U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) was in Burlington on Wednesday to acknowledge the value of Vermont's nonprofit theaters and the continued struggle they face to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. He pledged his support in the form of a bill that would provide $1 billion to the industry annually for five years. Theaters, he said during a press conference in the lobby of the Flynn, were among the first institutions to close when the pandemic hit. "And then they were the last, in many ways,... Read this story
