Primary 2024: Amanda Ellis-Thurber

July 19, 2024: Amanda Ellis-Thurber is running in the primary to represent people living in one of Brattleboro's three districts, Windham-7. Amanda co-owns and operates Lilac Ridge Farm with her husband, Ross. She holds a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

In this conversation, Amanda discusses why she chose to run, how Vermont could help small businesses and her concerns about affordability.

Amanda's website: https://www.thurber4vermont.com

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".

Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.