✍️ LTE: Bacci, Murphy, McCarthy, Dockser & Haley
I was once like many of you reading this. I’d drive through downtown, see people holding signs in the rain, and beep and wave. All the while, I was hoping…
✍️ LTE: BOLT Has Become a Political Bloodsport
To the Editor and the Voters of Reading, Something as seemingly mundane as a race for the Board of Library Trustees has become a political bloodsport. Vanessa Alvarado's disingenuous letter…
✍️ LTE: Accountability & Transparency for BOLT
Please join me in voting for two new candidates, Michael Terry and Brian Curry, running for positions on The Board of Library Trustees (BOLT). As an elected board, BOLT is…
✍️ LTE: Karen Herrick For Select Board
Dear Editor, With the Reading Select Board election rapidly approaching, I’m pleased to add my voice in support of Karen Herrick. I urge you to review Karen’s considerable qualifications, experience,…
✍️ LTE: Herrick Endorsement
Dear Reading neighbors, In most years, the rhetoric around our Select Board election tends to focus either on relatively small issues like parking woes and plastic bags, or on a…
✍️ LTE: Melissa Murphy for Select Board
Dear Reading Voters, We need new blood on the Select Board and Melissa Murphy is the perfect person for the job. In the time that I’ve known her she has…
✍️ LTE: Time for Efficient & Quality Leadership
To All Reading Voters: When I think of a Select Board leader I think of someone with a strong voice, someone that is diligent, and someone that is willing to…
✍️ LTE: A Time to Heed “Facta Non Verba”
As a resident of Reading for forty-four years, presently a Town Meeting member for over a decade, and educator for thirty-six years in the Reading school system, I am both…
✍️ LTE: Carlo Bacci for Select Board
Recently my husband and I attended a Recreation Committee Meeting with over a dozen of our neighbors. The reason? We had learned that Washington Park, which abutted our properties, was being considered as…
✍️ LTE: Dockser supports Herrick for Select Board
I am writing this letter in strong support of Karen Herrick to be re-elected to the Reading Select Board. Her experience, skills and energy are an asset to the town. …


