All Entries in the "Commentary" Category
To the editor: Three excellent candidates in Windsor Senate race
Please join me in voting for three excellent candidates for Windsor County Senate. If you are looking for experience, listening skills, energy and thoughtfulness, you will choose Alison Clarkson, Dick McCormack and Becca White. Senator McCormack has been elected by Windsor County voters 15 times. He has served on several legislative committees and serves on […]
To the editor: Chase will be responsive to Windsor-Windham residents
Heather Chase will be a superb legislator, responsive to the concerns of our citizens and forceful in supporting issues of importance to our state as she represents all of us in the Windsor-Windham District of Athens, Chester, Grafton and Windham. Actively involved as a Chester Select Board member, chair of the Chester Board of Civil […]
To the editor: The team to vote for on Nov. 8
You build and vote for a team. In this election, the strong team to vote for in the race for Vermont’s Windsor County Senate is Alison Clarkson, Dick McCormack and Rebecca White. In lots of aspects of life, business, problem solving and sports, you build a team. In politics it’s no different. You look to […]
To the editor: Chase seeks your vote in run for state representative for Windsor-Windham
My name is Heather Chase and, as a Democrat, I am a candidate for the Vermont state legislature from the Windsor-Windham District to represent all of you in Montpelier. I am excited by this opportunity to seek to serve my community and have enjoyed meeting many of you in my campaign throughout the district in […]
Editorial: Regulate unhosted short-term rentals
By Cynthia Prairie ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Telegraph spent months looking into the housing crisis in the central tier of southern Vermont, trying to understand where it stands now and, if necessary, what can be done about it. Today’s article, Hollowed Community?, which you can read here, pinpoints several factors into the causes […]
To the editor: Partridge seeks post of assistant judge for Windham
I am writing to ask for your vote on Tuesday, Nov. 8 for the position of Windham County assistant judge. Many of you know me for my service as a state representative in the Vermont House of Representatives for the last 24 years. My goal has always been to listen to and serve the people […]
To the editor: Dem Senate team seeks Winsdor voters’ support
Thank you, Vermont Windsor District voters, for your support in choosing us to be your three Democratic Senate candidates on the ballot this Nov. 8. We — Alison Clarkson, Dick McCormack and Becca White — are running as a team, and we heartily endorse one another. We respect one another as individuals and as public […]
To the editor: House candidate Eva Ryan: Let your voices be heard on Nov. 8
This letter is addressed to my constituents of the Windsor-Windham District of Vermont, citizens of Athens, Chester, Grafton and Windham for showing up and voting in our Aug. 9 primary, one of American’s most sacred duties to perform. I encourage all citizens of our district to exercise their right to vote on Nov. 8 and […]
Op-ed: Protecting reproductive rights
By Nicholas Boke I figured that if somebody was handing out glossy anti-Article 22 fliers at the Chester Town Hall on Primary Election Day, there’d be lots of somebodies handing out glossy anti-Article 22 fliers at other voting stations. I was right. The overstated hypotheticals provided in the flier are just the tack that Vermont […]
To the editor: Reasons not to support Manchin-Schumer bill
An open letter to U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch: Please do not support the provisions of the Manchin-Schumer bill for a number of reasons. To name some: How can further excessive government spending mitigate inflation if high government spending is one of the causes of inflation? The wind and […]
To the editor: Vermont Public … what?
The new name “Vermont Public” has fallen flat with listeners questioning, “Vermont Public What?” The explanation from Vermont Public, presented in a flashy information piece is that “Public” is a noun and the subject is “you” meaning all of us. Now the last time I diagrammed a sentence was in middle school, some 48 years […]
To the editor: Calls up 50% for Derry Rescue
In the year between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022, the Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad responded to 698 calls, up from 466 the previous year. This was an increase of 50 percent. Here are the numbers by town: Andover – 3, Landgrove – 14, Londonderry – 210, South Londonderry – 98, Peru – 88, […]
To the editor: Vermont Conference of UCC stands with bodily autonomy
As Christians in the Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ, we oppose the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade. We believe that God is the creator of all living beings and things, and that all human beings are created with the gift of free will and are of […]
To the editor: Vote Malloy for U.S. Senate
I am writing this letter in support of Gerald Malloy for U.S. senator from Vermont. Gerald graduated from West Point in 1984. He was an active duty field artillery officer and a paratrooper. He served our nation honorably and with distinction for 22 years. He has a MBA from Temple University. I have met Gerald […]
To the editor: Balint runs for U.S. House for Vermont
In politics, there are two types of candidates: those who run to win and those who run to work. Over the last 16 years, Vermonters have been lucky to have a representative in the U.S. House who knows the real goal of running isn’t winning, but working every day on behalf of Vermonters. If we […]
To the editor: Cris Ericson announces run for U.S. Senate
Hello! My name is Cris Ericson and I would like to publicly thank more than 500 local Vermonters from the Chester, Springfield and Bellows Falls area who signed my petitions to allow me to be on the Nov. 8, 2022 general election ballot as an Independent candidate for U.S. senator. Thank you also to Dan […]
To the editor: Southern Windsor will be represented in Montpelier
People in the southern part of Windsor County have been reassured by knowing that one of their three senators, Alice Nitka, lives in nearby Ludlow, thinking of her as “the South’s Senator.” When Alice retires at the end of this term, we’ll lose a meticulous, thoughtful legislator. But folks in southern Windsor County should be […]
Letter to the editor: Eva Ryan announces run for State House
I would like to introduce myself, Eva Ryan, as a candidate for the office of Vermont House representative in the upcoming Windsor-Windham (Chester, Grafton, Athens and Windham) Primary Election in August. My decision to run as candidate is simple. I believe that public service is incumbent on all of us, thus giving me a means […]
Op-ed: What DQSH could have meant to my younger self
By Vic Mowschenson ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Drag Queen Story Hour is just what its name sounds like: Drag Queens reading books to children. Usually these events, which have been taking place since 2015, are held in libraries, bookshops and schools. Their mission is to promote open-mindedness by exposing children to gender presentations outside rigid […]
To the editor: The real Second Amendment
If the Founding Fathers were around today, they would be flabbergasted by our inability to take even the most basic, common sense steps to protect our children from being murdered at school. Passively accepting, year after year, horrific school shootings, like the recent slaughter in Uvalde, Texas, would strike them as collective madness, which it […]
