A state for small business

At Dan and Whit’s General Store, in Norwich, Vt.

“I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.’’

Peter Welch (born 1947), U.S, senator from Vermont