-8 p.m. Through April 30. Info, 310-9364. Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury.

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art, and the tools themselves, by Tom Dunne, Kate Gridley, Duncan Johnson and Peter Kirkiles. Through April 26. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

and Trademark Office in conjunction with Women’s History Month. Through March 31. Info, 674-5781. American Precision Museum in Windsor.

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ARTS CONNECT AT CATAMOUNT ARTS JURIED SHOW: The sixth annual juried show features works by 74 member artists. Slideshow of art can be viewed online. Through April 10. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

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CHUCK TROTSKY: “Technologia Informatio,” acrylicon-panel paintings that play with images from popular culture, along with smaller mixed-media paintings using hand-cut stencils. The “imaginary” artist is the alter ego of St. Johnsbury artist Ben Barnes. Through April 23. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBIT: “Art Connects Us,” works by young artists from Vermont schools and homeschoolers in grades pre-K through 12. Masks required. Through April 8. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

f ‘FORM AND FUNCTION: WE ARE THE VESSEL’: Three collections with stories to tell: tea bowls by Jeanne Claire Bisson, weavings by Diane Elliott Gayer and 1940s clay pots from the Southwest. Reception: Friday, April 1, 4-6 p.m. Through May 22. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

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f JES RAYMOND: “What I Owe to Wonder,” block

prints. Reception: Friday, April 1, 5-7 p.m. Through April 30. Info, 360-918-2202. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. KATHY FISKE: “Potpourri,” paintings, drawings and prints by the local artist. Through April 30. Info, 4572295. Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock.

f ‘MATHEMATICIANS MADE VISIBLE’: A series of block-print portraits of contemporary mathematicians, promoting a more diverse population in the field of math. Learn more about the educational mission at kitchentableprinter.com. Reception: Friday, April 1, 5-7:30 p.m. Through June 1. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction. ‘MOUNTAINS AT COLLIOURE’: A pop-up group exhibit organized by Jared Quinton and featuring Arista Alanis, Neil Berger and Clark Derbes of Vermont, Mariel Capanna of Massachusetts and Lily Prince of Hudson Valley, N.Y. Through April 10. Info, info@ jaredquinton.net. 89 S. Main St. in White River Junction. ‘PICTURING WOMEN INVENTORS’: A poster exhibition that explores the inventions of 19 highly accomplished American women: astronauts, computer pioneers, business leaders, athletes, engineers and even teenagers. Presented by the Smithsonian Museum and the United States Patent

FRANK WOODS: “Minor Works,” new oil and watercolor paintings by the Vermont artist. Through April 10. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. ‘A LIFE IN LISTS AND NOTES’: An exhibition that celebrates the poetic, mnemonic, narrative and enumerative qualities of lists and notes. The objects on display span myriad creative, professional, bureaucratic, domestic and personal uses of lists through the ages. Through May 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. SOPHIA BETTMANN-KERSON: “Being pushed by angels,” watercolor pencil drawings. Through April 30. Info, 522-5280. Hardwick Inn.

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ANNE SPALTER: “The Wonder of It All,” the museum’s first-ever exhibition of nonfungible tokens (NFTs), featuring themes of travel, exploration, outer space and the unconscious mind by the pioneering digital artist. Through June 12. DELITA MARTIN: “Between Worlds,” a yearlong installation in the museum’s front windows that reimagines the identities and roles of Black women in the context of Black culture and African history. Through May 31. LOUISA CHASE: “Fantasy Worlds,” a survey of the late artist’s work, including sculpture, drawing, painting and prints from her 40-year career. "Before Time"

Going All In « P.46 I’m by no means a landscape painter, but I definitely love the desert, so there’s some orange and brown in some pieces. Some have blue tones, which remind me of water. It makes me wish I could go to these places. Nearly all of the work could be described as sort of patchwork collages of geometric shapes, but of course every piece is different. Most of the shapes are rectilinear, but you also introduce circles and half-moons. How do these variations come about for you? Do you start with sketches before you commit, or just let your hand go intuitively, as it were? I’m really intuitive. Sometimes I set off with a random shape that I cut out. I never completely plan; I lay pieces down, take photos, decide what feels right, what feels musical. I think that’s seeping into my subconscious — I’m not a musician, but I’ve been working with a lot of old sheet music, so I like to feel there’s a flow. There’s a lot of trial and error. So it is kind of like a quilt. Absolutely. Sometimes I’ll use pieces left over from a 50

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Curated by Elissa Watters. Through June 12. M. CARMEN LANE: “(í:se) Be Our Guest/Stolen,” new experimental silkscreen prints based on the personal histories of displacement and dispossession in the African American and Native artist’s family. Curated by Mildred Beltré Martinez. Through June 12. MILDRED BELTRÉ MARTINEZ: “Between Starshine and Clay,” a diverse selection of work including drawing, textile and installation that speaks to the complexity of a Black, ethnic, gendered experience. Curated by Mara Williams. Through June 12. ROBERT VISANI: “Form/Reform,” digitally modeled DIY cardboard slave kits that reexamine art historical imagery depicting the institution of American chattel slavery. Curated by David Rios Ferreira. Through June 12. SACHIKO AKIYAMA: “Through Lines,” wall reliefs and mixed-media figurative sculptures invoking a variety of cultural traditions. Curated by Mara Williams. Through June 12. YVETTE MOLINA: “Big Bang Votive,” egg tempera paintings of objects that have brought people delight, such as cake, a bicycle, a tent, based on listening to their stories. Curated by Sarah Freeman. Through June 12. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. JULIA ZANES: “Household Objects,” new paintings inspired by the first publication of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Through May 9. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney.

manchester/bennington

ART FROM THE SCHOOLS 2022: Drawings, paintings and sculptures created by preK-12 students from more than 20 area schools and homeschools. Through May 1. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

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f ‘BE THE CHANGE’: An annual student art exhibit featuring works that depict the artists’ visions for the future. Artist party: Saturday, April 2, 2 p.m. including Earth Day activities. Through April 30. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph. JULIA PAVONE: “Abstractions,” a solo exhibition of nonrepresentational paintings in oil, acrylic and encaustic. Through June 18. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

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ADAM PENDLETON: “These Things We’ve Done Together,” the first solo show in Canada of the New York-based artist, whose work explores the

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previous collage. The halfmoon shape — I love that. It’s feminine, and it’s like a portal or bridge. It’s so intriguing to me that your photographs predominantly feature similar patterning, whether found in nature or the built environment, as well as the pale hues. I guess it could be said you have an eye for this. When I was taking photos, I was always drawn to the geometric shapes, and the palette — it just finds me. In Philadelphia, one of my favorite things to do was

relationships between Blackness, abstraction and the avant-garde. Through July 10. NICOLAS PARTY: “L’heure mauve” (“Mauve Twilight”), a dreamlike exhibition of paintings, sculptures and installation in the Swiss-born artist’s signature saturated colors. Online reservations required. Through October 16. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE WITH LAURA POITRAS: “Terror Contagion,” an immersive, activist exhibition by the London-based research collective in collaboration with the journalist-filmmaker. Narration by Edward Snowden, data sonification by Brian Eno. Through April 18. Info, 514-847-6226. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art. ‘IN THE MOMENT: RECENT WORK BY LOUISE HAMLIN’: Paintings and works on paper by the former Dartmouth College studio art professor and print maker. Through September 3. ‘PHOTOGRAPHS FROM HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN ERA’: Recently acquired from the John Kobal Foundation, the images include studio portraiture, publicity shots and film stills from the 1920s to ’50s. Through May 21. ‘THIS LAND: AMERICAN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD’: Drawn from the permanent collection, the museum’s first major installation of traditional and contemporary Native American art set alongside early-to-contemporary art by African American, Asian American, Euro American and Latin American artists, representing a broader perspective on “American” art. Through July 23. ‘UNBROKEN: NATIVE AMERICAN CERAMICS, SCULPTURE, AND DESIGN’: Items drawn from the museum’s permanent collections to create dialogue between historical and contemporary works by Indigenous North American artists. Through April 30. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. ‘WHY CAN’T ONE GIRL CHANGE IT?’: A group exhibition honoring Women’s History Month and inspired by Malala Yousafzai, the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate. Artworks address fear and courage, women’s issues, feminism or women in history. Through April 8. OLIVIA JANNA GENEREAUX, DANIELLE KLEBES, RACHEL MONTROY, ANN YOUNG: Four artists from Vermont and New Hampshire present solo shows in the center’s galleries: painters Genereaux, Klebes and Young and ceramic sculptor Montroy. Through April 15. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. m

walk around areas where there were a lot of abandoned or demolished buildings. In the half-demolished ones, there were these edges exposed that had all these gorgeous shapes and colors — like these ghostly lives that used to live there. I found them beautiful. Another new element in your work is the wood columns with little blocks attached in seemingly random places. They’re playful and architectural at the same time. How did these constructions come about? I think it just felt like a natural progression. At first, I attached the blocks to two-dimensional works; then I thought, Why not make them three-dimensional? I don’t think of them as sculptures, though, because I don’t really change the shapes [of the wood]. Will we see more 3D work from you henceforth? Definitely. I feel very excited about this new direction. m

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Amos 2.0 I recently found a note I had written to an old friend. It was stuffed into the recesses of a coat pocket and forgotten for two years. As I stood in front of my washing machine, holding the laundered and freshsmelling letter, I experienced something odd. I read the note twice and couldn’t help but feel a sort of disconnect from my past self. I recalled writing the letter, but it read like a missive from a stranger. Have I changed that much since 2019? I don’t think so. The contents of the letter dealt mostly with new music, the dog farting too much, my parents getting older and how badly Burlington needs a churrascaria again — all topics I still think about daily. Nonetheless, my recent past self felt a million miles away from me in the here and now. Turns out, I’m not alone in that regard. AMOS LEE is in the middle of reconfiguring himself as he sets out on his first tour in three years. Fresh off of releasing his latest LP, Dreamland, the folk, soul and rock singer-songwriter from Philadelphia is reentering the world of live music, something he is both excited and a little nervous about. “I feel like a different person than I was then,” Lee told me recently by phone, referring to life before the pandemic. “When you’re going and going for the better part of 15 years, you get into the rhythm of touring. You’re always spun out, so you’re good. Now, I’m like, Am I going to actually enjoy this? I’m genuinely curious.” Though his general feelings toward the tour are excitement and gratitude, Lee acknowledged that he’s had a rough few years away from the stage. Like many, he lost people to COVID-19. And his mother was diagnosed with cancer in 2020. Lee, who first came to prominence in 2005 with his self-titled debut on BLUE NOTE RECORDS, found himself turning inward during the pandemic. “It was a strange emotional journey,” he said. “I was digging a foundation for myself, but I really couldn’t tell if it was just a bunker at the time. I’m relating to the world differently. I’m invested in understanding people.” That desire to understand and empathize with others comes from witnessing the polarized nature of current American society, Lee said. He believes a growing dependency on social media for discourse is exacerbating societal divides, from conspiracy theories to pandemic fears. 52

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fucked-up, complicated person. But I’m trying to recalibrate how I approach the world.” As part of that recalibration, Lee is doing something for educators on his coast-to-coast tour: giving teachers free tickets to his shows. A former public school teacher, Lee knows just how hard the last two years have been on educators. So he’s asking his fans to nominate teachers in their area via his website, amoslee.com, or by using the hashtag #ALTicketsForTeachers. Selected nominees will not only get tickets to the show but also receive help buying necessary classroom supplies. “It’s not a lot,” Lee said. “But I want them to get to a show, hear some music and do something for themselves. We obviously don’t support teachers enough, and we need to take care of our caretakers. As a musician, I think this is a way for me to do my part.” Lee is on a quest to find what he calls “a foundational understanding of why he does what he does.” Is he making music because it’s what he knows? Or is it to connect to his fellow humans? “If you listen to the clutter in the cabinets of our culture, there are echoes of doom everywhere,” Lee observed. “What good is it going to do if people get resigned to doom? It’s so easy to be cynical and to make cynical music. I don’t want to do that. I want my music to help people connect with each other.” He’ll aspire to do just that on Monday, April 11, at the Flynn Main Stage in Burlington, with opener JENSEN MCRAE. And don’t forget to nominate your favorite teacher to catch the show.

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“We’re trying to relate to one another through platforms that have algorithms that are not designed for healthy interactions,” he asserted. “Now that I’m sort of back out there again, I’m more curious. I want to listen, and, even if I don’t agree, I want to understand where people are coming from.” Some of that work started with Dreamland. Lee strives for connectivity with the listener and deals with themes of isolation on a record full of confessional lyrics, R&B-leaning rhythms and stark ballads. He said it was ironic that most of the record was written before the pandemic began. He had been dealing with “basic, midlife-

crisis bullshit” at the time and ended up predicting his emotional future. “I get sort of lucky sometimes,” he said, laughing. “I’ll write something and sort of wonder if I actually feel that way. But more often than not, I end up feeling that way five years later.” Lee believes his subconscious thoughts are speaking through his music. He’s a scattered thinker, he says, often preoccupied by trivial things. Deeper thoughts push through that tedium, unearthing emotional truths he hasn’t yet faced. Those truths center on empathy. “I don’t want to sit here and act like I’m a monk or something,” said Lee. “I’m a

new songs and a new music video. The project of artist and TWOSYLLABLE RECORDS cofounder ZACH POLLAKOFF, Narrow Shoulders’ latest tracks touch on two ways to deal with isolation. Advance single “Twelve Acre Fortress” is about conquering isolation by connecting with nature. In the accompanying video, which Pollakoff directed, New York City-based performer JESSE KOVARSKY dances across a collection of snowy scenes, all shot on a very cold winter day in Vermont: Temps were near negative 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Kovarsky’s almost celebratory movements across scenes devoid of any other sign of human life suggest that it’s entirely possible to find joy in isolation.

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video. “Answers” is a mellow, headnod jam featuring the producer and MC rapping over a laid-back groove with guest bass guitar from SAMUEL GUIHAN. The video features Wes (real name Wesley Turner) dropping bars as he skulks around an abandoned trailer park. It’s a re-debut for BHW: It’s been nearly a decade since he last recorded his own music, in 2013. In that time, he has worked mostly on beats for others to rap over, and he’s hosted a weekly hip-hop show on Northern Vermont University-Johnson’s WJSC 90.7 FM. But he’s again putting his own foot forward with “Answers.” Local producer SKYSPLITTERINK mixed and mastered the track, and VINCI VISUALS and DVP CINEMATOGRAPHY shot and edited the video. Check it out on YouTube. m

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Please contact event organizers about vaccination and mask requirements. DROELOE with ford., weird inside (dance/electronic) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $18/$22. Jazz Night (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Jack Symes with Renny Conti (folk) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15/$18.

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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

MAD (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

MSSV (Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges, Mike Watt) with Aspero Saicos (post-rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $18/$20.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

Ween Wednesday: Knights of the Brown Table (Ween tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

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AliT (singer-songwriter) at Filling Station, Middlesex, 7 p.m. Free. Al’s Pals with Matt Hagen (jam, rock) at Butter Bar and Kitchen, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Bow Thayer (folk) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free. DKR (singer-songwriter) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m. Free. Grace Palmer and Friends (soul) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Irish Sessions (celtic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. John Lackard Blues JAM (blues) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free. Pink-802 with New Radio (Blink-182 and Bikini Kill tributes) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5.

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Bob Gagnon (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Cathedral Ceilings (pop, rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free. Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Eric George (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5. Fabian Rainville (singersongwriter) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Honey & Soul (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5. Jaded Ravins (Americana) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

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Wooly Wednesdays with DJ Steal Wool (eclectic) 6 p.m. Free.

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

Bluegrass Bona Fides Much like good salsa, it’s rare to find good bluegrass music from big cities.

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Va., the band features the sibling duo of Eli and Aila Wildman. Each took home first-place prizes at the 2018 Galax Old

Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJ Big Dog (reggae and dancehall) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

That’s one way to know bluegrass trio the WILDMANS are the real deal. Hailing from the tiny, one-stoplight town of Floyd, Fiddlers’ Convention — on mandolin and fiddle, respectively. Victor Furtado, winner of the 2019 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, rounds out the trio. The acclaimed bluegrass act takes the stage at Zenbarn in Waterbury on Friday, April 1, with support from the CHATHAM RABBITS. Jimkata (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $15/$20. MAD (synth pop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Mom Rock with Honey Creek (indie rock) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Phil Abair (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free. Rachel Baiman, Taylor Ashton and Grace Palmer (singersongwriter) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $12/$15. The Red Newts (rock) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

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Barbacoa (surf rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5. Before This Time (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free. Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8:30 p.m. $5/$10. Delta Spirit with Palm Palm (rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $22/$25. Green Mountain Freight (rock) at Moogs Joint, Johnson, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Shrimptunes (folk, rock) at the Bullwheel Bar, Jay, 4 p.m. Free.

Guy Ferrari, Thus Love, roost. world and Floral Arrangements (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $6.

The Wildmans with Chatham Rabbits (bluegrass) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 9 p.m. $12/$15.

Jamie’s Junk Show (acoustic) at Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington, 9 p.m. $5.

Wolf and Luke (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:45 p.m. $5.

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

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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway with Bella White (bluegrass) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25/$28. Pink-802 with Brzowski and C Money Burns (Blink-182 tribute) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free. Smokin’ Js (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Strange Purple Jelly (funk) at the Bullwheel Bar, Jay, 4 p.m. Free. The Wormdogs (bluegrass) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Xander Naylor (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

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Blue Star Radiation (jam, rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20/$25. Lil Tecca (hip-hop) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 6 p.m. $45/$50.

Matt Hagen (singer-songwriter) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Memery (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

SLAPS: Mashup Night with CRWD CTRL (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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ATAK (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

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

Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

Lemonade: A Pop Dance Party with Two Sev (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Circle Jerks with 7 Seconds, Negative Approach (punk) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $35/$39.

Honky Tonk Tuesday feat. Wild Leek River (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5. John Craigie with the Lowest Pair (singer-songwriter) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $18/$23.

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All Night Boogie Band (blues rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Al’s Pals (acoustic) at Mad River Barn, Waitsfield, 5:30 p.m. Free.

DJ Dakota (DJ) at Monkey House, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

Memery (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

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DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Move B*tch: 2000s Hip-Hop Night with Svpply (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5. Reign One (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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TUE.5

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

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Wooly Wednesdays with DJ Steal Wool (eclectic) 6 p.m. Free.

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

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Line Dancing with Dancin’ Dean (line dancing) at the Depot, St. Albans, 6 p.m. $7. Open Mic Night (open mic) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

TUE.5

Lit Club (poetry open mic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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

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

THU.31

March Madness: Two-Prov Tournament (Round 4) (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:15 p.m. $5.

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Ian Fidance and Jordan Jensen (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9 p.m. $20.

SAT.2

Eleganza & Espresso: A Drag Brunch (drag) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 11 a.m. $20. Ian Fidance and Jordan Jensen (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9 p.m. $20.

TUE.5

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

WED.6

Weird & Niche (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

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Trivia (trivia) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free. Trivia Night (trivia) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

TUE.5

Karaoke with DJ Party Bear (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free. Trivia Night (trivia) at the Depot, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free.

REVIEW this Michael Roberts, Sympathizer (COLD COWBOY SONGS, DIGITAL, VINYL)

Picture a quintessential Vermont home,

maybe an old farmhouse in the mountains. The interior is quirky and cozy, adorned with homemade pottery, dried flowers and a woodstove. Furniture sourced from Front Porch Forum postings sits under exposed beams. The smell of bread baking comes from the kitchen, and a dog sleeps on the couch while snow falls gently outside. Tying the scene together are the sounds of Sympathizer, Michael Roberts’ newest album, spinning on the record player. Sympathizer is the fourth solo album from the Guilford musician, its nine songs representing only a fraction of the music he has released. Roberts also leads the alt-country project Wooden Dinosaur and the honky-tonk collective the Rear Defrosters. In his review of Roberts’ 2019 album, Mixed Emotions, Seven Days culture coeditor Dan Bolles called Roberts a “Vermont treasure” and

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South Burlington pianist Elaine Greenfield, a specialist in French composers of the late 19th to early 20th centuries, has a long-standing interest in period instruments. How else can you know how those composers intended their music to sound, if not by playing it on the very instruments they did? Greenfield has documented the difference on two past recordings. In 2004, she played Claude Debussy on a 1907 Blüthner (the composer had a 1904 one) for Debussy Preludes, Books 1 & 2 — Recording on the Blüthner Piano. On 2010’s French Piano Four Hands With the Elegant Erard, she and fellow pianist Janice Meyer Thompson played Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Georges Bizet and Gabriel Fauré on an 1877 Erard. Greenfield’s latest recording, Ravel Compared, goes a step further. It contains two discs of the same all-Ravel program, one played on an 1893 Erard and the other on a 1917 Ivers & Pond parlor concert grand, allowing audiences to hear the differences

wrote that he’d be a card-carrying member of Roberts’ fan club, if one existed. I would also eagerly sign up. In an eloquent, verging-on-philosophical letter on his Bandcamp page, Roberts writes that all of his “albums became little time capsules of my life” and that “Sympathizer is bound to be the pandemic time capsule.” A sense of place oozes out of this album. Roberts sings thoughtfully of his literal surroundings: snowflakes, patient wolves, early morning breezes and the bats that catch them. Lyrics explicitly about place wander seamlessly into deeper ponderings. On “Two White Tails,” he sings, “Let the wind carry the fear… / the world passing by / like a ceremony.” Roberts discusses in his Bandcamp letter how his conceptual inspirations for the album included environmental readings with themes of place and the interrelationships of species. Each song evokes these literal and theoretical inspirations. Roberts builds his songs around acoustic guitar and tranquil vocal melodies, often

complemented by gentle lap steel guitar and synthesizer in the background. While most of Sympathizer was recorded in-studio, Roberts created a few tracks in his home studio on a cheap tape recorder. This variation in sound quality adds depth to the album and reflects the conditions of the pandemic lockdown. On “Take It Slow,” one of the home recordings and an album highlight, Roberts double-tracks vocals to create harmonies sung over a simple but catchy guitar riff. The track’s rawness makes it intimate, as if you were listening to a voicemail of him singing the song to you. If Sympathizer lacks anything, it’s change of pace — it’s slow, but then again, so was the time in which the songs were born. Sympathizer is a soothing listen. It’s a beautiful, patient collection of tunes that evoke thoughtful, reflective sentiments about place and being. “We have always known that we live in a beautiful place, but our privilege astounded us right then,” Roberts writes of being home during quarantine. He transferred this beauty into Sympathizer, and it is a privilege to listen to. Sympathizer is available at songsofmichaelroberts.bandcamp.com.

between an older and a more modern instrument for themselves. The Erard is the same model Ravel used in his studio. As Greenfield writes in her liner notes, the French-made pianos were “known for their liquid clarity” and the distinct sound of each register. (Greenfield found hers at the Frederick Historical Piano Collection in Ashburnham, Mass.) “Perhaps their tone explains why so many compositions [by 19thto early 20th-century pianists] referenced water,” the pianist muses. The opening of “Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes” on the Erard highlights the bell-like sounds of the treble register. Starting with a single note and proceeding to a series of quick turns imitating birdcalls, the piece builds a shimmering sonority through the lingering, sustained tails of each “ding” of a note. (This is something beyond the use of the sustaining pedal.) The effect is a dreamlike blend — a sound that reaches its apogee in the first movement of “Gaspard de la nuit,” “Ondine,” named for the water nymph. The more muscular start and stop of notes on a modern piano is evident in the Ivers & Pond rendition of “Le tombeau de Couperin.”

The pulsing composition highlights the full range of modern piano sound, with a thundering in the lower registers that can come only from modern cross-stringing and cast-iron frames. (The Erard is parallel-strung with a composite metal frame.) Greenfield found the 1917 piano in Syracuse, N.Y., after years of playing the program around the Northeast and beyond. (The whole recording project took her eight years.) When she performed on it, she immediately took to the beauty of its sound and its flexibility of response. Why didn’t she simply use a new Steinway as a point of comparison? Greenfield regards the period of 1915 to 1930 as the “golden age” of pianos, and everything built after that as suspect. “They leave modern Steinways unfinished,” the pianist remarked dismissively during a visit to her South Burlington home. She loves her own two Steinways from 1916 and 1926 — but recordings couldn’t happen in her living room. Most audiences won’t switch between CDs to compare the individual pieces, as this reviewer did. Heard sequentially, the album offers another reward: a wide selection of works by this most expressive and moodevoking of composers played by a seasoned master — twice. Ravel Compared is available at navonarecords.com.

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on screen Deep Water ★★★

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Vic Van Allen (Ben Affleck) is a lucky man. Having invented a chip that controls military drones, he has retired early to a handsomely renovated mansion with his young wife, Melinda (Ana de Armas); their adorable 6-year-old (Grace Jenkins); and a shed full of snails. Yes, snails. Asked why he’s so fond of the slimy slowpokes, Vic sagely notes that snails will cross great distances to rejoin their mates. Fidelity may appeal to him, but it doesn’t to Melinda. Every week, it seems, she’s carrying on with a new lover, bringing her boy toys home and brazenly flaunting them in front of her husband and their friends. Vic doesn’t seem to mind — or does he? One of Melinda’s lovers has gone missing. When Vic tells Melinda’s new flame that he murdered the man, everyone in their circle dismisses the statement as a joke — except for an author of noir screenplays (Tracy Letts). His suspicions mount as more of Melinda’s boyfriends meet unpleasant ends.

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Deep Water is based on a 1957 Patricia Highsmith novel that, like so many of her psychological thrillers, starts from a simple but potent premise. What if a man accepted his wife’s infidelity and then didn’t? What if people refused to see the 56

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his week I chose between two forms of escapism. On TV, there was the Academy Awards ceremony with its usual wan witticisms and long-winded tributes to purported classics. Was it worth watching just for the possibility of a celebrity faux pas? No, I decided, so I switched to Hulu to watch a piece of heirloom cheese that seems to have been cooling in a cellar since the early 1990s. Directed by Adrian Lyne, once known for blockbusters such as Fatal Attraction, Deep Water is a star-studded throwback to the days when sexy thrillers about adults doing adult things didn’t go straight to the small screen. The movie’s setting — an affluent part of New Orleans where nobody ever seems to do anything but dress up, dance and drink cocktails — offered just the right dose of fantasy. It was all good. I finished it in time to catch up on the Oscar drama.

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IN TOO DEEP De Armas plays the object of everybody’s desire in Lyne’s entertainingly ridiculous throwback thriller.

sociopath right in front of them because they were so used to dismissing him as a kindhearted weakling? There’s a ton to unpack in this story — cultural expectations of masculinity, the troubled concept of the “nice guy” and what actually drives Melinda’s fevered promiscuity. Working from a screenplay by Zach Helm and “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson, Lyne lets most of that baggage lie. The psychology of the story doesn’t seem to interest him as much as its iconography — specifically, the opportunities it offers for slick visuals, pulsing beats and scene after scene of de Armas vamping it up. The Cuban-born star gets the full Sharon Stone-in-the-’90s treatment; the camera is constantly on her bedroom eyes and gyrating body. At one point, Melinda grabs an apple from her daughter’s lunch box and takes a big bite, in case you didn’t know she represents woman as temptress. If anything motivates her, it appears to be narcissism; she’s only interested in her husband once he drops the nice-guy act and turns dangerously possessive. The problem with Affleck in the role of Vic is that he never seems particularly

nice. His body is gym-toned; his eyes have a sharkish gleam. It doesn’t help that we already associate the actor with the most vengeful version of Batman. If there ever were a time when Affleck could convince an audience that he was just a mildmannered patsy — a snail among wolves — that moment has passed. Because we’re so aware of the controlled violence behind Vic’s apparent passivity, it’s tough to believe that no one on screen thinks he could hurt a fly. In its second half, Deep Water becomes a succession of scenes in which people underestimate Vic and pay the price, all culminating in a climactic chase so beautifully silly that it probably deserves some kind of place in movie history. The best thing about that chase is how humble it is — just a bike and a car. The set piece offers none of the bells and whistles of modern blockbuster action, just a scenario that could (but probably wouldn’t) happen in real life. Don’t get me wrong: If you’re looking for a truly nail-biting suspense film or a meaningful drama, Deep Water isn’t it. But if you miss the days when movies that looked like

sinister Vogue spreads ruled the box office, maybe you’ll enjoy this reminder of how fun (and terrible) those movies could be.

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find, but for my money, Lyne’s best movie was his more naturalistic first feature, in which Jodie Foster and Cherie Currie play California teens growing up too fast. FATAL ATTRACTION (1987; HBO Max, rent-

able): But perhaps Lyne’s biggest hit was this glossy thriller in which Glenn Close plays an unstable woman who sleeps with Michael Douglas and promptly morphs into his stalker. ANGEL HEART (1987; Starz, rentable):

While Lyne makes a fairly tasteful use of New Orleans’ local color, the same can’t be said for Alan Parker, who brought Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro and Lisa Bonet together in a NOLA-set erotic thriller that might represent the absurdist peak of the genre.

NEW IN THEATERS CODA: A hearing Child of Deaf Adults (Emilia Jones) must decide whether to follow her passion or stay and help keep her family’s business alive in this year’s Academy Award winner for Best Picture. With Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur. Sian Heder directed. (111 min, PG-13. Roxy) DEAR MR. BRODY: What happens when a 21-yearold “hippie millionaire” offers a piece of his fortune to anyone who needs it? This documentary from Keith Maitland (Tower) looks at the aftermath of Michael Brody Jr.’s unusual philanthropic gesture. (97 min, NR. Savoy) MORBIUS: Jared Leto plays a biochemist turned vampire in this superhero film (part of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe) based on a Marvel Comics character. With Michael Keaton and Adria Arjona. Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) directed. (104 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Playhouse, Roxy, Star, Welden)

CURRENTLY PLAYING THE BATMANHHH1/2 Robert Pattinson plays yet another version of the Caped Crusader in this adventure that establishes a new Gotham City continuity, with Paul Dano as the murderous Riddler and Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman. Matt Reeves (Let Me In) directed. (175 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Welden) DEATH ON THE NILEHH1/2 Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh, who also directed) must find an heiress’ killer while on a sumptuous vacation in this new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s whodunit, also starring Annette Bening and Gal Gadot. (127 min, PG-13. Majestic) DOGHHH Channing Tatum plays an Army Ranger whose road trip to the funeral of a fellow soldier is interrupted by the shenanigans of his canine companion in this comedy. (90 min, PG-13. Capitol, Majestic, Star, Stowe) THE GUIDE: Oles Sanin’s 2014 drama takes place in 1930s Soviet Ukraine, where an American boy is on the run after acquiring explosive evidence of political repression. Proceeds from screenings support Ukraine relief efforts. (122 min, NR. Majestic, Welden) INFINITE STORMHHH Two climbers meet on a mountain and must work together to survive a blizzard in this fact-based drama from director Malgorzata Szumowska (The Other Lamb). Naomi Watts, Billy Howle and Denis O’Hare star. (95 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Savoy, Star) JUJUTSU KAISEN 0: THE MOVIEHHH1/2 In this spin-off of the anime series, a boy with dangerous powers enrolls in a sorceror-controlled high school. Seong-Hu Park directed. (105 min, PG-13. Essex [dubbed and subtitled], Majestic [subtitled], Roxy [dubbed and subtitled])

THE LOST CITYHHH A best-selling romance novelist (Sandra Bullock) and her cover model (Channing Tatum) get pulled into a real-life jungle adventure in this action comedy, also starring Brad Pitt and Daniel Radcliffe. (112 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Welden) SING 2HH1/2 Show biz-loving critters return in this sequel to the animated hit, featuring the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Bono. Garth Jennings directed. (112 min, PG. Capitol, Essex [sing-along version], Majestic [sing-along version]) SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOMEHHH1/2 Peter Parker (Tom Holland) seeks the help of Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jon Watts returns as director. (148 min, PG-13. Bijou, Majestic) UNCHARTEDHH1/2 Mismatched treasure hunters (Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg) seek Ferdinand Magellan’s fortune in this action adventure. (116 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic) THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLDHHHH Two Oscar nominations went to this brisk Norwegian comedy-drama about a thirtysomething (Renate Reinsve) who’s still trying to figure out who she is. Joachim Trier (Thelma) directed. (128 min, R. Roxy; reviewed 10/13)

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NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE EXIT 16 SELF STORAGE 295 RATHE RD COLCHESTER, VT. 05446 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CONTENTS OF THE SELF STORAGE UNITS LISTED BELOW WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION

Establish a bed and breakfast (short-term rental) within existing duplex. 3. ZP-22-122; 84 Chase Street (RL, Ward 1E) Colleen Hartford Establish a 2-bedroom bed and breakfast (shortterm rental) within existing residence. Plans may be viewed upon request by contacting the Department of Permitting & Inspections between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. Please note that ANYTHING submitted to the Zoning office is considered public and cannot be kept confidential. This may not be the final order in

ALL WINNING BIDDERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO PAY A $50.00 DEPOSIT WHICH WILL BE REFUNDED ONCE UNIT IS LEFT EMPTY AND BROOM SWEPT CLEAN. THE WINNING BID MUST REMOVE ALL CONTENTS FROM THE FACILITY WITHIN 72 HOURS OF BID ACCEPTANCE AT NO COST TO EXIT 16 SELF STORAGE. EXIT 16 SELF STORAGE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY BID LOWER THAN THE AMOUNT OWED BY THE OCCUPANT. EXIT 16 SELF STORAGE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REMOVE ANY UNIT FROM THE AUCTION SHOULD CURRENT TENANT BRING HIS OR HER ACCOUNT CURRENT WITH FULL PAYMENT PRIOR TO THE START OF THE AUCTION.

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NAME OF OCCUPANT - UNIT SIZE JESSICA DAVIS 10 X 20 TYRONE VINCENT 10 X 20 ERIK HANCE 10 X 10 ERIK HANCE 10 X 10 HENRY HUDSON 10 X 10 JESSICA & SHAWN GAGNON 10 X 10 JD JANGDON 5 X 10

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THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-04190 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, 05495 WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT APRIL 7TH 2022 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF PETER MORGAN Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 22-PR-00465 In re ESTATE of WARREN RELATION

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THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-04232 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, 05495 WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT APRIL 7TH 2022 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF ALEXIS FLOWERS, Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

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Development Associate/ Grant Writer The Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI) seeks a detailedoriented individual to research and write grant proposals and coordinate VT town solicitations. Additional responsibilities include contributing to social media and newsletter content, and supporting the administration of the Development Dept. as needed. Position requires excellent written, verbal communication and organizational skills. We offer an excellent benefit package. Compensation of $36,000-$41,000, commensurate with experience. Full job description available upon request. VABVI is a great place to work, a great mission to support and work that makes a difference.

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We are seeking a motivated Operations Administrator that can perform job duties that are part customer service representative and part recordkeeper. We can train the right person! A solid comfort level with Microsoft Office 365 and database products would be best. We estimate 2 or 3 days per week during business hours. No weekends! All applicants must be vaccinated from Covid-19 (proof required for interview).

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OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATOR - Part Time US Aircraft Finance & Insurance is growing again! We have been in business for 24 years providing aircraft financing and insurance to licensed pilots all over the country. Do you want the flexibility of part time hours while meeting the demands of a challenging and fast paced role?

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NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL has exciting opportunities! NVRH is looking for dedicated and compassionate RNs, LPNs and LNAs to join our team and provide high quality care to the communities we serve. NVRH provides a fair and compassionate workplace where all persons are valued by the organization and each other, providing ongoing growth opportunities. FT and PT employees are eligible for excellent benefits including student loan repayment, generous paid time off, health/dental/vision, 401k with company match and much more!

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CCS has just increased our salaries and the positions below include a $500 sign-on bonus, a comprehensive benefits package including affordable health insurance, paid time off, paid holidays, retirement match and more. In addition, CCS has been voted one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” for the fourth year in a row. Our current openings of Direct Support Professionals, Service Coordinator, Program Manager, System Administrator, Shared Living Provider and 24hr-Asleep Overnight Supports offer the opportunity to make a positive impact on someone’s life, and in yours. Join Us! Visit ccs-vt.org to apply today. E.O.E.

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Bilingual Patient Services Coordinator

The Patient Services Coordinator works in a compassionate and collaborative manner to help patients navigate barriers to care and obtain the services they need. Along with supporting the daily operations of the Open Door Clinic, the Patient Services Coordinator also supervises volunteer interpreters and interns. QUALIFICATIONS:

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fluency in spoken and written Spanish and English high level of organization and attention to detail cultural and linguistic humility strong problem-solving skills excellent communication and computer skills ability to multi-task This position is based in Middlebury. To apply, please send cover letter, resume, and 3 references to Heidi Sulis at hsulis@opendoormidd.org.

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Seeking applications for an accountant with responsibilities for financial management, accounting, and technical work at a professional level. Essential functions include responsibility for maintaining and ensuring accuracy and integrity of the accounting systems; preparation during independent financial audits; transfer of cash via ACH systems; and managing a financial record keeping system to ensure fiscal compliance with internal and external reporting requirements.

Me2/ (“me, too”) is the world’s only classical music organization created for individuals living with mental illness and the people who support them. Our mission is to erase the stigma surrounding mental health diagnoses through supportive classical music ensembles and inspiring performances. Lead our 50-member orchestra in rehearsals on Thursday evenings, Sept-May. Conduct performances in both traditional and non-traditional venues (such as gymnasiums and correctional institutions) up to six times per season. Deadline to apply is April 15.

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FULFILLMENT OFFICER Vermont Compost Company is seeking a Fulfillment Officer to join our team. A leading compost & potting soil producer of nearly 30 years, we provide a fun, dynamic and growing environment. Staff enjoy competitive wages and a full benefits package. Visit our website for more information: VermontCompost.com/ Careers

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Do you want to work outside on a small, impactful team? Do you want to do work that benefits the public? Come join the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation’s seasonal recreation team and get your hands dirty working in Vermont’s State Parks and State Forests. Positions focus on maintaining and managing a wide variety of recreation trails throughout the state. We have four position types available: • Full-season Trail Crew Member: $16.04 per hour (May-October) • Summer Trail Crew Member: $15.31 per hour (June-August) • Trail Crew Leader: $16.89 per hour (May-October) • Trail Coordinator: $17.83-$18.74 per hour (up to 1,280 hours)

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The Event Support Specialist at Delaney Meeting & Event Management is suitable for a professional with experience working in an office setting. Primary responsibilities include: managing registration-related calls and emails, data entry, onsite pack and prep, maintaining mailing lists, keeping inventory of office supplies, research projects (caterers, transportation, etc.), producing surveys, and providing general event support as needed – whatever it takes to get the job done. Day of event support is another critical part of this role, which includes staffing a registration desk at in person events (in and out of state; approximately 5% travel with option for more if you’re into it!), answering phone calls and emails during peak login times for virtual events, and supporting Zoom meetings.

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The Intervale Center seeks trustworthy, responsible, and communicative Event Staff to join us for the 2022 event season. For over 30 years, the Intervale Center has led a community food revolution that sustains farms, land, and people! Event Staff will provide support to events like weddings, parties, business meetings, and more by answering questions, troubleshooting, opening and closing buildings before and after events, and being the main contact in case of emergencies. Candidates must be available to work evenings and weekends. The Intervale Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity of experience, background, and perspective to enrich our work. Applications by members of all underrepresented groups are encouraged. Apply online: intervale.org/getinvolved#employment-banner.

Production Assistant/ Delivery Driver Pitchfork Pickle is looking for a production assistant/ delivery driver - 2 days a week immediately, 3 days beginning in June. Starting wage is $15/hr plus certain benefits. Familiarity with a kitchen and fermentation is great, but we're more interested in someone who is responsible, reliable, and a good fit. Visit pitchforkpickle.com/werehiring for a full description and how to apply.

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CHEF/COOK Fantastic Opportunity Seeking experienced chef/ cook to manage a successful banquet facility and expand operations to possibly include a seasonal restaurant and takeout/catering kitchen. Our ideal candidate will have management experience and essential leadership qualities to coordinate all types of special events, such as weddings, showers, reunions, corporate functions, etc. We are open all year round and can accommodate 30 to 300 people. Salary commensurate with experience and ability, with potential partnership options available in the future. If you have this level of experience, please send resume to Catamount Country Club at akcat@comcast.net.

Executive Assistant This individual will serve as the primary support for the Chief Executive Officer to help achieve their performance goals and fulfill the company’s vision of success.

Cleaning Crew (P/T positions)

$22/HOUR (AFTER 90 DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT) Join our team and help us keep our brewery and taproom looking their best. Evening and weekend shifts. Experience preferred.

Do you love people as much as you love animals? Are you outgoing and persuasive when you believe in something? Do you believe in the mission of Central Vermont Humane Society? We are looking for a Development Manager, someone who will engage our supporters in our mission to continue to grow our fundraising so CVHS can continue to help animals and the people who love them. You must live in Vermont, preferably central Vermont. Email cover letter and resume to laurie@ centralvermonthumane.org. For more information visit: centralvermonthumane.org

Event & Maintenance Associate If you enjoy the arts, have an organized and helpful attitude, and would enjoy working in a beautiful location with really fun people – then this position is for you.

Duties include... • Setting up and striking events • Cleaning and providing maintenance • Assisting with all other duties necessary to contribute to an eﬃcient, well managed, and exciting Performing Arts program. Please send your cover letter and resume to Mariah Riggs.

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Goddard College, a leader in non-traditional education, has the following benefit-eligible position openings:

DATA SYSTEMS SPECIALIST

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Champlain College seeks a Fundraising & Marketing Manager for the Center for Financial Literacy to fundraise specifically for our Center for Financial Literacy. This position will fundraise from corporate and foundation sources to support enrollment in the Center for Financial Literacy's graduate-level online course as well as for professional development, nationally acclaimed National Report Cards for State Efforts to Improve Financial Literacy in High Schools, and other related CFL programs.

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Wilderness Therapy Guides True North Wilderness Program in Waitsfield is hiring Wilderness Therapy Guides with a hiring bonus of up to $1,000! Minimal outdoor experience is necessary. Guides work 24 hours per day in the wilderness on an 8 day on, 6 day off schedule. Seasonal and longer term opportunities are available. Guides work in teams of 2 to provide supervision for a group of up to 7 students, and facilitate daily outdoor activities like camping, hiking, backpacking and canoeing, to help students achieve therapeutic goals. Starting pay is $1,700 for a full 8 day shift, with an amazing benefit package including health insurance, a wellness plan, student loan repayment reimbursement, and an employee assistance program. All True North employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received the booster dose of the vaccine if eligible. We seek to recruit a broadly diverse staff who will contribute a variety of viewpoints and experiences to ongoing program development and superior support of our clients. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and diverse gender identities. Please visit: www.truenorthwilderness.com/careers to apply.

WEB MANAGER Champlain College's Web Manager is an enthusiastic, collaborative strategic problem-solver who possesses a deep understanding of the interconnections and complexities across a large web property and multiple domains. This position requires flexibility and adaptability to new technology in a changing environment and a thorough understanding of project management phases, techniques, and tools. The Web Manager must be able to successfully prioritize multiple projects and is able to work well under pressure on high visibility projects. The Web Manager will work in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment while maintaining the highest standards of customer service. For more information on these and other openings visit champlain.edu/careers.

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MARKETING & DESIGN COORDINATOR MEDICAL ASSISTANT/LPN/RN

Richmond Family Medicine is looking for an experienced medical assistant with a positive, compassionate and caring attitude to join our small, but busy practice to fill a full time position. We would consider an LPN or RN for the right fit for our team. The MA works directly with one PCP, rooming patients, obtaining brief histories, performing point of care tests, administering immunizations, and supporting the PCP in care coordination for their panel of patients.

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Richmond Family Medicine is looking for a full time medical receptionist to join our excellent team. This position consists of direct patient interaction both in person and on the phone, and involves scheduling of appointments, patient check-in/check-out, copay/ deductible collection, medical records activities, and general office administrative tasks. Excellent customer service skills are an absolute requirement. We're looking for someone who is organized, reliable, confident, and friendly; someone who is an efficient self-starter with good problem solving skills. COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS: ALL EMPLOYEES MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED AGAINST COVID19.

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In this role, you will: • Lead the effort to ensure consistency across all visual elements of United Way’s brand across print and digital mediums. • Design compelling print and online marketing materials. • Generate, edit, publish, and share engaging content across United Way’s social media channels. United Way of Northwest Vermont employees enjoy a range of excellent benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous paid vacation policy, 11 paid holidays, 403(b) contributions, a robust wellness program, and much more. Interested candidates may visit unitedwaynwvt.org for the full job description. To apply, e-mail a resume and cover letter by 04/08/2022 to: hiring@unitedwaynwvt.org.

Must be able to lift 50# on a regular basis. Shift is Mon-Thurs 6:00-2:30 and Fri 5:00-1:30, with OT during busy times. Pay based on experience. Attendance premium and health benefits available. Please apply in person to: Highland Sugarworks 49 Parker Rd. Barre, VT No phone calls, please.

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V Smiley Preserves makes award winning honey sweetened preserves in Vermont. We specialize in intricate, no added pectin preserving. With Minifactory, our cafe, grocery and jam manufactory, we are investing even deeper into our local food-shed. In 2021 V Smiley Preserves purchased the 40+ year old Main Street Bristol bakery. We’ve reopened the space as Minifactory, a communitydriven destination location for food and retail. We serve coffee, manufacture and sell our preserves in house and serve an all-day menu. Biscuits w/Ham & Peach Pepper Tomato Jam, 24 Hour Yogurt w/ Almond Teacake & Salted Pears, Radicchio w/ Honey Creme Fraiche & Lemon, Chickpea Pancakes w/ Herby Urfa Biber Chicken. We still have a few key leadership roles in both businesses to fulfill. Join our team in Bristol Vermont. We are currently hiring:

• OPERATIONS / FINANCE MANAGER • CHEF DE CUISINE • PASTRY CHEF • FRONT OF HOUSE/RETAIL MANAGER Bristol Vermont is located in Addison County. The area is agricultural and adjacent to the mountain communities of Lincoln and Starksboro. We are a 40 minute drive to Burlington and 25 minutes to Middlebury. V Smiley Preserves and Minifactory are queer owned/run.

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COMMUNICATIONS & DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Full-time position provides communications and fundraising leadership to the three divisions of the City of Montpelier’s Community Services Department: Recreation, Montpelier Senior Activity Center, and Parks & Trees. Develops and implements strategy to financially support and market programs, facilities and services. Enhances branding and engagement across the age spectrum for diverse, high-demand and emerging services. Applicants should be tech-savvy, flexible and teamoriented with excellent fundraising and communication skills (written and oral), and ability to meet regular deadlines and supervise volunteers. Competitive wage and full benefits - range $22.66-$26.38/hour. Learn more: job description at montpelier-vt.org/Jobs. aspx. Applications preferred by March 25, 2022, start date ASAP; position open until filled. Submit resume, cover letter and contact info for 3 references by email only to slipton@montpelier-vt.org. E.O.E.

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Join one of the Best Places to Work in Vermont. United Way of Northwest Vermont is looking for a visual storyteller to create and manage graphic design and social media content. This role will collaborate with the Director of Marketing and Communications to implement and refine an integrated strategic marketing plan aimed at increasing United Way’s impact in the communities we serve.

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HUMAN RESOURCES ASSISTANT DAYTIME CUSTODIAN The Colchester School District is seeking a Full-Time, Day Custodian. The custodian is expected to provide a clean and healthy atmosphere for all students and employees. They will collaborate with other custodians and the building administrators as appropriate. The Colchester School District offers employees a generous benefits package, including a competitive wage and an excellent BCBS healthcare plan. In addition, the benefits include dental insurance, long-term disability, retirement plan, life insurance, and tuition reimbursement. Apply online: SchoolSpring.com #3806478

True North Wilderness Program is looking for a part-time Human Resources Assistant to work up to 20 hours per week, on-site, assisting the Office Manager with human resources needs. Tasks generally include onboarding new employees, running background checks, maintaining employee records and answering office phone calls. This position requires strong written and verbal communication skills, problem solving, and a high level of organization and attention to detail. The successful candidate will be proficient using Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Drive and Gmail, and in data entry. True North employs a team of dynamic, energized individuals and the Human Resources Assistant will be integral in maintaining our staffing needs and the quality of our team. All True North employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received the booster dose of the vaccine if eligible. We seek to recruit a broadly diverse staff who will contribute a variety of viewpoints and experiences to ongoing program development and superior support of our clients. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and diverse gender identities. Please visit: truenorthwilderness.com/careers to apply.

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We are seeking an experienced Moulding Line Operator who excels in a dynamic team environment. As an operator, you will be responsible for day-to-day machine operations including set-up, change-over, monitoring & adjusting, and shut-down of our chocolate moulding line. In addition, you will perform other duties as assigned, such as documentation of key production and packaging information. In this role you will be part of a highly motivated and fun team, who love making chocolate! Must have at least three years of experience working with mechanical line operations in a manufacturing environment. Ability to lift up to 50lbs and stand for long periods of time. Schedule: Monday-Friday, 6:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at our 290 Boyer Circle facility in Williston, VT.

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PROGRAM MANAGER We seek a part-time Program Manager managing the public and back-end activities of the LiveGreenVT (LGV) Climate & Energy Online Guide and Directory (https://livegreenvt. org/) and act as the principal public face and voice for LGV, including to sponsors, listers, and the general public. LiveGreenVT promotes sustainable businesses and organizations, in turn enabling consumers to make more climateconscious decisions. Applications will be accepted through April 11th or until the position is filled. Please submit applications by email to Steve Maier at sbmaier55@gmail.com. Applications should include a cover letter, resume, three references, and up to three relevant work samples. More details are available at: ceacac. org/seeking-livegreenvtprogram-manager/

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MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Keens Crossing – Winooski, VT 05404 Hours: 40 Hours Full Time HallKeen Management is seeking a motivated and experienced Maintenance Technician to enhance current skills, acquire new knowledge and grow with our company. Responsibilities are quite diverse including but not limited to Apartment turnovers, grounds keeping, various janitorial duties, painting, appliance, electrical, heating, plumbing and safety equipment repair and replacement, and providing assistance at other company properties when needed. The qualified candidate must have reliable transportation and have the ability to assist in carrying appliances and climb ladders as needed. Please e-mail resumes to dfinnigan@hallkeen.com.

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Orthodontic Assistant We are currently looking for an orthodontic assistant to join our clinical team in our state-of-the-art facility. Candidates must be organized, detail oriented, have excellent communication and computer skills utilizing electronic charting, time management skills, experience taking x-rays, and an overall enthusiastic attitude towards the work we do. Patient satisfaction/customer service is our number one priority. If you strive for an exciting, challenging, rewarding career opportunity helping improve the quality of life for our patients, then please contact us for an opportunity to join our team. Licensed assistant with x-ray experience preferred. Wage will be dependent upon experience level. Full benefits package offered including medical, dental, vision, short term disability, long term disability and life insurance. Generous vacation and sick time. Performance based bonus system.

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DIRECTOR OF RETAIL OPERATIONS Are you a retail pro? Do you excel in business partnerships? Know your way around a spreadsheet? The Department of Liquor and Lottery is seeking a motivated professional to oversee the retail operations of 802Spirits, the State’s distilled spirits brand that generates over $95M in sales annually. The Director of Retail Operations manages a team of retail coordinators, maintains contractual relationships with agency partners, manages the inventory of distilled spirits, collaborates with stores on merchandising and marketing, creates and manages a budget, and analyzes sales and financial reports to ensure the continued profitability of retail sales. Preferred Qualifications: Experience in retail operations for a commercial or large enterprise. Knowledge of the alcohol beverage industry. A degree in public or business administration, financial regulation and analysis, accounting, merchandising or a closely related field. The State of Vermont’s total compensation package features excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits that are worth approximately 30% of your total compensation. The position is based in Montpelier with telework options and some in-state travel.

Send resumes to: Cheryl.mowel@vermont.gov.

Vist northbranchnaturecenter. org/employment for the full job description and application instructions.

Schedule will be 7:15am - 5:15pm or 8:15am - 6:15pm, Monday through Thursday with some variability due to patient need. • We are an equal opportunity employer. • We are a Tobacco and Nicotine free facility. • Pay: $19.00 - $25.00 per hour Send resumes to: Maura@TMJVT.com

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Are you excited to lead a development and communications team that supports strengthening the arts and humanities in Vermont? This is a wonderful opportunity for a seasoned fundraiser and communications expert who shares our organizational values and excitement for implementing strategies to help grow a dynamic cultural sector in Vermont. Public engagement and donor relations are at the heart of this position, as we encourage Vermonters to support and be part of the vibrant cultural landscape of the Green Mountains.

Help keep our financial, employee, and corporate records and files accurate and up-to-date and to assist with related projects. This 12-16 hour/week position works with our Finance & Administration Director and could focus more heavily either on bookkeeping or on supporting HR functions and other administrative tasks, by mutual agreement. Based in our Montpelier office with some remote work possible. North Branch Nature Center is an E.O.E.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Consider applying your skills to making an impact on the Town of Northfield, Vermont as the new Economic Development Director. The Town of Northfield, Vermont (population 6,000) is seeking to hire an Economic Development Director to support local businesses in their sustainability, growth, and expansion; to build a network within the State and region to attract potential employers and residents to Northfield; and to support the town’s vision for housing and other key development priorities. Northfield is a quintessential New England town with a welcoming community, picturesque downtown and natural rural beauty. It has the Dog River with creative riverfront development opportunities and Paine Mountain which is full of recreational trails. Northfield is home to Norwich University, the nation’s oldest military college and birthplace of ROTC. It also hosts Cabot Hosiery, a major Vermont employer and maker of Darn Tough socks. There are also numerous local merchants, food establishments and many community engagement events like the local Farmers Market. This is a full-time position and includes health insurance and retirement benefits. The salary range is $60,000 to $65,000. A complete job description is available at northfield-vt.gov or by calling 802-485-9822. To apply, please e-mail cover letter and resume to jschulz@northfield.vt.us or mail to:

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Accepting applications through April 15, 2022, or until position is filled. The Town of Northfield is an equal opportunity employer.

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FACILITIES SUPPORT Providing Innovative Mental Health and Educational Services to Vermont’s Children & Families.

WE’RE HIRING! • PROGRAM CLINICIANS • RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORSFull, Part-time, and Relief • AWAKE OVERNIGHT COUNSELORS • CLINICAL & THERAPEUTIC CASE MANAGERS • COMMUNITY SKILLS WORKERS • FAMILY ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST • TEACHERS • ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST Regular positions of 30 or more hours a week are eligible for our generous benefits package, which includes competitive salary and tuition reimbursement. Please apply online at: NFIVERMONT.ORG/CAREERS We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and celebrate the diversity of our clients and staff.

Surgical Assistant Immediate opening for a Full-time Surgical Assistant to join a highly reputable single doctor oral surgery practice. Preferred candidate should have dental experience, x-ray certification, a positive attitude and initiative.

True North Wilderness Program is seeking a full time Facilities Support team member. Primary job duties include facilities and grounds maintenance, landscaping and hardscaping, chainsaw operation and lawn mowing, light construction and carpentry, and vehicle maintenance. Additional responsibilities include supporting clients directly with enrollment, transportation, crisis response and logistical tasks. Offering competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, accident insurance, retirement savings plan, wellness fund, and education assistance program.

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Visit sunbeltrentals.com/careers True North is a nationally recognized wilderness therapy program to learn more about our company, located in the beautiful Green Mountains of Central Vermont. search openings and apply online. As a small, independently owned program, True North provides personalized therapeutic interventions and transition support for 14-17 year old adolescents and 18-25 year old young adults with an emphasis on assessment and family participation. We are committed 2v-SunbeltRentals022322.indd 1 2/18/22 to enriching the experience of our students, families, and team by celebrating an inclusive work environment. We seek to recruit a broadly diverse staff who will contribute a variety of viewpoints and experiences to ongoing program development and superior support of our clients. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and diverse gender identities.

Charter House Coalition is an emergency shelter offering a safe, nurturing environment that assists persons experiencing homelessness and other challenges to reset and reestablish. Our services meet essential needs for healthier daily living, case management, referral services and ongoing outreach supports within the community. We accept people where they are and we respect individuals as individuals with unique strengths and challenges. See our website for current openings and to apply. Email: info@chcvt.org.

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DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCER Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seeks an engaging, high-energy individual to serve as a Digital Media Producer in his Vermont office. The position produces compelling video, digital, and print content for Senator Sanders’ social media platforms, e-newsletters, and events. As part of Sanders’ communications staff, the digital media producer will create content on the important issues facing Vermonters, and will share interesting stories about our communities and state. Strong communication, writing, organizational, and interpersonal skills are required.

Hours: Monday and Wednesday 8-4, Tuesday and Thursday 8-5 with an hour lunch, and Friday 7-2

Qualified candidates will have a working knowledge of Adobe Suite, including Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and After Effects, and experience interviewing, filming, and video editing. Graphic design and photography skills are strongly preferred. A successful candidate will have a desire to explore creative approaches to video storytelling, and a demonstrated ability to manage projects from idea to completion.

Competitive benefit package includes, paid vacation and sick leave, medical insurance, 401k with profit sharing and additional fringe benefits flexible to your needs.

The Senator’s office is an equal opportunity employer. The office does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or uniformed service. The office is committed to inclusion and encourages all individuals from all backgrounds to apply.

Please apply with resume inperson or via email to Tonya Lulek: tlulek@nvos-vt.com.

Sunbelt Rentals--the fastest growing rental business in North America--is Now Hiring in Essex Junction, VT & Berlin, VT for FT & PT Career Opportunities including; Internship, Shop Mechanic, Road Mechanic, Driver, Inside Sales Representative, & Service Manager.

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To apply please submit a resume, cover letter, and portfolio to kate_farley@sanders.senate.gov indicating “DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCER” in the subject line by April 8, 2022.

Through gardening, our customers control their access to safe and affordable food, and grow food to share with their neighbors. At Gardener’s Supply, we are committed to doing everything we can to help our customers keep gardening, but we need your help. We’re hiring for SEASONAL POSITIONS AT ALL LOCATIONS: • Pick/Pack customer orders at our DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN MILTON • Provide exceptional customer service in our CALL CENTER - Remote options available • Help customers with their gardening needs at our WILLISTON & BURLINGTON, VT GARDEN CENTERS We are 100% employee-owned and a Certified B Corporation. We offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits (including a tremendous discount!). Please go to our careers page at www.gardeners.com/careers and apply online!

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PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATOR (Job Code 22029) Up to 12 months at $25.00 per hour The Vermont Judiciary is recruiting a full-time temporary to act as administrative assistant to the State Court Administrator and other members of the leadership team. Located in Montpelier. Coordinate effective and efficient operations for the administrative unit. Assist in the planning, programming, budgeting and execution of department goals. Prior experience in a related setting required. To apply see link vermontjudiciary.exacthire.com/ job/89148 The Vermont Judiciary is an E.O.E.

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Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) in Burlington, VT seeks a full time (40 hours per week) Maintenance Technician to join our dedicated team. This position performs general maintenance work in BHA owned and managed properties, including building exteriors, common areas, apartments, building systems, fixtures, and grounds. Our Maintenance Techs are required to participate in the on-call rotation, which covers night and weekend emergencies. Qualified candidates should have a minimum of two years of work in general building maintenance or building trades. The ideal candidate would have a demonstrated proficiency in building trades including carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, grounds keeping, and snow removal. Must be detail oriented, efficient, be able to work within time sensitive parameters, and able to work independently as well as part of a team. Candidates must have strong interpersonal skills and be sensitive to the needs of the elderly, disabled, and very low-income households. BHA serves a diverse population of tenants and partners with a variety of community agencies. To most effectively carry out our vision of delivering safe and affordable housing to all, we are committed to cultivating a staff that reflects varied lived experiences, viewpoints, and educational histories. Therefore, we strongly encourage candidates from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and women to apply. Multilingualism is a plus! BHA offers a competitive salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience, as well as an excellent benefits package. If you are interested in this career opportunity, please submit a resume and cover letter to humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org. Human Resources - 65 Main Street, Suite 101 Burlington, VT 05401-8408 E.O.E. burlingtonhousing.org

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY Director of Public Works Planning & Other Positions Available The Town of Middlebury, Vermont, has several public works positions available, including Director of Public Works Planning. Detailed job advertisements and descriptions for these positions are available at: townofmiddlebury.org. The Town of Middlebury offers a competitive compensation and benefits packages. Please send cover letter, resume and application to: Town of Middlebury, Attn: Crystal Grant, Executive Assistant to the Town Manager, Town Offices, 77 Main Street Middlebury, VT 05753, or e-mail to ManagersOffice@ townofmiddlebury.org for prompt consideration. Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. E.O.E.

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SEASONAL PARKS & HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE WORKERS (PUBLIC WORKS) $16.50 HR 5 positions available. Full-time, seasonal (April-October) Grade 8 This position is responsible for assisting in the maintenance of all City parks and open space land, bike paths, hiking trails, cemeteries and greenways.

RED ROCKS PARK RANGER (RECREATION & PARKS) $16.50 HR 3 positions available. Part-time, seasonal (June-August) The Park Ranger provides customer service to park visitors via informational tri-folds and verbal communication as well as maintains trails and beaches. For further information and job descriptions please visit: sbvt. gov. To apply, please send cover letter, resume & references to Jaimie Held, Human Resource Manager at jheld@sburl.com. The City of South Burlington is an equal opportunity employer. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), immigrants, women, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

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Seeking an organized, efficient, and computer-savvy administrative assistant who has demonstrated multi-tasking skills. This position provides administrative support for the Safety 3v-PhiloRidgeFarm032322 and Health Promotion (Loss Control) Division as well as the Director and Deputy Director of the Risk Management Services Department. This position has remote work flexibility. Responsibilities include providing administrative and organizational support for the loss control team staff and their programs and workshops, serving as first point of contact and informational resource for VLCT Property and Casualty Intermunicipal Fund (VLCT PACIF) members seeking information or assistance with loss control programs, and being the primary contact for VLCT PACIF’s Grant and related programs. This position provides a potential loss control growth and career path opportunity for the right person.

Requirements: • High school diploma (business school certificate or applicable experience and education preferred; bachelor’s degree desirable) • Proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Excel, Access and PowerPoint • Excellent customer service skills • Basic knowledge of risk management and loss control concepts, objectives, and techniques desired • Experience in a municipal or insurance setting is a plus The Vermont League of Cities and Towns offers an excellent total compensation package a trusted reputation, and great colleagues! To review the full job description and apply, please visit vlct.org/careers.

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MIG-WELDER As a manufacturer of custom truck bodies, we have openings for experienced Mig-Welders to join our production line. Lay out, position, align, and secure parts prior to assembly. Math skills needed.

TRUCK BODY INSTALLER/MECHANIC Perform installation of truck bodies & miscellaneous equipment on new/used trucks/vehicles. Mechanical experience required; hydraulic experience desirable. Summary of job duties: Install truck body to chassis based on specifications; Install wiring for lights & equipment per specifications; Fit and weld replacement parts into place, using wrenches and welding equipment, using power grinders and other tools. Monday - Friday 7:00 am - 3:30 pm 40hrs. Immediate Hire! Company Benefits Include: Health Insurance w/company contribution 401K w/company match Paid Vacation • Paid Holidays • Paid Sick Paid Life Insurance/ AD&D, Short Term & Long Term Disability Send Resume & Cover letter or Apply in Person: Iroquois Mfg. Co., 695 Richmond Rd., Hinesburg, VT or email joannef@iroquoismfg.com

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5TH/6TH GRADE TEACHER: WAITSFIELD SCHOOL

Waitsfield Elementary School seeks a 5th/6th grade teacher beginning in the 2022-2023 school year. We seek someone empathetic, flexible and resourceful in helping each child to succeed, as well as with solid content knowledge. Successful candidates will demonstrate commitment to student-centered, inquiry-based teaching, a capacity to differentiate instruction and strong behavior management skills. Experience with Responsive Classroom and/or PBIS is a plus, and a joy in working with children is a must. Waitsfield School is committed to a culture of excellence and inclusivity. We take our work, and our students, but not always ourselves, very seriously. To apply, send resume, letter of interest, three references, teaching license and transcripts to Principal Kaiya Korb at kkorb@huusd.org

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Are you ready to play an integral role in delivering safe, clean, affordable, and reliable thermal energy services and award-winning energy efficiency programs to 55,000 Vermonters in Chittenden, Franklin, and Addison Counties? If so, then Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) has the jobs for you!

Join the team at Gardener’s Supply Company! Join the team at Gardener’s Supply Company! We are a 100% employee-owned company and an award winning and nationally recognized socially responsible business. We work hard AND offer a fun place to work including BBQs, staff parties, employee garden plots and much more! We also offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits!

We are also seeking a dependable and analytical individual to join our Engineering & Transmission team as Operations Programs Coordinator. This role coordinates, facilitates, and tracks several key operational programs such as the Meter Testing Program, Meter Remediation Program and the combined Distribution Leak and Atmospheric Corrosion Survey. This individual will be responsible implementing programs as well as tracking data, reporting program results, facilitating outgoing and incoming meters, and supporting the annual submission of the information to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Pay is based on experience and ranges between $41,982.99 To $62,961.23.

Assistant Buyer will use their strong computer, analytical & organizational skills to support the Merchandising Managers in bringing great gardening products to market. Our ideal candidate has a high proficiency in MS Office and the ability to quickly learn new systems. This person should also have strong communication and organizational skills, high attention to detail and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. A passion for great products and experience in retail, merchandising, or supply chain preferred. Copywriter will write and edit digital and print marketing copy including product feature and benefit copy and brand stories. This person will develop brand standards in copy voice, ensuring that we are always consistent, accurate, and undeniably on brand. Our ideal candidate will have a B.A. Degree or equivalent education in writing or communications; 5+ yrs copywriting experience, including direct-to-consumer marketing and advertising; and horticultural knowledge and experience.

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We are seeking a knowledgeable and customer focused individual to join our IT team as an IT Support Specialist. This position plays a key role in providing front-line technical support for our 130+ employees. The IT Support Specialist will have opportunities to learn new technologies, lead projects, and be part of a growing team that provides technical services to VGS. A great IT Support Specialist embraces the combination of problem solving, customer service, and technology know-how. This position offers opportunities for growth and exposure to a multitude of technologies and operational environments. Pay is based on experience and ranges between $25.00 to $28.00.

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Voted one of the best places to work in VT, VGS offers a dynamic, team-oriented atmosphere and an opportunity to perform meaningful, impactful work. Please visit vermontgas.com for more details and to apply.

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HallKeen Management is seeking a Team Leader and Mover who are energetic, responsible, motivated and reliable for residential Visit knollfarm.org to apply. property located in Winooski, VT. Will be required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and must regularly lift and move up to 10lbs, frequently lift up to 25lbs & occasionally lift up to 50lbs. 1t-KnollFarm033022.indd 1 3/29/22 Responsibilities & Experience Include: • Packing & Moving Household and Commercial Items • Friendly Customer Service • Furniture assembly & disassembly • Safely lifting and moving heavy objects and packing homes. • Willingness to work as a team member • Positive attitude and attention to detail Apply at: dfinnigan@hallkeen.com

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Technician needed for local business. Working knowledge of air conditioning, refrigeration and heating equipment a plus but willing to train an enthusiastic, motivated individual. Competitive wages, service vehicle, vacation time, paid holidays, medical benefits, sick days, retirement program provided. References required.

ORGANIZING FELLOW Vermont Conservation Voters (VCV) is seeking a passionate and dedicated Organizing Fellow to connect with Vermont voters about the important issues facing our state and help elect pro-environment champions. Responsibilities of the position include conducting direct, issue-oriented voter and member outreach through canvassing, phone banking, and community events; recruiting and managing volunteers; strengthening relationships with other nonprofits, businesses, and leaders who can be effective electoral and issue campaign partners; maintaining our voter contact database using NGP VAN software; and implementing creative organizing strategies and campaign efforts. Qualifications include: • Awareness of environmental issues in Vermont, including basic knowledge of VCV’s priority issue areas: climate action, clean water, toxic chemical reforms, healthy forests, and sustainable communities. • Excellent communication and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail and ability to work independently and as part of a team. • Experience with NGP VAN software preferred but not required. • A valid driver’s license and the availability to travel around Vermont. • Experience in event planning; canvassing and/or phone banking; public speaking and presentations; working with an advocacy organization or political campaign. The Organizing Fellowship is a full time, one-year contract position with a total salary and benefits package of $45,000. The term of employment could be extended for the right candidate if resources allow. To apply, please email a letter of interest, resume, and three references to Shelden Goodwin at sgoodwin@VermontConservationVoters.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis but must be submitted by Monday, April 25. Learn more at VermontConservationVoters.org.

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BARRE UNIFIED UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT HELP US TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF PLUMBING AND HEATING TRADESMEN Central Vermont Career Center At the 2022 State of the State, Vermont Governor Phil Scott highlighted the critical need of trades training for our students and our industries. Career and Technical Education (CTE) Centers across Vermont continue to develop our skilled labor force and the majority of students who attend CTE tend to stay in Vermont, contributing 12:43 PMto our labor force, and raising their families here. Now is an exciting time to be in CTE, and with our shift in governance, now is an exciting time to be at the Central Vermont Career Center (CVCC)! • Do you enjoy working with high school kids? • Do you have patience and persistence? • Do you like sharing the knowledge of your craft? • Do you want a rewarding career? • Do you like the idea of not working on weekends, nights, holidays and summers? • Do you want one of the best benefits packages that Vermont has to offer? BCBS BENEFIT PLAN • Health and Dental, Long Term Disability Insurance, Retirement • Do you have an Associate's degree? • 5 years in trade? • Trade License? If you answered yes to those questions, CVCC needs you! Please reach out for more information: Jody Emerson, CVCC Director, jemerson@cvtcc.org, (802) 476-6237.

We are Age Well - the leading experts and advocates for the aging population of Northwestern Vermont. Committed to employee wellness and work-life balance, we offer competitive pay and extensive benefits, including generous paid time-off, affordable and comprehensive health, dental and vision insurances, and more!

Job Openings at Age Well:

• Care and Service Coordinator (Case Manager) • Caregiver Support Specialist • Data and Process Improvement Specialist • Meals on Wheels Nutrition Support Specialist • Options Counselor The successful candidates will be supportive and enthusiastic voices for Age Well's mission: To provide the support and guidance that inspires our community to embrace aging with confidence.

Visit agewellvt.org/about/careers to learn more and apply. Since 1974, we have provided Northwestern Vermonters with essential services to help them age well. Meals on Wheels | Care Coordination | Helpline: 1-800-642-5119 Age Well is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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FULL-TIME TEACHER Charlotte Children’s Center is looking to fill an anticipated opening in our Infant & Young Toddler classrooms. We are looking for a full time teacher.We are a small non-profit, child-centered, play based program. We are nature and Reggio inspired looking for someone with a minimum of 2 years experience in a childcare setting. Ideal candidates will have experience working with ages Birth-5yrs, strong communication skills, prior Early Childhood Education experience, and the drive to learn alongside the children.

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A reliable, engaging personality is required! If you are just starting out in your early childhood education career we can help support increasing your credentials. Or if you are a seasoned early childhood professional looking for a lower maintenance position this could be a perfect fit for you.

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We offer vision and dental coverage as well as a 3% matching Simple IRA retirement plan and annual bonuses. We offer professional development reimbursement as well as tuition reimbursement. Full time staff can apply for Federal Student Loan forgiveness due to our non-profit status.

Hourly rate $15-$19.00 dependent on qualifications and experience. Please send resume and cover letter to: charlottechildrensctr@gmail.com.

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ARE YOU A LOVER OF PSYCHOLOGY? Do you have a passion to use what you know in the service of creating better lives for people less fortunate than yourself? Then you belong with us! Specialized Community Care is an organization that serves people with intellectual disabilities who have complex psychological, psychiatric, and behavioral issues in community based models. We need you to help us carry out and expand our mission. Pay rates are based on skill set, minimum pay is $14/hr for no experience. If you have the passion, we will train. Contact us at humanresources@sccvt.org or by phone at 802-388-6388.

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Central Vermont Substance Abuse Services SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER RUTLAND PROJECT SEARCH Unique position located entirely in a business-hosted Transition-toWork project for students with developmental disabilities. Entering its eighth year, this project is part of the national Project SEARCH. The Rutland project is administered through collaboration of Vermont Achievement Center, Community Care Network, local public schools, State Department of Disabilities Services & National Project SEARCH. We seek an instructor with VT Special Education endorsement (or ability to obtain endorsement) at Rutland Regional Medical Center (RRMC) to provide instruction and training in a small group of students. This transition-employment focused teacher works with the RRMC liaison and department managers, and a three-member team of skills trainers to develop hospital internships leading to paid employment for students at graduation. The position follows the school year calendar with ample time off during the summer and offers a salary of $58,240. Additional financial compensation is available for insurance, professional development and more. Schedule is Mon-Friday 7:45am to 3:30pm. Duties include communicating with sending schools’ IEP teams, instruction and assessment of academic/employment/independent living skills in a work environment, creating solutions for workplace or social barriers that affect employment, and working with the steering committee and community partners. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and experience in job analyses/systematic teaching, enjoy collaborating with project partners, convey positive work behaviors through example and instruction, be flexible, and have experience working with community agencies. The teacher hired for this position will be well supported by a close team of project stakeholders, a supportive steering committee, on-site co-workers, and the RRMC host business liaison. Please visit the National Project SEARCH website to learn more about the program: projectsearch.us. Please send cover letter/resume to: Maria.burt@vermont.gov.

HUB COUNSELOR Sign On Bonus - We have openings for substance abuse counselors to work with opiate addicted adults as a part of our Hub & Spoke medication assisted therapy (MAT) program. This position will focus on access, engagement and stabilization to help clients build a bridge from the MAT program to other local MAT treatment options. Work will involve assessments, case management, treatment planning, group & individual counseling, referral, and coordination with community partners such as the DOC, DCF, or other treatment providers. Previous experience working with people in recovery from addictions is preferable. A Master Degree is strongly preferred, Bachelor Degree with previous experience will be considered. Must obtain AAP credential within 6 months of hire and be actively working towards LADC licensure. Working hours are roughly from 6:00a.m. To 2:00p.m. Flexibility, dependability, strong communication, and the ability to be a team player are essential. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including a generous time off package and a retirement match.

CLINICAL SUPERVISOR $10,000 Sign On & Retention Bonus - We are seeking a talented, energetic & experienced supervisor to provide clinical supervision & oversight to a team of counselors serving adults in a medication assisted treatment (MAT) program. The position is responsible for assessing the needs of our clients and ensuring that those needs are being met while using evidence based best practices and coordinating with community partners. A skill set including collaboration, coaching, communication, and clinical experience in the addictions field is essential to this position. Functions include conducting intake evaluations, developing treatment plans, making case assignments, monitoring and evaluating progress, as well as coaching, developing and supervising staff through providing regular clinical supervision and facilitation of team meetings. The development of a care coordination system, including collaboration with local community resources and prescribers is essential to successfully serve this population. LADC licensure is required for this position. Central Vermont Addiction Medicine is located in Berlin VT; hours are roughly from 6:00am – 2:00pm.

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DRILLER, DRILLER’S ASSISTANT, LABORER Platform Environmental Drilling and Remediation Services (Platform) provides drilling services utilizing direct push technologies (DPT) for the purpose of monitoring well installation, soil boring advancement, and application of several direct sensing subsurface technologies. In addition, we provide implementation assistance for the construction of environmental remediation systems. Our current staff has a diverse background in geological sciences, engineering and construction, which enables us to complete complicated drilling and remediation projects successfully. We will train the right candidates. We are currently looking for individuals to help us grow our business. Descriptions of these positions are detailed below:

Environmental Well Driller Position entails the operation of environmental well drilling equipment for the advancement and installation of soil borings and monitoring wells. The candidate should be capable of lifting and carrying heavy loads (greater than 90 lbs), troubleshooting diesel engine and hydraulic systems, operating heavy equipment in an efficient and safe manner, and

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working in all weather conditions. A background in geology or environmental sciences is helpful, but not required. This position entails significant travel both in Vermont and greater New England. Compensation is based on experience and performance; this position includes a comprehensive benefits package.

Environmental Well Driller’s Assistant Position entails assistance to the drill rig operator for the advancement and installation of soil borings and monitoring wells. The candidate should be capable of lifting and carrying heavy loads (greater than 90 lbs.), troubleshooting diesel engine and hydraulic systems, and working in all weather conditions. A background in geology or environmental sciences is helpful; however, we will train the right candidates. This position entails significant travel both in Vermont and greater New England. Compensation is based on experience and performance; this position includes a comprehensive benefits package. Send resumes to: Mjordan@platform-env.com

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BURLINGTON HOUSING AUTHORITY (BHA)

COMMUNITY SERVICES WORKER/ CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FOOD NETWORK COORDINATOR FRANKLIN/GRAND ISLE COUNTIES

Are you highly effective in working objectively with a diverse group of people, groups and organizations? Feeding Chittenden, a program of CVOEO, has an opening for a Community Services Worker / Champlain Valley Food Network Coordinator based at our Franklin/Grand Isle Community Action office in St. Albans. This role will implement the distribution of food to households unable to access local food shelves through direct household deliveries and by developing and maintaining a network of dispersed distribution sites throughout the local area. The Coordinator will play a key role in connecting neighbors to 3Squares (application assistance) and other federal nutrition programs. Responsibilities include enrolling community partners, establishing eligibility criteria and enrolling participants, establishing practices to coordinate with the agency food shelves in the delivery of this special service, ordering and maintaining sufficient food supplies, organizing volunteers who sort and pack groceries and deliver, and oversight of delivery routes. If you have an Associate degree in a related discipline and two years of relevant experience, or a combination of education and experience from which community service, advocacy and counseling skills or capacity are acquired; familiarity with issues facing economically disadvantaged and multi-cultural populations; effective verbal and written communication skills, bilingual abilities are a plus; proficiency in Microsoft Word, e-mail and internet; a valid driver’s license, a clean driving record and access to reliable transportation, we’d like to hear from you! We offer an excellent benefit package including medical, dental and vision insurance, generous time off, a retirement plan and discounted gym membership. Please visit cvoeo.org/careers and include a cover letter and resume with your application. CVOEO is interested in candidates who can contribute to our diversity and excellence. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. CVOEO is an Equal Opportunity Employer

in Burlington, VT is seeking candidates to continue BHA's success in promoting innovative solutions that address housing instability challenges facing our diverse population of extremely low-income families and individuals. Join us and make a difference in our community! MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN performs general maintenance work in BHA owned and managed properties, including building exteriors, common areas, apartments, building systems, fixtures, and grounds. Our Maintenance Techs are required to participate in the on-call rotation, which covers night and weekend emergencies. RENTAL ASSISTANCE SPECIALIST assists in the operation of all rental programs, including tenant and project-based voucher and grant funded rental assistance programs. This position works with applicants, participants, and landlords to ensure that the required paperwork and annual certifications are processed timely. SITE BASED SERVICE COORDINATOR supports those who have mental health and substance abuse challenges and/or who have moved from homelessness to Decker Towers, South Square, and Champlain Apartments. This position works closely with the Property Manager and other site-based staff to identify challenging behaviors and respond with appropriate direct service and coordination of community services with a goal of eviction prevention and facilitating a healthy tenancy. SUPPORTIVE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES MANAGER provides support to residents in BHA owned or managed properties who have mental health and substance abuse challenges. The SPSM works closely with Property Management and other site-based staff to identify residents exhibiting challenging behaviors/mental health symptoms and responds with appropriate direct service and coordination of community services. This position directly supervises the SASH Coordinator and the Supportive Housing Service Coordinator. To learn more about BHA and these career opportunities, please visit: burlingtonhousing.org. The BHA offers a competitive salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience, and an excellent benefit package. If you are interested in this career opportunity, please send a cover letter and resume to: humanresources @burlingtonhousing.org HUMAN RESOURCES BURLINGTON HOUSING AUTHORITY 65 MAIN STREET, SUITE 101, BURLINGTON, VT 05401 Burlington Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer

BHA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Controller

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VHCB is seeking a highly skilled accounting professional for the role of Controller. Join the financial team of an innovative funding organization with a mission that encompasses affordable housing and community development, land conservation and historic preservation. Manage the preparation of monthly financial statements, ensure accurate accounting and reporting of federal and state grants management, and support the management of VHCB’s loan portfolio, budget, and audit process. Applicants will have experience creating multi-fund financial statements and managing a complex general ledger as well as a working knowledge of governmental and/or fund accounting and GAAP. Experience and familiarity with federal grants management and federal administrative regulations is required, as is a degree in accounting and a minimum of eight years’ experience in accounting. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a concern for accuracy are a must to work in this fast paced, interesting, and supportive environment. Fulltime position located in Montpelier office, with competitive salary and excellent comprehensive benefit package. Equal Opportunity Employer. Reply with cover letter and résumé to: jobs@vhcb.org Position will remain open until filled. Read the job description at: vhcb.org/about-us/jobs

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

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

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CAREER PATHWAY NAVIGATOR/ VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION COUNSELOR HireAbility Vermont (formerly VocRehab) is recruiting for 6 Career Navigator/Vocational Counselor positions to be deployed in each of our regions in the state. These positions are a hybrid Vocational Counselor role carrying an exclusive caseload of current and former HireAbility participants who have expressed interest in career advancement opportunities available through the project. They are the primary case managers for participants as well as the hub for service partnerships with education and training providers. Job duties include conducting career assessments, providing career guidance and counseling, arranging progressive education and progressive employment activities, working with employment staff to secure employment and work experiences, case management, and documentation. The navigators facilitate the convening of Vermont Career Advancement Project (VCAP) District Teams and have access to case service resources to experiment and pilot new practices in partnership with Community College of VT and Vermont Technical College Career Pathways Student Advisors and other community partners. They will be the local experts developing a new practice framework and promoting it with HireAbility and VABIR staff in their districts. Candidates should possess a Master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, Counseling, Social Work, Psychology or Special Education, and special conditions apply. Excellent computer skills are required. NOTE: We are recruiting at two levels (Counselor I and II). If you meet qualifications to apply for both levels, you will need to submit an application for both levels. Location: Various. Status: Full Time. Application Deadline: 4/11/2022. Apply online: https://careers.vermont.gov/

Assistant House Director Burlington Dismas House seeks a full-time Assistant House Director in our transitional housing program for former prisoners. Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree and two years’ experience in related skill areas, or equivalent required. Strong computer and administrative skills, excellent interpersonal skills, essential. Experience with challenged or marginalized populations a plus. Must have valid driver’s license and reliable car. If interested, please email Kim Parsons: kim@dismasofvt.org.

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BUSINESS OUTREACH DIRECTOR Do you love meeting new people, making connections, talking issues, valuing differences, and ﬁnding solutions? If the answer is yes, we invite you to apply for the Business Outreach Director position, an exciting career opportunity with the statewide Vermont Chamber of Commerce.

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In this role you will engage directly with businesses and decision makers to learn about their challenges and goals and ask them to support our work. You will also put your community outreach, organization, and problem-solving abilities to work, serving as a liaison between businesses and the Vermont Chamber’s five-person lobbying team. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to direct programs for membership recruitment and retention efforts and manage membership education and benefit programs like the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Task Force Committee. As a valued member of the team, you know that tracking your work in a database key to success and you will learn new ways to innovate the customer relationship management system. In a pandemic world, you know this work requires remote productivity, but you also look forward to the day when you can further build and develop relationships in person. Qualifications: • Able to manage diverse relationships with multiple internal and external constituencies. • Strong project management skills and a keen eye for attention to detail. • Effective communicator in speaking and writing. • Background in prospecting, community relationships, campaigns, sales, and/or fundraising desired. To apply, please send a letter of interest and resume to Chris Carrigan at jobs@vtchamber.com.

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WHERE YOU AND YOUR WORK MATTER...

PUBLIC HEATH SERVICES DIS TRICT DIRECTOR - SPRINGFIELD

Do you want to be part of a team that is building a culture of health in VT communities? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to guide a multidisciplinary team in the Springfield District Office. District Directors mobilize staff and partners to improve the health and well-being of Vermonters. Specific examples of work include but are not limited to: Developing public health initiatives that reduce the prevalence of chronic disease. Building relationships with key stakeholders including healthcare providers, hospitals, and schools. Supervising a team of interdisciplinary staff. Health care reform activities at the local level. Emergency preparedness response. For more information, contact Chad Spooner at chad.spooner@vermont.gov. Department: Health. Location: Springfield. Status: Full Time. Job Id # 23003. Application Deadline: April 5, 2022.

S TAFF ATTORNEY INVES TIG ATOR – MONTPELIER

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) is seeking highly qualified candidate for a Staff Attorney Investigator (Level I or II). A staff attorney investigator primarily develops and executes investigations into allegations of discrimination while engaging in conciliation efforts between parties, drafting legally enforceable settlement agreements, & monitoring compliance with conciliated agreements. Lastly, the staff attorney investigator may develop and deliver training to a variety of agencies, non-profits, and individuals. For more information, contact John McKelvie at human.rights@vermont.gov. Department: Human Rights Commission. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job Id #29423. Application Deadline: April 8, 2022.

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The Vermont Department of Health is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced nurse to lead a dedicated and caring team towards improving population level health. This is achieved through the delivery of essential public health services and programs such as chronic disease prevention, immunizations, maternal and child health, healthy homes, infectious disease, substance abuse prevention, school health, and emergency preparedness. The position helps foster community-level systems change to improve health. This is a unique opportunity to have a broad impact on Vermonters’ health and wellbeing. For more information, contact Justin Barton-Caplin at Justin.Barton.Caplin@vermont. gov. Department: Health. Status: Full Time. Location: Newport. Job Id #31230. Application Deadline: April 7, 2022.

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S U B S T A N C E A B U S E P R E V E N T I O N C O N S U LT A N T – R U T L A N D The Vermont Department of Health is hiring a Substance Abuse Prevention Consultant (PC) for the Rutland District Office. PCs are a critical component of Vermont’s state-wide system to prevent substance misuse and substance use disorders. PCs foster collaboration among community partners, facilitate strategic planning, and provide education, technical assistance, and guidance on the implementation of evidencebased prevention programs. For more information, contact Michelle Salvador at michelle.salvador@vermont. gov. Department: Health. Status: Full Time. Location: Rutland. Job Id #26127. Application Deadline: April 7, 2022.

S TARBASE INS TRUCTOR – RUTLAND

Seeking a dynamic educator to join our Rutland team. The STARBASE program works with 5th grade students and teachers to increase interest and awareness in STEM. The Rutland site serves around 1000 students annually from schools throughout Southern VT. A background in STEM is preferred, and an enthusiasm for teaching Vermont students is vital. Valid Level 1 Educators License required. This position is ideal for educators new to teaching or anyone looking for a change. For more information, contact Dan Myers at dan@starbasevt.org. Department: Military. Status: Full Time. Location: Rutland. Job Id #31021. Application Deadline: April 10, 2022.

P U B L I C H E A LT H N U R S E I & I I - V A R I O U S L O C A T I O N S

Seeking multiple Public Health Nurses with a passion for improving the social determinants of health in several Vermont Counties, with an emphasis on health equity. Current focus of the work is COVID-19 pandemic response. The Health Department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the department’s diversity and commitment to foster an environment of mutual respect, acceptance, collaboration, and equal opportunity. Please Note: we have multiple openings located at: https://bit. ly/3tsKfqs. For more information, the specific contact can be found in the job opening located at the above link. Status: Full Time - Limited Service. Application Deadline: April 10, 2022.

P U B L I C H E A LT H N U R S E S U P E R V I S O R – B U R L I N G T O N

Join our forward-thinking local health office to help make Chittenden County a healthy place to live, learn, work, play, and worship. Position involves supervision of program staff. This is an exciting opportunity to oversee community level immunization and infectious disease prevention efforts, with a focus on improving health equity. We are committed to building and maintaining a multicultural and diverse workforce which reflects the populations we are dedicated to serving. For more information, contact Heather Danis at Heather.Danis@vermont.gov. Department: Health. Status: Full Time. Location: Burlington. Job Id #31225. Application deadline: April 7, 2022.

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Deputy Director of Environmental Services Department of Public Works (Exempt, Full-time) Salary: $80,000 - $90,000 Seeking an experienced professional with a proven passion and record of accomplishment in environmental leadership. Responsible for administering all activities of the Environmental Services including short- and long-range planning, development, and capital program implementation. Provide leadership, direction, and oversight of the City's stormwater, drinking water, and wastewater infrastructure and teams. Responsible for capital project management and coordination with the Deputy Director of Capital Projects in the development of the Capital Improvement Plan in these three areas. This position is part of the management team in the department of Public Works. The ideal candidate will be forward thinking, affable, and ethical; and one who will be an effective mentor to build and lead a multigenerational team that reflects the diversity of the community. A leader who can earn and maintain the trust and support of the community, staff and collaborating agencies.

Deputy Director of Capital Projects Department of Public Works (Exempt, Full-time) Salary: $80,000 - $90,000 Seeking an experienced professional with a proven passion and record of accomplishment in capital project management. Responsible for the management and implementation of the City's Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). Working in coordination with the finance officer, deputy director of environmental services and other department heads for the short- and longrange planning, development and implementation of the CIP. Responsible for oversight and management of CIP projects in the areas of facilities, open space, recreation & parks, and transportation infrastructure, including bike/pedestrian. This position is part of the management team in the department of Public Works. The ideal candidate will be forward thinking, affable, and ethical; and one who will be an effective mentor to build and lead a multi-generational team that reflects the diversity of the community. A leader who can earn and maintain the trust and support of the community, staff and collaborating agencies.

Finance & Payroll Specialist Finance Department, City Hall (Exempt, Full-time) Salary: $61,000-65,000 Seeking a well-rounded financial professional to maintain financial and accounting records in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and procedures, state statutes & legislative requirements, supporting municipal operations, and the general ledger. Responsible for City Center TIF District record-keeping, grant reimbursement management, updating & maintaining the City’s Capital Improvement Plan, and processing payroll using ADP. This position supports of city-wide financial operations.

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. ETS Business Manager - Enterprise Technology Services - #S3475PO - Consider applying your skills to make an impact in the University of Vermont’s Enterprise Technology Services division as we embark on a number of exciting, transformational projects. The division seeks a business manager to support and accelerate this work by providing administrative oversight and management of the business affairs of the division. As the ETS Business Manager, you’ll work directly with the Chief Information Officer and division leadership team, providing high-level analytical support in a wide range of areas. You’ll act as the conduit for all human resource activities and participate in all personnel action and budget discussions. You’ll lead administrative project management activities for the division, prioritizing and resolving complex issues and problems. You’ll draft correspondence and other documents ranging from the routine to the complex and complete research, data analysis and other projects in support of senior leadership. Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree and four years of experience working in a confidential, advisory capacity to senior level executive staffs. A background in personnel, finance and administrative functions is required. 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GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): “I hate being on

my best behavior,” wrote Gemini author Colleen McCullough. “It brings out the absolute worst in me.” In the coming weeks, I hope you avoid the danger she describes. Don’t be on your best behavior! Emulate Gemini filmmaker Clint Eastwood, who said, “I tried being reasonable, but I didn’t like it.” April fool! I lied. Here’s the real truth: Being kind, generous and reasonable will be your secret weapon in the next three weeks. Doing so will empower you to make interesting and unforeseen progress.

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In 1904, it wasn’t illegal to use performance-enhancing drugs during Olympic competitions. Runner Thomas Hicks took advantage of this in the marathon race. The poison strychnine, which in small doses serves as a stimulant, was one of his boosters. Another was brandy. By the time he approached the finish line, he was hallucinating and stumbling. His trainers carried him the rest of the way, and he was declared the winner. I recommend that you make him your inspirational role model in the coming weeks. How might you cheat to gain a great victory? April fool! I lied. While it’s true that a meaningful triumph is within your reach, you’re most likely to achieve it by acting with total integrity, following the rules and imbibing no stimulating poisons.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Science fiction aficionado Wil Wheaton suggests that all of us should have the following: 1. a nemesis; 2. an evil twin; 3. a secret headquarters; 4. an escape hatch; 5. a partner in crime; 6. a secret identity. Dear Taurus, I have doubts that you possess any of these necessities. Please embark on intensive efforts to acquire all of them. Your deadline is April 21. April fool! I half-lied. There’s no way you could add all those things to your repertoire in such a

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): A Tumblr blogger named Alyssa complains, “I’m still peeved that I can’t fly or set things on fire with my mind.” You might share that feeling, Cancerian. But here’s the good news: I predict that you could soon acquire, at least temporarily, the power to fly and set things on fire with your mind. Use these talents wisely, please! April fool! I lied. In fact, you probably won’t be able to fly or set things on fire with your mind anytime soon. However, you may acquire other superpowers that are only slightly less fantastic. For example, you could change the mind of an ally who has been ridiculously stubborn. You could uncover a big secret that has been hidden. You could mend a wound you thought would never heal. Any other superpowers you need right now? LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): I suspect that only a Leo would say what Leo filmmaker Stanley Kubrick once asserted: “You know, it’s not absolutely true in every case that nobody likes a smart ass.” In accordance with astrological omens, I authorize you to prove his assertion. Be the kind of smart-ass that people like. April fool! I’m half-joking. The truth is, I hope you will be the kind of smart-ass that people absolutely adore and get inspired by. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): In honor of your arrival in the most lyrical and soulful phase of your cycle, I offer you advice from poet Richard Jackson: “The secret is to paint your own numbers on the clock, to brush away those

webs that cover the wild country of the soul, to let your star hover between the flowers of the moon and the flowers of the sun, like words you have never spoken yet always hear.” April fool! I partially lied. I don’t think that you should paint your own numbers on the clock. But the rest of what Jackson said is totally applicable and useful for you.

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): “I want excitement,” declared Libra novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, “and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.” In the coming weeks, I hope you will make that statement your motto. April fool! I half-lied. While I do foresee you being able to gather a wealth of excitement, I hope you won’t be as extreme as Fitzgerald in your pursuit of it. There will be plenty of opportunities for excitement that won’t require you to risk loss or pay an unwelcome price. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If you can’t make fun of yourself, you don’t have a right to make fun of others,” said comedian Joan Rivers. I agree! So if you are feeling an irresistible urge to mock people and fling sarcasm in all directions, please prepare by first mocking yourself and being sarcastic toward yourself. April fool! I lied. I will never authorize you to make fun of others. Never! In the coming weeks, I hope you’ll do the opposite: Dole out massive doses of praise and appreciation toward everyone. To prepare, dole out massive doses of praise and appreciation toward yourself. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the

traditional opera performed in China’s Sichuan province, magical effects were popular. One trick involved characters making rapid changes of their masks. The art was to remove an existing mask and don a new one with such speed that the audience could not detect it. An old master, Peng Denghuai, once wore 14 different masks in 24 seconds. This is an antic I think that you should imitate in the coming days. The more frequently you alter your persona and appearance, the more successful and popular you’ll be. April fool! I half-lied. I recommend that you gleefully experiment with your image and exuberantly vary your self-presentation. But don’t overdo it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A nutritionist named Mark Haub decided to try losing weight by eating only sugary treats. For 10 weeks he snacked on junk food cakes, cookies and sweet cereals. By the end, he had lost 27 pounds. In accordance with astrological omens, I suggest you try the metaphorical equivalents of this project. For instance, work on deepening your relationships by engaging your allies in shallow conversations about trivial subjects. Or see whether you can enhance your physical fitness by confining your exercise to crossing and uncrossing your legs as you sit on the couch watching TV. April fool! I lied. Here’s your real horoscope: For the next four weeks, take better care of your body and your relationships than you ever have before in your life. Make it a point to educate yourself about what that would entail and be devoted in providing the most profound nurturing you can imagine. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarius-

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Dear Reverend,

I connected with someone on Facebook Dating recently. After only talking for an hour or so, he started coming on really strong. It got to the point where I had to tell him to stop. I let him know I wasn’t interested in pursuing anything romantic, and he said, “Well, how about we just keep talking, because your feelings will probably change.” He has been messaging me daily ever since. How do I kindly tell him to fuck right off?

Amanda Ditch

(FEMALE, 35)

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SENDING YOU FORGET-ME-NOTS Remembering our sweet summertime days riding bikes and reading the paper together. Our short time together was lovely, and I’m sorry for messing it up. I miss you, dear Vivian! When: Saturday, February 12, 2022. Where: Burlington. You: Man. Me: Man. #915514

If you ask someone to stop coming on to you and they don’t, they’re a jackass and you don’t need to do anything “kindly” for them. I don’t like to make gender generalizations, but women are so often too nice to men who act like jerks. You don’t owe this guy anything. He doesn’t have to like you, and he’s done nothing to deserve your politeness. You should absolutely tell him to buzz off and let him know why. He needs to learn that his behavior is unacceptable, and that’s

WILLISTON WHISTLER 2005-06 Maybe you didn’t think it was you in my original ad, since the date was wrong. I didn’t realize I could put the date in the headline! I would love to see your eyes, your smile and to hear you whistle again! Thinking of you every single day since! Where are you now? When: Thursday, May 11, 2017. Where: in the stairway to heaven MTP. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915512 THE REAL AMANDA ON MATCH The person who said she was Amanda from D.C. actually wasn’t. The real one is back on Match, and I would love to connect. Her son went to Kenyon (or wore a sweatshirt from there). Doesn’t anyone know her who can show her this? Match asked for three things, and she listed six. That’s the kind of mind I like. When: Thursday, February 10, 2022. Where: Match. com. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915511 HOT THROW-UP GIRL At a party, you threw up all over me. It was kind of hot. I only saw your face for a few seconds, but you were gorgeous. You might have had a green dress. But something I know is that your puke was red. (You might wanna get that checked out.) Write me back, please. You. Are. Hot. When: Wednesday, February 2, 2022. Where: Sean’s house party. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915508

CAROLINE FROM WATERBURY The full moon was rising and the owls were hooting during the glow of sunset as we chatted about great hiking trails near the lake. I was walking my dog, and you had yellow pants and tall green boots. While enjoying your company, I suggested Rock Point to check out. You have beautiful eyes and a captivating smile. Coffee sometime? When: Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Where: Shelburne. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915517

Dear Amanda Ditch,

SHAMWOW Happy Birthday! Scoots! When: Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Where: in my dreams. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915515

YELLOW BIKES AND YOU If you crashed into a neon yellow bike on the bike path, I think you might be the one. You wouldn’t recognize me in the light of day, because I was also dressed in all yellow (it’s this role-playing thing I do). You were short, around four feet, reddishorange eyes, bald, curvy. If this is you, write back. I felt a spark. When: Thursday, February 10, 2022. Where: on the bike path. You: Man. Me: Man. #915507 AMANDA FROM DC (ON MATCH) Your profile is wow! I’m not a member of that site, or I’d be messaging you directly. But I like all six of the three things you look for (as well as you making your own rules). Nice guy here, active and fun and single. Would really like to chat and see if there’s chemistry. I hope you see this. When: Friday, January 7, 2022. Where: Match. com. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915486

that. (Side note: Fellas, if this sounds like you, shape the heck up!) However, I do understand if you would rather avoid the confrontation and just be done with him. If that’s the case, you can simply block his number on your phone and block him on Facebook. When you do that, he will automatically be blocked in Facebook Dating. Life’s too short to waste your time on such morons. There are plenty of nice guys out there, so wash your hands of this stinker and move on. Good luck and God bless,

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