Thanks to volunteers helping tell our community’s story
As board members, we’re thankful to everyone who is involved in producing The Charlotte News. In print for 66 years, the newspaper has evolved and the publication process for each issue is now quite complex. It doesn’t just “happen.”
So, what does it take to produce 25 editions of the newspaper each year?
First, financial support from our readers is vital and this is an excellent time to make your gift, since all gifts up to $1,000 will be matched, dollar for dollar, thanks to our NewsMatch grant. Your gifts have twice the impact.
Second, our four-person staff — Anna Cyr, Scooter MacMillan, Susan Jones and Susie Therrien — work together to write and organize the stories, place advertisements, lay out the newspaper, update the website and take care of the bookkeeping. We’re grateful to each of you.
Third, as you’ll see from the list below, a much larger group of more than 150 people — all unpaid volunteers — also contributed to the newspaper this year. They wrote stories, submitted photos, proofread every edition, distributed papers around town, provided advice and served on our board and committees.
Without their talent and efforts, The Charlotte News would be a much less vibrant newspaper. Publishing this list is our way of saying thanks; it’s our Gift of Gratitude to these individuals, many of whom have been involved with the newspaper for decades.
As we enter the holiday season, please take a moment to tell us about someone you’re grateful to for their personal support or their contributions to the Charlotte community. You can do this when you make your Gift of Gratitude on our secure website at charlottenewsvt.org. Our deadline for Gifts of Gratitude is Nov. 30 – give or take a couple of days. We’ll publish the list of everyone honored with a Gift of Gratitude in our Dec. 12 newspaper.
All Gifts of Gratitude are matched, so when you make a gift of, say, $100, we receive $200. A $60 gift becomes $120, and so on. It’s quick and easy to make your tax-deductible Gift of Gratitude on our secure website.
Each year, it takes our staff, our freelancers and more than 140 volunteers to produce The Charlotte News and to make it freely available to everyone who lives here. It also takes financial support from everyone in Charlotte who is able to help, even just a little. We’re grateful to everyone who contributes by volunteering or making a gift — or both. Thank you all.
(Bill Regan is chair of the board of directors of The Charlotte News. John Quinney is a member of the board and chair of the fundraising committee.)
Writers
Alexa Lewis
Bill Regan
Bradley Carleton
Brooke Burns
Carol Talley
Cathy Hunter
Charles Russell
Charlotte Oliver
Chea Waters Evans
Claudia Marshall
Dahlia Herrington
Dan Cole
Dennis Delany
Dorothy Grover-Read
Douglas Webster
Elizabeth Bassett
Elizabeth Davis
Ethan Tapper
Hank Kaestner
Jamey Gerlaugh
Jay Strausser
Joan Weed
John Quinney
Julia Russell
Julie Dickerson Parker
Katherine Arthaud
Larry Lewack
Lauryn Katz
Leigh Cullen
Linda Hamilton
Lori York
Lucia McCallum
Macy Isenberg
Maj Eisinger
Margaret Woodruff
Margo Bartsch
Mike Yantachka
Olivia Conti
Owen Carpenter-Zehe
Peter Joslin
Natalie Bankmann
Ruah Swennerfelt
Sharon Mount
Susan Ohanian
Suzy Hodgson
Tai Dinnan
Tim Etchells
Tom Scatchard
Trina Bianchi
Vince Crockenberg
Will Thorn
Photographers
Alexandra Z. Lazar
Alexandra Lehmann
Ann Tuttle
Anne Marie Andriola
Annie Quade
Antoni Shkraba
Beth Slater
Bill Fraser-Harris
Brett Simison
Caden Asher Anderson
Caleb Kenna
Calvin Morse
Catherine Morrissey
Cecelia Wu
Christina Asquith
Claudia Pfaff
Daniel Schechner
Daria Etchings
David Speidel
Don Shal
Ed Sulva
Elizabeth Watson
Emily Vatis
Evan Masseau
Gary Sturgis
Geoff Scriver
Jack Pilla
Jacob Miller-Arsenault
Janet Yantachka
JC Biebuyck
Jeannette Armell
Jim Faulkner
Jim Hyde
Jim Squires
John Ernst
John Limanek
Jonathan Silverman
Judy Stroh
Juliann Phelps
Karen Tuininga
Kate Kampner
Katie Webster
Kim Findlay
Kit Anderson
Laurie Hartman Moser
Lee Krohn
Lorna Bates
Louisa Schibli
Louise Fairbank
Lynn Alpeter
Marco Antonio Reyes
Madrid
Marie Ambusk
Maura Mead
Meg Madden
Megan Brown
Michelle Bos-Lun
Myra Handy
Nancy Bloch
Nancy Faulkner
Nancy Wood
Nani Clemmons
Noah Jordan
Peggy Sharpe
Regina Cocco
Richard Hendrickson
Robert Caldwell
Robert Nickelsberg
Steve Goldstein
Steve Schubart
Stuart Warshaw
Susan Sim
Susanna Kahn
Sylvia Doyle
Tanna Kelton
Tom Gauld
Tom Kaestner
Woody Keppel
Board members
Andrew Zehner
Bill Regan
Claudia Marshall
Dave Speidel
John Quinney
Julia Russell
Margery McCracken
Meredith Moses
Peter Joslin
Committee members
Dorothy Grover-Read
Kolby Kruger
Lane Morrison
Lorraine Koffman
Richard Watts
Robert Bloch
Susan McCullough
Tim Volk
Paper deliveries
Jim Fox
Tom Scatchard
Proofreaders
Janet Yantachka
Katherine Arthaud
Mike Yantachka
Advisers to The Charlotte News
Anne Galloway
Bill Schubart
Nancy Wood
If you enjoy The Charlotte News, please consider making a donation. Your gift will help us produce more stories like this. The majority of our budget comes from charitable contributions. Your gift helps sustain The Charlotte News, keeping it a free service for everyone in town. Thank you.
Scooter MacMillan, Editor