Welcome

My letter to the Walpole Times today invited readers to this blog. Welcome if you are visiting for the first time! As the disclaimer at the top of the page states, there is nothing official about this site. It is merely a vehicle for me to share my thoughts with anyone who visits, and to share information from other town meetings and how they may or may not relate to ours. The topics here run the gamut: I post unusual town meeting topics such as Amherst's chicken by-law, I usually post the Walpole town meeting warrant when I receive it from town hall, I have eulogized two town meeting members who were very close to me, I have posted various photographs when I learned how to post them, and I often post letters from other Moderators who express ideas I share with them, more eloquently than I could.

The one theme throughout though is my deep and abiding belief in the sanctity of the Representative Town Meeting form of government we have in Walpole. I believe it has worked well for the town, works well for us now, and will continue to best serve the people of Walpole into the future. Remember when Ron Fucile found that letter from Walpole Town Meeting from sometime well prior to 1776? That was a powerful moment. We heard about how our ancestors came together at a Town Meeting, long before this nation was even formed, in a forum very similar to what we experience today, to express their displeasure with the Crown. I am always mindful that I am but the latest in a long history of moderators of Walpole. I will do my best, as my predecessors have, to preserve this form of government.

As your elected Moderator, I am at your service. Feel free to contact me at any time about any issue. Even the FinCom. All my contact information is on the sidebar.

Thank you for visiting, and I hope you choose to return from time to time.