SUPERVISORS REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 7-5-24
CLOSURES
The town offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, July 4 th and 5 th , and will re-open Monday July 8,
2024.
The transfer station will be closed Thursday, July 4 th but will be open Saturday, July 6 th for its regular
hours.
GAGA PIT
This week the Parks Department installed a new Gaga Pit in the park opposite the youth center. We
have ordered balls for it and will get those to the Youth Center.
TOWN BOARD MEETING
The town board will meet at its regular session, Tuesday, July 9 th at 7:00 pm in the Community Center.
Agenda items that are now anticipated–review the local law restoring the zoning board of appeals, an
update on the Homestead Housing project, review the proposed procedure to review requests for an
exemption to the STR cap, reports on Events (already held and those upcoming), further discussion
about the cemetery and more.
THE 4 TH OF JULY
I try not to monologue and so apologies for the following.
I have always loved history. I was in middle school during the Bicentennial and remember the field trip
to Fort Ticonderoga where we watched Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys take the fort from the
redcoats.
Around 30 years ago I lived in Quincy, Massachusetts, near Peacefield, John Adams’ home. It was an old
farmhouse, modest compared to Jefferson’s home in Monticello or Washington’s Mount Vernon. By
helping write and by signing the Declaration of Independence Adams took big risks for his own and
family’s safety but forging a new path for his country was worth it. Adams died at Peacefield on July 4,
1826—Jefferson died on that same day in Monticello.
I know history is all very messy and vastly more complicated than “good” versus “bad”. But the 4 th of July
honors the risks they took and the ideas in the Declaration of Independence—ideas that grounded and
justified self-government.
Happy 4 th of July!
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