![]() ![]() In 1753, the Abenakis brought the ransomed John Stark down Lake Memphremagog and came ashore where Newport is now. The county shares the same pre-Columbian history with the Northeast Kingdom. The county is an expedient way of grouping and distributing state-controlled governmental services. As in the rest of New England, few governmental powers have been granted to the county. The county was created in 1792 and organized in 1799. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,393. A hearing is scheduled for March 5.Orleans County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. The state’s suit against Desautels remains ongoing. “Hopefully by summer we can begin to get back to some sort of normalcy.” “In my opinion, it takes a community working together to beat this pandemic and it appears to be working, as there are less cases and people are being vaccinated,” the mayor said. Newport Mayor Paul Monette said Tuesday that the city has followed Covid protocols and the “vast majority” of locals have done the same. “Most everyone else is doing it, and it has prevented loss of life here in Vermont,” the governor said of wearing a mask. Responding to questions from Newport Daily Express reporter Ed Barber at the governor’s regularly scheduled press conference Tuesday, Scott reiterated his position that the situation with the UPS store was preventable. He said few of the store’s services would change.īut Liz Vickers, who owns the building Desautels operates out of, said Tuesday that she had sent him a termination of lease notice and plans to work with him to move out by the end of the month. ![]() Last Friday, the store owner told the Newport Dispatch that Derby Port Press, a print company he bought in 2018, will continue to operate from the building on Main Street. In both the Stauber and the Newport Dispatch videos from Monday, Desautels is not wearing a mask in the store while others visit inside. “Honestly.”ĭesautels also questions the legality of preventing people from getting to their mailboxes inside his store. “Those (bleeps),” Stauber says, causing Desautels to laugh. Stauber asks Desautels why the state is suing him, and he says the state believes he is endangering the public’s health. “And once we did that, I guess, all hell broke loose.” “Two weeks ago today, we put a sign up to try to be respectful to the customers coming in,” Desautels says, explaining that the store asked people not to enter if they weren’t comfortable with unmasked employees. ![]() Along with her channel, Stauber runs an animal sanctuary in Morrisville and in 2019 was voted by readers of the Vermont Community Newspaper Group papers as “Ms. “We haven't worn a mask for a year,” Desautels says in a video posted to Stauber’s YouTube channel, which has 24,000 subscribers. In another video from the event, Morristown resident Claudia Stauber interviews Desautels about the saga. Soon after, a person off camera suggests that someone “go up there and kick their ass.” “They're throwing the snow right at me with the baby down here.” ![]() “I think it's time to call the police department,” Bordeau says. Later on, Bordeau complains that a person from the second floor of the building had sworn at them, blasted music and thrown snow at the protesters. I love the idea of people breathing freely this beautiful air that we have been given to enjoy as humans.”Īnother attendee bumps shoulders with that speaker after gleefully saying, “I support caring for people, up close and personal.”įormer franchise owner Andre "Mike" Desautels speaks with a supporter Monday. “I'm pretty open minded to the idea of, let’s see, democracy in America, upholding the Constitution, free speech,” one attendee tells Bordeau. The video shows Bordeau speaking with other demonstrators about why they had come out in support of Desautels, some from as far away as Stowe. “I know that there’s so many other business owners … that are just scared and afraid, and we're here to let them know that you don't have to be,” Bordeau says. Bordeau is co-founder of 802 Freedom, a group formed last year in opposition to the state’s mask mandates. “I’m so thankful that we finally have a business owner that’s willing to stand up,” Shylo Bordeau says in a video livestreamed from the event to Facebook. “This entire situation is completely avoidable.”Ībout a dozen or more people lined the sidewalk outside the store Monday, toting signs calling the mask mandate tyranny and Scott a dictator. Desautels follows the lead of countless other Vermont businesses who have followed the governor’s orders,” said Attorney General TJ Donovan. ![]()
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