Rick Ufford-Chase
Oct 26, 2026 · 21 min · 11 segments
Rick Ufford-Chase, Mayor of Newport VT, joins Anthony & Ike to talk all things Newport.
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Oct 26, 2026 · 21 min · 11 segments
Rick Ufford-Chase, Mayor of Newport VT, joins Anthony & Ike to talk all things Newport.
Rick Ufford-ChaseGuestAnthonyHostIke BendavidHostAnd I was just taking a guess.
I'm like, I wonder how he wound up there.
But it's because you came from
there.
Your roots are from there.
It's just such a beautiful place.
A lot of folks, you know, they've never been.
I'm like, well, you know, you've got to go.
You've got to go to the kingdom.
Yeah, and it's on the lake.
They're like, what? I'm like, yeah, they've got a beautiful waterfront.
So I noticed that this summer, was it Wednesdays, the waterfront Wednesdays?
Yeah, this is an all-volunteer effort that was created by these two amazing women in town who about a decade ago were sitting around having wine.
saying, how come Newport can't have really cool stuff like we saw when we lived in other places in New England? And they came up with this idea.
Their first year, it was on an old hay wagon that the city owned down on the waterfront in front of the state building.
And we bring in a full stage from Catamount Arts Center, which is a great partner to us based in St. Jay, once a week for about six weeks, all of July and early June.
They actually line the block, the empty block, as a way to kind of get people walking up and down the street.
And a typical week, we'll see anywhere from 400 to 1,000 people at these free concerts.
And I was just taking a guess.
I'm like, I wonder how he wound up there.
But it's because you came from
there.
Your roots are from there.
It's just such a beautiful place.
A lot of folks, you know, they've never been.
I'm like, well, you know, you've got to go.
You've got to go to the kingdom.
Yeah, and it's on the lake.
They're like, what? I'm like, yeah, they've got a beautiful waterfront.
So I noticed that this summer, was it Wednesdays, the waterfront Wednesdays?
Yeah, this is an all-volunteer effort that was created by these two amazing women in town who about a decade ago were sitting around having wine.
saying, how come Newport can't have really cool stuff like we saw when we lived in other places in New England? And they came up with this idea.
Their first year, it was on an old hay wagon that the city owned down on the waterfront in front of the state building.
And we bring in a full stage from Catamount Arts Center, which is a great partner to us based in St. Jay, once a week for about six weeks, all of July and early June.
They actually line the block, the empty block, as a way to kind of get people walking up and down the street.
And a typical week, we'll see anywhere from 400 to 1,000 people at these free concerts.
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