4150 Search Results Found

You searched for: ""

NEWS: Sanders, Murray, Baldwin, 39 Colleagues Blast Trump’s Attacks on Head Start, Demand RFK Jr. Immediately Release Funding and Reverse Firings

WASHINGTON, April 25 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), alongside Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and…

Continue Reading NEWS: Sanders, Murray, Baldwin, 39 Colleagues Blast Trump’s Attacks on Head Start, Demand RFK Jr. Immediately Release Funding and Reverse Firings

Will Mathis and Snowplow Frosty Keeping Lincoln’s Roads Clear

Will Mathis is a lifelong Vermonter, a part time ski-patroller, a member of his local snowmobile club, and the Highway Supervisor for the Town of Lincoln. As supervisor, he leads the highway crew, managing Lincoln’s bridges, culverts, ditches, and more than 50 miles of roads – some of the steepest and most rugged in Vermont. The maintenance done by Will and his crew often requires early mornings, late nights, enduring bad weather, and plenty of hard work.

Continue Reading Will Mathis and Snowplow Frosty Keeping Lincoln’s Roads Clear

Our Third Annual Youth Chess Day

On Saturday, 160 young Vermonters and their parents joined me and my staff at the Vermont State University in Randolph for our third annual Youth Chess Day. The reason we hold a Youth Chess Day is to encourage young people to learn how to play an intellectually challenging game that is many hundreds of years old and is enjoyed throughout the world.

Continue Reading Our Third Annual Youth Chess Day
Third Annual Youth Chess Day

Third Annual Youth Chess Day

160 young Vermonters and their parents joined Senator Sanders for the third Annual Youth Chess Day. In the morning, students new to the game had the opportunity to learn and…

Continue Reading Third Annual Youth Chess Day

We Must Not Move Toward Authoritarianism

It is no great secret that our country is divided politically. I would hope, however, that all Americans and Vermonters come together to support our democratic way of life and oppose the very aggressive movement toward authoritarianism that the Trump administration is pursuing.

Continue Reading We Must Not Move Toward Authoritarianism

The Lake Champlain Pond Hockey Classic

Dear Fellow Vermonter,Vermont has some great traditions that go on year after year after year. Pond hockey is one of them. Every year, as the temperatures go down, ice skating rinks…

Continue Reading The Lake Champlain Pond Hockey Classic