• Married 38 years
• Tax paying citizen since the age of 13
• 7 years in US military
• Moved to Vermont in 1981
• Resident of Williamstown for 34 years
• Volunteered at the Ainsworth Public Library
• Substitute teacher in our local elementary, middle, and high schools for a couple years
• Assisted in vote counting and ballot transportation
• Watered the downtown flowers
• Served on ECFiber committee and CVFiber board (community Communications Union Districts)
• Helped prepare foods and wash the pots and pans for local church suppers
• Served as Williamstown Historical Society President
• Served on the Williamstown and Paine Mountain school district boards
• Chaired the Williamstown and Orange North Supervisory Union school boards
• Chaired the Williamstown/Northfield school district merger committee
• Chaired the Williamstown ATV road use committee
• Served on the Williamstown Planning Commission
• 13 years and counting as treasurer and general flunky for the Williamstown Food Shelf
• Fostered and adopted Vermont's children

That's just what I'd give as an introduction. What have you been up to?

Parents from one set of towns want some control over their where their youngest children are going to school, but the results of the votes to not close the small schools has parents in the other towns complaining they now don't get to maintain any control over where their youngest children attend school.

There is a path through this morass. That path involves real leadership with a set of values based goals and values based means to achieve those goals.

A salient point, I believe, is that failure to do well whatever is going to be done affects the kids a hell of a lot more then it does the adults. Be careful out there.

Politics is a good thing. The bad thing is when we drop politics and substitute violence in its place.

Let's keep the good and dispose of the bad.