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Jazz Fest: A Music, Film & Food Soirée Vermonters channel their inner New Orleanians and don their best beads and boas for a swanky Mardi Gras-style shindig sure to close out the Woodstock Vermont Film Series with a bang. After a screening of Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, a 2021 documentary capturing the magical 50th anniversary of an iconic music festival, party people filter into a historic barn for a reception to remember. There’s live jazz by Michael Zsoldos and Ben Kogan, classic Louisiana cocktails such as the French 75 and the Sazerac, and a Cajun feast featuring gumbo, muffuletta and bananas foster monkey bread. ....
A statewide effort to reuse rather than recycle “can carriers” the plastic, snap-on totes known to craft beer brewers as “PakTechs” is gaining a significant head of steam less than a year after a pilot program was launched in Burlington to encourage multiple reuses of the plastic transporter . ....