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Carole:

I kept cutting, but it is a complicated bill that I think residents should be aware of, and you are the only coverage for it. Have a Happy Fourth

Christine


Christine,

We will always be here for the residents and news they should be aware of even if Stockbridge Updates is the only coverage. Maybe especially if SU is the only coverage. Have a Happy 250th birthday and may America have many more!

Carole


Dear Stockbridge Updates,

For me, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence brings conflicting emotions: love for my country but a recognition that despite enormous progress we still have work to do to live up to its ideals. That, and an unrecognizable fear for the nation’s future driven by Trump’s unbridled corruption, lawlessness, incompetence and cruelty which is laying waste to the greatness of our country.

But I’m not going to let that fear and revulsion keep me from celebrating and honoring the United States of America and its ideals.

That’s why on Saturday, July 4th I’ll be joining South County Resistance in front of Great Barrington town hall to celebrate our nation’s core values of freedom, equality, justice and representative democracy. Those are the principles on which our country was founded 250 years ago and that resonate as much today as they did on July 4, 1776.

By showing up you’ll experience the joy of having a voice in our collective future and get to witness the kindness and passion of our community. And no less important, you can count yourself among the millions across the country who have time and again turned out to resist Trump’s authoritarian regime.

Showing up is an act of commitment to our country and the values it embodies, and with our collective resistance, will stand for once again.

John Perloe

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