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“I really came to appreciate the level of involvement of everyday folks running their towns and running the county and just making things work. J.B. really was one of the first people to give me a full appreciation of that.”

J.B. McKinley saw countless obituaries come across his desk during his quarter century with the News & Citizen, but it’s unlikely he came across a sentence in any of them

Evening to be both in person, virtual

In the days before Willem Jewett (August 23, 1963-January 12, 2022 ) died last winter, he was too sick to eat more than a few...

Michel Todd Weppler, 77, died unexpectedly on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at her beloved home on Elmore Mountain Road in Elmore.

Longtime Democratic lawmaker Sarah Copeland Hanzas (D-Bradford) is joining the race to succeed outgoing Secretary of State Jim Condos. Copeland Hanzas (D-Bradford), chair of the...

The wife of a former Vermont legislator and House majority leader says he has died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives

Willem Jewett, a former Vermont legislator and House majority leader, died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives.

Willem Jewett, a former Vermont lawmaker and House leader, died in his home with the help of Act 39, known as the Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act.

Willem Jewett died Jan. 12 at his home in Ripton at age 58, said his wife. He was diagnosed with mucosal melanoma over a year ago.