Editorial: Here to Help

Stockbridge Updates responds to every request and question we receive. This month they included a report of dissatisfaction with the post office and a request to intercede. SU write the USPS District Office and copies of our letter and the requests we received are in Reader to Reader. Neighbors concerned about paving our roads stopped by and called. They were concerned it would destroy the historic character of our roads and have unintended consequences like facilitating speeding. We asked our Town Administrator. See his response in SU's From the Desk of.

I was asked to help the efforts of two sisters in their nineties to honor the memory and the accomplishments of their father. It was an honor to help write the application for inclusion of their 1915 family home on the National Register of Historic Places. We will post the application in SU next issue so we can learn about our historic buildings. If readers are interested, we can post more descriptions of our historic buildings in future issues.

Finally, the Warrant will be attached to the May 15 issue. Please read the warrant, ask questions, and be prepared for our Town Meeting. It is the people's meeting. You are the deciders. They can't spend it if you don't approve it; it's not a local law, until you say so.

Four years and 100 issues of this hyper-local newspaper, my whole goal was to prepare you for Town Meeting. Keep you up to date about the issues. I thought about those mailers sent out just before elections that explain the articles to be voted on. They are worded in such a confusing way that you can't be sure what a no vote means. The mailer explains it. So...

Now you have Stockbridge Updates, read up, and go for it. You pass the laws you are asked to obey — you pass the taxes you are asked to pay. Bravo democracy! See you May 20.

Carole Owens
Executive Editor

Photo: Patrick White