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February is a short but sweet month on the Vermont arts-and-entertainment scene

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January 30, 2025

February is a short but sweet month on the Vermont arts-and-entertainment scene

February is totally out of whack. Every other month has at least 30 days, but February apparently showed up late for the day-allocation meeting and only got a measly 28 days. Every now and then the day allocators feel bad for February and give it an extra day, but it still comes up at least a day late and a dollar short.

That just means you have to pack a lot more fun into each of those 28 days than you would in one of those longer, more drawn-out months. Fortunately, the arts scene in Vermont gives you plenty of opportunities to do just that. Here are 28 events to consider this month to really make time fly when you’re having fun.

Current exhibition at The Current

Through April 12, the solo exhibition “The Painters’ Hands” featuring the work of graffiti artist Timothy Curtis, which opened Jan. 16, continues at The Current, Stowe. Free. www.thecurrentnow.org

David Lynch films in Burlington

3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, the Vermont International Film Festival pays tribute to inventive filmmaker David Lynch, who died in January at age 78, with a trio of films starting with 1997’s “Lost Highway” starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, followed at 7 p.m. by the influential 1986 movie “Blue Velvet” and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2 with what might be his masterpiece, 2001’s “Mulholland Drive,” The Screening Room, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington. $6-$12 per film. www.vtiff.org

Farmers Night author talk

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, author and Bradford school principal Kenneth M. Cadow, whose young adult novel “Gather” was a National Book Award finalist, delivers a talk as part of the Farmers Night series, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier. Free. https://legislature.vermont.gov/the-state-house/events/farmers-night-concert-series

The return of Mdou Moctar

8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, West African guitar act Mdou Moctar is back with opener Janel Leppin at the Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington. $25 in advance, $30 day of show. www.highergroundmusic.com

Abstract landscape art in Middlebury

5-7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, the opening reception for “Landscape Complexions,” a collection of abstract paintings by Addison County artist and architect H. Keith Wagner, celebrates the exhibition that will be on display through March 15, Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. Free. www.townhalltheater.org

‘Wake Up’ call in Waitsfield

7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, The Valley Players open their world premiere fully-staged reading of Roxbury playwright Jeanne Beckwith’s Depression-era play “Wake Up, Gloucester,” which runs through Feb. 16, Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield. $14. www.valleyplayers.com

Acoustic roots music in Lincoln

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, acoustic roots musician Eli West, joined by Stephanie Coleman and Matt Flinner, performs at this month’s installment of the Burnham Presents series, Burnham Hall, Lincoln. $20-$25. www.burnhampresents.org

Made-in-Vermont hip hop

9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, now based in Brooklyn, hip-hop musician Jarv is a Windsor native who’ll perform with King Green and Damn Skippy at Nectar’s, Burlington. $20 in advance, $25 day of show. www.liveatnectars.com

Folk/bluegrass act in Richmond

4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, the “P.M. Sundays” series presented by Valley Stage this month features folk/bluegrass duo Bookmatch, Richmond Congregational Church. $17.50-$27.50. www.valleystage.net

Michael Marcagi is back in Vermont

8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, Ohio-based singer-songwriter Michael Marcagi, who performed in Burlington last summer at Grace Potter’s Grand Point North concert series, returns to the region for a show with Ashley Kutcher in the Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington. $20 in advance, $25 day of show. www.highergroundmusic.com

Middlebury presents August Wilson play

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, The Acting Company presents a one-night-only performance of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running,” Wright Memorial Theatre, Middlebury College. $5-$25. www.middlebury.edu/arts

Stealing from Work is back at work

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13-Saturday, Feb. 15, 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15-Sunday, Feb. 16, the Burlington-based sketch-comedy revue Stealing from Work returns to the stage with its new show, “Love… Well, Actually” Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington. $17 or “pay what you can.” www.offcentervt.com

The Bad Plus adds Vermont show

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, jazzy, eclectic foursome The Bad Plus plays the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. $30 in advance, $35 day of show. www.highergroundmusic.com

Sweet jazz for Valentine’s Day

7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, with Valentine’s Day falling on a Friday it provides all sorts of opportunities for romantic nights out, including this concert by jazz supergroup Artemis as part of the University of Vermont Lane Series, UVM Recital Hall, Burlington. $7.50-$38.50. www.uvm.edu/laneseries

Romance (sort of) with Yes Darling

8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, they flirt, they bicker and they sing – it’s Ryan Montbleau and Hayley Jane of Yes Darling, who on Valentine’s Day bring their staged concert to The Double E, Essex Experience. $25-$110. www.essexresort.com

Dwight & Nicole offer ‘Big Love’

8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, the soulful Burlington-based group Dwight & Nicole presents a Valentine’s Day concert titled “Big Love,” Town Hall Theater, Burlington. $15-$35. www.townhalltheater.org

Lutalo plays Radio Bean

8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, rising Vermont-based indie-rock musician Lutalo performs following Burlington rockers Dari Bay, Radio Bean, Burlington. $18 in advance, $22 day of show. www.radiobean.com

VSO does modern classical

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s program “Modernism and the World of Yesterday” begins with works by Wojciech Kilar and Felix Mendelssohn and after intermission presents Anna Clyne’s “Sound and Fury” with narration by Vermont author M.K. Anderson followed by pianist Stephen Hough performing his piano concerto “The World of Yesterday,” the Flynn, Burlington. $8.35-$62. www.vso.org

Zenbarn welcomes Session Americana

7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, the Boston folk amalgam Session Americana joins the South Dakota-born group Humbletown at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center. $25 in advance, $30 day of show. www.zenbarnvt.com

Warren Haynes hits the Flynn

8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, rock guitarist Warren Haynes, known for his work with Gov’t Mule and the Allman Brothers Band, arrives with his solo band for a show presented by Higher Ground at the Flynn, Burlington. $49.75-$359. www.highergroundmusic.com

Rock with Rough Francis

7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, Burlington rock heroes Rough Francis headline a show that includes DJ Collin Hagood, Blossom and Violet Crimes, Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. $20 in advance, $25 day of show. www.highergroundmusic.com

Higher Ground hosts ‘Love, Kelly Winterfest’

9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, the “Love, Kelly Winterfest” brings a night of hip hop with Famous Dex, YBN Nahmir, North Ave Jax, Souly Had and Kal Banx, Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington. $25 in advance, $30 day of show. www.highergroundmusic.com

‘Black Experience’ with Ta-Nehisi Coates

7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, author Ta-Nehisi Coates (“Between the World and Me”) headlines “The Black Experience ’25,” which includes music from SistaStrings and appearances by local guests DJ Melo Grant, poet Rajnii Eddins and racial-justice advocate Traci Griffith, the Flynn, Burlington. $23-$49.25. www.theflynn.org

A smoke-and-mirrors magic show?

8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, billed as the “world’s dopest magic show,” “Smokus Pocus” is a weed-themed magic show coming to the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington. $33-$53. www.smokuspocus.com

Winter Is a Drag Ball under new management

8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, the annual Winter Is a Drag Ball enters its 30th year presented by Mike Oxready (taking over for long-running hosts The House of LeMay) with the theme “ResisDANCE and RevoluSHINE” benefiting Vermont CARES, Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington. $32 in advance, $37 day of show. www.highergroundmusic.com

‘Tonight Show’ comic in Burlington

7 and 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28-Saturday, March 1, comic Mary Beth Barone, who made her late-night TV debut on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” stars in four shows at the Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington. $25. www.vermontcomedyclub.com

Getting gory with ‘Sweeney Todd’

7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, Vermont Repertory Theatre opens its run (through March 7 and with warnings from the producers of a “blood zone” close to the stage) of the Stephen Sondheim musical about “Sweeney Todd,” aka “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington. $25-$40. www.vermontrep.com

Solas celebrates in central Vermont

8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, the Irish-American group Solas brings Celtic sounds to the Barre Opera House. $24-$42.50. www.barreoperahouse.org

Contact Brent Hallenbeck at bhallenbeck@freepressmedia.com.

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Remains found in search for woman missing in Jan. Canada border crossing attempt

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October 30, 2025

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Remains found in search for woman missing in Jan. Canada border crossing attempt

Human remains were found in northern Vermont in the search for a woman who was reported missing during an attempt to cross the border into Canada in January, police said Thursday.

The remains were found in Jay on Wednesday afternoon by a search-and-rescue team and search dogs and were taken to Burlington for an autopsy on Thursday, Vermont State Police said. The autopsy is meant to determine the cause and manner of the woman’s death; her identity wasn’t available as of Thursday.

Police said the U.S. Border Patrol had reached out for help with the case last week, on Oct. 20. The federal agency was investigating a report of a woman becoming separated from her group while trying to cross the international border, and recently found personal effects belonging to her.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been investigating the case as well, according to police, who didn’t have more details to share about the matter, referring questions about the initial investigation to the Mounties and U.S. Border Patrol.

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How CVU boys, girls soccer teams controlled the 2025 Division I semifinals

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October 30, 2025

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How CVU boys, girls soccer teams controlled the 2025 Division I semifinals

SOUTH BURLINGTON – The teams in red drew first blood in the Division I high school soccer semifinals on Wednesday, Oct. 29.

And their opponents couldn’t strike back.

The Champlain Valley boys and girls stormed to two-goal halftime leads and cruised into their championship games, both aiming for repeat crowns. The third-seeded and two-time reigning champion Redhawk boys toppled No. 10 Burlington 3-0, while the No. 1 and defending champion Redhawk girls dropped fifth-seeded St. Johnsbury, also in a 3-0 result, at Munson Field.

The CVU girls will meet No. 7 Colchester in the D-I title game, and the CVU boys will take on No. 1 Burr and Burton in the other final at Virtue Field in a championship doubleheader on Saturday, Nov. 1. The girls game is set for 5 p.m., with the boys to follow at 7:30.

For more on CVU’s twin semifinal triumphs, read on below:

Gavin Prada scores with 1 second left before break for first-half brace

CVU coach Shane Bufano made a tactical change late in the first half. Bufano and his assistant coaches thought midfielder Gavin Prada might provide an impact at forward. After BHS made a late substitution, Bufano pulled the trigger.

Prada rewarded his coaches with a pair of goals in the final 8 minutes of the first half, the latter coming with 1 second on the clock for a 2-0 halftime margin.

“We saw something that we could exploit from direct play to possession-oriented play,” Bufano said.

On the first goal, Sebastian Bronk sent a restart deep into the box, where Will Wallace flipped over his shoulder — as he was falling to the turf — toward Prada. The senior pounced on the loose-ball chance, slotting inside the right post on a low shot for a 1-0 lead.

Then as the game neared halftime, Bronk booted the ball from midfield down the middle of the BHS defense. The pass took a deflection off a defender, freeing Prada for a breakaway. Prada beat BHS goalie Ben Koh and the halftime horn with a high toe poke.

“I had no idea,” how much time was left, Prada said. “I just knew I had to get to the ball and put it into the back of the net.”

Bufano on Prada’s second goal: “It totally changed the momentum of the game.”

In the second half, Wallace set up another goal. The senior midfielder sent an over-the-top ball for Lincoln Ricketts, who fended off a BHS defender and coolly scored on a low shot from a tight angle in the 44th minute for a 3-0 edge.

“We knew what we had in us and we went out there and showed them what we could do,” Prada said.

CVU (11-5-1) will play for a three-peat in its 36th championship-game appearance. But the Redhawks slumped down the stretch, losing to Mount Mansfield, BHS and Burr and Burton over a five-day stretch in the final week of the regular season.

“These guys just need to get a goal first to start believing. There was a lot of doubt, especially in that three-game (skid) when we could not score goals,” Bufano said.

The Seahorses, who close at 7-10, put together a surprise playoff run, highlighted by knocking off No. 2 Essex 2-0 in the quarterfinals.

“The boys have made me proud all season. This was the most fun I’ve had as a coach. Out of the last three semifinals we’ve lost, this one hurts the most,” fourth-year BHS coach Mukhtar Abdullahi said. “We were very grateful to be here. Sometimes it goes your way and sometimes it doesn’t.”

No drama needed for CVU girls soccer in semifinal rout

A loss in the finale to Mount Mansfield halted a 56-game regular-season unbeaten streak and provided a “wake-up call,” according to star midfielder Elsa Klein. A near-unthinkable comeback against Essex in the quarterfinals — three goals over a two-minute span in the game’s final 5-plus minutes — turned what appeared to be nightmare finish to the season into a dreamy result.

“A lot of things have come to easy for us at times. It’s good to have some adversity,” first-year CVU coach Kelly Knudsen said.

But in the semifinals vs. St. Johnsbury, the Redhawks avoided the drama. They played their game, with their full-steam-ahead attack on complete display to book the program’s 31st title-game appearance and 14th since 2009.

Reese Kingsbury, the hero of the quarterfinals, opened the scoring with another long-range effort and Elsa Klein set up the second goal of the first half while completing the dominant 80-minute performance with a second-half strike to lead the Redhawks (14-1-1).

“Our (strategy) was to be a threat to this team. We wanted to go in with full intensity, to scare them a little bit,” Klein said. “We did that right away.

“I’m so proud of our girls. We’ve worked so hard this season to get here. I can’t wait for the (final) vs. Colchester.”

Kingsbury unloaded a 30-yard shot that skipped under SJA goalie Jayden Bunnell’s arms for a 1-0 lead in the 16th minute. From there, CVU worked the wings with Allie Barrett and Lilyanna Mittelstadt to create scoring chances. Center back Elliana Antonucci found a cutting Klein, who unloaded a through-ball down the left sideline for the sophomore Barrett.

Barrett used her speed to break free from a SJA defender, with only the goalie to beat. Bunnell charged off her line, but Barrett used the wider angle to pass the ball into the net for a 2-0 lead with 14:18 to play in the first half.

“I told (Barrett), ‘Those are the type of balls I’m looking for,’” Klein said. “That’s what we’ve been working on. She’s one of our fastest wings. I love playing with her.”

Less than 10 minutes into the second half, Mittelstadt lifted a pass down the sideline for Klein, who pushed the ball into space for a clear break opportunity. Klein had options and elected for a cut-back in front of goal with a composed lefty finish for a 3-0 advantage.

Bunnell made eight saves for the Hilltoppers (10-5-1). Antonucci, Sierra Rainey and the CVU defense did not allow a SJA shot on target.

Contact Alex Abrami at aabrami@freepressmedia.com. Follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter: @aabrami5.

Contact Judith Altneu at jaltneu@gannett.com. Follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter: @Judith_Altneu.

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Obituary for John "Jack" H. McNulty at Day Funeral Home

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October 29, 2025

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Obituary for John "Jack" H. McNulty at Day Funeral Home

John H. McNulty, known by all as Jack, passed away at home in Barnard, VT on October 23rd, 2025 due to cancer. He was 72. He expressly forbade us from saying he fought a courageous battle against cancer, as he always hated that phrase. As he put it, you dont

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