An astonishing result
The Charlotte News just wrapped up the most successful fund drive in its history—and that’s because of you.
The Charlotte News has a new ad manager
Change often comes with a new year. The Charlotte News will start 2021 with a new ad manager, Christy Hagios.
We wish there were a better phrase than thank you
This nonprofit newspaper is filled every week with contributions from Charlotters—most of them volunteers—who write beautifully, who take gorgeous photos, who want to share what’s going on in their hearts and in their town.
Thanks a million, Edd
In the last issue of each year, we thank all of the talented contributors to The Charlotte News. This year, we want to thank one in particular, who has a big anniversary with the paper next year.
We won’t be gone long
Don’t worry if you don’t see The Charlotte News in your mailbox for a few weeks. We’re taking a…
190 people have already donated. Will you?
Heading into the close 2020, we’re reflecting on what an unprecedented and unpredictable year it has been. From the pandemic, to the election, to civil unrest and wildfires, the impacts of 2020 have been far greater than we could have ever imagined. These impacts have been felt both locally and globally, and also organizationally for us here at The Charlotte News. And yet, one thing is certain: your hunger for news is stronger than ever before.
Publisher Claudia Marshall speaks with Rotary members
The Charlotte News Publisher, Claudia Marshall, speaks with the Charlotte, Shelburne, Hinseburg Rotary members on October 27.
Writers and reporters wanted
The Charlotte News is looking for freelance writers and reporters to help cover town news and events and to write columns about anything that might be of interest to Charlotters (farming, finance, culinary arts, hula hooping, blue green algae, dog training, wastewater, music, land conservation, property taxes, whatever else comes to mind).
Curious about what we’re hearing from our website readers?
Last week, we launched a website survey, asking you, our readers, a few questions about our website – as it is today, and what you’d like to see us offer in the future. Responses are still coming in, and we’d like as many readers as possible to weigh in. Here’s the survey.
The Charlotte News seeks input on website improvements
The Charlotte News is all digital this week, and we want to know what you think and to learn as much as possible from the experiment.
New Publisher for The Charlotte News
On July 17, the board of directors of The Charlotte News announced that Claudia Marshall will replace Vince Crockenberg as the paper’s publisher and president of the board.
Three Questions
Here at The Charlotte News, our goals are to produce papers that serve our community with local news and articles of interest and to give voice to the views of Charlotte residents. We’re curious about what our readers value in the paper, so we asked three questions to several Charlotters.
Let’s go digital
Normally we’d just walk to our mailboxes every other Thursday and find the next edition of The Charlotte News. But for our July 23 edition, we’re going digital-only. The printed paper will be back again on August 6 for the rest of the year, and, we expect, far beyond.
The last word
The word “last” has a lot of definitions; in our April 23 email newsletter, it appeared in the first sentence of the first article, referencing a previous issue of the paper. Unfortunately, with all this bad news floating around about newspapers, “last issue” looked like it meant something it didn’t. No need to panic: It should have read, “most recent” or “previous.”
News from The News
We’re pleased to announce that Ben Miller and Bailey Grattelo have been elected to the Board of Directors of The Charlotte News, replacing retired members Lane Morrison and Dave Quickel.
The Charlotte News needs your financial help, now more than ever.
Our journalists are working harder than ever to inform the community about COVID-19 and the resources available to help us all get through these perilous times.
The News Board asks for your donations
At a time when 2,000 U.S. newspapers have either laid off staff—including just in recent days Seven Days and VTDigger—or closed shop altogether, The Charlotte News is also struggling. As covid-19 wreaks havoc on the local businesses that have helped sustain the paper for decades—and for which we are immensely grateful—we anticipate that our advertising revenue, which makes up about two-thirds of our income, will take a hard hit over the next weeks and months.
How’s it going out there? We want to know.
The great thing about a local newspaper in a town like Charlotte is that everyone can contribute; in this weird time of physical disconnection, we’re hoping that The Charlotte News can be a thread that ties us all together.
With coronavirus, we’re all in this together
The coronavirus is now confirmed in Shelburne, and here in Charlotte the Senior Center, the library and the school are closed, possibly for months. And the worst impacts of the virus are still to come.
News from The News
The board of directors was significantly reshaped this year. Rick Detwiler, Patrice Machavern and Louisa Schibli (see below) left the board, and John Quinney, Lane Morrison, Ted LeBlanc, Claudia Marshall, Jack Fairweather and Christina Asquith joined it. The board also elected John Hammer as our first-ever emeritus trustee in recognition of his long, distinguished and continuing service to the paper as a board member and officer, financial supporter and voluntary Selectboard reporter. We’re now at full strength as a board and looking forward to a productive 2020 and beyond.