With state and national candidate campaigning heating up, and Middlebury voters going to the polls to vote on the Vermont Gas easement question next week, many area residents may be thinking about how they are going to vote in the Nov.

Ruth Hardy and Chris Bray are clear, strong voices for us in Montpelier, and I look forward to voting for their reelection to the Vermont Senate.

Senator Chris Bray (and other legislative leaders) are working hard to help Vermonters move off of the high-cost, price-volatile roller coaster of imported fossil fuels. He deserves our appreciation for this important work.

Delaware, Indiana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont are making absentee ballots available for some or all voters Saturday.

Half of America’s long national nightmare is over, but only half. President Joe Biden is no longer part of a depressing Biden vs. Donald Trump choice, which the Democrats and Republicans attempted to foist on the U.S. electorate earlier this year.