Letter: Reject Article 41

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To the Editor:

Town meeting should reject Article 41 because sexual orientation, color of skin, health and wellness, gender, environmental issues and changes in the meaning of English words (including the word rainbow) are not well-represented by a flag in any community.

Work in the community to make the American flag ensure inclusivity, support, a sense of belonging, respect for others and acceptance among human beings who have the right to live with dignity.

If this flag is added to the three now recognized we could ask: Where does it end? The American flag represents the hope we all have for our community.

Martha Dailey
Williamstown, Mass. 

 

 

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Williamstown Picks Curran, Sussman as Library Trustees

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Some 822 voters, or about 18 percent of registered voters, went to the polls on Tuesday to determine the four-way race for two seats on the library board of trustees. 
 
Janet Curran and Michael Sussman, separated by three votes, came in first and second, at 219 and 216. They will join the seven-member committee overseeing the Milne Library. 
 
Candidates Kathleen Schultze polled 205 votes and Martin Mitsoff 97. There were two write-ins and 83 blanks. 
 
Curran was the managing director of Images Cinema until recently and Sussman has served on the town's Finance Committee and Milne's Friends of the Library. 
 
Incumbents Stephanie Boyd and Shana Dixon were each re-elected to three-year terms on the Select Board and Nate Budington for one year to complete the unexpired term of Jeffrey Johnson, who stepped down last fall. 
 
This is Dixon's first full term, having been elected to complete Andrew Hogeland's term last spring; this will be Boyd's second term. 
 
Stephen Dew, current treasurer of the Housing Authority, was re-elected as was Roger Lawrence to the Planning Board. 
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