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aking art accessible to all has been the mission of Burlington City Arts since it was founded in the 1980s, when Bernie Sanders was mayor of the Queen City. A department of the City of Burlington, BCA meets its mission in partnership with the BCA Foundation, a nonprofit that fundraises to support exhibitions, events, public art and education programs — BCA offers classes and camps that teach everything from screen printing to pottery-making. For years, the BCA offices and classrooms were housed at Memorial Auditorium. But when the building was deemed unsafe in 2016, executive director Doreen Kraft had to find a new home. She toured storefronts, office buildings and church basements. “We could not find the volume of space we needed in Burlington that would be affordable,” Kraft recalls. Former board member Skip Farrell came to the rescue; he offered space in his Farrell Distributing warehouse on Pine Street. Kraft knew he planned to sell the building eventually, and thought BCA might be interested in buying it — someday. The day came in the spring of 2018, much sooner than Kraft expected. Farrell was willing to donate part of the proceeds of the sale back to the nonprofit, but BCA would still be on the hook for $2.5 million. And it had just six months to raise the money. The building’s location made it eligible for a New Markets Tax Credit loan. But, Kraft explains, those are “extremely, extremely hard for nonprofits to get” because of the extensive paperwork involved. Then mission-driven Mascoma Bank, which has a branch right next door on Pine Street, stepped up to help. As a Certified B Corporation, Mascoma takes into consideration the value its investments bring to the community. After documenting the benefits of having an art center in that part of the neighborhood, Mascoma Bank and Mascoma Community Development supported BCA through the New Markets Tax Credit process and securing financing. “They really were fabulous partners,” says Kraft. “They shepherded us through the whole closing process. They were just superheroes.” As it turns out, the timing was perfect. When COVID hit, BCA was able to spread out into unused parts of the warehouse to meet distancing requirements and set up stations for temperature checks. “During the pandemic, actually owning the building made our programs possible,” says Kraft. On June 4, BCA’s downtown gallery next to City Hall will open its first new exhibit in months. The group show, Bubblegum Pop, incorporates intricate candy-colored visuals and more than 1,000 individual works of art. “It’s just magical,” raves Kraft. The underwriter for BCA’s year of exhibitions? Mascoma Bank. Kraft believes the COVID crisis has made people much more aware of the importance of strong arts and culture organizations, and the role they play in supporting a thriving local economy. Both Mascoma and BCA understand that connection, and that, as Kraft says, “Culture is critical.”

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For six years, Kristen Ravin has compiled the calendar of events for Seven Days. Those listings, publicizing everything from poetry readings to protests, are the vertebrae of the paper, the central information system from which much of our arts and entertainment coverage flows. Wrangling the collection into a readable format requires myriad skills. There’s some sleuthing involved, because not everybody sends event info to the paper. Then there’s the challenge of transforming every kind of notice into an informative, well-crafted sentence — two at most. That might require distilling a two-page press release down to its essence. Or, in the case of a postcard announcing an upcoming chicken pot pie supper, extrapolation and imagination. The more you know — about everything under the sun, including Vermont geography — the easier it is to write lively listings. And, of course, it all has to be accurate. A wrong time or date can spell disaster for event producers and their audiences. Frankly, it’s a grueling job that requires organization, time management and endurance. I did it one summer, and the task nearly killed me. But in the end, the gig has proved to be an excellent training ground for successful wordsmiths, editors and publishers. Carolyn Fox had the calendar job for three and a half years — right out of Champlain College — before she became our chief proofreader and specialty publications manager. Similarly, Alison Novak worked her way up from calendar writer for our parenting publication, Kids VT, to managing editor. In the June issue, inside this week’s paper, she announces her next step: to full-time reporter on the Seven Days news team, covering education. Kristen was headed in the same direction. During the pandemic, when the calendar shrank to virtual events only, she became a de facto staff writer, contributing stories to the arts and features section, Nest, Staytripper and Kids VT. You would never have guessed from her prose that she was working from Michigan. A single mom, she moved back home with her young daughter two years ago to be closer to her parents. Two months later, she’d bought a house. Now, after two years of working remotely, she’s leaving us to start a new job teaching middle school English. “Writing for Seven Days has been an amazing experience and a constant throughout lots of life changes over the past six years,” she wrote to our staff, “but I’m ready to work where I live.” Hard as it is to see Kristen go, I derive some If you like what we do and can afford to help comfort knowing she’ll be teaching young pay for it, become a Seven Days Super Reader! Michiganders how to write proper sentences. Look for the “Give Now” buttons at the top of Those kids don’t know how lucky they are. sevendaysvt.com. Or send a check with your

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FAIR GAME

OPEN SEASON ON VERMONT POLITICS BY MARK JOHNSON

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Patrick Leahy must decide whether to run next year for a ninth six-year term in Congress

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oor Pat Leahy. All anyone wants to talk about is how old he is — and whether he’s too old to run again next year. In just the last two weeks, Politico and the Atlantic have written stories about whether 81-year-old Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vt.) will retire or seek an almost unheard-of ninth term. In response, VTDigger.org polled some of his potential successors on the long list of younger Democrats eager to go to Washington, D.C. The odds are, those successors will have to wait. Leahy signaled to Politico that he will run again, and I’d bet his Middlesex farm he does just that. Yes, 81 is old, and 88 — the age he would be at the end of another term — sounds, well, significantly older. But we are living in an era of age defiance, with a 78-year-old president, a 50-year-old Professional Golfers’ Association champion and a 43-yearold quarterback who just won the Super Bowl. Yes, Leahy had a health scare in January that sent him to the hospital briefly, but he has been at work steadily since, and his office blamed the event on muscle spasms. Yes, his wife, MARCELLE, has been diagnosed with a chronic form of adult leukemia, but any intense treatment isn’t expected to last long. And yes, Leahy was sometimes hard to understand when he was presiding over DONALD TRUMP’s impeachment hearings, but he was also wearing a mask. The main reason the eight-term senator is likely to run again? Vermont can’t afford for him not to. Leahy knows that. His claim to Politico that he is the “only Democrat” able to hold the seat was boastful, even absurd, in liberal Vermont. But it is true that Leahy wields substantial power thanks to the Senate’s seniority system, which has rewarded his 46-year tenure with chairmanship of the money-distributing Appropriations Committee. Oh, and did we mention the return of earmarks, which allow senators to capture a little extra cash for their state? With Leahy holding that plum post, all of us in Vermont should be hoping he runs. One unnamed Republican senator offered a more personal reason to doubt a Leahy retirement, telling Politico: “I always assumed he would run simply because: What else would he do that he’d like better than this?” A Republican challenge to Leahy next

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year doesn’t seem likely. Gov. PHIL SCOTT, the anemic Vermont party’s only hope, told reporters last week he wants Leahy to run again. Scott made perhaps the best argument for why Vermonters would be reluctant to see him replace Leahy, despite his high ratings: The Senate is split 50-50, and the state’s left-leaning majority won’t chance tipping the balance back to the Republicans. The list of Democrats waiting for an opening in Washington is long and could grow longer if Leahy doesn’t go forward. U.S. Rep. PETER WELCH (D-Vt.) hasn’t ruled out a run and could cap his 40-year political career with a Senate seat, though at 74 he would face questions about how he can build seniority over the long haul. State Senate President Pro Tempore BECCA BALINT (D-Windham) told VTDigger she’s interested, as did Sen. KESHA RAM (D-Chittenden). While Lt. Gov. MOLLY GRAY ducked the question, she is thought to have her eye on Congress, too. The most eye-opening comment came from Attorney General T.J. DONOVAN, long considered a possible candidate, who said that Vermont — which has never sent a woman to Congress — should do so the next time there is an open seat. Donovan’s comments likely indicate his interest is running for governor once Scott steps away.

Leahy declined to talk to Seven Days, but spokesperson DAVID CARLE said Leahy and Marcelle will decide as a team later this year whether he will take the plunge. “[They] have a long-held policy of making reelection decisions a year out from the election, and that hasn’t changed,” Carle said. “He is preparing for an election like every other senator in cycle and has retained his campaign manager and fundraiser.” While Vermont’s up-and-coming Democrats await Leahy’s decision, one thing seems clear: None is willing to throw the dice, as a young Pat Leahy did. Forty-eight years ago come fall, the then 33-year-old Chittenden County prosecutor decided he would not wait for 83-year-old Republican senator GEORGE AIKEN, a unbeatable Vermont political icon, to announce whether he would seek a seventh term. Leahy won his gamble: He began quietly lining up support and entered the race in early 1974, and, sure enough, Aiken announced his retirement soon afterward. Leahy won his first Senate term that November.

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Hardball. That’s what union members say management is playing in contract talks

at VTDigger, Vermont’s online daily news site, where journalists voted to unionize 14 months ago. Pay and working conditions, including job protection, are key issues. Reporters say colleagues have been fired or eased out in the past and want protection from a similar fate. The union’s frustration spilled into public view last week when the VTDigger Guild took to Twitter to call out management, essentially for not negotiating in good faith. It was ugly. One post said management agreed to the union’s sick-time proposal while simultaneously proposing to take back five previously paid holidays. The union called that “three-card monte.” On pay, it said management offered a $34,000 starting salary, less than what a reporter was hired for two years ago. The guild proposed starting pay of $38,000 and a tiered salary structure. Education reporter LOLA DUFFORT, who sits at the negotiating table along with data reporter ERIN PETENKO, called the lack of progress “difficult and frustrating.” “By and large, people are starting to feel pretty insulted by some of the things management is putting forward at the table,” she said. In its Twitter blast, the union also wrote that turnover of reporters is a major issue. “Relying on cheap, young labor that burns out and turns over every two years is not innovative — and it’s not sustainable,” the tweet said. Duffort said seven members of the union have left since its formation; its ranks today stand at 12, though several new hires are expected soon, she said. In response to questions from Fair Game, VTDigger’s management offered a statement saying there has been “good progress” in contract negotiations. As evidence of good faith bargaining, VTDigger cited the 34 hours of contract talks that have occurred and the exchange of more than 100 proposals. There’s been no impasse on any issue, according to the statement, which was provided by JAKE PERKINSON, VTDigger’s legal counsel. Perkinson said respect for the reporting profession has been “embedded in the DNA” at VTDigger since founder and editor ANNE GALLOWAY launched the nonprofit operation in 2009. “We are prepared to settle on a fair contract as quickly as possible,” the statement said.

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“A lot of the changes Paul has implemented have been positive and, I think, are appreciated,” Duffort said. “But in terms of things like contractual protections, which are really important and don’t rely on the goodwill of individual managers, that’s been really difficult and frustrating” to get any movement. Perkinson’s statement was more upbeat: “While union negotiations may at times be challenging, we are fully confident that this process will in the end strengthen our organization and better equip us to fulfill our mission.” Stay tuned.

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All the best to my colleague DAVE GRAM, who stepped down from the Fair Game column last week because of health issues. During his decades as an Associated Press reporter in Montpelier and, later, as a radio interviewer and columnist, he was known as a straight shooter. I was sorry he had to wrap up the column, and I know he was, too. Who am I? Like Dave, I’ve been covering Vermont for a long time, since 1982, starting as a cub reporter at the Eagle Times in Springfield before working at the Burlington Free Press, where I covered crime and then city hall. Then, for 25 years, I hosted a daily radio program in which I interviewed a spectrum of politically diverse guests, analysts, authors and news makers. I also talked and listened to lots of Vermonters. My goal is to put my experience to good use and continue the fine work of my Fair Game predecessors. I’ll keep my ear to the ground and my eye on the pols in Montpelier and Washington, provide some analysis, and maybe even offer some insight, too. I’ll also hope to turn the spotlight on people, places and nonpolitical topics throughout the state. A word of caution: I don’t do nicknames. That was the turf of my friend and colleague PETER FREYNE , the original Fair Gamer. One of the most valuable pieces of advice I’ve gotten as a journalist came from KEN SQUIER, the legendary broadcaster for whom I worked at WDEV in Waterbury for almost 20 years: Keep it relevant. I’ll do my best. m

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So far, VTDigger’s board of directors has been uninvolved, and it turned down a union request to meet over concerns when former managing editor COLIN MEYN left abruptly at the end of last year. Full disclosure: I was an editor at VTDigger for five years, until I resigned in December. Now, standing at a distance, I can only say — let’s hope a settlement is reached soon. Here’s why. VTDigger’s importance can’t be underestimated. It has become a major player in a media landscape in which nontraditional outlets have expanded their news coverage as local dailies shrank. VTDigger has a large stable of young, hardworking reporters. Those journalists provide the most consistent daily coverage of the Vermont Statehouse, plus dispatches from all corners of the state. Some who left have gone on to write for major publications, including the Boston Globe, the New York Times and the Atlantic. Pay in the newspaper business is notoriously low. (I made $19,000 a year when I started at the Burlington Free Press in the 1980s. You work hard and pay your dues.) But the union’s concerns about turnover should not be dismissed. It’s important for any newsroom to retain reporters who stick around long enough to acquire a deeper understanding of the state and the issues that face it. Better pay (especially in high-cost Vermont) and good working conditions can help. With an enthusiastic donor base and a mix of funding sources, VTDigger is cited as a national model for sustainability in a media landscape where once-dominant newspapers have faded. The Burlington Free Press shrank from 52,000 print copies to today’s circulation of fewer than 10,000 — and is offering its online content for $1 for six months. Wow. It’s to be hoped that VTDigger’s resources, which include a three-year, $900,000 grant from the American Journalism Project, will allow management and the union to find common ground on pay and benefits. Duffort described the mood of the VTDigger newsroom as “mixed.” She said working conditions had improved since the arrival of new managing editor PAUL HEINTZ (a former Seven Days reporter and Fair Game columnist — that’s the world of Vermont journalism for you).

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little after 6 p.m. last Friday, people began streaming into Essex Center Grange Hall #155, an austere white clapboard building that shares a parking lot with Frank’s Motorcycle Sales & Service. In sweatshirts and flannel, sweater sets and blazers, the citizens gathered for a public forum focused on critical race theory. Printouts of articles from right-wing news outlets, including the Epoch Times and the Federalist, were scattered on long tables at the back of the meeting hall. “How Public Schools Indoctrinate Kids Without Almost Anyone Noticing,” one headline read. As the crowd mushroomed, people arranged additional metal folding chairs in rows. By the 6:30 p.m. start time, an audience of more than 100, including Vermont GOP chair Deb Billado and conservative 16

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blogger Guy Page, had joined the mostly maskless, standing-room-only crowd. Underhill Republican Party chair Ellie Martin had organized the meeting. “I love my country, and I love my grandkids, and I love all of you,” Martin told the attentive crowd. “Remember, these kids of ours are our treasures. They are the future of our country. Without them, we don’t have a country.” Several months ago, Martin helped arrange a bus trip for Vermonters to Washington, D.C., for the January 6 proTrump rally that turned into a siege of the U.S. Capitol. (Vermonters were not among the hundreds charged in connection with the riot.) Page spoke next and led the crowd in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance — hands on hearts and eyes trained on an American

flag in the front of the room — followed by a full-throated rendition of the first verse of “America (My Country, ’Tis of Thee).” The first of the featured speakers was Liz Cady, a newly elected Essex Westford School District Board member who has been an outspoken critic of the Black Lives Matter movement, the school district’s equity policy and critical race theory. The theory, born in 1970s legal academia, posits that racism is embedded in systems and institutions such as schools. Last September, then-president Donald Trump propelled the term into the national consciousness when he ordered government agencies to cease staff trainings that employ it. Conservative commentators, including Megyn Kelly and Charlie Kirk, OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE STREET

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Gov. Phil Scott on Tuesday vetoed a pair of bills that would have granted local voting rights to noncitizen residents of Winooski and Montpelier, asserting that the topic needed “further consideration and debate.” Scott detailed his decision in a letter to lawmakers Tuesday evening, arguing the two charter change proposals lacked clarity on who exactly would be able to vote and would lead to inconsistent election policies across the state. He urged the legislature to develop a statewide policy or “uniform template” for municipalities seeking to expand voting rights. “I understand these charter changes are well-intentioned,” Scott wrote in a letter to lawmakers. “But I ask the Legislature to revisit the issue of noncitizen voting in a more comprehensive manner.” The rejection will come as a blow to the two cities where voters overwhelmingly supported the proposals and will likely fuel accusations of paternalism from those pushing for more municipal freedom. Scott took a slightly more favorable view of a proposal to decriminalize possession of small amounts of the opioid-addiction drug buprenorphine, signing that bill despite questions over whether it was necessary. Under the new law, people 21 and older found with less than 224 milligrams of “bupe” would not be criminally punished. Those below 21 found with that amount or less would be ticketed and referred to a drug diversion program. In a letter detailing that decision, Scott said he feared there was not enough data on whether decriminalizing buprenorphine actually reduces overdoses, as advocates say. He also expressed concerns that it could potentially undermine more official treatment methods. “However, we know addiction is a chronic illness and continue to see the devastating impacts on individuals, their families, and communities,” he wrote. “Although I remain skeptical, I signed this bill because it is well-intentioned and offers another potential approach to reduce the impacts of substance use disorder.” He added that the legislature’s decision to sunset the law in 2023 to give experts the opportunity to access its impact further swayed his decision. “It is important to me that we do not unravel previous progress, increase abuse of diverted drugs, or jeopardize the success of the hub and spoke system,” he wrote. m

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eth Andrew arrived in Marlboro with a promise to remake the southern Vermont town’s college campus into a launching pad for a new form of higher education. A year later, Andrew is leaving under a cloud following his arrest for bank fraud. A man in line behind him for a chance to reuse the property, Adrian Stein, is a secretive Canadian businessman who dreams of building a $400 billion asteroid-defense system around Earth, unrelated to the property. The state of play at the former site of Marlboro College might seem farcical if not for its deep emotional significance to the town’s 1,000 or so residents. Many have personal connections to the secluded, wooded campus and were heartbroken by the college’s demise. “Most of the town is just kind of shellshocked and waiting for the next shoe to start dropping,” said resident Lauren Poster. “We just feel powerless.” The royal mess Andrew and his team have made in Marlboro could present an opportunity for Stein, who has been searching for a campus to use in a proposed global business network based on a supposedly forthcoming cryptocurrency. Stein already claims ownership of the campus — the result of a disputed transaction struck with Andrew just before the fraud allegations came to light. Marlboro College merged with Boston-based Emerson College in 2020 following years of declining enrollment. As part of the agreement, Marlboro trustees sold off the 533-acre Vermont campus, choosing Andrew’s New Yorkbased nonprofit, Democracy Builders, over several other potential buyers. Democracy Builders persuaded trustees with its vision for a low-residency college, dubbed Degrees of Freedom, that would focus on serving disadvantaged students without saddling them with debt. The nonprofit paid just $225,000 in cash for the campus and assumed $1.5 million in long-term debt. It was a controversial conclusion to a contentious merger, made worse when a group of largely anonymous former students and staffers of the charter school network Andrew founded, Democracy

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Democracy Builders cut ties with Andrew upon his arrest, but the future of its program at Marlboro remains in grave doubt. In the weeks that followed, Degrees of Freedom’s then-CEO, Chandell Stone, told news outlets that the program’s launch would be delayed indefinitely as she sought to rebuild relationships with donors. But according to Democracy Builders, Stone’s role with Degrees of Freedom ended May 21, and her employment with Democracy Builders remains a “sensitive matter.” Stone declined an interview request via email. Democracy Builders is now “working to review and revise and revisit” Degrees of Freedom, board member Alize-Jazel Smith said in an interview. She declined to discuss its future in Marlboro but said managing the campus property was not a core mission. Degrees of Freedom’s prospects were questionable even before its founder was charged. As VTDigger.org has reported, the “college,” as the program has at times described itself, had not yet applied for DEGREES OF FARCE

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news Rock Point School Removes Portrait of Bishop Who Supported Slavery B Y A L I SON NOVAK alison@sevendaysvt.com Rock Point School, a small independent day and boarding high school located on Burlington property owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, is reckoning with the racism of one of the church’s former leaders. Last month, students and faculty removed a large portrait of John Henry Hopkins, who in 1832 became the first Episcopal bishop of Vermont, from the school’s front hall because of his writings defending slavery. Hopkins’ son built the school building in the late 1800s as a tribute to his father. It’s on a large scenic parcel that includes Lake Champlain shoreline. In 1861, the elder Hopkins penned A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical and Historical View of Slavery, a pamphlet in which he criticized abolitionists and argued that slavery was not a sin. Head of school C.J. Spirito said that several faculty members participated in a study group that read Hopkins’ work with Shannon MacVean-Brown, Vermont’s first Black Episcopal bishop. Afterward, the school began discussing how to reconcile the bishop’s racist beliefs with the role he played in founding the diocese and his belief in the importance of educating women. Students, with the support of their English teacher, Abbey Baker, ultimately decided to take down the large painting of Hopkins and put a smaller pen-and-ink drawing of the bishop in the less centrally located chapel. Hanging beside that portrait is a statement written by students and Baker that explains the school’s decision. Hopkins’ face is not what the school wants visitors to see when they come through the door, the statement reads. “We did not want that picture and that person to be seen as a remarkable man,” it says. “He is a part of the school’s foundation and although that cannot be erased or forgotten, we hope that those who see his portrait will know both of his contributions to the world: his aid to slavery and his aid to education.” Hopkins’ name remains etched on the dolomite facade of the school building. During a community meeting with students, staff and Bishop MacVeanBrown, a teacher proposed hanging the Black Lives Matter flag beneath Hopkins’ name, and students liked the idea, said Spirito. The bishop — who is a member of the school’s board — also lent her support. m

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Opposite Sides of the Street « P.16 have ridiculed the concept as the epitome of liberal wokeness. In recent months, Republican-dominated legislatures in Arizona, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and other states have advanced legislation to ban critical race theory in schools. They argue that it is unpatriotic and divisive, and teaches white children to be ashamed of themselves and their forebearers. Cady, who lives in Essex, assailed a Courageous Conversation training for educators that the Essex Westford School District offered in 2019. Superintendent Beth Cobb described it in a newsletter as “a seminar that helps teachers, students and administrators understand the impact of race on our lives, our work and our learning” and “investigate the role that racism plays in institutionalizing achievement disparities.” Cady called Courageous Conversation an example of critical race theory and said it is premised on the idea that our country is inherently racist. “Most people in America, certainly most people I have met in Vermont, they do not care about the color of your skin. They care about the content of your character,” said Cady, paraphrasing Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Her audience clapped enthusiastically. Cady also questioned Essex Westford’s proposed equity policy, which she said the school board will vote on in mid-June. She said one of its tenets — that marginalized staff and students should be able to participate in affinity groups, or gatherings in which people who share common identities can connect with and support each other — was just a “nicer” way to promote segregation. “Our public schools should be free of ideologies and theories, and they should focus on providing excellent core education for all students,” she said. “[Critical race theory] and all of its derivatives, no matter how nice the words are that they use, should not be in our public schools.” Directly across the street, another group of local people gathered inside Essex Center United Methodist Church. The meeting was convened by state Rep. Tanya Vyhovsky (P/D-Essex) in response to the grange hall meeting. These attendees, too, discussed their frustrations with the school district’s handling of race. But their point of view was very different. “My husband is a person of color, and we regularly question whether it is safe to have children, and I don’t think that’s the community we should live in,” Vyhovsky told the audience. The 40 or so participants

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all wore masks but still socially distanced by spreading out in the church’s community room. “In all of these conversations,” she continued, “the voice that we haven’t heard much from is our students.” She then cleaned her microphone using a Clorox wipe and handed it to a panel of six Essex High School juniors and seniors. They were from the Social Justice Union, a student club created last year. Senior Tilly Krishna, the high school’s student body president, said recent efforts to bring discussions about race into school have run up against apathy and ignorance, including among the teachers who are expected to help lead them. “Most white adults don’t know how to talk about racism at all,” she said, eliciting chuckles from listeners. “It’s so hard to get people to care about this,” another senior, Abby Brooks, said. For the next 90 minutes, the students fielded questions from supportive adults in search of ways to help. Maybe teachers need to be trained, one person said. Others pressed Vyhovsky and state Rep. Marybeth

Redmond (D-Essex Junction) on state policies that would encourage a more diverse faculty. One attendee, Roy V. Hill II, commanded attention with his slow, gravelly voice. He applauded the panel of young women for their work and suggested another reason for the resistance they have encountered. The scrubbed version of American history as typically taught in public schools, he said, is a form of “indoctrination,” and the ignorance that white teachers and students claim when confronted with their own racial identity serves to protect their social power. “The elephant in the room,” Hill said, “is fear.” Back at the grange hall, Essex High School senior Alex Katsnelson, wearing the hipster-formal uniform of a skinny black tie, fitted blazer and bright white Vans, reflected on what he called the “overtly political presentations” that he’s experienced during his school’s advisory time, a nonacademic block of the school day meant for student discussion. In one instance, he said, students were shown “an artwork piece” from a newspaper depicting “characters” such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin, then asked to reflect on how their whiteness contributed to those individuals’ deaths. “This is why we have fifth graders coming home saying that they wish they were Black,” said Katsnelson. “They’re showing our children these political things and then telling them to join them in pushing their agenda. How else can you describe this except accepted indoctrination?” he asked.

Get lost in the moment and find your best self. Sen. Russ Ingalls (R-Essex/Orleans), who was elected to the Vermont legislature in 2020, also spoke and lambasted the Democratic Party with generalizations. When the Senate recently voted 29-1 to declare racism a public health emergency in Vermont, Ingalls cast the “no” vote. “The Democrats believe that all police are racist, and they also believe that nobody should be in jail and that the vast majority of the ones that are incarcerated are because of no fault of their own,” Ingalls said. “Democrats also want you to know that you’re racist. You don’t even know that you are, but you are.” Several audience members snickered. In a question-and-answer session that followed, community members asked how they could stop the teachings on race. Running for school board or municipal or state government was the only way, Page told the crowd. “You’re never going to change their minds, people, so you gotta change them,” he said, about incumbent officeholders. One woman recounted an incident at Essex High School in which her daughter had watched with horror as classmates berated a student after he told them he had a Confederate flag that belonged to his deceased grandfather hanging in his bedroom. “I think that the teacher was put in a position where, if they stepped up and said something, then are they going to get attacked?” she said. “The classroom was out of control.” She asked Katsnelson whether this kind of incident was common in the high school. “That’s probably where things are headed,” said Katsnelson. “And it might not even be the Confederate flag. It might just be because you are white. That’s the end result of berating someone for their race and this antiwhite rhetoric.” A soft-spoken woman with a schoolage child said she was dismayed that her son’s teacher had told his class, “If you’re not anti-racist, you are racist.” “I just hope that people will join me to point out how unfair this is to small children who shouldn’t have to pick a side,” she said. “I don’t think that fourth graders, third graders, second graders should be having to think about this at all.” Several people expressed their pleasure at being in a group among others with similar outlooks. “I came in here ready to attack you guys. I didn’t know I was with likeminded people,” said a man standing in the back of the room. The crowd laughed. “That’s on the other side of the street,” someone quipped. They laughed again. m

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Canadian Company Plans to Purchase Koffee Kup Bakery B Y COLIN F L AND E R S colin@sevendaysvt.com A family-owned baking company based in Canada says it expects to purchase the assets of the recently shuttered Koffee Kup Bakery, bringing hope for dozens who abruptly lost their jobs last month. Mrs. Dunster’s — a New Brunswick baked goods distributor — announced its intentions in a press release last Thursday, saying it was facilitating the purchase through newly formed North Atlantic Baking, which will be based out of Burlington. Blair Hyslop, who co-owns and runs Mrs. Dunster’s with his wife, Rosalyn, said in a press release that they are negotiating a lease with a court-appointed receiver and hope to have it completed within the next few days. They said they plan to resume operations at Koffee Kup’s two Vermont bakeries while they try to sell off a third facility in Connecticut. The company’s announcement came just hours after Mrs. Dunster’s received approval to participate in the Vermont Employment Growth Incentive program, which promises state payments in exchange for job creation and capital investments. Beyond the potential total incentives — up to $580,000 for the Burlington location and up to $1.2 million for the Brattleboro one — terms of the agreements are confidential. The payments begin only after the state Department of Taxes confirms compliance with the agreement. Koffee Kup and its Brattleborobased subsidiary, Vermont Bread, abruptly laid off about 250 people across the two locations late last month, citing mounting debt. The move came just weeks after privateequity firm American Industrial Acquisition purchased the company. One former employee went on to file a $5 million class-action lawsuit alleging that the company failed to give proper notice for the closure, while Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan filed court papers last week urging that employees receive the $800,000 in accrued time off that they were owed. Shortly after the closure, KeyBank sued Koffee Kup for breach of contract, writing in court filings that the company still owed more than $7 million in loans. A court-appointed receiver, Ronald Teplitsky of Next Point, confirmed to Seven Days last Thursday that his group was working with a “preferred candidate” on the “disposition” of Koffee Kup’s assets. m

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ebecca Sheppard of Montpelier pulled her Volvo sedan into the driveway of Vermont Compost last week and popped the trunk. Inside were several five-gallon plastic buckets filled with rotting food scraps that Sheppard had dutifully separated from her trash, as the state has required since July 1, 2020. She’d been storing the dregs in the buckets for months, so when she pried off the tops and tipped the fetid slop into one of the company’s 50-gallon totes, she winced at the noxious plume. And yet she’s made this putrid pilgrimage for years, willing to go the extra mile to reduce her waste and return her food leftovers to the land from whence they came. “I give them my food scraps, then I buy it back from them as compost,” Sheppard said. “It’s a great business.” The Montpelier company is one of a handful that combines composting with raising chickens. Founded by compost pioneer Karl Hammer in 1992, the business now has about 800 hens feeding exclusively on the food scraps they scratch out of the huge piles of steaming compost. The company has struggled with uncertainty in recent years, in part because of a regulatory quagmire created by disagreements over whether such operations are farms or dumps. But hope is on the horizon: After a long legislative battle, lawmakers carved out an exemption for such hybrid entities; Gov. Phil Scott signed S.102 last month. Farm- and kitchen-waste operations seemed poised for growth when the state banned food scraps from landfills last year. Since the prohibition went into full effect, the amount of diverted food waste has increased dramatically, said Josh Kelly, materials management section manager for the state Department of Environmental Conservation. A few years ago, Vermonters and businesses in the state were sending nearly 80,000 tons of food waste annually to landfills, about 20 percent of their total trash. After the ban, the volume of separated, compostable food waste collected at transfer stations in the state spiked as more people did their diversion duty. In Stowe, for example, the Lamoille County transfer station took in nine tons of food 20

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waste in the quarter just before the ban went into effect — then 29 tons in the quarter immediately after, Kelly said. Statewide totals have yet to be calculated, but similar increases at other locations suggest Vermonters are getting the message that food waste is not garbage. Instead, said Kelly, it’s a valuable resource that can be used to feed animals, make

compost and generate energy. “The increases are remarkable,” Kelly said. Outfits such as Vermont Compost have yet to benefit from the surge in scraps, however, in part because of past uncertainty about regulations governing their business. The hybrid nature of the operation — a commercial compost producer and an organic egg farm — landed it in a

gray area between the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, which regulates farming, and the Agency of Natural Resources, which oversees solid waste facilities such as dumps and recycling centers. The questions came to a head in 2018, when the agriculture agency, citing changes in federal food safety laws, decided that feeding food scraps to animals wasn’t strictly farming. That put the regulatory decision to the Department of Environmental Conservation, which operates within the Agency of Natural Resources and has stricter rules about water quality, odor and pest control for waste operations than for farms. “It was just, ‘Are you a farm? Are you a solid waste facility?’ And a lot of places were both,” said Cary Giguere, director of public health and resource management for the ag agency. Some composters perceived the jurisdictional overlap as an existential threat to their businesses. They formed a group called Poultry Farmers for Compost Foraging and lobbied lawmakers to treat them as farmers, not waste dumps. The protracted legislative battle cast a pall over virtually everything Vermont Compost did, from how many chickens it could raise to whether it should make key investments in equipment or buildings. “There were a couple times where we as a company asked ourselves whether we could even be accepting food residuals anymore,” said Kurt Ericksen, Vermont Compost’s general manager. “It was like, ‘How do we run a business without knowing this stuff?’” The company decided to soldier on, investing in a new henhouse and a huge hoop-house structure to keep water off the foraging areas. Driving around the property in a mudencrusted golf cart recently, Ericksen showed off these and other investments while describing how nerve-racking it had been to face losing a source of free chicken feed and a key compost ingredient. The food scraps from local restaurants and grocers, when mixed with manure and spoiled silage, create a bounty of bugs, microbes and fungi, improving the chickens’ overall health and egg quality, he said. The chickens, meanwhile, add their own poop to the piles, helping to create the kind of rich soil amendments

Kurt Ericksen of Vermont Compost checking on his flock of laying hens feeding on compost outside their new barn

and composts that have made the company well-known in New England organic farming and gardening circles. Removing food scraps from the equation would have required the company to augment its chicken feed with grain, adding a cost. More importantly, it would have prevented the company from putting the waste from agricultural products back into the soil, which closes the nutrient loop. “When people ask me what I do, I say I manage regional nutrient cycles,” Ericksen said with a boyish grin. A few years ago, Vermont Compost was processing more than 2,000 cubic yards of food scraps annually. After its hauling partner starting taking scraps elsewhere, the company was forced to establish its own collection routes in Washington

County. Today it collects just a fraction of what it once did, about 200 cubic yards a year. Ericksen hopes to grow back to 1,000 yards or more, he said. That will now be possible because he and others convinced lawmakers that their work is, in fact, farming and should be treated as such. The new law allows farms to import up to 2,000 cubic yards of food waste annually as long as they use at least half of the compost on-site — for example, applying it to fields or using it to start vegetables — or if they are defined as small farms that raise poultry. Ericksen said he doesn’t feel he’s won a major victory so much as he’s had a cloud lifted. He credits the advocacy organization Rural Vermont — and Giguere, who he

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said understood the benefits of clarifying the issue — with helping lawmakers see the light. Farmers who make compost from food scraps are helping communities recycle

their food waste while reducing their farms’ need to buy fertilizer, Ericksen said. Chicken-foraging was the highlight of the bill, but Giguere said a more consequential piece gives the agriculture agency broad authority to regulate other “soil inputs.” This includes biosolids, an end product of wastewater treatment plants that is spread on fields as fertilizer. These materials often contain trace amounts of PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals” that have become ubiquitous in the environment. The bill contains money for sampling agricultural soils, and the agency plans to adopt rules for spreading biosolids, he said. On another hot issue, the bill charges the ag agency with tackling microplastics in soil. Compost operators are concerned that large volumes of food waste that can no longer go to landfills will be sent to “depacking” facilities that use large machines to separate food from its packaging. Critics worry that those facilities, such as the Casella Waste Systems site in Williston, smash the packaging and leave plastic bits in the waste. The resulting slurry is pumped into massive digesters that mix the food waste with manure and capture the methane for use as renewable gas. The material left after the digester does its work can be applied to the soil, and some people worry that it will contain tiny plastic fragments from the mashing process. “If we have microplastics in that material, it would be simply criminal to be putting it on our farmland,” Tom Gilbert of Black Dirt Farm in Stannard told lawmakers in April. Creating new rules to address such seemingly intractable environmental challenges may seem like a tall order. But Giguere said the state’s small size and forward-thinking lawmakers and administration make it uniquely suited to “deal with issues that the rest of the country doesn’t even know they have.” m

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Headed to Work? A lot is riding on the future of the office B Y A NNE WAL L A CE ALLE N • anne@sevendaysvt.com

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orkers took just a few days to clear out of their offices when the pandemic arrived in Vermont, leaving leftovers to languish in the break room fridge and plants to wither on windowsills. But it could take years to figure out what workplaces — and the communities that rely on them — will look like as COVID-19 restrictions evaporate. With the vaccination rate rising, managers must plan for a productive future using untested assumptions about the spread of the virus and its variants. Meanwhile, commercial landlords are looking for ways to show it still makes sense for companies to gather at an office. Local businesses in cities such as Montpelier and Burlington are pondering a future that might hold a smaller daily influx of workers. And many employees want to hang on to the flexible lifestyle they’ve grown to appreciate. For Vermont’s largest employer, the state, there won’t be one sweeping decision on remote work. Administration Secretary Susanne Young told state workers on May 14 that if they can perform their jobs remotely, they should expect to keep doing so through September 1. After that, they’ll need approval under an existing telework policy. Many of the state’s 8,000 employees never did transition to remote work, including corrections officers, laboratory workers, and those in maintenance and transportation. For the others, it all comes down to productivity, Young said in the memo. Many of the decisions will be up to individual managers. “It is expected that this will be an interactive process and employee feedback will be part of the planning,” Young wrote. Most workers at National Life Group, which employs 800 people at its Montpelier headquarters, are going back to the office. Ross Sneyd, director of corporate communications and community relations, said almost everyone will be encouraged to work in the building by the beginning of 2022, with some exceptions. “These are conversations that are happening now among managers,” said Sneyd, who himself has been doing his job from an island in Maine, where he and his partner own a second home. “The goal is to make sure we are able to serve our

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customers and clients, and then we make sure that people who might still have some reason not to be in the office can be accommodated if their job allows it.” Others are taking a more flexible approach. At the Vermont Arts Council, executive director Karen Mittelman polled her 10 staff members to see what they would prefer, then drafted a policy that calls for everyone to work in the Montpelier office at least two days a week. She said staffers were at least as productive during the pandemic as they were before, if not more so. Wi-Fi is spotty at her home in Marshfield, so Mittelman already makes many trips to town. But she strongly supports the members of her staff who can make telecommuting work. “We all discovered there are things we love about being at home,” Mittelman said, noting that one employee saves two hours a day commuting. Mittelman herself likes to walk her dog at midday in Marshfield. “We sit indoors all day at work. There is no reason, when you are working productively at home, that you can’t take a break.”

The future of the office will have a big impact on the neighborhoods and downtowns where people have worked. Tim Heney, a longtime Realtor and property owner in central Vermont, said his commercial tenants started to move

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out of their office space last summer. Some of his tenants have told Heney they’re waiting to see how many people end up returning to their desks before they make decisions on reducing office size, he said. “There is a general understanding that it will be different,” Heney said.

Much of the newly vacated space in Heney’s downtown buildings in Montpelier is on upper floors and was used as offices. Noting the housing shortage in Montpelier, Heney has started the paperwork he’ll need to convert some of that space to apartments. “It’s not going to be a piece of cake,” Heney said about the permitting process. “But we can do it.” Fred Bashara, who owns J. Morgan’s Steakhouse near the Statehouse and several state office buildings, estimated that 12,000 people a day have stopped working in downtown Montpelier as a result of the pandemic. His lunch business is down by about half, he said. “When all’s said and done, I bet most people are going to come back to work,” he said. “I think people need to be out of their house for their own sanity.” Research shows personal vehicle travel dropped by nearly a third in Vermont after the governor declared a state of emergency in March 2020. A survey the following month by Resource Systems Group, a

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national transportation research organization in White River Junction, found that 68 percent of women and 63 percent of men nationally said they’d prefer to work at home at least four days a week. An April 2021 study on the commercial real estate outlook nationally found that 70 percent of brokers reported companies were moving into smaller offices

because of telecommuting. The National Association of Realtors analysis reported that commercial real estate prices have dropped 6 percent over the last year. Some of this change started before the pandemic, noted Heney, who had moved his own company to a smaller space in 2019 as it became easier for his agents to work remotely.

Meanwhile, workers are making it clear they’re in no hurry to go back to the office. “Honestly, I would consider changing fields if my employer forced a return to office life,” said one respondent to a survey organized by the University of Vermont’s Center for Research on Vermont. Of more than 400 Vermonters who responded anonymously to the survey this spring, nearly 90 percent want their employers to do more to support telecommuting, said center director Richard Watts. Asked a series of open-ended questions about their workplaces, many said that working at home had significantly improved their quality of life. “My ‘office’ is a windowless, ventilationless cave that made me loathe going into the office pre-pandemic,” one wrote. “Now, the thought of going back to it makes me totally anxious.” Many welcomed the absence of a commute. “For the first time in my working career, I have an amazing work-life balance,” wrote another. The pandemic has been full of surprises, and it is far too soon to know whether it holds any more. Insurance companies are now working to indemnify their business

clients in light of companies’ vaccination and mask policies, helping them interpret Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, and steering them through the process of crafting overall COVID-19 action plans. Many companies are only now surveying their workers to see how they feel about returning to the office, said Shannon Prescott, a program coordinator for the Richards Group, a Brattleboro insurer. “It’s really confusing right now, to say the least,” said Prescott, who herself is working from her home in Greenfield, Mass. She’s helping her clients figure out which state and federal regulations apply to their businesses and obtain new coverage. “This is a really complicated process for employers,” she said. Mittelman agreed. She has four workers who were hired right before or during the pandemic who have barely worked in their offices; two are supervising people they haven’t worked with face-to-face. The managers are trying to meet more in person, even outdoors. Mittelman isn’t requiring those in-person meetings, but she’s recommending them. “Honestly,” she said, “we are still just figuring all this out.” m

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news Degrees of Farce « P.17 any accreditation and could not participate in federal financial aid programs for students. Moreover, Democracy Builders appears to be short on cash, according to financial records reviewed by Seven Days. That’s where Stein came in. Just weeks after taking ownership of the Marlboro campus, Andrew began negotiating a deal to flip it to Stein, according to hundreds of pages of transaction records submitted to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. By state law, the office reviews deals in which any nonprofit sells off its assets. Records of the review were made public earlier this year following a request by a student journalist at Emerson College. On paper, it looked like a sweet deal for Democracy Builders. The agreement to sell the Marlboro campus would yield quick cash and relieve the nonprofit of its maintenance, which has been estimated to cost at least $1 million per year. Democracy Builders was getting $2.5 million in cash for a property for which it had paid just $225,000 only months earlier. The total value of the deal, including noncash considerations, was $9.4 million, according to the Attorney General’s Office, compared to $1.73 million for Democracy Builders’ initial purchase from the college. Andrew walked into the white-clapboard town office on January 21 and personally transferred the property to Stein, through an entity of Stein’s business venture called Type 1 Civilization. But on February 25, Andrew walked in again and filed a presigned quitclaim deed transferring the campus back to Democracy Builders, town records show. “I got the sense he was trying to work out a partnership with Type 1 Civilization but it quickly did not work out,” Town Clerk Forrest Holzapfel wrote in an email to Seven Days. Stein believes he’s still the rightful owner of the campus and that Andrew did not have legal basis for the February reconveyance. He said that Democracy Builders declared him in default for campus maintenance on the day he took ownership, then used a clause in the sale agreement to reclaim the campus from him. He has not filed a lawsuit, but the campus’ long-standing tenant, Marlboro Music, did. The nonprofit asked a judge in May to declare which entity — Democracy Builders or Type 1 — is essentially its landlord. No one in Marlboro knows much about Stein, and he wants to keep it that way. He politely ended a recent phone interview after this reporter inquired about his business past. “I try to be as quiet and as anonymous 24

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as possible,” he said. “I’m not interested in any needless, unnecessary attention or promotion.” Stein’s guarded stance makes it difficult to assess how serious the man is about his grandiose plans. His interest in the Marlboro campus, a collection of more than 50 buildings nestled on a wooded hillside near the town’s southern edge, stems from a vision to create a global industrial network based on blockchain technology. His business entity, Type 1, is a reference to the so-called Kardashev scale for measuring technological advancement. The idea seems to be to create a remotely accessible fabrication facility — possibly in Israel, he said — that entrepreneurs could use to start all kinds of businesses. The business network would trade on a cryptocurrency dubbed Chronotanium 120 that Stein is developing. Stein has been scouring the northeastern U.S. for a college campus to serve as what he called an “intellectual hub” for this imagined empire and the site of an annual convention. Stein had a purchase agreement in place last year with the trustees of another shuttered Vermont institution, Southern Vermont College, but the deal was canceled when Stein failed to put down the required deposit, trustee Dave Newell said. Marlboro’s trustees also passed over a proposal from Type 1, Stein said, even though his was “more enticing, financially” than the one put forward by Democracy Builders. Stein rebuffed further questions about Type 1, saying the project was “under wraps” until its fall launch. He specifically declined to discuss Chronotanium on the grounds that he does not plan to promote the cryptocurrency inside the United States due to securities regulations. Chronotanium has been a component of his

plans for Marlboro, however. Type 1 promised to deliver up to $10 million worth of the cryptocurrency to Democracy Builders in the form of a “founder’s wallet,” according to a purchase agreement that the latter organization submitted to the Attorney General’s Office. But Stein said the provision was dropped in the final deal. An obscure website for Type 1 reviewed by Seven Days last week documented Stein’s vision in greater detail. Type 1 intends to create “upwards of 100 million jobs and a total economic output of ten trillion dollars.” Chronotanium, the site claimed, will “emerge as the de facto digital currency” and will be supported by an annual HumanKind convention, which is designed to turn every attendee “into a potential holder of” the cryptocurrency. Promotional videos for the upcoming “initial coin offering” claim Chronotanium could earn investors $1,000 on their dollar. One slide, titled “What We Need to Get Through ICO,” listed three things: “Money,” “Money” and “Money.” Stein said the site was not supposed to be publicly available; now, a password is required to view it. Stein published a medical journal in the 1990s, then purchased a long-running literary magazine called Books in Canada with his wife, Olga. The magazine ran into financial difficulties, which Stein alleviated by cutting a distribution deal with Amazon, according to Canadian news reports from the time. Around that time, he also grabbed headlines for a proposal to erect a planetary shield to protect humans from asteroids. Books in Canada folded in 2008 following the Steins’ decision to pen a controversial front-page article in defense of media mogul Conrad Black while Black was facing criminal fraud charges. Seven Days

was not able to locate information about Stein’s business activities since Books in Canada closed. Stein’s involvement in Marlboro has not put residents at ease. “The whole thing doesn’t feel right,” Poster said. Stein, she said, is another “unknown. The unknown is worrisome.” Some in town are hoping that the turmoil will provide a chance for Marlboro Music, which operates an annual classical music festival on campus, to take ownership. Like Stein, the music school tried and failed to buy the campus when the college closed. The nonprofit, however, has a longterm lease agreement that gives it the right of first refusal if the property is sold. The clause took effect January 22 — one day after Andrew transferred the property to Stein. “The biggest fear is that you have this beautiful campus, which could be used for so many things, fall into disrepair and become a blight on the town,” said Adrian Segar, a former Marlboro professor who has been an outspoken critic of Democracy Builders. “The music festival is probably the best defense we have.” An attorney for the music school declined to comment, citing the pending litigation. A hearing in its civil case is scheduled for next week, and the organization is still planning to host the festival at Marlboro later this summer. For now, the campus seems suspended in this particularly strange moment. On a recent evening, a note on the admissions building said visitors were not welcome on campus due to COVID-19. A small, yellow banner bearing Democracy Builders’ name and its megaphone logo stretched above the entry to the dining hall. But the only sounds on campus came from the birds and a light breeze. m

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First, let me say that I’m a huge fan of Seven Days and pay monthly as a Super Reader. I admire your investigative stories that have played a large role in making things better for people in this state. That is why I find it so distressing to come across cigarette advertising in your newspaper. I’d like to echo George Longenecker’s letter [Feedback: “Merchants of Cancer,” March 17] that cigarettes do indeed kill people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that “Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year” in the U.S., on par with the current COVID19 pandemic. In my own experience, my mother died of cancer from cigarette smoking, and it was especially painful to watch as it metastasized to her brain, depriving her of the ability to speak long before she died. I should say I’m all for decriminalizing and even legalizing drugs. At the same time, I’m for public health measures that protect people, especially younger people. I’ve heard it said that banning cigarette ads is a “slippery

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Well-intentioned doctors, policy makers and parents continue to lament the impending legal cannabis market [“A Troubling Trend,” April 14]. Their passion and concern are obvious. However, their ignorance of cannabis culture and, in particular, how cannabis gets bought and sold on the black market is also blatantly obvious. Let’s be very clear: THC caps will make it easier for teenagers to get super high-potency cannabis products. But why? There is currently a thriving cannabis black market in Vermont. A THC cap ensures not only the continuation of this market but potency wars in that market. And who buys from the black market in a newly legal state with distributors who are eager to show their steadfast compliance with state regulations, especially ID checks? Teenagers. But without a THC cap (or any other forms of limiting access), the black market would start to evaporate, and eventually cannabis would get bought and sold by teenagers the same way alcohol is bought and sold by teenagers: from an older friend or cousin who swings by a legal distributor, but never from someone who doesn’t get fined if their product isn’t what they say it is. Our deference to the illusion of morality over the pragmatism of reality is on full display here. And, oh yeah, THC does not indicate potency, but obviously everyone legislating or worrying about cannabis has already done their homework in that domain, so I don’t need to reference, for example, the recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Marijuana concentrates spike THC levels but don’t boost impairment.” Al Teodosio

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Back in the Swing Plunging into post-pandemic exercise with aerial dance B Y A L ISON NOVAK • alison@sevendaysvt.com

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hen I was in my twenties, exercise typically meant going out for a run. But as I, ahem, matured, pounding the pavement took its toll on my body. Plus, it got boring. So, in my thirties, I began to explore new options. Name an exercise trend, and I’ve probably tried it. Sweating it out in Bikram yoga? Yep. Tucking and shaking in barre class? Mm-hmm. Burpeeing, lunging and energetically high-fiving in Les Mills’ BODYATTACK? Been there, done that. But when COVID-19 hit Vermont in March of last year, I had to press pause on my multifaceted workout routine. Gyms and exercise studios closed, and just the thought of swapping hand sweat with others made me shudder. Like so many others seeking an outlet for their pandemic panic, I took matters into my own hands. Our basement became a de facto gym, complete with a yoga mat and blocks, free weights, exercise bands and, yes, a Peloton — with which I surprised my husband as a birthday gift before the wait list became a gazillion months long. Having that outlet over the past yearplus has been important, both physically and mentally. I didn’t even have to change out of my pajama pants. But now that we’re entering the post-vaccination era, I realize I’ve missed some of the benefits of in-person exercise classes — the collective energy, the thrill of trying something new, the whole leaving-the-house thing. It was in that spirit that I approached the introduction to aerial dance class at Murmurations Aerial, a new Burlington studio run by dancer Nicole Dagesse. Using swaths of fabric secured to the ceiling as a partner, aerial dancers balance, swing, spin and even hang upside down in different poses. It’s equal parts modern dance, fitness class and circus act. And it was one form of movement I’d never tried. As a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dagesse was a member of Wire Monkey Dance, a troupe that specialized in gravity-defying performances on a metal scaffolding. That experience ignited her passion for dancing with props. In 2008, while studying for her master’s in dance at the University of Colorado Boulder, Dagesse joined the Frequent Flyers aerial dance company. “It felt so free and effortless, even though it was so much work,” she said. Dagesse has taught classes locally for

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the past five years and just recently moved to the space on Flynn Avenue in Burlington. In addition to offering aerial pop-ups and class series for teens and adults, she plans to hold youth summer camps. Dagesse’s studio is warm and inviting. Light streams through large windows lined with plants; the wood floor is honey colored, and one wall features industrialchic exposed brick. But the focal point of the studio is the billowy, jewel-toned fabric that hangs from steel ceiling beams. Despite its silky appearance, the fabric is actually a polyester-nylon blend, Dagesse told me and two other participants as we readied for class on a muggy Saturday afternoon. Lest we worry that it might not support us, she assured us that the metal hardware to which the fabric is

attached is capable of holding more than 2,000 pounds. That and the soft foam mats beneath each person’s station put my mind at relative ease. When Dagesse mentioned that she responded to “Aaaah!” and “Help!” as well as to her name, I had an inkling that the class would feel less like dipping my toe back into group exercise and more like taking a plunge. Little did I know that, in a few minutes, I’d be hanging upside down. Dagesse showed us how to tie the two hanging strips of fabric into a knot, leaving a “tail” trailing across the floor. Then we secured the fabric around our shoulders like backpack straps as she demonstrated how to hoist ourselves carefully off the ground and invert ourselves. This entailed hooking our feet to the fabric with our knees splayed so we didn’t flip over, then letting our arms hang free. Watching Dagesse demonstrate the move with ease and grace, I doubted I’d be able to mimic it. But somehow I managed to get myself upside down and worked up the courage to let go. Despite feeling a little disorienting, it provided the confidence boost I needed to believe I could do this.

For the next hour, Dagesse led us through a series of poses with names such as “gazelle,” “archer” and “waterfall.” A few were a struggle, but the instructor’s humor and encouragement made it all enjoyable. “Alison, that looks lovely,” Dagesse exclaimed as I stood on a large knot and poked my elbows through pockets of fabric to approximate bat wings. Whether or not the pose really did look lovely, having a real-life person praise me — as opposed to someone beaming feel-good mantras through a screen — felt good. It was also a surprisingly strenuous workout. My bangs were dripping sweat by the end of class, and one of the loops of my mask broke from the exertion. Luckily, Dagesse had a spare. My favorite part of the class was a pose called “cocoon” in which I wrapped one piece of fabric around my back and another around my front, creating a 360-degree hammock. Hanging suspended in a sea of teal felt dreamy — maybe even more relaxing than doing fish pose in my basement My least favorite movement was one that Dagesse told us she’d saved until the end because it might not go well: the spin. We sat on our fabric, wound it up, then let ’er rip. The first time wasn’t too bad, but the second provoked the kind of nausea I’ve only ever experienced on a tire swing. Two days after class, my arms and back still pleasantly sore, I spoke to Dagesse, who has taught virtual dance and yoga over the past year, about the difference between online and in-person classes. She sees the benefits of the virtual format, she said, but being in the same room with her students allows her to read their energy and cater to their needs in the moment. “A screen is inherently flat,” Dagesse added. “I feel like we flatten ourselves as we mirror the screen.” In her view, learning in person allows us to embrace our “three-dimensionality … our roundness.” For me, it was a chance to get out of my head for a while — to hang upside down like an opossum, sprout wings like a bat and emerge from a chrysalis like a somewhat awkward butterfly. I embraced my roundness, but also my newfound freedom after being cooped up for way too long. m

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hen you’re headed into the grocery store, you’re probably thinking about your shopping list. Landscape architect Michael Willard would like you to reflect for a few moments on pollination. The two are connected. He estimates that about a third of our food supply depends on pollinators — birds and insects that move pollen from plant to plant, playing a crucial role in their reproductive cycle. Without pollinators, your shopping list would be a lot shorter: There’d be no apples, blueberries, raspberries, potatoes, avocados or almonds. “The world would not be as enjoyable,” Willard says. Many species of pollinators are in decline. Monarch butterflies and bees get the most attention, but loss of habitat and use of pesticides and herbicides are threatening numerous beetles, moths and birds, as well. What can you do about this looming crisis? For starters, plant a garden full of pollinator-friendly plants. Willard is designing one that will serve as an eye-catching entry point

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PICK THE RIGHT PLANTS Native plants attract the most pollinators, Willard explains. When considering what to grow, focus on those. Julie Parker-Dickerson, a Charlotte resident who maintains five pollinator gardens within walking distance of her house, recommends looking up your zip code on the National Wildlife Federation’s Native Plant Finder at nwf.org/nativeplantfinder. She started planting pollinator gardens in 2019 after seeing road

crews repeatedly mow down a patch of milkweed near her house. Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on milkweed; the larvae use the plant as a source of food when they hatch. A teacher at Smilie Memorial School in Bolton, Parker-Dickerson did her homework, reading books such as biologist Heather Holm’s Pollinators of Native Plants. Then she posted to her neighborhood Front Porch Forum, the free community-building service, announcing her intentions and asking for help. Neighbors and local businesses responded. Parker-Dickerson got donations from Vermont Compost. Julie Rubaud, owner of Red Wagon Plants, gave her a truckload of plants. Parker-Dickerson also sought advice from the volunteer master gardener program at University of Vermont Extension. The five public gardens she now maintains — all posted on Pollinator COURTESY OF BERET HALVERSON

Beret Halverson of the UVM Extension Master Gardener program (left) and Julie Parker-Dickerson at a pollinator garden at Fairwinds Farm

to the Market 32 plaza on Shelburne Road; pending permitting, it should be ready by this fall. Paid for by the property owners — Pomerleau Real Estate — it will include art along with signage explaining how and why the plants were chosen, and the pollinators they feed and host. Habitats like these are popping up in backyards, public spaces and even in solar fields all across Vermont. You

can find many of them on the national Pollinator Pathways map, visible at pollinator-pathway.org. Little butterfly icons mark such habitats in towns from Barton to Benson, Hartford to North Hero. National Gardening Week, June 6 through 12, is a great time to learn about pollinators — and to find out how you can help them.

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Left to right: Bee on blooming echinacea (courtesy of Michael Willard), butterfly garden at Wheeler Nature Park (courtesy of Burlington Garden Club member Carolyn Bates), and eastern tailed blue butterfly at Ferrisburgh solar farm (courtesy of Mike Kiernan)

Pathways — are full of native plant species, including milkweed, bee balm, yarrow and perennial sunflowers. “I love wild senna,” she adds. “It’s yellow, [and] it’s got these beautiful flowers that bees can tuck themselves into.” All told, the gardens support hundreds of pollinators. Parker-Dickerson recommends combining varieties that will bloom sequentially throughout the season, so there are flowers in spring, summer and early fall. You can learn more about the varieties she’s planted at jgardensvt.blogspot.com. She stresses that she couldn’t manage these gardens without help from her neighbors. “If somebody’s out walking in our neighborhood, people will stop and weed,” ParkerDickerson says. “It’s a community effort.”

LET THEM GROW Growing a mix of native plants is the first step. The next one? Don’t obsessively mow and trim your garden, Willard says. Those decaying plants can host and feed beneficial insects. Let your garden get a little messy. This is tough advice for gardener Lynne Tiballi to follow. The copresident of the Burlington Garden Club describes herself as “kind of a neatnik” but says she’s learning not to tidy things up too much. She adds that it’s important not to “deadhead” some plants. Typically gardeners will snip off flowers as they COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR BY:

die back in hopes that the plant will produce another. Tiballi points out that some species of pollinators lay their eggs close to blooms. By cutting them off, you could be destroying a vital food source for them.

Don’t obsessively mow and trim your garden, Willard says. Those decaying plants can host and feed beneficial insects. Let your garden get a little messy. And don’t forget to leave out some water. Pollinators need that, too. Bird baths “should be shallow and not slippery,” Tiballi notes. If you’re worried yours is too deep, put a rock sticking up in the center on which the birds can land. “A hummingbird feeder is also a nice addition,” she remarks. Tiballi’s group keeps up a butterfly garden at Wheeler Nature Park in South Burlington. Tiballi herself and a couple of friends will help maintain the garden that Willard is designing outside Market 32. Her advice to gardening newbies? “It’s important to plant, plant, plant and not use insecticide.” Willard echoes that last bit and adds that herbicides can be deadly, as well. The two in combination can cause harm that is “off the charts.” The most important thing to consider, Parker-Dickerson says, is the way the plants, the pollinators and all of us are connected. “A collection of plants is so much more than a bunch of pretty flowers,” she says. n

Did you know that 300 species of native bees exist in Vermont? That doesn’t include honey bees, by the way — those came over from Europe. Landscape architect Michael Willard, sideline beekeeper and past president of the Vermont Beekeepers Association, notes some of the different types: bombus bees — aka bumblebees — squash bees and ground bees among them. Willard uses a micro lens to photograph the bees and study them up close. He points out that their bodies are actually covered in hair. When bees fly, he explains, Bee carrying golden rod pollen they become electrostatically charged. And when they land on a flower, the charge attracts the pollen, causing it to “jump” onto the bee. Then the insects groom themselves, pushing the pollen into sacs on their legs. “It’s really fascinating how it COURTESY OF all happens,” he says. MICHAEL WILLARD Even more mind-blowing: The distinctive hexagonal shape of a honeycomb, in which the bees store their honey, is mirrored by a similar pattern that appears on the bees’ eyes. Willard saw that when he zoomed in on them. “It just blew me away when I discovered that,” he says. Mike Kiernan, a physician in Middlebury, is similarly enchanted. He and his wife Tawnya started a nonprofit called Bee the Change with the goal of bringing pollinator gardens to all 251 towns in Vermont. They also create them in fields that are home to solar arrays — more than 25 of them across the state, so far. Kiernan has spent the last few years learning as much as possible about tiny insects and the amazing ways they interact with plants and with each other — ways that we rarely see or consider. The half-inch-long cellophane bee, for example, builds its nest underground. It secretes a substance from one of its glands, which it spreads with its tongue. The substance holds the nest together and protects its eggs from fungi and bacteria. Each one of these pollinators has a similarly complex story, Kiernan marvels. “It’s like peering into a well of untouchable depth.”

DIG DEEPER Learn more about pollinator-friendly plants from these gardening resources. • National Wildlife Federation’s Native Plant Finder, nwf.org/nativeplantfinder • Mike and Tawnya Kiernan’s nonprofit Bee the Change, beethechangehoney.com • Pollinator Pathways, pollinator-pathway.org • Entomologist Doug Tallamy’s Homegrown National Park, homegrownnationalpark.org • Keep track of the pollinators in your garden using the citizen scientist resource iNaturalist, inaturalist.org SEVEN DAYS JUNE 2-9, 2021

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The Shape of JAZZ to Come After a lost pandemic year, the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival is back BY J O R D AN AD AMS & D AN BO L L E S

he 2021 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival won’t be the biggest. And it probably won’t be the best. Considering the festival’s storied 38-year run, that’s a high bar to clear even in a normal year — which, this just in: 2021 is not. But the scaled-down version of the BDJF that kicks off this weekend on outdoor stages around the city does deserve a superlative: The 2021 festival is the most significant in the event’s history. “It feels metaphorically outsized,” Steve MacQueen, artistic director of the Flynn, said of this year’s festival. “It’s larger than just this list of shows; it’s something a little bigger than that.” MacQueen, who coordinated the jazz fest this year with help from Burlington City Arts and Nectar’s, gets paid to say cool stuff like that about it. But his observation is spot-on. Even in non-pandemic years (remember those?), for 10 days in late May and early June the BDJF is as symbolically important to Burlington as it is inescapable. It’s the Queen City’s crowning musical event, sure. But it’s also, with apologies to Memorial Day weekend, when a Burlington summer begins in earnest. 32

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“The jazz festival is my favorite event here,” said MacQueen, whose first day working at the Flynn was the opening day of the festival in 2012. “It’s the gateway to summer, the beginning of this whole new phase of Vermont life.”

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Why “It’s the gateway to summer” has never been the festival’s tagline is a mystery. In 2021, though, MacQueen’s apt phrase “whole new phase of Vermont life” refers to a lot more than the changing seasons. Running from Friday, June 4, to Sunday, June 13, BDJF 2021 will be the first major in-person cultural event held in Vermont since the pandemic hit in March 2020. We’ll spare you the detailed recap of our miserable year without live music — you were here, and it sucked, for reasons

far graver than a lack of entertainment. Still, take a moment to consider all of the music festivals, concerts and series that were canceled over the past 15 months: Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on the Green, Grand Point North, the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival and Waking Windows (twice). That’s a very partial list. Vermonters have been starved for music. We’ve also been starved for each other. So, there’s something cosmically right about the confluence of the return of the state’s highest-profile music festival and the easing of the restrictions that have kept us apart. By the time BDJF 2021 ends, those COVID-19 restrictions might even be lifted entirely. Gov. Phil Scott has said he plans to take that step once 80 percent of Vermonters are vaccinated, a threshold that could be reached this week. The Burlington City Council is expected to vote on repealing the city’s mask mandate on Monday, June 7. By the middle of the festival, Burlington could look and feel as close to “normal” as it has in a long time. Cue the damn trumpets. And saxophones. Maybe a tuba.

BDJF 2021 “is even more important, because it’s about getting back to life,” MacQueen said. “This year’s festival is about celebrating getting together, and it’s sort of a gateway to that.” He added, “This year, I feel that it’s a much bigger event than usual, even as it’s scaled down for all the obvious reasons.” Organized by a skeleton crew on a shoestring budget and a dramatically shortened timeline, this year’s festival is indeed a more modest affair than it has been in the past. No titans like Sonny Rollins or Mavis Staples will play the Flynn Main Stage, and there will be no world-famous reggae artists such as Lee “Scratch” Perry at the Waterfront Tent. You won’t be able to say you saw beforethey-were-famous stars such as Ledisi or Esperanza Spalding in the Flynn Space this year. Instead, the entire BDJF 2021 will be held outdoors. And, except for a few ticketed shows in the alley at Nectar’s and on the back patio at Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, it’s free. “We wanted it to be as free as possible and as outdoors as possible,” MacQueen said.

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INFO Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, Friday, June 4, through Sunday, June 13, at various locations in Burlington. discoverjazz.com THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME

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Friday, June 4, 5:30 & 8 p.m., at the Backyard at Nectar’s. $35. 21+. One of the only nonlocal acts on this year’s BDJF bill, Seattle’s Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio are a newish group with an old-school sound. Since 2015, organist Lamarr, guitarist Jimmy James and drummer Dan Weiss have pumped out two full-length studio albums and one live record of instrumental funk. Per a description on the band’s website, they tap into Motown and Stax Records vibes, as well as feature “cosmic Jimi Hendrix-style guitar.” FILE: LUKE AWTRY

The festival’s lineup is composed almost entirely of local and regional talent — which, actually, isn’t all that different from any other year. Big names such as Tony Bennett, Pharoah Sanders and Dianne Reeves may spice up the Flynn marquee each June, but local musicians have always been the backbone of the festival, whether they’re Vermont staples such as Paul Asbell, James Harvey and Jenni Johnson or prodigal favorites such as Jennifer Hartswick, Nick Cassarino and Parker Shper. The bulk of the BDJF’s free programming, which accounts for hundreds of hours each year, is homegrown. The only real difference this year is that locals get to take center stage — or stages — on the Church Street Marketplace, in parks around the city and in front of the Flynn marquee on Main Street for the festival-closing block party. “They are the spotlight,” MacQueen said of Vermont musicians. “We’re lucky to live in this absurdly musically rich community … where locals can sustain a 10-day festival like this. I’ve lived in much bigger cities that couldn’t do that.” The following pages explore more of what BDJF 2021 has in store while also looking back at how some participants weathered the past year. We learned from a pair of elementary school music educators about teaching music in a pandemic. We checked in with prominent local sax player Brian McCarthy, who survived COVID-19. We chatted up Saint Michael’s College associate professor of fine arts Bill Ellis about the musical dialogues he helps foster among seemingly disparate players — including composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, who also shared thoughts about the past year. And, of course, we highlight some shows not to miss. Finally, turn to page 42 for a remembrance of the late Anne Bemis, one of Burlington’s most avid jazz supporters. Scaled down or not, the real key to the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival is and always has been right there in its name: discover. Even a pandemic can’t take that away. “There are always moments that grab me that I wasn’t expecting,” MacQueen said. “So, for me, this year, I’m probably most excited to be outside hearing music again.” Right again, Steve.

Each of the band’s releases is dynamic and scintillating, zeroing in on Lamarr’s sensational skills. With a Hammond at his fingertips, the bandleader produces a retro sound that straddles the fence between chill groove and dance fervor. Expect to hear selections from the trio’s 2021 LP I Told You So, which includes a smokin’ cover of George Michael’s yearning classic “Careless Whisper.” J.A.

DWIGHT & NICOLE FEATURING DBR

Saturday, June 5, 3 p.m., at Roosevelt Park. Free. Guitarist Dwight Ritcher and bassist Nicole Nelson have been partners in music and life since the early 2000s. After years of living in Boston and New York City, the couple settled in Burlington in the early 2010s, quickly establishing themselves as noteworthy players, singer-songwriters and performers. For their 2018 EP Electric Lights, Dwight & Nicole expanded from a duo to a trio as drummer Ezra Oklan officially joined the band. He’s a seasoned sideman known for his work in Kat Wright’s band and, later, his own pet project, rock band Matthew Mercury. Dwight & Nicole have an expansive sound that spirals outward from a foundation of blues, extending into soul, R&B and tinges of Americana. In 2020, they released the sultry slow-jam “The Next Go-Round.” Languid, loose and throbbing with heavy bass, the song leans heavily into traditional gospel vibes. For their Roosevelt Park performance, Dwight & Nicole team up with violinist, composer and Flynn creative chair Daniel Bernard Roumain, aka DBR. J.A.

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Sick Player Saxophonist Brian McCarthy talks about recovering from COVID-19 When the coronavirus began its rapid U.S. spread in March 2020, confusion and uncertainty reigned. The first to get sick were essentially test subjects, as doctors and scientists frantically tried to gain understanding of the virus. One of those early victims was local saxophonist Brian McCarthy, who said he felt demolished by the virus in the middle of that month. “Got ahead of the curve on that one,” McCarthy joked during a videoconference with Seven Days. McCarthy hasn’t played a concert since early 2020 and said he literally had to dust off his instruments for jazz fest preparations. On Monday, June 7, he’ll team up with rapper Edwin Owusu as part of the festival’s Conversations series (see page 38). For Thursday, June 10, he’s worked up new arrangements of famous jazz tunes for a program called Brian McCarthy’s Neo-Standards, which he’ll perform with eight other players. McCarthy is a music instructor at the University of Vermont and Saint Michael’s College. He’s also an acclaimed composer whose 2017 album The Better Angels of Our

Nature explored popular Civil War-era music through the lens of modern jazz. In fact, McCarthy was probably exposed to the virus while performing selections from Better Angels at the Sunday Jazz Room Series at his alma mater, William Paterson University in New Jersey. The March 8 show was later identified as a super-spreader event. “Social distancing and masks weren’t a thing at that point,” McCarthy said. He began experiencing symptoms about a week and a half later and knew something was wrong. “I live a very healthy lifestyle, and I’m used to being in really good health,” McCarthy said. “It takes a lot for me to even go see my primary care provider.” Because he didn’t exhibit all three major symptoms of COVID-19 that were identified at that time (fever, dry cough, loss of taste and smell), McCarthy wasn’t immediately diagnosed with the disease. A couple of days after his initial checkup, though, he had trouble breathing. A middle-of-the-night trip to the emergency room didn’t help, because

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MAL MAÏZ

Sunday, June 6, 6 p.m., at the Church Street Stage. Free.

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For several years, Mal Maïz took center stage at Radio Bean’s weekly Latin Sessions. Its bandleader, charismatic Costa Rican transplant Maiz Vargas Sandoval, was responsible for ushering cumbia and other varied shades of Latin and AfroCaribbean music into Burlington. Latin Sessions burned fast and bright. After its conclusion in 2016, Sandoval shifted focus to recording his debut album, Historia de un Inmigrante, or “story of an immigrant.” In seven richly textured Spanish-language tracks, it captures the journey of an unnamed immigrant relocating to the United States from Latin America. Sandoval explores the nuances of being a fish out of water and a legal resident but not a legal citizen. “It’s like a paradox,” he told Seven Days in 2017, noting the incongruity of having some — but not all — rights of U.S. citizenship. Mal Maïz is a huge band that makes an even huger sound, incorporating everything from merengue to klezmer. It’s the kind of group that invites people to get on their feet and stay there. J.A.

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Thursday, June 10, 5:30 p.m., at the Church Street Stage. Free.

The phrase “Winooski my town” entered the regional lexicon when hip-hop group A2VT released their viral video of that name in 2012. A statement of pride, the catchy-as-hell track launched the team of resettled African refugees to local fame. At the time, the young MCs were fearlessly finding their way in an unfamiliar place. Nearly 10 years after their breakout, A2VT are still going strong. Now fully rooted in Vermont, they released a new album, Twenty Infinity, in early 2020. It not only showcased a progression and maturity in their songwriting but testified to their leadership in Chittenden County’s African communities. A2VT’s live shows are proper spectacles, full of enthusiasm and highenergy choreographed dance. For BDJF 2021, they team up with Congolese rapper Abizo, who relocated to Vermont in 2019. His vibrant debut album, Blessed, was released in March. J.A.

treatment protocols for COVID-19 hadn’t yet been established and streamlined. “Unless you need to go on a respirator, go home,” McCarthy said of his experience in the ER. While he was spared the need for a respirator, his symptoms persisted for months, a frustrating ebb and flow. “I’ve never been sick like that, and I’ve never been sick that long,” he said.

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As his lungs healed from COVID-19, McCarthy said, he went through two and a half inhalers. “The longer-lasting issues for me [were] the head fog and some dietary stuff,” he said, describing a diet that consisted mainly of ginger tea and saltine crackers when he was sickest. Most disconcerting, however, was the overall malaise, which temporarily cost him his ability to memorize music. Music that would typically require a day to learn would take him two weeks. “It was the most bizarre thing in the world,” McCarthy said. “I couldn’t get more than four bars at a time.” McCarthy invites anyone who still doubts the gravity of the virus and its effects to listen to stories like his. “If you had been through the experience I went through with it,” he said, “you wouldn’t be asking [questions].”

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McCarthy continued to teach virtually, but he was way off his A game. Coughing fits were regular occurrences. “You get really good with the mute button,” he joked. Being a seasoned saxophone player, McCarthy has significant lung capacity. He also has mild asthma, but his inhalers usually expire before he exhausts them. March to September 2020 was different:

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And the Band Played On Teaching in a pandemic wasn’t easy for two elementary school music educators Imagine trying to teach chemistry without Bunsen burners. Now think of basketball practice without the hoop or ball. During the pandemic, music educators had to figure out a scenario just as absurd: teaching students who aren’t allowed to play their instruments or sing in the classroom. “Trying to teach music without singing is kind of like teaching math without numbers,” said Betsy Nolan, a music teacher at Edmunds Elementary School in Burlington. “It’s the crux of how we do the work that we do. There was a huge need to get creative.” As is tradition, elementary and high school ensembles from around Vermont will perform on the Church Street Marketplace as part of BDJF 2021. Though the students are excited and eager, preparation this year posed unprecedented difficulties. Nolan’s fifth-grade chorus will perform on Monday, June 7. As recently as several weeks ago, they weren’t allowed to sing inside their school. “The ban on singing in the classroom that was in place for the majority of the school year was a huge hurdle,” Nolan said. The state allowed in-person music rehearsals to resume in February with strict guidelines. Before that, students could sing and play instruments outside as long as they were masked and socially distanced. Even during the winter months, Nolan took her kids out to sing in front of the school building for about 15 minutes at the start of each class. Heather Joy, who teaches instrumental 36

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music at St. Johnsbury School, also led outdoor rehearsals for her extracurricular jazz band. Her students play BDJF on Tuesday, June 8. “We were putting electrical cords through windows so we could plug in,” Joy recalled. “We sat outside until it was too cold.” Through the school year, Nolan and Joy, like other Vermont teachers, made the best of a challenging situation. Both learned

greater emphasis on more philosophical aspects of music, such as what it means to be a musician and to create musical ideas. Still, there’s no substitute for playing. Students who aren’t encouraged to read on summer vacation often experience a “summer slide,” meaning their reading ability has regressed by the time they return to school in the fall. Joy and Nolan noted similar atrophy in the performance skills of some of their students this year.

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early on that remote music instruction was not especially effective. “We tried to have some group lessons over Zoom and quickly found out those weren’t gonna work because of the latency,” Joy said, referring to the slight lag in sound and picture of videoconferencing. Individual lessons worked better remotely, but they weren’t ideal. Nolan and Joy said the pandemic has required them to approach music instruction in new ways. “It’s really made us lean into process over product,” Nolan observed. She noted that music education is often focused on performances — concerts and recitals. The pandemic encouraged her to place a

And they worry about what that might mean for future cohorts. Normally, Joy’s students start playing instruments in fifth grade, but instrumental music wasn’t offered at that grade level this year. Current fifth graders will start their instruments in the fall as sixth graders, a full year behind where they normally would be. Still, Nolan feels lucky to have been able to see her kids in person during the pandemic, even when rehearsing wasn’t possible. Music and performing arts instructors didn’t have that option at Vermont schools that made a complete shift to remote learning. “I think, from an equity standpoint, that’s just really catastrophic,” Nolan said. “Not

being able to be there for the kids who need the most support … it’s really had a huge impact on the programs around the state.” Even when in-person rehearsals resumed, things weren’t back to normal. In accordance with state guidance, Joy explained, students played with coverings on their horns and wearing masks — sometimes N-95s underneath cloth masks. Wind and brass players had to play through a slit in their masks. Joy, a saxophonist, attested to the difficulty of that maneuver. “I’ve broken so many reeds trying to shove [my tenor sax] through the hole in the mask,” she said, chuckling. Challenges aside, Nolan and Joy said their students have been resilient and excited by any opportunities that came their way. “I’ve heard the kids say over and over that they just couldn’t wait to get together and be in the same place,” Joy said, adding that being in a band “is so much about the camaraderie. “When you’re sitting in the sound bath of the music playing around you,” she said, “there’s just nothing like that.” J.A.

INFO Edmunds Elementary School Fifth Grade Chorus, Monday, June 7, 1:30 p.m., at the Church Street Stage. Free. The St. Johnsbury Middle School Jazz Band, Tuesday, June 8, 1:30 p.m., at the Church Street Stage. Free.

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Saturday, June 12, 4 p.m., at Main Street and City Hall Park. Free.

The festival reaches a raucous climax with the Main Street Block Party. Performing on a stage under the Flynn’s marquee, trumpeter Ray Vega and psych-fusion band Barika will team up for one hell of a bash. Vega hosts “Friday Night Jazz” on Vermont Public Radio and teaches at the University of Vermont. Before moving to the Burlington area more than a decade ago, he was a soughtafter player in New York City’s jazz scene, trumpeting alongside legends such as Mongo Santamaría, Tito Puente and Ray Barretto. Locally, Vega performs with multiple combos, including his own Ray Vega Latin Jazz Sextet. Pre-pandemic, he curated a weekly session in the lobby of Hotel Vermont. Barika play an unclassifiable brand of globally conscious fusion. The band styles itself as “polyrhythmic ethereal dub-scape,” an apt if somewhat bewildering description. Bandleader Craig Myers rocks the ngoni, a guitar of Malian origin, rooting the group’s sound in African traditions as it explores psychedelic territory. J. A .

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Friday, June 11, 3 p.m., at the Church Street Stage. Free. When Marcie Hernandez released her song “Light a Torch” in 2017, a striking image accompanied it. It depicted her standing on the shores of Lake Champlain wearing a spiked crown, cradling a stone tablet and holding a torch aloft, clearly evoking the Statue of Liberty. But Hernandez wrapped herself in a Puerto Rican flag, highlighting a cultural clash between the United States and its Caribbean territory. She wrote the song just after a catastrophic hurricane devastated the island where her parents were born. It concludes her 2020 debut album, Amanecer, a seven-track collection that was three years in the making. Throughout the record, whose title translates to “dawn,” Hernandez mixes her American and Latin influences, singing in English and Spanish. In both languages, she highlights themes of hope and renewal. Hernandez imbues her work with sensitivity and empathy, skills she’s honed as a certified music therapist. Though often seen performing solo acoustic sets, she appears with a full band at BDJF 2021. J. A . THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME

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It Takes Two Bill Ellis curates musical Conversations The five pairings of Conversations are expected to be BDJF highlights. They include violinist, activist and Flynn creative chair Daniel Bernard Roumain (aka DBR) and Nepali multi-instrumentalist Gopal Niroula; vocalist Amber deLaurentis and Costa Rican cumbia artist Maiz Vargas Sandoval; saxophonist Brian McCarthy and Ghanaian rapper Edwin Owusu (fka S.I.N.siZZle); jazz guitarist Paul Asbell and Malagasy guitarist Mikahely; and Kenyan singer-songwriter Irene Webster (of Afro-jazz band KeruBo) and pianist Tom Cleary. “Ideally, it’s the best of both genres,” Reuben Jackson said of Conversations. The former host of “Friday Night Jazz” on Vermont Public Radio, Jackson now lives in Washington, D.C., and can’t make it to the festival this year, he said. But he has his eye on the series as a likely pinnacle of this year’s lineup — in particular, he noted, the Asbell-Mikahely pairing. “Harmonically, melodically, [Asbell] has always been adventurous,” Jackson said. “Maybe in a subtle way, but anything, I think, [that] he does with anyone who’s considered from a different neighborhood is going to be wonderful.” “I think we have a really cool series,” Ellis said, emphasizing Conversations’ raw, on-the-fly energy. “Nobody has a script here,” he explained. “Each artist is going to take their own approach … and create a really interesting set of music.” Asbell noted that the artists are diving into unknown territory.

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Most years, the headliners at the BDJF generate considerable buzz and dominate attendees’ attention. This year, the focus is almost entirely on Vermont’s talented cast of players, who provide the fest’s exceptional foundation every year. A new performance series called Conversations serves to showcase that talented community. The five-part series, with installments sprinkled through the fest’s 10-day run, pairs local musicians from disparate cultural, racial, ethnic and artistic backgrounds and styles who have never played together or have only minimal experience partnering up. The artists were given virtually no parameters — just to be creative and collaborative. Saint Michael’s College associate professor of fine arts Bill Ellis curated the Conversations. “I was immediately struck by how wonderfully diverse and musically rich Burlington is as a city,” he recalled of his move to Vermont about a decade ago. Beginning in 2016, Ellis arranged the biennial New Voices series at the Flynn, which highlighted local artists from New American communities. Along with the rest of the Flynn’s season, New Voices was put on hold in 2020. As this year’s festival quickly came together, Ellis was asked to arrange something akin to New Voices. His central question: “How can we hear our artists together in new ways or new configurations?” The result, Conversations, continues the mission of New Voices but goes further by creating a sort of musical diptych. Ellis, an accomplished guitarist, said he’s always loved albums that present what legendary bassist Bill Laswell called “collision music,” or stylistic mashups. He name-checked Pharoah Sanders and Maleem Mahmoud Ghania’s The Trance of Seven Colors and drummer Art Blakey and the Afro-Drum Ensemble’s The African Beat as inspirational touchstones.

“I think of myself as someone who tries to rise to the occasion, whatever the musical style and whatever musicians I’m with,” he wrote in an email. “Being a good conversationalist means, among other things, being a good listener. It’s pivotal when meeting someone whose background is different than one’s own.” Webster believes the series will create new bonds among local artists and strengthen old ones. “The sharing of ideas, whether in music or otherwise, opens one’s perspective,” she wrote in an email. A case manager for AALV, Webster said she and Cleary will interpret works of classic Black artists such as Nina Simone and Miriam “Mama Africa” Makeba. “Because we are approaching [Juneteenth], we thought of doing a prelude of African diaspora, African American freedom and experiential songs,” she continued. Ellis called Conversations “a great way to highlight and feature the wonderful traditions that everyone brings to bear in Vermont.” J.A.

INFO Conversations: Amber deLaurentis and Maiz Vargas Sandoval on Saturday, June 5; DBR and Gopal Niroula on Sunday, June 6; Brian McCarthy and Edwin Owusu on Monday, June 7; Irene Webster and Tom Cleary on Tuesday, June 8; and Paul Asbell and Mikahely on Thursday, June 10. All shows at 12:30 p.m. on the City Hall Park Stage. Free.

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Matthew Evan Taylor might be Vermont’s buzziest composer. The Middlebury College assistant professor of music is always creating. His 2020 album Say Their Names arrived only weeks after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. It cataloged Taylor’s profound grief through seven tracks of raw emotional expression. The composer recently concluded a five-part album cycle called The Unheard Mixtapes, a heady collection of free improvisational music commissioned by the New York City collective Metropolis Ensemble.

On the final day of the festival, Taylor will team up with NYC’s JACK Quartet, a modern ensemble known for boundary-pushing collaborations with artists of all disciplines. Together, the multi-instrumentalist and the string players will present two of Taylor’s pieces. The string foursome will also debut a new composition, String Quartet No. 13, written by renowned trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. J.A. THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME

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The Shape of JAZZ to Come « P.38 artists. More community-based initiatives. More work around race, diversity, equity and inclusion. More joy and love for more people! SD: Between the pandemic, nationwide racial justice protests, the election, the insurrection, the Derek Chauvin verdict and countless other events, the past 15 months or so have been … tumultuous. How has this time period affected or informed you artistically? DBR: Before March 13, 2020, I was an activist artist. I was working with other activist artists like the writer Marc Bamuthi Joseph (who has appeared at the Flynn), the Hollywood film composer Tamar-kali, the choreographer Bill T. Jones, and the film director Yoram Savion. The titles of my work demonstrate that commitment. I am a Black man in America. I love this country, but I am also terrified of it. I don’t know if America will ever truly love me, or Black people. We will find out.

Black, Live Art Matters A Q&A with Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain describes himself as an “activist artist,” and the order of those words is intentional. Roumain, aka DBR, is an acclaimed educator, composer and violinist. He holds a doctorate in music composition from the University of Michigan and is currently institute professor and professor of practice at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.

guided in everything he touches by considerations of race, equity, diversity and inclusion. That’s evident in the titles of recent works such as America, NEVER Beautiful; Why Did They Kill Sandra Bland?; and They Still Want to Kill Us, the last of which centers on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Those principles also inform Roumain’s numerous administrative roles with arts organizations around the world, including

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Among the New York City-based composer’s many honors is an Emmy nomination for his work with ESPN, and he has collaborated with artists ranging from Philip Glass to Lady Gaga. His music fuses classical, opera, hip-hop, jazz, rock and pop so fluidly that the New York Times described him as “about as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets.” But activism is at the core of Roumain’s artistry. The son of Haitian immigrants, he’s 40

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as the current creative chair of the Flynn, where he was previously artist-in-residence. Roumain will perform three times at this year’s BDJF: with blues/R&B band Dwight & Nicole on Saturday, June 5; as part of the Conversations series with Nepali multiinstrumentalist Gopal Niroula on Sunday, June 6; and with contemporary classical ensemble TURNmusic, also on June 6. He recently answered questions by email from California.

SEVEN DAYS: You were the Flynn artist-in-residence in 2019 and last year became its first-ever creative chair. As we (fingers crossed) emerge from the pandemic, and the Flynn resumes more programming of all kinds, how do you envision your role? DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN: I see my role as an administrator and artist unfolding, in that order, towards administrative work that will help the Flynn internally navigate new, precious terrain full of potential and possibility, and also continuing to collaborate as an artist with a wide range of artists and ensembles. We are all coming out of a COVIDinduced hibernation. What did we dream about while we were alone and asleep? Whom did we lose? How do we mourn as a community? What shouldn’t change, and what needs to change? What role and responsibility do the living have in a time of death and dreams? These are some of the questions I am asking myself and hope to answer in a deep, loving partnership with the Flynn. SD: What kinds of things do you hope to see from the Flynn moving forward? DBR: More of everything! More offerings. More educational programs. More challenging work by innovative and heroic

SD: You have spent a lot of time performing, creating and collaborating in Vermont. What keeps bringing you back? DBR: The people. There is so much love here. There is so much humanity here. There is so much we could all do together. At the same time, there is so much racism here, too. So, my role is to meet that hate with a precise love that shows a better way for those racists’ minds to reconsider their hatred and engage in what should be a shared, radical morality. SD: Can you tell us a little bit about your performances at BDJF? What are you most excited about? DBR: I am excited to play for a live audience again. I’m excited to work with Dwight & Nicole and TURNmusic. I’m excited to see and hug and hear the Flynn staff. I can’t wait to embrace [executive director] Jay Wahl and Steve MacQueen and [associate director of programming] Madeline Bell and let them know we are all going to be all right. I’m excited to just keep giving and going and doing and dreaming with the Flynn. SD: What does it mean to you for the BDJF to return now? DBR: That Black, live art matters — and always did.

D.B.

INFO Dwight & Nicole featuring DBR, Saturday, June 5, 3 p.m., at Roosevelt Park. Free. Conversations: DBR and Gopal Niroula, Sunday, June 6, 12:30 p.m., at City Hall Park Stage. Free. TURNmusic featuring DBR, Sunday, June 6, 4 p.m., at Church Street Stage. Free.

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n 1960, Anne Nalbandian had a cocker spaniel named Christopher (after playwright Christopher Marlowe), and Ed Bemis owned a whippet named Snoopy. The New York City residents were at Washington Square Park one evening walking their dogs when they struck up a conversation. An hour later, they were still talking. By the end of their street meeting, Ed had proposed to Anne, she recalled STORIES in a 2019 interview with Vermont Public Radio. Anne didn’t “Life Stories” is a respond to the monthly series proposal, but soon profiling Vermonters who have recently after, she and Ed died. Know of attended a Gerry someone we should Mulligan concert write about? Email together. After us at lifestories@ two more propossevendaysvt.com. als from Ed, the couple married on March 3, 1961, Anne’s 28th birthday. According to friends and family, the couple’s 51-year marriage was filled with love, laughter, music and art. “It was a great love story,” said Mary Bemis, 59, of Oregon, the oldest of their three daughters. “They loved each other more than they loved us, which was OK.” Anne, 88, who outlived Ed by nine years, died on March 30 of natural causes at her Burlington home of 50 years. While raising her three daughters, Anne engaged in a wide range of activities and community projects, including teaching, painting, saving historic buildings, supporting progressive politics, attending jazz concerts with Ed, and cooking fabulous American and international food. Her approach to gathering recipes, or at least cooking tips, was unorthodox. When she wanted to know the proper way to boil an egg, she called cookbook author and New York Times food editor Craig Claiborne. When she wondered how to make phyllo dough for baklava, she opened the phone book and called people whose last names ended in IAN — as did her Armenian maiden name. By this method, she found a woman to teach her.

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“She was amazing,” daughter Amanda Bemis said of her mother, noting that Anne was usually the instructor. “She was very smart about nutrition,” Amanda, 53, of Massachusetts recalled. “She was always offering to teach college students. She’d bring them in and teach them how to cook.” Anne was born in NYC to Paul and Lucia Nalbandian, survivors of the Armenian genocide. She grew up in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, where her father owned two dry-cleaning businesses, called Royal Tailors. Anne, who had polio as a child, was a stellar student who finished high school two years early. She majored in statistics and physiology at Hunter College in NYC and studied art at several local schools. A

beautiful woman with thick, dark hair, she was working for the city’s department of health when she and Ed dated. Anne’s appearance apparently won the attention of other men, too. Once, when Bobby Kennedy caught sight of her standing nearby, he mistook her for Jackie Kennedy, Anne’s daughters said. (Anne’s limp from polio revealed that she wasn’t the former First Lady.) Not long after the birth of Lucy, their second daughter, Anne and Ed looked at each other and said “Vermont!” according to family lore. The young family moved to Essex, and then to a 19th-century house in downtown Burlington. Yet they retained some customs of big-city life, including a disinclination to mow the lawn or own

a car. (For a brief time, they had a blue Volkswagen Beetle, but Ed drove it into the girls’ sandbox, and it remained there as a plaything.) The Bemises walked to the grocery store for food and relied on the University of Vermont ride board to visit out-of-state relatives. When Anne tutored students one-on-one at Pine Ridge School in Williston, she carpooled with a colleague. “Anne knew everything about everything,” said Barbara Rippa, 87, of South Burlington, who taught math at Pine Ridge. “Music, philosophy, art. “She read everything, and when she’d get a student who was interested in a particular topic, she could go right in there and give the students appropriate lessons,” Rippa continued. “Neither of us followed

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the directions, often because we knew better than what we were being told to do.” With her friend Gail Troutman, Anne mounted a traveling museum exhibit to advocate for preserving historic local buildings. “An Exhibition of Recycled Architecture: From left: Ed and Anne Bemis with Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2008 12 Buildings” opened at UVM’s Fleming Museum of Art in the fall of 1974. A featured building was the Despite the couple’s decades in firehouse on Church Street, now the BCA Vermont, Thomas, 68, said he recognized Center, headquarters of Burlington City an enduring New Yorkness about the Arts. Bemises. “The firehouse was our most proud “Not only did they not have drivers’ success because we could see it regularly licenses, but they could talk,” he said. in Burlington,” Troutman, 80, of Connect- “They had interesting things to say. They icut, said. “It was going to be torn down.” were capable of straightforward, eclectic, Troutman has a camp in South Hero, interesting conversation. They were both where Anne was always welcome to paint; very awake and aware, and that quality is among her works is a series inspired by wonderful to be around.” Lake Champlain. “Our [shared] interest Chuck Eller, a Charlotte-based was in art and literature and ideas and keyboard player and recording engineer, everything else fun in this world,” Trout- believes the Bemises could have won a man said. “Anne was fun from beginning prize. to end. Fun and stimulating and imagina“If there was an award given to the tive — just great.” people that showed up for the most art Anne was a jazz devotee and advocate and music performances, it would’ve in Burlington, along with Ed, who sat on been Ed and Anne,” he said. “They were the advisory board for the Burlington so supportive; it was amazing.” Discover Jazz Festival in its early days After Ed’s death, family friend Philip and was a prominent local jazz DJ. Wagner, a retired architect, accompa“They were an absolutely insepa- nied Anne to concerts at the Burlington rable duo,” said Burlington guitarist Discover Jazz Festival. They went to Paul Asbell, who noted the pleasure of shows at Radio Bean, Leunig’s Bistro & performing when the Bemises were in Café, and the Flynn. the audience. “Anne knew all the performers, and “I got the feeling that each was the they were pleased to see her,” Wagner, other’s muse in terms of their enjoyment 77, of Burlington, said. “She would fill of music,” Asbell said, “and that was just me in on a lot of the details of the music beautiful to observe.” and who was good and what I should be Waitsfield resident George Thomas, listening for.” who hosted a weekly jazz program on The street life and music during the Vermont Public Radio for many years, festival reminded Wagner of Bourbon recalled bumping into Ed in City Market, Street in New Orleans, he said. AttendOnion River Co-op. They would some- ing local shows with Anne was especially times talk about music for half an hour thrilling and fun. before Ed would remember that Anne “She was somebody who could apprewas waiting outside. ciate it,” Wagner said. m

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eoffrey Sewake, CEO of St. Johnsbury’s Whirligig Brewing, said he doesn’t brew like most brewers. While they typically strive to build name recognition with a flagship drink — think Hill Farmstead’s Edward or the Alchemist’s Heady Topper — Sewake has no flagship beer, or even consistent offerings of the same beers. Instead, he approaches brewing the way a chef might approach a weekly changing menu, riffing on tried-andtrue recipes according to season and whim. Whirligig’s brews have a through line, though: subtlety. Most of them are light and sessionable with some degree of sourness, but not so sour that it punches you in the face. Using the same malts adds an element of consistency. Sewake, 39, opened Whirligig in June 2020. He serves beer himself on busy nights in the brewery’s taproom, which is currently open on Fridays and Saturdays.

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His wife, Gillian, sometimes helps with the business’ marketing; his mother does the bookkeeping. The brewer said he makes beers that will “add to your experience, not necessarily dominate your experience; a beverage you can dig into if you wanted to, but also one you can just drink and enjoy your time.” In the summertime, beer that eschews intensity can feel like a liquid respite. Sewake began his journey to becoming a Northeast Kingdom brewer as a fan of Vermont’s microbrews. He was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Washington State and graduated from Vermont Law School, where he played on a rugby team sponsored by Magic Hat Brewing. He fondly recalled securing two kegs of Hill Farmstead Edward for his wedding to Gillian in 2011, just as that brewery was starting to gain big accolades. A few years later, the couple quit their

jobs in New York City and traveled around Southeast Asia, where they ate a lot of street food and took cooking classes. Sewake found that he didn’t enjoy legal work and would “rather be a creator,” as he put it. He and Gillian, who grew up in the NEK, moved to Peacham in 2015. Around that time, as the couple was expecting the first of their two children, Sewake’s mother gave him a homebrewing kit. An avid home cook and lover of wine, he had previous experience with fermenting bread dough and charcuterie, and he took to the process quickly. The third brew he made at home relied on spontaneous fermentation instead of a commercial yeast; he employs both methods for his different professional brews. Sewake opened Whirligig with to-go service only, then opened, closed and reopened the taproom as state pandemic guidelines waxed and waned. Because the

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Chile Changes BURLINGTON FOOD CART TO BECOME CHILE NORTH RESTAURANT MARA and SPENCER WELTON are teaming up with former Burlington mayoral candidate CARINA DRISCOLL and her husband, BLAKE EWOLDSEN, to turn the Weltons’ CHILE COLORADO food cart into a Burlington restaurant called CHILE NORTH. It will open over the July 4 weekend in the former location of Smitty’s Pub at the Ethan Allen Shopping Center on North Avenue. Both couples live in the New North End and have known each other for 15 years. “Carina really wanted to buy a business,” Mara said. “We said, ‘Let’s do a food thing!’” The Weltons owned Half Pint Farm in Burlington’s Intervale for 16 years before selling it in 2019. They launched Chile Colorado at the Burlington Farmers Market in the winter of 2011 and ran it for three winters before putting it on the back burner. The Weltons relaunched it at the end of March 2020. “It’s such a place-based food,” Mara said of the cuisine with which she and her husband grew up in Colorado. “Everywhere you go, you can get a smothered burrito. Every single house you go to, you can smell the beans on the stove.” The Weltons will focus on the food at Chile North while Driscoll and Ewoldsen handle management. To start, Chile North will be open Thursday through Saturday for breakfast and dinner and Sunday for brunch. The bar will offer beers and specialty cocktails. Mara

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Bourbon Street is Lockwood’s first restaurant, but the industry veteran, 52, has been cooking locally since the 1980s, including at Howard Johnson’s, SWEETWATERS and the original Bourbon Street Grill on College Street. For the past 17 years, he’s been the kitchen manager at RUBEN JAMES. “Working at Bourbon Street Grill kind of introduced me to the Cajun-Creole universe,” said Lockwood, who pays homage to the long-gone restaurant with the crab cakes and flank steak on the menu of his Bourbon Street. He took that inspiration and dived into researching the geographic and cultural roots of dishes such as gumbo and jambalaya. Lockwood’s menu offers many of Louisiana’s staples, including grilled oysters, shrimp po’boy and muffuletta sandwiches, étouffée, boudin, red beans and rice, and sweet potato pie. “It’s New Orleans; it’s jazz; it’s Mardi Gras; it’s beignets; it’s jambalaya and gumbo,” Lockwood said. “I’ve been thinking about this idea for 10 years, and it’s a niche that hadn’t been filled.” Bourbon Street is open daily from 4 to 10 p.m. for takeout only, with walk-in and online ordering.

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ost of the vegetables we eat are annuals. Examples include carrots, lettuce and broccoli, which are planted year after year from seed or as seedlings. Perennial vegetables, on the other hand, are planted only once. They might take a few years to yield a full harvest, but then, as their name indicates, they keep producing for a good long time. They go dormant in the winter and come back every spring. Think asparagus and rhubarb (yes, that’s technically a vegetable). Beyond the obvious benefits perennials offer — delicious homegrown produce weeks before Vermonters dare plant tender seedlings outside — they’ve been gathering momentum recently for other reasons, such as the climate crisis. Rachel Kane has owned a plant nursery and tea garden in East Hardwick for 40 years. This year, she changed its name from Perennial Pleasures to Summersweet 46

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Gardens Nursery at Perennial Pleasures, but the switch doesn’t imply diminished emphasis on perennials. Over the last five years, Kane said, she’s seen significant growth in customer demand for perennials. “It’s happening,” she said. “People want to get away from the whole [practice of ] tilling and disturbing the soil. Some perceive it as better for the ecosystem.” Marshfield farmer-researcher Graham Unangst-Rufenacht goes one step further. “Perennial crops are useful for both climate change adaptation and mitigation,” he said. Perennials tend to manage weather extremes a little better, he explained, demonstrating more drought-resilience and tolerance of heavy precipitation. As for mitigation, the less the soil is disturbed, the more carbon it can sequester, so it helps to grow plants that do not require repeated tilling and planting. The challenge when it comes to

vegetables, specifically, is that there aren’t many popular perennial options. But Unangst-Rufenacht and fellow farmerresearcher Aaron Guman are working to change that. On an unseasonably hot May afternoon at the Farm Between in Jeffersonville, Guman knelt down by a row of about 30 sea kale plants. The farm, which John and Nancy Hayden stewarded for 30 years, was sold in October 2020 and now operates as a satellite campus for Craftsbury’s Sterling College. The college is using the property as a hands-on classroom and will continue the Haydens’ work cultivating a perennial polyculture and refuge for native pollinators. The blue-gray leaves of each sea kale plant formed a bushy bouquet with slender, broccoli-like florets. A bite of tender leaf hit the palate first with sweetness and then a pleasant bitterness. The florets tasted very similar to young broccoli. “This is one of the biggest plantings of

sea kale in North America,” Guman said, spelling out the botanical name: Crambe maritima. “It’s popular in permaculture circles with the nerds. But it’s not in your local farmers market,” he added, laughing. (In fact, it can be hard to find in local nurseries, as well.) The plant is a brassica and related to both broccoli and kale, as well as broccoli rabe, with which it shares its bitter edge. “It’s native to the seacoast of the British Isles,” Guman explained. “It’s been eaten for a very long time.” The plants were started four years ago after Unangst-Rufenacht, 38, and Guman, 33, landed a pair of U.S. Department of Agriculture grants totaling around $35,000 to explore the potential of three lesser-known perennial vegetables they hoped might intrigue farmers and chefs, as well as home cooks and gardeners. “We want to raise awareness that perennial vegetables are a thing, and a select number of them are very tasty,” Guman said. The friends previously ran an edible landscaping company and grass-fed-beef operation together. Unangst-Rufenacht now runs Robinson Hill Beef solo and works part time for Rural Vermont. Guman, who lives in East Calais, works full time for the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board.

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It was during their edible landscap ing days that the pair became excited about the potential of perennial vegeta bles. They were inspired by Eric Toens meier, author of several books, including Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007). He is an adviser on their project, along with two research faculty from the University of Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture. “We were both interested in carbon sequestration through food production,” Guman said, “this idea that we could have gardens that are leaving the soil, ecosys tem and planet better than we found them while also raising food that was nutri tious, maybe even higher in nutrition than many of our cultivated vegetables.” In addition to the sea kale in Jeff

ersonville, the researchers have plots of it and two other perennials at East Hill Tree Farm in Plainfield. Some of their grant funds will be used to send plant samples to a New Jersey lab for nutri tion analysis. They are also working on compiling a list of sources for starts and seeds, which are not widely available in Vermont. Kane of Summersweet Gardens Nursery, for example, has sold out of her Crambe maritima plants this spring. Another of the research subjects — hostas — will be familiar to many gardeners, though not for culinary use. To eat them, you harvest the furled tips of the emerging leaves, Guman explained. “They taste like asparagus with a little bitterness,” he said. “The deer are onto something, right?” The challenge with hostas, they have found, is that their popularity as an orna mental makes buying them for food produc tion less affordable. The third plant is a leafy green the researchers call spin ach vine, Hablitzia tamnoides. It’s not to be confused with a tropi cal plant, Basella alba, which is also called Malabar spinach and sometimes spinach vine. UnangstRufenacht and Guman believe sea kale has the most poten tial for its culinary appeal, ease of cultivation and propagation, and longevity. Toensmeier, who is based in Holyoke, Mass., has a 20yearold planting of sea kale that is still going strong. “They are very low maintenance once you get them established,” Guman said. “These have not been watered since the first spring we planted them.” John Hayden, who has relocated to Maine with his wife, confirmed that the sea kale also seems unbothered by many of the common pests that cause problems for Brassicas. And when the sea kale flowered, he noticed that it attracted a diverse mix of pollinators including flies and small wasps. “It caters to a different crowd,” he joked. One important aspect of the project lost to the pandemic was onfarm events with chef tastings to help spread the word PERENNIAL PROMISE

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Spinach vine harvested from East Hill Tree Farm made for fine salads and worked well in an Indian-style curry and filling for an omelette but did not distinguish itself from any number of basic, leafy greens. Hosta tips were not sampled. The researchers also delivered a significant amount of sea kale from Jeffersonville to Sterling College. The school’s director 4:20 PM of dining services, Elizabeth Chadwick, admitted that when she heard she would be receiving sea kale, she was not excited. “Kale fatigue is real,” she said, laughing. When she received the vegetable, Chadwick became much more enthusiastic. “It was good to see it looked a lot more like broccoli rabe,” she said. “And when I bit into it, I was like, ‘Heck, yeah!’” The chef said she loved that the sea kale stalks were tender all the way down, which reduces waste. She appreciated the crunch and juiciness of the stalks and the light sweetness with a little bit of bitterness to balance. Though the produce had frothy white flowers, they didn’t make the vegetable bitter the way flowering affects some other vegetables. For her first recipe attempt (see sidebar), Chadwick decided to lightly grill whole stems with florets and flowers intact and serve the sea kale with some caramelized onions and garlic, apple cider vinegar, a drizzle of maple syrup, and a generous grating of local cheese. “It has so much integrity in its flavor, I didn’t want to fuss with it too much,” Chadwick said. “I would love to eat that every day.” m

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GRILLED SEA KALE WITH CARAMELIZED ONIONS, GARLIC AND JASPER HILL ALPHA TOLMAN CHEESE By Elizabeth Chadwick, dining services director, Sterling College INGREDIENTS:

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8 whole sea kale stems with florets, leaves, and flowers intact (substitutions: broccoli rabe, or 8 fat or 16 slender asparagus) Olive oil 2 medium Vidalia or other sweet onions, halved across the middle and cut lengthwise into slender two-inch-long pieces 8 cloves of garlic, minced 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar Salt and pepper To finish: grated Jasper Hill Alpha Tolman cheese, maple syrup

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Prepare a grill for cooking. Liberally rub the sea kale with olive oil and grill over high heat for 45 seconds to 1 minute on each side. (The flowers will immediately start to pop, and this will go quickly.)

Transfer the sea kale to a bowl and cover for 5 to 10 minutes while you prepare the onions and garlic.

Heat a little olive oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat and sweat the onions and garlic until just starting to caramelize. Turn up the heat and add the vinegar, stirring to deglaze the pan.

Either chop up the sea kale and toss with the onions and garlic, or serve the sea kale whole over the onions and garlic. Season with salt and pepper, grate a healthy amount of cheese over the vegetables, and finish with a drizzle of maple syrup. Serves 4 as a side dish.

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writing grant applications for the town as his grains steeped and his wort cooled. He believes his two occupations have similar community-building goals. “That’s why I opened the brewery,” Sewake said. “I wanted to create a space where people can meet, gather, spend time with friends and family.” Whirligig’s taproom menu arranges house brews into four categories: sours, standard beer, special and the Weird Stuff. Each beer gets a two- or three-sentence description. The sour section is the most extensive, with about five beers listed in increasing order of sourness. Offerings on a weekend in late May included a mellow mango-andlime beer, suitable for deck sipping, and two kettle sours — one floral, one with black cherries — that offered refreshing zings with an ABV of around 3 percent. Special beers have included a golden farmhouse ale and a maple stout made with

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figs. Two recent Weird Stuff selections — a spiced dark sour ale and a fruit sour ale — carried the disclaimer that they were “not for everyone.” In the standard category, Sewake places crowd-pleasing IPAs and New England IPAs. His IPAs tend to be lighter on the palate and less intensely hopped than similar brews because he opts for Mosaic rather than Citra hops. With this range of styles, Sewake hopes to cater to the preferences of regulars, locals and tourists. “I want every customer to feel welcome and try not to make any assumptions about their knowledge,” he said. “Whether you drink a Coors Light on a daily basis or you never drink at all, there’s a space for every palate.” All of the brewery’s malted grains come from NEK Grains in Waterford. Sewake buys hops from Whitefield Hop Yard in East Hardwick and Champlain Valley Hops in Starksboro. He’s also used barrels from Fable Farm Fermentory in Barnard for some batches, taking advantage of the residual ample microflora inside for fermentation.

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Sewake brews once or twice per week, all in single-barrel batches. His small-scale, largely local model allows him to make the type of beer that interests him while living his values through his business. “I think it creates a unique product, and it’s money that stays here, that circulates here,” he said. “Especially in these rural communities — the more money that stays here, the better.” Over the winter, the brewery hosted a smattering of food pop-ups; Sewake didn’t charge the chefs for use of Whirligig’s kitchen. “My expectation was to help others in the community and to provide other flavors in our community,” he said. Sarah Spence of the pop-up Wandering Vine VT now serves food regularly at the brewery. Her menu changes frequently and leans local; a recent meal was Indianinspired, featuring baked samosas with fresh chutney and a vindaloo with Vermont pork. The brewer said he and Spence have worked out a financial relationship “based on how she’s doing, not a monthly fixed rent.” Sewake, who said he identifies as BIPOC, uses the inside of the brewery as a gallery to showcase art from BIPOC artists. Johnson-based sculptor and painter Harlan Mack’s work currently adorns the taproom’s walls. Now that Sewake has another staff member trained, he hopes to keep the taproom open four days per week instead of two. Its minimalist interior is welcoming, but what really beckons is its outdoor seating: a shaded biergarten with tables small and large, ready to receive a summer uptick. m

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Moving Pictures Bassist Tamara Nicolai and local photog Luke Awtry uncover a Hollywood treasure trove

amara Nicolai didn’t think much of the old photo of firefighters. It was clearly from the 1960s and staged — perhaps a publicity photo of a controlled burn for a Los Angeles fire department, she thought. To Nicolai, who in 2014 was going through file cabinets full of photos in the LA home of her then-recently deceased mother, the shot looked cool but not worth saving. She handed it to a friend, who was helping her sift through the photos, to add to the discard pile. The friend swore loudly. “Tamara, do have any idea what this is?” She confessed she didn’t. “Tamara, that’s John Wayne.” The photo was from the set of Hellfighters, a 1968 action flick about oil-well firefighters starring Katharine Ross and Jim Hutton along with Wayne. Another set of photos included one of a stunt motorcyclist dressed in a yellow jumpsuit. If he’d been wearing his customary red, white and blue, Nicolai might have recognized him more easily: Evel Knievel. “That was when we started realizing what we had,” Nicolai said in a recent phone interview. Nicolai, 51, is best known as the bassist for jazz and swing band the Squirrel Nut Zippers. In the 1960s and ’70s, her parents, Mario Romo and Penny Nicolai, owned and operated World Features Syndicate, a boutique photo syndication firm in Hollywood. When Penny — a journalist and photographer — died in 2014, Nicolai inherited her mother’s archives: more than 13,000 photos, negatives and slides. Years later, going through the collection again with her friend Luke Awtry, a Burlington-based photographer and Seven Days contributor, Nicolai discovered that the firefighting Duke and yellow-clad Knievel were only the start of its intrigue. “The history that was captured and the level of access that [Penny] had was the highest possible level,” Awtry said. Nicolai’s collection is a treasure trove of 50

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snapshots from across the entertainment and pop culture landscape of the 1960s and ’70s. It includes rarely or never-seen images of rock and movie stars such as

Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, Julie Andrews and Paul Newman. It also offers new angles on iconic events, such as Jimi Hendrix lighting his

guitar on fire at the Monterey International Pop Music Festival in 1967. There are photos related to the Apollo missions and the “Batman” TV show. Oh, and there’s a dancing bear chugging beer at a strip club. “It’s amazing to come across these things that you know no one has seen,” Nicolai said. For a few years, she admitted, the photos sat untouched in her Atlanta home after she moved them from LA. She felt intimidated by the sheer size of the collection and the emotional toll of encountering memories of her mother; Penny took most of the photos and often included handwritten notes with them, as well as other writings. Nicolai had half-heartedly asked some photographer friends about helping her sort through and catalog the collection, she said, but no one jumped at the monumental task. Then, one night in 2018, when she was performing with the Zippers at Higher Ground in South Burlington, Nicolai met Awtry, who was shooting the show. The two hit it off, and Nicolai eventually invited Awtry to Atlanta to comb through the photos. “Every envelope, every contact sheet, every set of negatives was just filled with things that excited us,” Awtry recalled. “It was the coolest project I’ve ever worked on.” Some photos were deemed too sensitive for public consumption and returned to their subjects. Awtry wouldn’t divulge names, except to note that “anything Disney-related” was returned because, he said, “You don’t fuck with the mouse.” Awtry’s knowledge of photography and digital archiving tools was helpful in cataloging the collections, Nicolai said. But it was his immense musical knowledge — and private-eye-like sleuthing skills — that proved most valuable in helping her make sense of what the archives hold. For example, anyone could recognize that a photo of Neil Young playing a Flying V guitar onstage in 1972 was pretty cool. But few would pick up on the fact that Young usually played a Les Paul, not a

PHOTOGRAPHY Clockwise from top left: Neil Young; Evel Knievel; Peter Gabriel; George Barris, designer of original Batmobile; Bob Kane, cocreator of “Batman”; Eugene Cernan exiting Apollo 10; Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds; and Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Lee Marvin and others

Flying V. Awtry used that nugget of information to figure out exactly where, when and why Young was playing that guitar. “He narrowed it down to a single night when [Young’s] guitar was broken, he couldn’t get the guitar he wanted and someone gave him a Flying V,” Nicolai said. She added that Awtry similarly dated a Rolling Stones photo based on Mick Jagger’s scarf. Awtry used other minute details to place Newman at an anti-war rally, Cash at a voter drive, and Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds at an obscure awards ceremony. “If you need somebody to figure out what’s going on in a photo, Luke is definitely your guy,” Nicolai said. Awtry added, “We figured out a lot of things that were very challenging to figure out and required a lot of investigation.” Nicolai said she has different plans for different pieces of the collection, which she described as very niche. “While it is a vast collection, it isn’t what I would call a coherent collection,” she said, citing the range of subjects and interests her mother captured in photos. Some pieces will be sold off individually, most likely to collectors or archivists. Nicolai will keep others for herself. And there’s one box of photos that she hopes to turn into a book. It’s full of photos taken at old strip clubs along with location information and notes, probably from articles about the clubs. “We think of strip clubs now mostly as seedy places,” Nicolai said. “These are not that.” The audiences in these photos, she explained, consist of well-dressed men and women, often shrouded in cigarette smoke. In one series, a full band plays behind a topless dancer in a bouffant hairdo and sequins. Then there’s the dancing bear. “He’s wearing a muzzle; he’s dancing with a girl who’s got a very ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ look about her,” Nicolai said. “And then he’s drinking beer. “So you dressed up. You put on your pearls. You went out with your man to watch women dancing with a bear to live music,” Nicolai said. “I have trouble even imagining this world.” m

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From left: Quinn Bernegger, Cree Carrico, Heather Jones and Blake Jennings

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hile much of the opera world was reeling from the pandemic, the Opera Company of Middlebury was exploring the world of opera as video entertainment. Eight months ago, it released a 10-minute, professionally produced video of the contemporary micro-opera “Completing the Picture” by Michael Ching. The absorbing story of Chinese workers who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad was told through historical footage and self-recorded performances by four singers and a pianist. Building on that success, OCM will soon release its major pandemic project: a filmed production of Leonard Bernstein’s comedic operetta Candide, first performed in 1956 and based on the 1759 satire by Voltaire. The two-hour production will be available for streaming, with a ticket purchase, from June 15 to 30 on OCM’s YouTube channel. “Since Candide is a bit of a cartoon already, we thought it would adapt well to a bold, bright video,” artistic director Doug

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Anderson said in a phone call. Anderson should know what works on screen: He once was head writer on the CBS daytime drama “Guiding Light.” The operetta follows the title character’s coming of age as he travels the world and learns to temper his optimism about the human race. Sung by tenor Quinn Bernegger, Candide discovers through a series of ridiculous misadventures that he can’t trust the refrain of his teacher, Pangloss (baritone Joshua Jeremiah): “All is for the best.” He also finds that his true love, Cunégonde (soprano Cree Carrico), is not the angel she appears to be. In the end, the operetta counsels, what one already has brings happiness enough. Laboriously created in March and April in adherence with strict pandemic protocols, OCM’s production features eight singers, all regulars with the company. They quarantined together for three weeks so they could sing unmasked as a cast for the cameras. And they sang while wearing earbuds, because the orchestra, under music director Michael Sakir, was recorded separately ahead of time. The chorus was also recorded separately

with its members singing six feet apart and listening to the orchestra on headsets. Even the narrator — played by former Vermont governor Jim Douglas — was filmed reading his part in an empty theater. Middlebury production company Projection Films, headed by Tim Joy, did the mixing and editing. As director, Anderson was determined not to “just point a camera at a singer and call it a day,” he said. Accordingly, the production makes liberal use of green screens, overhead shots, rear projections and drones. “Each scene has something amazing in it,” he promised. Those amazing parts are tempered — rather like Candide’s rosy views in the operetta — with shots that reveal the technology at work: a dose of reality for each visual feint. When Candide survives a shipwreck by riding a plank in the water, for example, the scene begins with Bernegger placing the plank on green-screen flooring and lying on it before the waves are added. “These are tricks that we never could have done onstage,” Anderson said. Video had other unforeseen advantages, he added: Sound can be perfectly balanced,

engaging close-ups are possible, “and we don’t have to print a program.” Joshua Collier, artistic director of Brandon-based Barn Opera, sings all the operetta’s tenor parts except the lead. Collier said that one scene, in which one of his characters sells a decrepit boat to a clueless Candide, “was fun because [we played it] more to the camera, breaking the fourth wall. Film gives you the ability to do this very comedic stuff.” Bernstein’s work is best known for its music — particularly its overture, Cunegonde’s showpiece aria “Glitter and Be Gay,” and the final ensemble piece, “Make Our Garden Grow.” (Though the operetta is in English, the video will include English subtitles.) Candide is often performed in concert rather than in fully realized productions, Collier noted, not just because its music is “enchanting” but because its subject matter can be seen as culturally insensitive. In some stagings, for example, the costuming and language around Candide’s travels to Suriname and other locales can veer into the stereotypical. “There’s a lot of talk of savages and problematic colonialism,” the tenor said. “But,” he added, “Doug scrubbed a fair amount of that out.” Having a narrator was useful in that regard. In addition to helping the operetta “move very quickly from number to number” and giving the production “a lot of musictheater snap,” according to Anderson, the framing created opportunities to address the problematic material. While reading Bernstein’s script, in one instance, the narrator breaks off and says, “No, I’m not saying that.” Anderson said he enlisted Douglas to be the narrator in part because the Middlebury resident “always got laughs.” “He’s sitting in this leather chair like ‘Masterpiece Theatre,’ reading from a book,” the director said with a chuckle. “It’s his big foray into show business.” Douglas took issue with that last assumption during a phone call. “You know politics and show biz are related, right?” he deadpanned. While governor, Douglas secured federal funding for the restoration of Town Hall Theater, an effort led by Anderson, and he helped cut the ribbon at its opening in 2008. The former politician admitted he has never seen an OCM performance, but he is happy to promote Candide. “Anybody might be interested in watching it, even just for the special effects,” he said. “I recommend it. I think that’s in my contract, too.” m

INFO Candide, by Leonard Bernstein, streams June 15 to 30 on Opera Company of Middlebury’s YouTube channel. $35 per individual; $60 per household. ocmvermont.org

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"Blue Heaven" by Marc Awodey

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arc Awodey was a Burlington painter and former Seven Days art critic who died suddenly in 2012 at the age of 51. Ever since then, Sue Higby, executive director of Studio Place Arts in Barre, has been mulling over an exhibition that the two used to talk about presenting. Awodey and Higby connected over their shared Michigan origins. Both grew up at a time when Detroit and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, located in its suburbs, were a nexus of innovation in art and design. Awodey earned his master’s of fine arts at Cranbrook in the early 1980s; Higby used to visit friends there in cars that she received annually from her uncle, who worked for General Motors. As it happened, the arts linked the school and

the manufacturer: Architect Eliel Saarinen designed the 1932 Cranbrook campus, and his son Eero designed GM’s technical center campus in 1949. Over the years, a trickle of Cranbrook graduates, including Awodey, migrated to Vermont, and he and Higby envisioned a group show of their work. Now “Cranbrook Connections,” further delayed by the pandemic, has come to pass. On a visit back to Michigan in 2019, Higby was able to visit Cranbrook’s campus, look up Awodey’s thesis and meet with the head of alumni relations, who gave her a list of graduates currently living in Vermont and New Hampshire. The show assembles nine paintings by Awodey (including two loaned by Seven Days coeditor Pamela Polston) and

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paintings, sculpture, photographs, woven works and ceramics by 12 other Cranbrook graduates. With its range of mediums, the exhibition honors Cranbrook’s Bauhausian interdisciplinary bent. In fact, “Singing Skyline,” a grouping of stoneware vessels shaped like miniature high rises that twist and lean into one another, was made by a graduate of Cranbrook’s architecture program: Aron Temkin of Montpelier. A good place to start the exhibition is with Awodey’s “Blue Heaven,” an oil painting he made in 2005 of blue sky framing a gray house and attached carport. Three cars rendered in rough brushstrokes occupy the carport; a fourth, red car is parked alongside. A flat, Midwesternlooking landscape creates a swath of

green beside the asphalt driveway. The latter sweeps up to the carport — practically knocking the house off kilter — and its form continues beyond in the dark mass of a tree. It’s hard not to read into “Blue Heaven,” though Awodey once said that formal properties such as “textures, color and line” interested him more than narrative. The title does seem to sound a note of irony, given the Hopperesque isolation of the untenanted house and the possibly disused cars. Awodey didn’t shy away from figures; he just didn’t individualize them. A fine example is “Mother and Child,” which presents the figures posed on a floor in nearly flat forms of solid color. The mother’s visage has the barest suggestion

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of facial features as she holds something for the child to eat or drink. Perhaps referencing the art-historical origin of this pairing in gilded religious paintings of Mary and the Christ child, Awodey’s duo is set against a yellow wall that forms a unifying diagonal. Louise Glass, who attended Cranbrook at about the same time as Awodey, contributed four striking works in fiber. For “Twins,” the Piermont, N.H., artist covered two bowling balls in plaster, cotton, yarn and felted wool, connecting their podlike shapes with a felted wool rope that suggests an umbilical cord. Glass’ “Liquidities” consists of a cottonyarn rope coated in latex that hangs from the ceiling and pools in a tangled pile inside the frame of a wooden box on the floor. This work, perhaps named with a sardonic nod to the fraught relationship of art and money, is beautifully paired with a number of other earth-toned, textured works in the same corner.

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HE JUST DIDN’T INDIVIDUALIZE THEM. Among those is Vershire artist Andrea Wasserman’s “Gold Cloth”: four wood panels painted with gold leaf and white milk paint and hung with screens of woven brass wire. The piece combines the luxe and the natural with its forms of curving sun and flowing river. In the same corner hangs “Evening Tide,” by Norwich ceramics artist Oona Gardner. It’s made from black ceramic tiles, with cutouts shaped like draped fabric, a pair of breasts and a chain-link necklace. Both heavy and delicate, the composition brings to mind a woman’s disarticulated evening getup. The white chalk-marked surfaces of “Evening Tide” resonate with the adjacent photograph, “Underneath It All,” by Walpole, N.H., photographer France Menk. An extreme close-up, it appears to capture chalky, wrinkled skin or veined stone. Menk’s three photographs inspire guessing games: Is “Drink” a galaxy or bubbles in close-up? Is “Drink Again” a tongue or a pour of red liquid? Elizabeth Billings, of Tunbridge, often collaborates with Wasserman on public art; currently, Billings is finishing up a solo residency with the Vermont chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Her 2011 work “Redpine,” included in the SPA show, aligns two mirroring rows of pine needles

"Liquidities" by Louise Glass

in various shades of brown along the horizontal centerline of a piece of woven black fabric. It is nature organized. Wilmot, N.H., painter Tom Driscoll makes highly textured oil paintings. Each on view here features a single, realistically rendered object — broom, ladder — enmeshed in a shadowy background. The canvases are thick with unexpected colors, brush strokes, scrapings and, in “A Child’s Toy,” pencil marks. R.G. Solbert’s 1992 graphic work in ink and ink wash, “Mi Dica,” is the opposite of Driscoll’s in style, with its single black Pinocchio-nosed figure in profile. (The title means “Tell me” in Italian.) Now 95 and living in Randolph, Solbert earned her Cranbrook degree in 1948 and is best known for her illustrations of children’s books. A small, traditional oil landscape in a gilt frame is a reminder of another Vermont artist who recently passed away: Ray Brown of Montpelier, who died in early 2020 just shy of his 80th birthday. A third ceramics artist represented in “Cranbrook Connections” is Jenny Swanson of Cornish Flat, N.H., who attended Cranbrook at the same time as Awodey and now serves as director of the ceramics studio at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. Swanson’s three elegant vases, “Anew,” “Asymmetrical” and “In the Palm of Your Hand,” make use of refined techniques: They are saggar-fired — that is, placed inside a protective container before being fired in a kiln — and coated with a thin, lustrous terra sigillata (sealed-earth) slip. A gallery binder contains artist statements, including Awodey’s tongue-incheek one, but only Swanson mentions the impact that Cranbrook had on her. “Studio practice was the essential educational model,” she wrote of the school, “and it was an intense immersion into learning by doing. Many years later, I’m still very focused on the ceramics process.” It would have been interesting to know why the other artists, particularly Awodey, chose to pursue studies in the arts at Cranbrook — which only offers graduate degrees — and what they took away from the experience. Such testimonials might have been informative for New Englanders — whom Higby generally finds to be unaware of the significance of Michigan and Cranbrook in the country’s history of art and design, she said. “Cranbrook Connections” at least demonstrates the school’s reach. m

INFO "Mother and Child" by Marc Awodey

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Ch-Ch-Changes As Vermont’s vaccination rate climbs, we’re nearing Gov. Phil Scott’s 80 percent threshold for lifting pandemicera restrictions. And that means we’re on the precipice of huge change in local music and nightlife — or at least an undoing of changes made last year. Similarly, I’m heading into a pretty big change myself: I’m stepping down as music editor at Seven Days. But I’m not going far. In a few weeks, I’ll transition to a staff writer position with our arts and culture team. I’m sure I’ll contribute to the music section

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from time to time, but the editor role is going to my main man CHRIS FARNSWORTH (pictured below). As a freelance contributor, Chris has been an invaluable asset to our music coverage over the last five years. I don’t think he ever turned down an assignment during that time, and he always approached his work with enthusiasm. Chris is also an experienced musician and recording artist, as well as a total music trivia nerd. (Ask him to tell you his picks for “horniest music videos of all time.”) I’m excited to see him take the reins.

He’ll be jumping in full time later this month. When people have asked me, “So, why are you stepping down as music editor?” I’ve told them that there isn’t one specific reason. It’s a lot of little things. But I can trace my choice back to an incident last fall. I was speaking virtually to a local middle school class about what the job entails and how I approach music writing. It wasn’t the first time I’d been asked to address a local student body, but it was the most eye-opening. At these kinds of gigs, I’m usually asked to pick out a few of my recent articles to talk about. As I was describing them, I realized — out loud — that none of the pieces I’d picked out was music related. I mentioned my story about a Jericho family who’d recently bought back their ancestral home after selling it years ago. I picked out a first-person piece about a high school friend who wrote and directed a film based on his friendship with a classmate of ours who died 20 years ago. And I talked about the mystery of the “Dad mailbox” in Hinesburg’s Geprags Community Park, which I solved for a WTF column that subsequently went nationally viral. Having that realization in front of a captive audience was awkward but funny. I heard so clearly other arts,

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culture and human interest stories calling my name. (Did you ever read about the time I went to a cuddle party?) I think moving from music editor to staff writer is a natural progression. You can only keep doing the same thing for so long before you wonder what else might be out there. Lots of Seven Days staffers have made similar moves. Hell, my predecessor and current editor, DAN BOLLES, did the same thing five years ago when I came in to take his place. The pandemic has affected my outlook, too. The past 15 months have been a time of incredible personal growth, and I’m excited to bring that energy beyond the world of local music. I’ll miss a lot of things about this job, though. Music discovery is still my No. 1 passion, and some of the best times I’ve had writing for this newspaper were when I got to hang with local musicians. But I’m excited for Chris to step in at Upstate this particular moment, when a whole new era of music and nightlife is about to emerge. It’s the perfect time for a fresh set of eyes.

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Folks, when is karaoke coming back? Does anyone know? Does anyone have the slightest bit of information about this? I’m asking for me personally, not professionally. During quarantine, I worked up some new selections, including BRYAN FERRY’s “Slave to Love” and SQUEEZE’s “Goodbye Girl.” If I don’t sing karaoke soon, I’m going to open an underground karaoke club on my front lawn with the $3 machine I bought last summer at the Clutter Barn in Underhill. I’ll serve $2 margaritas and $1 Pabst Blue Ribbons. I think I’ll call it the 321 Club. “Sweet Caroline,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Don’t Stop Believin’” will be strictly prohibited.

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Despite the October temperature last Friday, Higher Ground’s Backside 405 was hot hot hot. The first edition of the summerlong pop-up event series behind BCA Studios on Pine Street was great fun. After I walked in and got the lay of the land, I thought to myself, Yup, this is going to work. The dog- and kid-friendly environment had all the trappings of a laid-back summer hang: Adirondack chairs, cornhole and, uh, is it called giant Jenga? It’s like regular tabletop Jenga, but the pieces are huge. Backside 405 also had big festival energy, with a honkin’ stage and killer sound. I was particularly pleased with DJ DISCO PHANTOM’s stage setup — namely, his life-size cutout of the Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) mittens meme. The unseasonable cold made the image pop all the more. The series returns this weekend: On Friday, June 4, EMOJI NIGHTMARE and KATNISS EVERQUEER host the return of queer dance party First Friday with DJ LLU. On Saturday, June 5, Hudson Valley, N.Y., pop-Americana band UPSTATE returns to the Queen City, with support from local indie rockers LILY SEABIRD. m

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Two themes run throughout Jack O’ the Clock’s newest LP, Leaving California; one is conceptual, the other structural. The story of the record — or at least the feel of it — is one of exodus, of a song cycle doubling as a farewell. The album’s architecture is more complex, featuring songs that seem created by a group of mad scientists who cross musical DNA with supervillain-like glee. Combining those methods, the band has put together a truly intriguing collection of music. Album opener “Jubilation” establishes Jack O’ the Clock’s ability to splice styles and feels. The song moves through a powerful, almost Who-like intro, full of furiously strummed acoustic guitar and giant distorted chords before settling into an Americana-driven verse. “I want to tell you that whatever it S E V E N D AY S T I C K E T S . C O M 58

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and a celebration of the players’ incredible partnership. Composed largely of organ and drums, the album is an unleashing of sound. You can practically picture it on a leash, pulling and yanking against a tensile strap that snaps as Soule Monde tear off into a wild green expanse. Lawton and Paczkowski have a deep musical intimacy, built on decades of learning each other’s language. They fit together like pieces of a laser-cut jigsaw puzzle, taking turns as star and support system. On Mimi Digs It, the pair does a lot with a little. Lawton and Paczkowski consistently find themselves in a groove in complex compositions built of the same few materials: Clavinet, Hammond and Wurlitzer mixed with drums. At times, a listener might feel like a fly on the wall at Waitsfield’s Sugarhouse Soundworks, where the eight tracks were recorded. The album was made somewhat improvisationally, with one player coming up with a loose idea or

concept and the other responding to it. It’s a classic example of the fundamental improv maxim “yes, and...” Fans of instrumental jam-funk should prepare for their pleasure centers to be activated, even overloaded. First cut “Tiny Land” is a growling beast that conjures earthly forces. Its low valleys of drum and sharp peaks of organ are anything but tiny. “Gateway Drug” opens on a Clavinet speedway, with Paczkowski’s fingers working overtime. The song jackknifes from high-energy beats to pockets of soft, serene keys and back again. “Ollie ’88” percolates and stammers. Its chunky rhythms, both on drums and keys, create a mid-album cooldown before two pumped-up bangers close the record with charisma and attitude: “They’s a Balkan Dog” and “The Nail.” Mimi Digs It shows that Lawton and Paczkowski are an indestructible team. All players should be so lucky as to find their other half. Mimi Digs It is available at soule-monde.bandcamp.com. Soule Monde perform at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival on Saturday, June 5, at the City Hall Park Stage.

is, it is possible,” sings vocalist, multiinstrumentalist and chief composer Damon Waitkus. It could be a mission statement from the band, which combines folk, rock and avant-garde in almost incomparable ways. Jack O’ the Clock have a sound so distinctive, it almost functions as its own genre. Waitkus has been the band’s focal point since it formed in 2007 in Oakland, Calif. A sophisticated songwriter with an evocative lyrical ability, he is joined by a host of talented players, including bassist Jason Hoopes, drummer Jordan Glenn, violinist Emily Packard (who absolutely tears up a solo on final track “Narrow Gate”) and vocalist Thea Kelly. With nearly a dozen releases to their name, Jack O’ the Clock have been a steady presence on the West Coast for years, enjoying renown in both folk and prog circles. In 2019, Waitkus and Packard, who are married, pulled up stakes and moved to Brattleboro, joining an already diverse music community.

They wasted no time building a home studio to finish the album that would be Leaving California. Much of the record carries the energy of that pilgrimage. The title track in particular addresses Waitkus’ feelings regarding his former home. “I’m leaving California,” he sings. “I never meant to get so drunk, I meant to pass the cup / and with her sails so full of wind, I thought for sure I’d live to see a passage open up.” It is a song about the necessity and inevitability of change, the dark side of which appears in “You Let Me Down.” Here Packard’s violin layers broad, melodic strokes over Waitkus’ acoustic guitar. And in a tremulous voice, Waitkus laments a friend’s inability to accept their own mortality: “Life is one big solid mass of connections / and you let me down.” Leaving California is a record with complex lyrics and fearless arrangements. Yet it offers many entry points for aficionados of folk and traditional music, as well as for fans of more modern sounds, particularly progressive rock. Download the album or order the CD at jackotheclock.com.

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Enslaved on the Randall plantation in Georgia, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) was abandoned young by her mother, who fled toward freedom. When the charismatic Caesar (Aaron Pierre) asks her to escape with him, she refuses at first, but a terrible series of events changes her mind. Soon Cora finds herself traveling from state to state on the Underground Railroad, experiencing a fractured version of American history. South Carolina promises her an idyllic life among benevolent white people, but the truth is much darker. North Carolina has abolished slavery — in favor of genocide. In Indiana, at last, Cora discovers a communal farm where Black people are prospering and determining their own destiny. But wherever she goes, the tireless slave catcher Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) and his loyal child sidekick, Homer (Chase Dillon), are hot on her heels.

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First of all, I recommend reading what Black critics have to say about “The Underground Railroad.” The powerful analyses of Angelica Jade Bastién on Vulture, Robert Daniels on Polygon and Blair McClendon on 4Columns are great places to start. People often describe works like “The Underground Railroad” as being “hard to watch” before adding that their content is still “important” and “necessary” to absorb. That’s true as far as it goes. The depiction of slavery in the first episode is indeed horrific, as it should be. And, though Cora’s situation improves once she escapes, the ensuing episodes still feature trauma, heartbreak and apocalyptic hellscapes (one especially bleak stretch of her journey could be taking place on the set of The Road). 60

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REVIEW But to focus only on what’s difficult about Jenkins’ series, to treat it like a bitter pill to be swallowed, is to ignore what a great and inspiring work of art it is — boldly imagined, superlatively acted and frequently just plain beautiful. Shot by Jenkins’ longtime collaborator James Laxton, “The Underground Railroad” is cinematic in an epic style, with sweeping, flowing camera movements and intimate close-ups and golden sunlight you can feel on your skin. The liminal darkness of subterranean railroad tunnels and the ashy rubble of ruined landscapes yield periodically to pastoral interludes, which Nicholas Britell’s score infuses with an aching romanticism. The ninth episode in particular is a brilliant microcosm of the series’ contrasts, taking viewers on a heartrending visual and emotional journey in the space of 77 minutes. Mbedu’s Cora is slight and childlike in appearance but no generic ingenue. From her first line — “The first and last thing my mama gave me was apologies” — she burns with rage at a life defined by loss. Hope comes hard to her, but when it does come, she glows. The Javert-like Ridgeway lectures Cora on her anger, but in an episode exploring his own background, we learn that his brutal

choice of trade is rooted in his own rage. (The flashbacks do nothing to exonerate him.) Other characters make brief but indelible impressions, from Sheila Atim as Cora’s midwife mother to Chukwudi Iwuji as a proud Black entrepreneur to Dillon as the merciless, unchildlike child Homer, who might haunt the viewer’s dreams. Jenkins follows Whitehead’s lead in mixing history with the surreal to create a narrative that does more than feed information into our brains; it forces us to think about how we process and act (or don’t act) on what we already know about American history. From time to time, the filmmaker presents the people in Cora’s past in posed tableaux staring into the camera, like the figures in old photographs. Their stillness suggests they are objects of memory. But their gazes are fierce and alive, as if they’re about to give testimony — something that is required of every passenger on this Underground Railroad. We ignore that testimony at our peril.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0331-36 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On May 19, 2021, City of Burlington, Burlington International Airport, 1200 Airport Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403 filed application number 4C0331-36 for a project generally described as construction of a new 25’ wide by 800’ long parallel “Taxiway K” and relocation of FAA owned and maintained navigational aids. The project is located at 1200 Airport Drive in South Burlington, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51—Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0331-36.” No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before June 16, 2021, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator as soon as possible, and by no later than June 16, 2021. If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs.

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Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 26th day of May, 2021. By: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0572-4 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On May 18, 2021, Waterloo Real Estate Group, LLC, 2096 Callaway Drive, The Villages, FL 32162 and Pizzagalli Properties, LLC, 462 Shelburne Road, Suite 101, Burlington, VT 05401 filed application number 4C0572-4 for a project generally described as roof replacement on an existing building. The project is located at 800 Hinesburg Road in South Burlington, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51—Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0572-4.” No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before June 15, 2021, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C06482A 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On May 18, 2021, Leah C. Booska Revocable Trust, 20 Oakledge Drive, Burlington, VT 05401 and Nedde Real Estate, 747 Pine Street, Burlington, VT 05401 filed application number 4C0648- 2A for a project generally described as the construction of a 9,632 square foot addition to the existing building, construction of an access drive, and construction of stormwater infrastructure and associated site improvements. The project is located at 60 Krupp Drive in Williston, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51— Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont.

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If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator as soon as possible, and by no later than June 15, 2021. If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C08871R-P 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On May 11, 2021, The Snyder FC Commercial Properties, LLC, 4076 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT 05482 and Rieley Properties, LLC, PO Box 4279, Burlington, VT 05406 filed application number 4C0887-1R-P for a project generally described as construction of a 25,730 sf multi-tenant commercial building for retail, construction of a parking area, sidewalks, pathways and associated site improvements. The project is located in the Finney Crossing Development on Market Street in Williston, Vermont. The application was deemed complete on May 24, 2021. The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51— Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0887-1R-P.” No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before June 18, 2021, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator as soon as possible, and by no later than June 18, 2021. If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 25th day of May, 2021. By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 rachel.lomonaco@vermont.gov

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CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY ONE: A REGULATION IN RELATION TO RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE TRAFFIC COMMISSION SECTION 10. TWO-HOUR PARKING Sponsor(s): Department of Public Works Action: Approved Date: 5/19/2021 Attestation of Adoption: Phillip Peterson, EI Associate Engineer, Technical Services Published: 06/02/21 Effective: 06/23/21

PLACE AN AFFORDABLE NOTICE AT: SEVENDAYSVT.COM/LEGAL-NOTICES OR CALL 802-865-1020, EXT. 110. That Appendix C, Rule and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, Section 7A, Accessible spaces designated, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington is hereby amended as follows: Section 7A Accessible spaces designated. No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations, except automobiles displaying special handicapped license plates issued pursuant to 18 V.S.A. § 1325, or any amendment or renumbering thereof: (1)-(171) As written.

It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows:

(172) On the north side of King Street in the first parking space east of Battery Street.

That Appendix C, Rule and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, Section 10, Two-hour parking, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington is hereby amended as follows:

(173) On the north side of King Street in the second parking space east of Battery Street. ** Material stricken out deleted. *** Material underlined added.

Section 10 Two-hour parking. No person shall park a vehicle for a period longer than two (2) hours between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Sundays and holidays excepted, in the following locations: (1)-(4) As written. (5) Reserved. In the first 2 parking spaces on the south side of Adams Court east of Shelburne Street. (6)-(20) As written. ** Material stricken out deleted. *** Material underlined added.

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY ONE: A REGULATION IN RELATION TO RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE TRAFFIC COMMISSION - SECTION 7. NO PARKING AREAS. Sponsor(s): Department of Public Works Action: Approved Date: 5/19/2021 Attestation of Adoption: Phillip Peterson, EI Associate Engineer, Technical Services Published: 06/02/21 Effective: 06/23/21 It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows:

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY ONE: A REGULATION IN RELATION TO RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE TRAFFIC COMMISSION - SECTION 7. NO PARKING AREAS Sponsor(s): Department of Public Works

That Appendix C, Rule and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, Section 7, No parking areas, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington is hereby amended as follows:

Action: Approved Date: 5/19/2021 Attestation of Adoption: Phillip Peterson, EI Associate Engineer, Technical Services Published: 06/02/21 Effective: 06/23/21

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

It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows: That Appendix C, Rule and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, Section 7, No parking areas, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington is hereby amended as follows: Section 7 No parking areas. No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1)-(563) As written. (564) On the west side of Battery Street beginning at Maple Street and extending north to Main Street. ** Material stricken out deleted. *** Material underlined added.

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY ONE: A REGULATION IN RELATION TO RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE TRAFFIC COMMISSION - SECTION 7A. ACCESSIBLE SPACES DESIGNATED Sponsor(s): Department of Public Works Action: Approved Date: 5/19/2021 Attestation of Adoption: Phillip Peterson, EI Associate Engineer, Technical Services Published: 06/02/21 Effective: 06/23/21 It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows:

Section 7 No parking areas.

(1)-(564) As written. (565) On the west side of North Avenue beginning at Berry Street and extending south for ninety (90) feet. ** Material stricken out deleted. *** Material underlined added.

IF YOU HAVE OWNED REAL PROPERTY IN OR AROUND BENNINGTON OR NORTH BENNINGTON, VERMONT, IN THE AREA OF PFOA EXPOSURE, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT. You may be affected by a class action lawsuit called Sullivan, et al. v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation, No. 5:16-cv-125, in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. Residents of Bennington and North Bennington have sued Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation (“Saint-Gobain”). They allege that Saint-Gobain contaminated their property and drinking water with a chemical called Perfluorooctanoic Acid (“PFOA”). The Court has allowed the lawsuit to proceed as a class action. The Property Class includes any natural person (not a corporate entity) who owned real property on March 14, 2016 in the Zone of Concern, an area delineated by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (“DEC”) in and around Bennington and North Bennington, or who purchased real property after March 14, 2016 that was subsequently added to the Zone of Concern by the Vermont DEC. The Property Class is seeking compensation for loss of value of real property and other property-related damages. A map of the Zone of Concern can be found at www. BenningtonVTClassAction.com. If you are a property owner in the Zone of Concern, your legal rights are affected, and you must decide whether to stay in the lawsuit and be bound by the results of the lawsuit OR ask to be excluded

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INVITATION TO BID: MILLS RIVERSIDE PARK COVERED BRIDGE – RECONSTRUCTION PHASE 1 The purpose of this project is to improve the overall condition of the deteriorating 54-year-old covered bridge which spans the Browns River in Jericho, Vermont. The bridge is the main entrance to Mills Riverside Park. The project will be performed in multiple phases. Plans for Phase 1 are underway and involve the removal of the bridge superstructure – walls, trusses, roof and the installation of safety handrails in accordance with designs provided by Engineering Ventures, P.C., of Burlington, Vermont. Phase 1 construction is planned to begin October 4, 2021. The Jericho Underhill Park District invites the submission of project proposals for phase 1 of the project. The complete requirements for preparing a response to this RFP are available from the park’s website: https://www.millsriversidepark.org/ bridge/project-bid-documents Sealed proposals must be received by mail on or before July 8, 2021 (4:00 pm). Jericho Underhill Park District P. O. Box 164 Underhill, VT 05489 802-899-2693 www.millsriversidepark.org JUPDistrict@gmail.com

LAMOILLE NORTH SUPERVISORY UNION The Board of School Directors of the Lamoille North Modified Unified Union School District invites sealed requests for proposals for the service of providing Contacted Transportation Services for the towns of Belvidere, Cambridge, Eden, Hyde Park, Johnson, and Waterville. This proposal will be for a three-year contract with the District. For more information and to receive a full copy of the proposal request, please email sjourdan@lnsd. org, or call (802) 851-1160. Lamoille North Supervisory Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer

LISTER’S RECORDS OF NOTICES POSTED We hereby certify that the Notices to Taxpayers of the time and place of holding the Grievance Meeting for 2021 and in the form as set forth on the opposite page were signed by us this day duly posted in the Town Clerk’s Office and in four other public places in said Town of Colchester to wit: Town Clerk’s Office - 781 Blakely Rd. Dick Mazza’s General Store - West Lakeshore Dr. Colchester Post Office - Malletts Bay Ave. Burnham Memorial Library – Main St. Shaw’s Supermarket – Mountain View Dr. Dated at Colchester in the County of Chittenden this 4th day of June 2021. Geri Barrows, Charlotte Gardner, Angela MacDonald Listers of the Town of Colchester

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING May 25, 2021 TO: Church Street Marketplace District Property Owners FROM: Kara Alnasrawi, Director, Church St. Marketplace RE: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, MONDAY, June 14, 2021 Via Zoom:

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PRIVATE AUCTION OF STORAGE UNIT CONTENTS Grace Saint Francis, last known address of 108 Fairfield Street Saint Albans, VT 05478 has a past due balance of $648.00 owed to Champlain Valley Self Storage, LLC since 1/31/21. To cover this debt, per lease dated 6/6/20 the contents of unit #283 will be sold at private auction on, or after June 19, 2021. Merissa Bushey, last known address of 30 Pine Street South Burlington, VT 05403 has a past due balance of $537.00 owed to Champlain Valley Self Storage, LLC since 02/28/2021. To cover this debt, per lease dated 11/25/2015 the contents of unit #097 will be sold at private auction on, or after June 19, 2021. Wesley Mercy, last known address of 93 Mabel way South Hero, VT 05486 has a past due balance of $1,050.00 owed to Champlain Valley Self Storage, LLC since 10/31/2020. To cover this debt, per lease dated 03/11/2020 the contents of unit #212 will be sold at private auction on, or after June 19, 2021. Timothy Stillwagon, last known address of 20 West Canal Street Winooski, VT 05404 has a past due balance of $790.00 owed to Champlain Valley Self Storage, LLC since 12/31/2020. To cover this debt, per lease dated 2/10/2020 the contents of unit #032 will be sold at private auction on, or after June 19, 2021. Auction pre-registration is required, email info@ champlainvalleyselfstorage.com to register.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance Amendment ZA-21-07: Height Measurements, Dormers & Eaves ZA-21-08: Act 179 Changes to Ch. 117 ZA-21-09: Updates and Corrections to Article 14

NOTICE OF TAXPAYERS Agreeably to the provisions of Title 32, Vermont Statues Annotated, Section 4111, notice is hereby given that the undersigned Listers within and for the Town of Colchester have this day completed the abstract of individual lists of persons, co-partnerships, associations and corporations owning taxable property in said town on the first day of April, 2021; that they have this day lodged the same in the office of the clerk of said town for the inspection of taxpayers; that on the 18th day of June, at _9:00_o’clock in the fore noon, the undersigned Listers, due to Covid-19, will meet through video conference or by conference call, to hear grievances of person, co-partnerships, associations and corporations aggrieved by any of their appraisals or by the acts of such Listers, whose objections thereto in writing shall have been filed with them as prescribed by statute, and to make such corrections in said abstract as shall upon hearing or otherwise be determined by them; and that unless cause to the contrary be shown, the contents of said abstract will, for the year 2019 become the grand list of said town and of each

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- ZA-21-08: To incorporate recent changes to state enabling statute regarding ADU’s, existing small lots, and small multi-unit dwellings. - ZA-21-09: To make a range of corrections and updates to Article 14 based on its application. Geographic areas affected: These amendments apply to the following areas of the city: - ZA-21-07: All areas and zoning districts within the city. - ZA-21-08: All areas and zoning districts within the city. - ZA-21-09: Form Districts 5, 6, and Civic located in the downtown area of the city. List of section headings affected: The proposed amendments modify the following sections of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance: - ZA-21-07: Modifies Sec. 5.2.6 (a) 1.; adds Sec. 5.2.6(a) 2.D and Sec. 5.2.6 (b); Modifies Sec. 6.3.2. (a) 2; and Modifies Article 13: Definitions - ZA-21-08: Modifies Sec. 5.2.1; Modifies Sec. 5.4.5; Modifies Sec.13.1.2; and Modifies Appendix A- Use Table -ZA-21-09: Modifies Sec. 14.1.3; Sec 14.3.4-C; Sec.14.3.4-E; Sec.14.3.4-F; Sec.14.3.4-G; Sec 14.3.5-C; Sec.14.3.5-E; Sec.14.3.5-F; Sec.14.3.5-G; Creates Sec. 14.3.6.-I Water Dependent; Modifies Sec. 14.4.13; Sec. 14.5.15; Sec. 14.6.4; Sec. 14.6.7; Sec. 14.6.8; Sec. 14.7.1; Sec. 14.7.2; Sec. 14.7.3; and Sec. 14.8; and Modifies Article 14- Map 3 Shopfront Required The full text of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance is available online at www.burlingtonvt.gov/DPI/CDO. The proposed amendment can be reviewed in hard copy posted on the first floor of City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington or online at https://www.burlingtonvt. gov/DPI/CDO/Amendments

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-1851 In re ESTATE of Theodore Steven Bowen, Jr. NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: Theodore Steven Bowen, Jr. late of Essex Junction, VT. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Dated: May 28, 2021 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Paul R. Morwood, Esq. Executor/Adminstrator: Paul R. Morwood, Esq. 333 Dorset Street

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TOWN OF ESSEX PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA/ PUBLIC HEARING JUNE 24, 2021-6:30 P.M. This meeting will be held remotely. - Join via Microsoft Teams https://www.essexvt. org/869/Join-Teams-Meeting-Essex-PC - Join via conference call (audio only): (802) 377-3784 | Conference ID: 590 879 654 # - Public wifi is available at the Essex municipal offices, libraries, and hotspots listed here: https:// publicservice.vermont.gov/content/ public-wifi-hotspots-vermont - Please visit our website www.essexvt.org. 1. Public Comments 2. CONSENT AGENDA: - MINOR SITE PLAN AMENDMENT: Essex Junction Senior Housing I Expansion Propco, LLC: Proposal for 2 utility pads, screening for roof mounted mechanical equipment, and other site improv. located at 2 Freeman Woods in the MXD-PUD Zone. Tax Map 94, Parcel 2-1. 3. FINAL: Richard Bouffard: Proposal to add 12 additional units to create a 24 Unit PUD-R on a 7.74 acre lot located at 81 Susie Wilson Rd in the R2 District. Tax Map 54, Parcel 3. 4. PRELIMINARY/FINAL: Ron & Alice Siegriest: Proposal to subdivide 2 existing lots into 5 new lots located at 226 & 236 River Rd in the R2 zone, SRPO & C2 Districts. Tax Maps 33 & 4 Parcels 1 & 10. 5. Minutes: June 10, 2021 6. Other Business: Update-Staff Work on Zoning Regulations

TOWN OF RICHMOND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD AGENDA JUNE 9, 2021 Due to precautions being taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in accordance with Act 92 this DRB meeting will be held online via Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81115438175?pwd=K1J OVjhRNWJlNkVOSTBMWnZWbitxZz09 Meeting ID: 811 1543 8175 Passcode: 376237 Call-in: +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) Application materials may be viewed at http:// www.richmondvt.gov/boards-minutes/ development-reviewboard/ one week before meeting. Please call 802-434-2430 if you have any questions. Public Hearings: Dowd Subdivision- Application Preliminary Subdivision 2021-05. Preliminary Subdivision Review for a 2-lot subdivision (creation of 1 new lot) at 2540 Hinesburg Road, Parcel ID HI2540, in the Agricultural/Residential (A/R1A) Zoning District. Sketch Plan Review August 12, 2020. Other Business: Approve minutes from May 12, 2021 DRB meeting. ZAO Update Other Business Adjourn

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• Hours of operation are Monday – Friday, generally 8:00am to 5:00pm. We understand the importance of having evenings and weekends with our friends, families, and our community. Please send an NSB Application + your resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com, or mail to: Northfield Savings Bank H.R. P.O. Box 7180, Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer

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The Town of Fairfield Selectboard is seeking a Town Administrator. The administrator assists the five-member Selectboard in the general administration of the town. Day-to-day responsibilities include supporting all departments as needed, monitoring budgets, attending and participating in all Selectboard meetings, public relations, and coordination with the town’s elected and appointed officials.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in public administration, political science, or business management or at least five years’ experience in an administrative or managerial capacity in either municipal government or business, or a combination of relevant experience and education.

• Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, combined time off, 10 paid holidays, a wellness program and more!

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The starting salary for this full-time position is negotiable but is expected to be in the range of $35,000 to $40,000 depending on experience and qualifications. The town offers an excellent benefit package.

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• NSB offers professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

While some flexibility is available, the position will be based primarily out of Vermont Afterschool’s offices in South Burlington, VT and will require travel throughout the state. We offer a competitive benefits package with expected compensation for these position starting at $25/hour and depends on qualifications and experience.

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• A high school diploma or equivalent and three to five years of experience in banking is required.

PROGRAM SPECIALIST

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To apply in confidence, please email a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references to townadmin@ fairfieldvermont.us with Fairfield Town Administrator as the subject, or mail to: Town of Fairfield Selectboard Fairfield Town Administrator Search PO Box 5 Fairfield, VT 05455 Resumes accepted until position is filled. E.O.E.

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Vermont Medical Society CSWD DROP-OFF CENTER

OPERATOR – ON-CALL

EVENT & PROGRAM ASSISTANT

CSWD is seeking a highly motivated individual to work at our busy Drop-Off Centers on an on-call basis; Saturdays mostly, some weekdays. Moderate to strenuous physical effort. Customer service experience a plus. Self-starters and those with a passion for reducing waste, recycling, and composting, are strongly encouraged to apply. $17.04/hour. See full job description & download application form at:

This is a full time, hourly position (37.5 hours/week) that provides administrative and project support to the organization including coordinating logistics for meetings, events and conferences. Competitive pay and benefits, ability to work remotely. See full description at: vtmd.org/we-are-hiring

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Join our valuesdriven team and be responsible for a combination of financial, contract, and grants management and overall administrative support for our innovative programs and services aimed at strengthening Vermont’s economy. Employee health and dental insurance, generous paid time off, and retirement contribution. VSJF is an equal opportunity employer. Full job description atvsjf. org/about-vsjf-vermont/ job-openings. Apply by 5pm, 6/25/21 at jobs@vsjf.org.

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FIRE FIGHTERS

The Town of Waitsfield is looking for an organized and motivated candidate to serve as its Town Treasurer. The 34-hour per week position offers competitive pay and benefits, a flexible schedule, and a chance to work in one of Vermont’s most vibrant and beautiful communities. The Town Treasurer is responsible for: keeping all of the Town’s funds, including receipt, investment, and disbursement of funds; keeping a record of taxes voted, billed, and collected; collecting other funds receivable by the Town, and paying orders drawn on Town accounts. The Treasurer additionally serves as the Water Clerk for the Town’s water system.

To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume and three references to Jaimie Held, Human Resource Manager at jheld@sburl.com.

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A bachelor’s degree in accounting, public administration, or similarly applicable discipline is preferred, as well as at least three years’ experience in the area of accounting (in the public or private sector) including experience management payroll, employee benefits, and accounts payable and receivable. For a full job description, visit the Town of Waitsfield’s website: waitsfieldvt.us. Questions can be directed to Town Administrator, Annie Decker-Dell’Isola at townadmin@gmavt.net or (802) 496-2218 ext. 5. To apply please submit a cover letter and resume including three professional references via email to townadmin@gmavt.net or mailed to the Town Administrator at 4144 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT 05673.

General Job Description: The City Assessor is responsible for the daily operations performed by an Assessor. Applications are due by Friday, June 11th at 5:00pm (ET). The City of Barre’s grand list is very complex, in that we have a TIF (Tax Increment Financing) District; we have few current use valuations, and allow for Tax Stabilization Agreements. The responsibilities include the valuation of land, residential, 5v-TownofWaitsfieldTREASURER051921.indd 1 5/18/21 2:47 PM commercial, and industrial real estate within the City, as well as maintaining all other components of the grand list including current use valuations and homestead declarations. This individual will work closely with the Clerk/Bookkeeper TRAINING & COACHING SPECIALIST - FULL TIME who assists in the daily administrative duties who maintains the property record files, name and address changes, and property Work independently and as part of a strong team to implement a transfers among other things. The Assessor will complete site comprehensive training program for the State of Vermont, Division inspections, valuations, grievance hearings, and establish the of Family Services. Provide consultation, training and coaching to annual grand list. The Assessor will be a part of the team that is Family Services Staff. overseeing the City-wide Reappraisal that is to be conducted by Engage with FSD staff, trainers, and community partners to include 10:35 AM an outside firm. Other duties as necessary or required by Statute. work with diverse populations.

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The City of South Burlington Fire Department is seeking qualified professionals to join the team. For further information and job descriptions, see our website: southburlingtonvt.gov.

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Participate in assessment of learning needs, curriculum development, evaluation and training, utilizing a variety of media & technologies. Master’s degree in social work or a related field and three to four years’ experience in child welfare and/or youth justice required. Knowledge and experience in child protection, youth justice, child/ family health/mental health, trauma informed care, racial equity, human development, foster care and/or adoption required. Experience designing curricula and teaching/training for adult learners required. Coaching and supervision experience desired. Ability to manage multiple and strong written and verbal communication skills required. Ability to travel frequently to off-site work locations around the state required.

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REGIONAL MANAGER

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Serving Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle Regions The Regional Manager will serve as an ambassador for the mission, vision, and work of the BBF network infrastructure. The Regional Manager will promote the importance of early childhood and connect people and resources. They will serve as the liaison between regional and state teams to communicate regional priorities, gaps and needs experienced by children, families and early childhood partners. Key responsibilities include: • Engage partners and build trusting relationships to collectively build a seamless system experienced by families with a focus on the prenatal period through age eight and beyond. • Support and strengthen Regional Council operations in Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle regions (i.e.: planning meetings, communications, monitoring progress toward regional action plan, grant deliverables and spending). • Oversee the final year of a collective impact grant focusing on improving integration and coordination for families experiencing Substance Use Disorder. A resident of Franklin, Grand Isle or Chittenden counties is preferred. This is one of four Regional Managers working collaboratively at BBF, positions formerly identified as Regional Coordinators. To apply please email a cover letter, resume and three references by Sunday, June 27th at midnight. Please send application materials as on pdf labeled: lastname_firstname_RegionalManager to: Kmobbs@buildingbrightfutures.org.

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Organization Living Well Group is a nonprofit organization operating residential care homes in Burlington and Montpelier, Vermont. We provide our residents with opportunities to grow, learn, share, and thrive in a safe and respectful environment. We believe in endless possibilities, potential and vitality for our residents. At Living Well Group, we do not see aging as an illness defined by limitations, but instead by potential that can be achieved through love and encouragement. We are currently seeking a Director of Development to join our Executive Team. This position is based in Vermont, however our executive team is currently working remotely. Position The Director of Development is a critical member of the Executive Team, reporting to the CEO. This is the person who possesses the talent to describe and illustrate the significance of Living Well Group’s (LWG) vision, mission, programs and outcomes—motivating and inspiring the financial support that allows LWG to exist as an organization, achieve its programmatic goals and ensure its financial sustainability. The Director of Development creates and implements a comprehensive strategic approach that grows a diverse pipeline of donors. Please see online application link for more details.

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Dishwasher/Line Prep Cook We are looking for experienced dishwasher(s) and line prep cook(s), willing to train the right candidate.

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Seeking full-time Teacher/Community Coordinators in Waterbury, Bradford and Barre. Candidates must have:  High levels of independence, spirit, drive and capacity for student recruitment, outreach and organizing community involvement to support student success;  Strong familiarity with the service area;  Proven capacity for teaching and guiding basic skills instruction for adults and teens in:  Reading, writing, math, computer and financial literacy;  English Language Learning and U.S. Citizenship prep;  High school diploma and GED credentialing;  Career and college readiness.  Experience with developing personalized education and graduation education plans;  Experience with recruiting and managing volunteers. Starting salary: $43,000–$45,000 annually based on experience. CVABE pays 100% of individual health, dental and short-term disability insurance, as well as employer 403(b) contributions and six weeks of paid vacation annually. Please submit cover letter, resume and three references to: Executive Director Central Vermont Adult Basic Education, Inc. 46 Washington Street, Suite 100 Barre, Vermont 05641 info@cvabe.org Positions open until filled.

We are looking for PT or FT wait staff, M-T-W and/or Sat-Sun 8am-3pm

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Compensation range: 60k-70k, based on prior experience.

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HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER The Winooski School District is seeking a Human Resources Manager. This position is responsible for the management of all human resources systems and processes for the Winooski School District. The Human Resources Manager supports the Finance 12:09 PM Manager and Superintendent with human resources and benefits administration in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws, board policy and school district collective bargaining agreements and employee benefit programs. This position is full time, 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.

The Town of Waitsfield is looking for an organized, schoolspring.com/employer/jobs/ collaborative, and diplomatic candidate to serve as its Planning job.cfm?j_id=3534815 and Zoning Administrator. The 40-hour per week position offers competitive pay and benefits, a flexible schedule, and a chance to work in one of Vermont’s most vibrant and beautiful 2v-WinooskiSchoolDistrict052621.indd 1 5/20/21 1:02 PM communities. The Planning and Zoning Administrator is responsible for: compliance with all applicable zoning and subdivision regulations, facilitation of and support for long-range land use planning, supporting the Planning Commission and Development Review Board, and serving as the Town’s E-911 coordinator. A bachelor’s degree in land use planning, public administration, engineering, legal studies, or similarly applicable discipline is required; a master’s degree is preferred. Prior experience in local government is also preferred. For a full job description, please visit the Town of Waitsfield’s website (www.waitsfieldvt.us). Questions can be directed to Town Administrator, Annie Decker-Dell’Isola, at townadmin@ gmavt.net or (802) 496-2218 ext. 5. To apply please submit a cover letter and resume including three professional references via email to townadmin@gmavt.net or mailed to the Town Administrator at 4144 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT 05673. Applications are due by Monday, June 7th at 5:00pm (EST).

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PIANIST/ ORGANIST Hedding United Methodist Church in Barre seeks a versatile musician for worship services, including Sunday mornings and special services planned throughout the year. Able to accompany choir and congregation on piano.

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We are a fun and loving congregation with a heart for our community. We’re hoping to find a musician who would enjoy being a part of our ministry! Potential for expansion of position dependent upon applicants’ skills.

The Wake Robin community is a great place to continue your career in culinary arts.We provide a fine dining experience with farm to plate freshness.We offer reasonable hours, benefits, and work environment that is hard to find in the restaurant industry.We work in an industrial kitchen producing high quality food from scratch.We’re looking for a versatile individual with strong knife skills, experience from prepping soups and sauces to grilling and sautéing; all with an eye toward plating and presentation.

For a job description, please email heddingchurchinbarre@gmail.com or call 802-476-8156.

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WAIT STAFF – BREAKFAST Companion

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Wait Staff are responsible for ensuring a satisfying dining experience for residents at Wake Robin. They perform a variety of tasks including, table setup, taking food orders, food delivery and follow-up. Servers work in the main dining area or ancillary dining areas throughout campus. If you are looking for meaningful work with great co-workers, this is the job for you!

Would you like to support the production of award-winning dairy products, all while being a B-Corp, and caring about sustainability from Farm to Factory to Customer? We have the perfect career opportunity for you! Agri-Mark/Cabot Creamery has full-time (40 hours/week) openings as a second (12p-8p) or third shift (8p-4a) Cheese Line Operator, after successfully completely a 30-60 day training period. Flexible work schedule required, including rotating weekends, and working scheduled holidays. Other shift opportunities include working as a temporary employee on any shift with possible opportunity to transition to full-time on another shift after completion of the training period. This position works as part of a team, operating various pieces of machinery in the manufacture and packaging of bulk cheese, meeting or exceeding quality specifications while ensuring accurate records are completed & maintained. Must have high school diploma or GED or be willing to obtain GED with the assistance of Agri-Mark, Inc. Full-Time employees will enjoy access to a comprehensive

$20 per hour. health insurance package, competitive salary with training increases, Need Companion for our and retirement support with 401k match and pension! 26-year-old daughter. We also offer perks like tuition reimbursement, fun company outings, She is developmentally community events and occasional free cheddar! delayed. She takes full Join us! Wake Robin is an EOE. To apply, visit us online at care of herself, just needs Apply at workatcabot.com or directly with ajacobs@agrimark.net. wakerobin.com/employment. a little companionship and company. Must have driver’s license and car. No smoking. 6 to 8 hours 5V-WakeRobin060221 (Cook AM Wait Staff).indd 1 5/31/215v-AgriMark052621.indd 5:32 PM 1 5/25/21 a day for Thursdays and Fridays. Other times ﬂexible. $20 per hour. Please call or email with The Policy and Program Director questions. will focus on systems improvement and policy development utilizing Online education program seeks an E-learning Course Coordinator Morton Bostock, to update and maintain current courses and help develop new courses. BBF’s data, research and network of morton.bostock@gmail.com This employee should be an independent, detail-oriented multi-tasker regional and state public and private 802-862-7602 who must be comfortable interacting with students and faculty. stakeholders. The Policy and Program Director will join a

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collaborative team dedicated to strengthen and align the BBF Network Infrastructure to achieve the goals, strategies and objectives outlined in the Vermont Early Childhood Action Plan. By strengthening partnerships, identifying gaps and assets, promoting family leadership, and developing and implementing innovative financing, health, and equity strategies, Vermont will improve policies, service provision, & outcomes for children & families. Key responsibilities will be to: • Strengthen and align the BBF Network Infrastructure to achieve the goals, strategies and objectives outlines in the Vermont Early Childhood Action Plan to improve the wellbeing of children and families • Function as BBF’s content expert on state and national early childhood policies • Promote understanding and utilization of the BBF Network. To apply please email a cover letter, resume and three references by Sunday, June 27th at midnight. Please send application materials as on pdf labeled: lastname_firstname_PolicyandProgramDirector to: Kmobbs@buildingbrightfutures.org.

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Assistant Director for Youth & Educational Partnerships, Center for Community Engagement Middlebury College’s Center for Community Engagement Seeks Assistant Director for Youth & Educational Partnerships. This position identifies and sustains interested faculty and community partners to create meaningful experiential learning opportunities for college students. The AD supports diverse students’ development of civic skills, knowledge, and identities through advising of 9 youth-serving student organizations. The AD also oversees the Center’s strategic communications, marketing, and outreach. Bachelor’s degree required; master’s preferred. 2-5 years related experience. To apply, visit: https://apptrkr.com/2282159 EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability. 5h-MiddleburyCollege060221a.indd 1

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For over 20 years, we have been providing career opportunities in the food industry. Get in touch with us if your passion is making great food, but your needs include: • A consistent schedule with 40 hour weeks • Health care • Paid time off • Retirement plan with company match

An opportunity for an experienced senior leader to have a significant, positive impact on Vermont’s affordable housing landscape as VSHA’s Director of Housing Program Administration will soon be available.

SOUS CHEF

We are hiring for a Sous Chef to work closely under our veteran Chef to assist with the construction and execution of our new vision. We are looking for someone with a passion for food and for whom this is a career choice. You would work alongside our Chef, making great food and running a joyful, tight kitchen. Send resumes and inquiries to cassy@redhenbaking.com.

LINE COOKS

We're also hiring for great line cooks that are focused and detail-oriented as well as being great communicators. One year of professional kitchen experience is preferred, but we are willing to teach anyone. Most importantly, we are looking for a good work ethic and an excitement for learning. Send resumes and inquiries to cassy@redhenbaking.com.

PART-TIME PASTRY BAKER

If pastry baking is your passion, we’re hiring for a part-time pastry baker. Our pastries include a variety of laminated products, pies, scones, cookies and many things in between. We opened in 1999 and remain dedicated to the integrity of the baking processes and creating an environment for our bakers to thrive. Professional baking or cooking experience is required. You must enjoy working independently and with a team. Schedule includes early mornings and weekends. Send resumes and

inquiries to jeremy@redhenbaking.com. We are hiring for full-time and part-time positions washing dishes and doing general cleaning around our bakery and cafe. Weekend days are included. Come work with a great bunch of people in our bustling business! Send resumes and inquiries to randy@redhenbaking.com or call (802) 223-5200 x12.

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Prestigious law firm seeks an energetic individual to handle reception desk responsibilities and light marketing tasks. Duties include greeting clients and vendors, routing in-bound phone calls, maintaining conference space schedule, and related office tasks. In addition, this role will assist with website updates, ad creation and press release distribution. The successful candidate will be a team player who possesses excellent communication skills, enjoys working with the public, is tech-savvy, organized, and able to work in a fast-paced environment. This is a full-time position.

The Director of Housing Program Administration is a key member of VSHA’s executive management team and has an instrumental role in VSHA’s work toward improving and expanding access to affordable housing. This position is responsible for all aspects of the Housing Programs, including program planning and implementation; grant writing, application, reporting, and administration; compliance and quality assurance; development and implementation of department procedures, protocols, and systems; collaboration with community and State partners; team supervision and management; and participation in strategic planning and other executive management functions. Qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in a related field (or an equivalent combination of work experience and education), a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience, and supervisory experience are required qualifications. Also required are relevant, senior management level skills and knowledge; a thorough understanding of the framework of federal and state laws, regulations, and sub-regulatory guidance as applicable to grant and program administration; and strategic vision with a mission-oriented approach to achieving goals.

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The complete job posting and job description for the Director of Housing Program Administration is available on the VSHA website at vsha.org. To Apply: Please email your application materials (resume and cover letter required, please) to careers@vsha.org or mail via USPS to: Vermont State Housing Authority, Human Resources, 1 Prospect St., Montpelier VT 05602.

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Box Office Manager

Middlebury College is looking for a Box Office Manager. This person will manage the day-to-day operation of the Mahaney Arts Center box office, ensuring excellent, efficient, professional ticketing services and customer service. The Box Office Manager will work with students, departments, student activities, athletics, and the College administration to meet the ticketing needs across campus. This includes programming the ticketing software, conducting ticket sales, completing daily deposits and revenue allocations, trouble-shooting software issues, resolving customer inquiries, and supporting marketing efforts for events. We are seeking an energetic, organized candidate who enjoys a fast-paced environment and giving great customer service. For a complete list of responsibilities, please see the full job description. For more information, or to apply please visit: https://apptrkr.com/2278124 Why work for us? Middlebury College employees enjoy competitive wages; health, dental, retirement, and vision benefits; and educational assistance programs. Middlebury is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. Middlebury encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. 5h-MiddleburyCollege060221.indd 1 4t-HotelVT060221.indd 1

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CENTERS FOR WELLBEING Vermont Tent Company is currently accepting applications for immediate employment as well as future summer/fall employment starting in May. We have full time, part time, after school and weekend hours available for each position. Pay rates vary by position with minimum starting wage ranging from $15-$20/ hour depending on job skills and experience. Opportunities include: • Tent Installation/ Delivery Team • Driver/Warehouse Team – Event Division • Drivers/Delivery • Inventory Maintenance Team – Wash Bay & Warehouse • Load Crew Team Members For job descriptions and application. vttent.com/employment

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Our clients come from all walks of life and so does our team. We have two exciting opportunities for the right high-level professionals to lead innovative occupational wellness and engagement programs.

COME GROW WITH US! The UVM Foundation is expanding and we invite you to grow your career with us. We are a collaborative, peoplecentered organization, committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI AND CONSTITUENT ENGAGEMENT

Develop and implement programs that connect alumni, students, and donors – with each other and the University. Must be creative and strategic with excellent communication, program and volunteer management skills. Experience using data to drive decisions. Dynamic team environment.

MAJOR GIFT PROGRAM COORDINATOR, ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCES

Provide administrative and strategic support to a team of fundraisers committed to fueling access and growth through philanthropy. Be solutions oriented, technically fluent, a collaborative member of the team and focused on getting the job done. These are great opportunities for creative, motivated, and ambitious professionals that will help drive our programs towards success.

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As we explore creative ways to make the most impact, the right candidate will be able to: • Maintain and grow our • Work with our multiclient relationships with disciplinary team on many employers across Vermont; deliverables and deadlines; • Implement innovative employee wellness and engagement programs;

• Assist our leadership team in the day-to-day-operations of the program.

Come ready with your own ideas for how your skills will best benefit our members!

PREVENTION PROGRAMS MANAGER This experienced, energetic individual will manage the implementation of several innovative occupational wellbeing programs, including: • Develop two distinct peer support networks for Vermont’s first responders and farmers; • Provide requisite training and support to peers; and

• Work with state partners to implement a behavioral screening and intervention program for Vermonters who have been injured or developed illness at work.

Experience working with first responders or farmers, license in mental health counseling, and grant experience are all a plus.

Application review will begin immediately and will be accepted until the position is filled. For a detailed description of these opportunities, please visit our website:

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WORKSITE WELLNESS AND CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS MANAGER

If you thrive in working cooperatively with people at all levels with respect, then we want to talk with you. Please submit cover letter and resume, specifying your interested position, to Marc Adams at marca@investeap.org by June 10, 2021. We are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

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JUNE 2-9, 2021

TEACHER The Bellwether School is looking for a teacher for our 4/5/6th grade multi-age classroom who believes that math and poetry can hold the secret to the universe, describes themselves as an adventurer, and is a lover of the arts.

Lead Cheesemaker We are currently seeking a motivated, dependable, quality-focused cheesemaker committed to local food systems, equity, education, and sustainability. Learn more & apply at: shelburnefarms.org

Working in a multi-age class of diverse learners, the elementary teacher will be responsible for designing and assessing all aspects of curriculum – literacy, math, science, social studies, and social emotional learning. Demonstrated leadership skills and confidence to take on the challenge of creating broad-based learning opportunities including experience with integrating project and field-based opportunities across core subjects is required. If you have the passion and experience for developing relationships with and nurturing the inquisitive nature of 9 through 12-year-old students please send a cover letter, CV, an educational philosophy statement, and three letters of reference to hiring@bellwetherschool.org. Please see our website for a full job description and to learn about the school: bellwetherschool.org.

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FULL-TIME BAKER/ CAFETERIA STAFF ESSEX WESTFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT Essex Westford School District is seeking individuals for the following opportunities in our child nutrition program:

FULL-TIME BAKER • Experience or training preparing large quantities of baked goods in a commercial setting is required. • Strong collaboration and communication skills are needed along with the ability to successfully work as part of a team. • Full-time, Monday-Friday during the school year.

City of Rutland-Building Inspector Full Time The City of Rutland has an opening for a fulltime BUILDING INSPECTOR. This is an appointed position that runs concurrent with the Mayoral term. This position requires a self-directed individual with a high degree of credibility and integrity to work closely with property owners, tenants, community leaders and other City employees. A minimum of 5 years of experience in building inspection, construction or administration preferred. The ideal candidate will have the ability to enforce codes and regulations firmly, tactfully and impartially in a courteous manner. The incumbent should be familiar with International Building Codes & National Fire Prevention Codes. Requisite computer skills include a high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel & Access. ALL candidates must be familiar with the Rutland Vermont Housing Needs Assessment and Market Study in order to be considered for the position. Please see the following link: rutlandvtbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ Rutland_City_Housing_Needs_Assessment_ Final_090520121.pdf

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SCHOOL CAFETERIA STAFF • Training provided! • Part-time, Monday-Friday during the school year. • Opportunities for summer work may be available. EWSD offers competitive pay rates and an excellent benefit package, including paid time off, medical and dental coverage, retirement savings and more! EWSD serves approximately 4,500 preschool through 12th grade students in ten schools across the Essex Junction, Essex Town and Westford communities. Come be part of one of the state’s largest and most highly respected school districts! Please visit ewsd.org/jobs to learn more and apply today.

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Seven Days Is Seeking a Calendar Writer!

Duties of the position include, but are not limited to: Interpret and enforce the local housing standards as defined by Rutland City Ordinance. Conduct inspections and plan reviews to assure code compliance; reviews plans and specifications and issues building permits; calculates building permit fees and state surcharges. Investigate complaints and make routine inspections to determine compliance with codes; file appropriate fines. Prepare reports and maintain a database of inspection activities and permits issued. The incumbent will be required to work with a variety of citizens from diverse backgrounds, as well as act as the department liaison to other departments throughout City government. Other duties as assigned. Resumes should be sent to Human Resources, City of Rutland, PO Box 969, Rutland, VT 05702. Email: cityhalljobs@rutlandcity.org. The City of Rutland is an E.O.E. http://rutlandcity.org.

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Must be obsessively organized, attentive to detail and accuracy, and able to distill press releases into succinct and snappy writing faster than a speeding bullet! OK, maybe not quite that fast, but take the rest of that sentence seriously. Seven Days and its parenting publication, Kids VT, provide comprehensive community calendars that cover more than two-thirds of the state. The job of maintaining these requires self-motivation to work independently, as well as accountability to the team. If you love communicating in a clear and clever way, aren’t fazed by a constant flow of information, and can meet a strict weekly deadline, let us hear from you! Ideal candidates are also computer savvy; experience with Adobe InCopy is a plus. This is a full-time position, based in Burlington, Vt., with competitive wages and benefits. Responsibilities are writing calendar listings and four event spotlights each week, as well as the Magnificent 7 column. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute additional content to Seven Days or our other publications as time and interest allow. Ours is an intense but fun office, with the opportunity to do your work remotely. Sound like your kind of job? Send your résumé, cover letter and three short writing samples to calendarjob@sevendaysvt. com by Wednesday, June 9. Seven Days is an Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls or drop-ins,

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PAYROLL MANAGER Champlain Valley School District has an immediate opening for a Payroll Manager for its Central Office staff on the Human Resources & Fiscal Services team. This is a full time, full year, 1.0 FTE position, for 40 hours per week. General job responsibilities involve overseeing payroll functions for CVSD which will include payroll processing, account reconciliation, accounts payable, staffing reports, governmental reporting, audit support, benefits processing, data entry, and other related payroll, benefits and fiscal activities as directed. The ideal candidate will have experience in the day to day operations of payroll, benefits, accounts payable and other financial processing, Microsoft Excel, and state and federal reporting. The individual should be a positive, team-oriented employee, able to function in a fast paced, high volume environment, possess excellent customer service skills, and be detail oriented, with a proven ability to successfully manage multiple competing demands.

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What we make, makes a difference. Want to help create cutting-edge technologies for climate challenges? Join the NRG team! Visit nrgsystems.com/careers to apply for our open positions:

Facilities Maintenance Technician Engineering Technicians

Experience with eFinance software or other enterprise resource planning system, worker’s compensation administration, leave administration and other employee benefit programs preferred but not required, as is prior experience in governmental accounting and financial reporting. Prior experience in a school setting is desired. Applications should be submitted via schoolspring.com, job #3538879. Applications accepted until position is filled, however preference will be given to those received by June 7th, 2021. CVSD is an equal opportunity employer. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), immigrants, women, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications will be received until the position is filled. REVISED 7t-NRG060221.indd 1

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

Seeking an organized, detail-oriented professional to join our Grants Team as a Financial Manager I. The ideal candidate possesses the ability to contribute and effectively communicate in a team, as well as the ability to work independently and accurately to produce high-quality grant applications, reports and data analysis. Duties consist of administering and monitoring federal grants, preparing financial reports/statements for review, and analyzing costs/budgets. For more information, contact Tracy LaFrance at tracy.lafrance@vermont.gov or (802) 498-7074. Department: Environmental Conservation. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #05847. Application Deadline: June 6, 2021.

S TAFF ATTORNEY INVES TIG ATOR – MONTPELIER

The HRC is seeking highly qualified candidates for a Staff Attorney Investigator. This position primarily develops and executes investigations into allegations of discrimination. Staff attorneys engage in conciliation efforts between parties, draft legally enforceable settlement agreements, and monitor compliance with agreements. Staff attorneys may also develop and deliver training to a variety of agencies, non-profits, and individuals. This position is being recruited at multiple levels. For more information, contact John McKelvie at human.rights@ vermont.gov. Department: Human Rights Commission. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #16288. Application Deadline: June 18, 2021.

CUSTODIAN I – MONTPELIER

Seeking Custodians for second shift positions, 12pm to 8:30pm, M-F. Responsible for custodial duties within offices such as sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, and dusting. May wash walls, windows and dust or polishes furniture in addition to cleaning restrooms and replenishing supplies. May perform grounds keeping or snow removal. Criminal background check required. For more information, contact Jonathan Rutledge at jonathan. rutledge@vermont.gov. Department: Building & General Services. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #12465. Application Deadline: June 6, 2021.

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A unique leadership position available to lead our team of waste management and prevention experts, reporting to the Commissioner. The Director provides oversight of the team and is responsible for managing a budget of $27M and a staff of 55 people. The work is broad and encompassing and includes the oversight of state and federal funding. The Director is responsible for setting the vision of the team and is responsible to implement priorities. For more information, contact Kim Greenwood at kim.greenwood@vermont.gov. Department: Environmental Conservation: Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #15724. Application Deadline: June 14, 2021.

H I G H W AY S A F E T Y P R O G R A M S P E C I A L I S T – M O N T P E L I E R

The DMV is seeking a dynamic individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for highway safety. This position requires the licensing and supervision of driver training schools and instructors, as well as the CDL instructors and CDL schools. As the Driver Coordinator, you will work closely with a host of internal/ external stakeholders to provide the most up-to-date educational materials and opportunities for driver development. For more information, contact Scott Davidson at scott.davidson@vermont.gov. Department: Agency of Transportation. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #15849. Application Deadline: June 9, 2021.

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Are you interested in public health? The Immunization Public Health Specialist position is a great opportunity to get experience working for the Vermont Department of Health. You will conduct site visits (60-70 per year) to ensure that health care providers around the state manage vaccines according to the requirements of the federal Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program and COVID-19 vaccine program. This program enables health care providers to offer low cost or free vaccine to people who are unable to pay. Your job is to monitor vaccine management including storage and handling, and train practice staff to follow regulations. The successful candidate will have excellent organization and communication skills, and expertise with Microsoft Office is required. For more information, contact Ines Burazerovic at 802-865-7755 or ines.burazerovic@vermont.gov. Location: Burlington. Reference Job ID # 16401. Location: Burlington. Status: Full Time. Application Deadline: June 07, 2021.

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CDL CLASS A DRIVER/ROOFER • Full time year round employment • Good benefits • EOE/M/F/VET/Disability employer • Pay negotiable with experience

CREWS NEEDED Apply in person: 252 Avenue C, Williston, VT 05495 802-862-6473 E.O.E.

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• Experienced Framing Crew needed in 2 weeks • Siding Crew needed in 6 weeks For a gorgeous 3,000 sq. ft. Mountain home in the Sugarbush area. Please reach out to Josh at 207-754-1295

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COMMUNITY ACCESS WORKER Needed to accompany and assist a young lady in participation of activities in and around Burlington. Own transportation needed. Days and hours flexible.

There is no better time to join NSB’s team! Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We strive to serve our employees as well as our communities. We are seeking a professional to join our Commercial Credit Department as a Credit Analyst in our Berlin Operations Center.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES & REQUIREMENTS • The Credit Analyst evaluates the financial condition of commercial borrowers applying for credit with the bank. • The successful candidate will have exceptional customer service and strong communication skills. We are looking for someone who is detail oriented in a fast-paced environment. • A bachelor’s degree in business, finance or accounting, or two years credit analysis experience in a banking environment.

OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH • NSB encourages career development and has a variety of training platforms available, including tuition reimbursement. • Average Years of Service at Northfield Savings Bank is above 9! If you’re looking to settle your career in the Banking industry, join our team!

WHAT NSB CAN OFFER YOU • NSB offers a competitive compensation based on experience. • Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, combined time off, 10 paid holidays, a wellness program and more! • Profit sharing opportunity and an outstanding employer-matching 401(K) retirement program. • NSB offers professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture. • Hours of operation are Monday – Friday, generally 8:00am to 5:00pm. We understand the importance of having evenings and weekends with our friends, families, and our community. Please send an NSB Application + your resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com, or mail to: Northfield Savings Bank H.R. P.O. Box 7180, Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer

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Responsibilities include Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive creating and executing an benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. annual communications plan Accounting Office Manager - UVM Bookstore - #S2830PO - The UVM to maximize earned media, Bookstore is searching for a qualified individual to oversee the daily operations, media/influencer relations, activities, and functions of the UVM Bookstore Accounting Office with direct web content and newsletter responsibility for the accurate and timely processing of all revenue and accounts receivables with indirect responsibility for all account payables affecting the development, managing DEI UVM Bookstore with annual sales ~$10 million. This position will also provide initiative and directing social exceptional customer service and supports UVM’s commitment to diversity, media engagement. Degree in inclusion, and environmental sustainability. communications and/or related Minimum qualifications include: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field and two to three years related experience required. Proficiency in work experience is required. analyzing and interpreting complex accounting policies as it pertains to Experience or familiarization revenue recognition, sales tax nexus, credit card encryption services, and with ski industry, hospitality, PCI compliance. Ability to identify accounting problems, discrepancies, and causes, finding alternative solutions with timely, sound decisions. Knowledge of travel and journalism preferred. Nebraska Books Company’s WinPrims/PrismRBS system and PeopleSoft are Video editing, Photoshop and highly desirable. Proficient in the use of PC applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, InDesign experience is a plus. and Teams). Ability to multi-task and prioritize, as well as to learn multiple interfaces relating to accounting procedures and integrity. Demonstrated This position is based commitment to diversity, social justice and training, fostering a collaborative in Montpelier with some multicultural environment. This position is part of a bargaining unit represented by AFT-Vermont. remote work possible; Research Project Manager - ARS Food Systems Research requires some travel and #S2835PO - The University of Vermont is hiring a Research Project Manager weekend/evening schedule to work with UVM Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Food Systems flexibility and minimum of Research. The manager will provide leadership and coordination for research advanced intermediate skiing and outreach projects, synthesize data and results for public dissemination, oversee communication and relationships with key stakeholders, and facilitate or snowboarding ability. operational components of the research. Qualifications include a Master’s Interested candidates can email degree in agricultural sciences, food systems, or a related field and at least 2 a letter of interest and resume years of specialized experienced. Project management skills are required, as well as computer/software skills in word processing, spreadsheet applications, to info@skivermont.com. social and web media, and effective communication, writing, and interpersonal skills required. Dairy Herd Management Educator - St. Johnsbury Office #S2843PO - The University of Vermont Extension seeks to hire a part-time, 4v-SkiVermont052621.indd 1 5/25/21 11:45 AM 0.50FTE (18.75 hours weekly), Dairy Herd Management Educator in our St. Johnsbury Office, with a possibility of another location. The Dairy Herd Management Educator will deliver dairy management outreach education and manage complex technical assistance projects. The educator will work directly with dairy farm business owners and managers in the areas of milk quality, dairy nutrition, animal husbandry, animal housing and facilities, and personnel management. This position will deliver individualized dairy herd management advising and prepare solutions–based management reports for small. This position will initiate and oversee dairy management teams to identify, evaluate and recommend implementation plans related to solving operational problems for small ruminant, organic and small-herd cow dairies. Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, dairy science or related field, and one to three years’ related experience required, as well as having basic knowledge of a wide range of dairy herd management practices, challenges, and benefits. Bilingual in English/Spanish is a plus. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. For further information on these positions and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm. edu for technical support with the online application.

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Ski Vermont/Vermont Ski Areas Association is seeking a motivated, engaging and organized individual with 3:22 PMexcellent written and verbal communication skills to promote the Ski Vermont brand in collaboration with member areas and our partners.

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Salvation Farms, a Morrisville non-profit. This key position’s responsibilities include QuickBooks accounting, HR, IT, and general business support. Competitive salary and benefits. salvationfarms.org/get-involved/#jobs

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MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Experienced professional to help us maintain our brewery and taproom equipment. Apply here: lawsonsfinest.com/ about-us/join-our-team.

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THE CITY OF BURLINGTON IS RECRUITING FOR A LEAD PROGRAM SPECIALIST! The Lead Program Enrollment Specialist is responsible for supporting enrollment activities of the Lead Program (LP), providing direct education and assistance to households undergoing lead hazard reduction activities through the LP, and promoting services of the Lead Program. Apply online: governmentjobs.com/careers/burlingtonvt.

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DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS INTEGRATION DEVELOPER PCC, a private, Winooski-based healthcare IT Benefit Corporation, seeks an Integration Developer to join our team. If you are interested in strengthening pediatric practices by connecting them to their care delivery partners throughout the healthcare ecosystem, we would love to hear from you. This is a versatile technical role with elements of software development (focused on API, web services, etc.), operations (deployment, monitoring, issue remediation), and project management (working with 3rd party technical teams to bring solutions from specification to production). Applicants must have technical skills and experience with Unix/Linux environments, working on a technical team, using software development languages/frameworks, and using any modern RDBMS required. Familiarity with web and application communication protocols and healthcare domain also required. See extended job description on our site for more details. Don’t worry if you don’t check all the boxes here; the most important factor is your ability to pick up new skills and seek out robust technical solutions for the challenges of healthcare interoperability. If this sounds like your realm, our team would love to meet you! In order to keep our employees and families safe while we continue to develop our software and support our clients, PCC’s employees have been working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We expect this policy to continue a little longer so there will be virtual interviews for this position. Once our office is fully open (about Fall 2021), we will be looking for employees to be onsite at our Winooski office in the Champlain Mill. As a Benefit Corporation, we place high value on client, employee and community relationships. Our company offers a friendly, informal, and professional work environment. PCC offers competitive benefits as well as some uncommon perks. To learn more about PCC, this role, and or benefits, please visit our website at pcc.com/careers. To apply, submit a cover letter and resume to jobs@pcc.com with "Integration Developer" in the subject line. Position open until filled. No phone calls, please. AA/EOE

The Milton Town School District seeks a Director of Operations to lead the operational services of the District to provide the best educational support services to students within available resources. The Director of Operations is responsible for planning, overseeing, and directing school district business and financial affairs, facilities maintenance, safety and security of district buildings and grounds, construction management, child nutrition services, information technology and data systems, and all other operational divisions of the school district as assigned. The Director of Operations works in conjunction with the Superintendent of Schools and serves as a member of a team of District Directors and Educational Leaders.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily, in addition to the following: Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred) in School Administration and/or Business administration or other appropriate discipline plus a minimum of 5 years’ experience in school administration and/or school business management (or equivalent training and experience from which comparable skills and knowledge are acquired). Knowledge of school finance and operations. Knowledge and experience in budgeting, financial management, facilities management/construction, personnel management, contract management, technology management, risk management, project management, planning and forecasting. Previous school experience and knowledge of school finance and operations preferred.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: • Operational Oversight and Department Management • Budget Development • Financial • Contract Management • Safety and Security • Supervisory Responsibilities APPLICATION QUESTION: What skills and attributes will you bring to this position? For a complete detailed job description contact Terry Mazza, Human Resources Director at 802-893-5304. Apply on Schoolspring: schoolspring.com/job.cfm?jid=3536402 Applications submitted in any other format will not be considered. Milton Town School District Terry Mazza, Human Resources Director 12 Bradley St., Milton, VT 05468 802-893-5304 FAX: 802-893-3020 10v-MiltonTownSchoolDistrict060221.indd 1

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Retail Position OR Ski/Bike Shop Mechanic Power Play Sports in Morrisville has openings for a ski/bike mechanic as well as a retail associate for our storefront. Ideal candidates are sports enthusiasts, dedicated to customer service and interested in working at a shop that is the cornerstone of the local recreation community. Great opportunity for the right person! Pay is $12-$20/hour depending on experience. Retirement and other benefits available. Apply: pps.caleb@gmail.com.

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WILDFLOWER RESTAURANT Various Positions SVT Hospitality is building a new team for Wildflower, our new experience in the amazing restaurant community of Stowe, VT. We are focused on building a family that is passionate about creating experiences! Our cuisine is best described as Americana with an Asian and Latin Caribbean flair, and an approachable crafted cocktail program.

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Servers

We seek an innovative problem solver with carpentry skills, home repair experience, and the ability to teach or coach volunteers. Will pay a wage commensurate with experience including health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, disability income insurance, and paid vacation. Contact Rachel Smith at: office@coverhomerepair.org by June 11, 2021.

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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES & REQUIREMENTS

• The Community Banker will be responsible for receiving and processing customers’ financial transactions, matching customers’ needs with appropriate products and services, protecting customer information and maintaining customer confidentiality.

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We are looking for someone who will consistently provide outstanding customer service, has excellent communication skills, and will build rapport and develop relationships with our valued customers. • A high school diploma, general education degree (GED) or equivalent is required.

OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH

Program Advocates are responsible for providing highquality, well-coordinated advocacy support for victims of domestic and/or sexual violence and stalking, their family members and friends. The Resource Coordinator is responsible for the organizational knowledge of community resources and access processes available to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

• NSB encourages career development and has a variety of training platforms available.

PREVENTION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM EDUCATOR

• Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, combined time off, 10 paid holidays, a wellness program and more!

This position works with students, educators, and parents across 9 school districts to provide prevention education, student leadership to end violence, and youth advocacy for survivors. The perfect candidate has experience designing learning activities and developmentally appropriate curriculum, loves working with young people to build their leadership in social change, and is committed to the mission of WISE to end gender-based violence. These are both full time positions joining our team of dedicated and innovative staff committed to ending violence. Please visit our website at wiseuv.org/join-us for job descriptions. To apply, send cover letter and resume to peggy.oneil@wiseuv.org.

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There is no better time to join NSB’s team! Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We strive to serve our employees as well as our communities. We are seeking professionals to join our team as Community Bankers at several of our locations.

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WISE works to end gender-based violence in the Upper Valley. We are hiring key positions within our core programs.

COVER Home Repair, a professionally led, volunteerpowered organization seeks a Work Crew Leader for its innovative urgent home repair and weatherization programs. Work with a dynamic team of dedicated, mission driven professionals and help make a positive impact in the Upper Valley.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

We are hiring for all restaurant positions. Full-time and Part-time. These positions will also join our events & weddings team.

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COMMUNITY BANKER

We are seeking those that have a passion for hospitality, an upbeat personality, a positive attitude, and are dependable team players with attention to detail who show care in their work.

• Average Years of Service at Northfield Savings Bank is above 9! If you’re looking for a career in the Banking industry, this is a great place to start!

WHAT NSB CAN OFFER YOU

• NSB offers a competitive compensation based on experience.

• Profit sharing opportunity and an outstanding employer-matching 401(K) retirement program. • NSB offers professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture. • Hours of operation are Monday – Friday, generally 8:00am to 5:00pm. We understand the importance of having evenings and weekends with our friends, families, and our community. Please send an NSB Application + your resume in confidence to: Careers@ nsbvt.com, or mail to: Northfield Savings Bank H.R. P.O. Box 7180, Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer

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Associate Housing Director VHCB is seeking an experienced and collaborative housing professional to join our team, supporting the development of affordable housing in Vermont. Work on policy and program development, new initiatives, and deliver support and funding to VHCB’s housing partners. Coordinate training and technical assistance programs; evaluate affordable housing applications, make recommendations for action, and support the overall effectiveness of VHCB housing programs. Qualifications: demonstrated commitment to affordable housing, prior experience and training in housing development, financial analysis, and project underwriting, strong communication skills, and a commitment to collaborative problem solving. Experience working with non-profit organizations, municipalities, housing development groups, and state agencies important. Experience with project management and coordination of housing programs preferred.

Senior Housing Analyst The Senior Housing Analyst works with a collaborative team to address the housing needs of Vermonters. Evaluate affordable housing applications to the Board, make recommendations for funding, and participate in the development of VHCB housing policies. Qualifications: Substantial prior experience and training in housing development, financial analysis of housing development budgets, and multi-family housing underwriting, as well as strong communication skills, attention to detail, and a commitment to the multi-goal mission of VHCB. Experience working with non-profit organizations, municipalities, housing development groups, and state agencies is important. Background in any or all of the following desirable: architecture, construction, service-supported housing, training and technical assistance, and working with federal funds. Read the full job descriptions at vhcb.org/about-us/jobs TO APPLY: Reply with letter of interest and résumé to: Laurie Graves, VHCB, 58 E. State Street, Montpelier, Vt. 05602 or by email to jobs@vhcb.org. Positions open until filled. Full-time positions with competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. EOE. 8t-VHCB060221.indd 1

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tice these high arts with exhilarating diligence, you will be rewarded with influxes of ecstasy.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20):

“All I want to be is normally insane,” said actor Marlon Brando. Yikes! I have a different perspective. I would never want to be normally insane because that state often tends to be sullen and desperate and miserable. My preferred goal is to be quite abnormally insane: exuberantly, robustly, creatively free of the toxic adjustments that our society tells us are necessary. I want to be cheerfully insane in the sense of not being tyrannized by conventional wisdom. I want to be proactively insane in the sense of obeying my souls’ impulses rather than conforming to people’s expectations. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I believe the coming weeks will be a fruitful time for you to be my kind of insane.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “There is ecstasy in

paying attention,” writes Aries author Anne Lamott. That’s always true for everyone, but it’s extra true for you Aries people. And it will be extra ultra especially true for you during the next 20 days. I hope you will dedicate yourself to celebrating and upgrading your perceptual abilities. I hope you will resolve to see and register everything just as it is in the present moment, fresh and unprecedented, not as it was in the past or will be in the future. For best results, banish all preconceptions that might interfere with your ability to notice what’s raw and real. If you prac-

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your guiding wisdom comes from Taurus author Annie Dillard. She writes, “I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.” I suspect that Dillard’s approach will enable you to maintain a righteous rhythm and make all the right moves during the coming weeks. If you agree with me, your crucial first step will be to identify the nature of your “one necessity.” Not two necessities. Just the single most important. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “It’s one thing to make a mistake, it’s another to become wedded to it,” advised author Irena Karafilly. Let’s make that one of your key truths in the coming weeks. Now is a good time to offer yourself forgiveness and to move on from any wrong turns you’ve made. Here’s a second key truth, courtesy of composer Igor Stravinsky: “I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” Third key truth, from Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: “Don’t be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the number of perfect moments you will experience during the next two weeks could break all your previous records. And what do I mean by “perfect moments”? 1. Times when life brings you interesting events or feelings or thoughts that are novel and unique. 2. Pivotal points when you sense yourself undergoing a fundamental shift in attitude or a new way of understanding the world. 3. Leaping out of your own mind and into the mind of an animal or other person so as to have a pure vision of what their experience is like. 4. An absolute appreciation for yourself just the way you are right now. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There is strong shadow where there is much light,” wrote Virgo author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-

1832). That’s a good metaphor for you these days. Since I suspect you are currently shining as brightly as you possibly can, I will urge you to become acutely aware of the shadows you cast. In other words, try to catch glimpses of the unripe and unformed parts of your nature, which may be more easily seen than usual. Now, while you’re relatively strong and vibrant, investigate what aspects of your inner world might need improvement, care and healing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to physicists, it’s impossible for a human being to suck water up through a straw that’s more than 34 feet long. So please don’t even try to do that, either now or ever. If, however, you have a good reason to attempt to suck water up a 33-foot straw, now would be an excellent time to do so. Your physical strength should be at a peak, as is your capacity for succeeding at amazing, herculean tasks. How else might you direct your splendid abilities? What other ambitious feats could you pull off? SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Ezra Pound had character flaws that bother me. But he also had a quality I admire: generosity in helping his friends and colleagues. Among the writers whose work he championed and promoted with gusto were 20th-century literary icons James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Hilda Doolittle, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost. Pound edited their work, arranged to get them published in periodicals and anthologies, connected them with patrons and editors, and even gave them money and clothes. In accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to be like Ezra Pound in the coming weeks. Make an extra effort to support and boost your allies. Assist them in doing what they do well. To do so will be in your own best interest!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Tess

Gallagher praises those times “when desire has strengthened our bodies.” I want you to have an abundance of those moments during the coming weeks. And I expect that cultivating them will be an excellent healing strategy. So here’s my advice: Do whatever’s necessary to summon and celebrate the strong longings that will

strengthen your body. Tease them into bountiful presence. Treasure them and pay reverence to them and wield them with gleeful passion.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else,” observed poet Emil Dickinson. That’s the truth! Given how demanding it is to adjust to the nonstop challenges, distractions and opportunities of the daily rhythm, I’m impressed that any of us ever get any work done. According to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns are now experiencing a big outbreak of this phenomenon. It’s probably even harder than usual to get work done, simply because life keeps bringing you interesting surprises that require your ingenuity and resourcefulness. The good news is that these surges of ingenuity and resourcefulness will serve you very well when the hubbub settles down a bit and you get back to doing more work. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarius-born

August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a masterful and influential playwright. He also liked to dabble in painting and photography. His approach in those two fields was different from the polish he cultivated in his writing. “I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way,” he testified about his approach in the visual arts. “I reject all forms of professional cleverness or virtuosity.” Just for now, Aquarius, I recommend you experiment with the latter attitude in your own field. Your skill and earnestness will benefit from doses of playful innocence, even calculated naïveté.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Which of the astrological signs feels the deepest feelings? I say it’s you Pisceans. You’re connoisseurs of deep feelings, as well as specialists in mysterious, multi-splendored, brusheswith-infinity feelings. And right now, you’re in the Deepest Feelings Phase of your personal cycle. I won’t be surprised if you feel a bit overwhelmed with the richness of it all. But that’s mostly a good thing that you should be grateful for — a privilege and a superpower! Now here’s advice from deep-feeling author Pearl Buck: “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

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MY ‘MUSE’ AND ‘RENEGADE’ I am so glad we have reunited. Here’s to the Sox, fireball, lakefront sunsets and live music, baby! When: Thursday, May 6, 2021. Where: Williston. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915278 NORTHFIELD NURSE I don’t think you read this paper, but here goes. We have known each other for years and got close for a while, then our paths separated us. I was hoping to reunite, but that hope was lost with one word from you. I wish you the best in the future, from the guy who gives the best hugs. When: Monday, September 12, 2016. Where: my place. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915277 L’AMOROSO PENSIERO She said, “You look like the silent type” / Then she opened a book of poems and handed it to me / Written by an Italian poet from the 13th century / Every one of them words rang true, / glowed like burning coal, pouring off of every page / Like it was written in my soul from me to you / Tangled up in blue. When: Friday, April 24, 2020. Where: on the fridge. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915275 DITTO Every moment between our meetings feels like a lifetime. A day will come when I never have to say “See you later” ever again. When: Sunday, April 11, 2021. Where: produce. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915274 HEY 19 You: wearing purple in the sun by a dogwood in full bloom. Me: wearing a gray suit and sunglasses. Him: a cute but young interloper. We made a pledge to love each other (and him) forever. It worked! See you in the pink room. When: Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Where: a wedding. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915272 CUTE BLONDE AT HEALTHY LIVING You: blonde, white top/athletic shorts, in line across the smoothie bar. You looked as if you came from a run or workout with friends. Wearing the hell out of those shorts. ;) I would’ve stopped to talk, but I was with someone who had to leave. Maybe we can work out sometime? Me: Dark hair, black jacket over hoodie, dark pants When: Friday, April 30, 2021. Where: Healthy Living, South Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915271

TABLE AT EL GATO WEDNESDAY To the five absolute legends that I served: You left me (Jamie) a phat tip and a nice handwritten note. I would love to buy you guys a drink to thank you! Will I ever see you five again? Made my night DIALED! You left a Seven Days mag on the table, so crossin’ my fingers and toes you’ll see this. When: Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Where: El Gato Cantina, Church Street. You: Group. Me: Woman. #915270 BURLINGTON BAY LIQUOR BOY You played with your hair when I got my creemee. Found an excuse to go inside while “sheltering from the rain.” I’m older, but you’re 18+. So, if it melted the creemee off your spoon the way it did mine, next time I wander in on a perfectly nice, warm day, don’t blame it on the weather. Melt my creemee. When: Friday, April 30, 2021. Where: Burlington Bay. You: Man. Me: Man. #915269 BLUE TOYOTA TACOMA Oops, is that what is meant by brake lights, brake lights: “STOP, let’s meet”? LOL! Seven Days email sent in inbox or spam folder. When: Friday, April 30, 2021. Where: Route ?. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915268 WHOOKNEW I’m not certain if you’re trying to communicate with me or not? You’ve blocked me and then reached out. If the roles were reversed, how would you feel? When: Thursday, April 29, 2021. Where: here. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915267 STOWE SHAW’S CHECKOUT LINE You smiled through your mask while behind me in the grocery line. You were tall, shaven-headed (friendly?) and seemed to have a proclivity for oranges. I had shortish curly hair, greenish/colorful glasses and an issue with a rotten carrot. If you’re single, wanna make me some OJ? Or at least go for a hike. When: Thursday, April 29, 2021. Where: Stowe Shaw’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915266 WHITE ACURA It would be nice to meet up in person one of these days instead of passing by each other on the road. When: Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Where: on the road. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915265

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Help! I’m worried about my mom. She has lived in the same house for more than 30 years. Unfortunately, my dad passed, and I just moved out. The problem is that the building next door is filled with drug dealers. We have found needles, lighters, cigarettes and half-empty beers in the shared driveway and in our backyard. There are different cars coming in and out of the parking lot. It’s obvious what’s happening. I would call the cops, but I’m scared of retaliation. I’ve tried asking other neighbors for help, but many are new residents in the country and adamant about not involving the cops, which I understand. I’ve contacted the landlord, but he doesn’t care. I’m scared to leave my mom alone in her house. I’ve advised her to sell the property, but she refuses because it is her home. What can I do?

Protective Progeny (AGE 21)

Noisy neighbors can be a nuisance, but this is a potentially dangerous situation. Your mom’s safety and wellbeing come before all else, and she definitely shouldn’t have to consider giving up her home because of this situation. It’s great that you understand the new neighbors’ hesitancy to involve the authorities, so don’t ask them to call the cops for you. Ring your local police department and tell them you would like to make an anonymous tip about possible drug dealing. Let them know your concerns about retaliation, but give them the lowdown. You can also request that they send a patrol by the property regularly. If nothing happens, be persistent and keep calling.

In the meantime, I’d The police should also recommend installing motion know that the landlord of the lights that shine on the building has been made aware of what’s happening. According driveway area and investing in a home security system to the U.S. Attorney’s Office that includes cameras. Many website, property owners options are reasonably priced in Vermont who knowingly these days, and your mom is rent to drug dealers “may face liability for anyone that worth every penny. may be injured or negatively Good luck and God bless, affected as a result of these activities.” I’d be willing to bet that a call from Johnny Law might increase the landlord’s What’s your problem? care quotient. Send it to asktherev@sevendaysvt.com.

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