We may not always know enough about the issues or the candidates to vote wisely. I learned a lot covering board, committee, and commission meetings when I began writing Stockbridge Updates. One of the things I learned is how little I knew before. Nonetheless, throughout, I voted.
It gets harder when accurate and useful information is mixed in with alternate facts and opinions. It is also complicated for Stockbridge when lots of things outside of the village affect us.
Luckily this is a problem with a built-in solution. Stockbridge Updates is adding new sections. NewBerkshireNews which will cover information from around South County that can inform us about our neighbors, underscore the similarity of our problems, possibly point to opportunities to share resources and lighten a burden by sharing it.
To all the other towns and villages in the Berkshire 3rd District — send us your events and your news. We are interested!
SU is also adding Hill Updates will cover news from the Statehouse. SU is very lucky to have State Senator Paul Mark writing a column every few months and to have our own Christine Rasmussen, Stockbridge representative to the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, writing for us about state legislation. We are working on a n expert to tell us all about state grants available.
From our first issue, the first week in August 2020, our single purpose was to educate voters. That remains our purpose; we are just expanding the ways we are doing it.
