Why aren’t school officials listening to Town Meeting on Garrison?
While the School Committee holds authority for naming, Town Meeting is also a legitimate body that can and should be heard and respected.
Opinion
Do we even deserve an Ellen Garrison Middle School?
Do we have a fraction of her integrity, courage, strength, and wisdom to reflect on what is at stake here and just do the right thing?
Historical notes on renaming Ripley… and Willard
All of the other schools in Acton are named after educators: Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Frank Sanborn.
School Committee stance on Garrison naming is ‘embarrassing’
Let’s be clear — naming a building is NOT the same as naming the entire school.
Do you still want ranked choice voting? If so, act
Next year is our 250th anniversary of leading democracy. Let’s be a “laboratory for democratic innovation” in Massachusetts.
School Committee should respect Town Meeting wishes
Ellen Garrison Middle School will represent the values of our community and will show those values to the world.
Thank you, Ashley Judd, for urging us to use our voice
Ashley Judd implored us to honor the sacrifice of the embattled farmers in 1775 by speaking up.
Save our endangered historic sites from airport expansion
If our democracy can’t protect the places that gave it the life it has today, how can we hope that it will protect us anywhere?
New Town Meeting study group needs ‘thoughtful’ reps
Acton has plenty of residents who enjoy a deep sense of belonging here and others who feel deeply alienated from how decisions are made.
Honor Louisa May Alcott, Peabody, and Garrison at new middle school
Wouldn’t this embracing approach be both appropriate as a symbol of Acton, and inspiring for everyone to see?
School Committee blocking ‘will of the people’
Is the School Committee saying, without actually saying it, “Let’s keep Acton White?”
Time Outdoors: Requiem for Oscar the Owl
His deep hoots were a part of their lives, a reminder that a nocturnal hunter was about and that, even here in the suburbs, woods and wildness were close by.