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VOLUME 46, NO. 35
Hometown to House Candidate talks grief, hope on campaign trail hood home in Charlotte and who, for the last few years, has been in hospice. In July before the primary, The last few months of Emilie Krasnow’s life have been bitter- tucked into a red booth at the sweet, heavy with looming grief Parkway Diner next to a stack of like a rollercoaster ticking slowly campaign flyers, Krasnow teared higher, but also wonderful, like the up, saying she wasn’t sure if her mom, Susan, rush of it hurtling would make it to down the track at “The campaign has the election. full tilt. “I asked her, A beautiful kept me focused when the seat dream rimmed opened up, if I with unbearable and kept me going should do it, and sadness. she said, ‘This Part of the because I know so is your dream. dream came true This is what for Krasnow, 37, many people are your dad wanted, when she won this is what I her bid for one of struggling right want,’” Krasnow South Burlington’s recalled. five House seats in now. And if there’s It’s not how the Aug. 9 primaanything I could do she expected her ry. Just like her first campaign to late father, Gerald, to make people’s look. a representative She’s been from Charlotte lives better, that’s entrenched in from 1994-1998, the political Krasnow knocked all I want to do.” sphere, visiting on the door of the Statehouse nearly every residence in her Chit— Emilie Krasnow with her father, who served as a tenden-9 district, in spite of being the only candidate Charlotte School Board member as well, since she was a little girl. for the seat on the ballot. Should she win in the Novem- Work on campaigns for candidates ber General Election, Krasnow throughout the state, including will head to Montpelier next year. former Lt. Gov. David ZuckerBut at the same time her man, brought Krasnow into this campaign has flourished, she’s work as an adult and helped her been helping care for her mother who still lives in Krasnow’s childSee KRASNOW on page 10 AVALON STYLES-ASHLEY STAFF WRITER
Monica Ostby captured this lovely shot of Wheelock Woods in South Burlington near the University of Vermont ropes course on Aug. 24.
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