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Municipal Elections held state wide. Your vote makes a difference!

The Daily Hampshire Gazette, League of Women Voters, WHMP and Easthampton Media are teaming up to sponsor a forum for the candidates at JFK Middle School in the Community Room starting at 6:30pm.

The Daily Hampshire Gazette, League of Women Voters and Easthampton Media are teaming
up to sponsor a forum for the mayoral candidates at Easthampton High School
Reception to follow at Eastworks on Pleasant Street in Room 160.

The next board meeting of the League of Women Voters of the Northampton Area will be on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at the home of Nancy Polan, 10 Pine Meadow Rd., Southampton, Ma. The board will meet from 7-9 p.m.

On Saturday, September 16 between 10 a.m. and noon, Northampton will celebrate Citizenship Day in the Coolidge Room of Forbes Library. Yvonne Freccero, Northampton League member, will be one
of the presenters. You are invited to attend. The Mayor of Northampton initiated this event – he particularly wants to welcome all new citizens of Northampton.
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is celebrated each year on Sept. 17 on the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution in 1787. Congress first highlighted the significance of U.S. citizenship in 1940 when
it designated the third Sunday in May as “I am an American Day.” In 1952, Congress shifted the date to Sept. 17 and renamed it “Citizenship Day.” Congress changed the designation of this day to “Constitution
Day and Citizenship Day” in 2004.
For several years, on the 4th of July, the Northampton League has helped new citizens register to vote. We hope to see some of them as well as League members at Forbes Library for the celebration.

The book sale is will be held on Saturday, September 23 at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, Locust St. Northampton. The sale is from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Early birds can pay $10 to begin shopping at 8 a.m. Books are generally one or two dollars. There is a section of rare and unusual books.

We will begin our collecting on Monday, July 10th. Books can be dropped off at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, Forbes Library and Cooper’S Corner. We will stop collecting on August 4th. The book sale will be on Saturday, September 23 at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School on Locust St. from 9 a.m-4 p.m. For $10, early birds can begin shopping at 8 a.m.

The April board meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 7 p.m. at Margie Riddle’s home, 47 Water St., Leeds.

State Senators from around the Western Massachusetts will be listening to what you have to say, and working hard to make sure they carry your voices and your ideas back to Beacon Hill.  Senator Don Humason, Senator Adam Hinds, Senator Eric Lesser, Senator Jim Welch, and Senate President Stan Rosenberg will hold a Town Hall Forum at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Student Union Ballroom, 280 Hicks Way from 6:15-8:15 on Tuesday, March 28th.  This is your opportunity to have your voice heard.