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On this day of remembrance, Westwood Minute provides just a few of the many more memorable and eloquent words of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
--Washington National Cathedral, March 31, 1968.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
--Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
--Strength to Love, 1963.
Source: nps.gov (National Park Service/Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial)
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This is progress and I am glad to see the Select Board moving in the right direction. However, a majority of voters at last Monday's Special Town Meeting voted to recommend that the Select Board immediately cease its lawsuit against the Westwood Land Trust.
What is the citizen's petition about? I checked the town website, and the only information I could find on town meeting articles was from last year. The public hearing dates for 2026 are posted as February 24-25.
Apparently, you need to submit a public records request through the town's FOIA portal. What a shame, since it should have been posted to the town website upon certification of petition signatures.
Westwood Minute has obtained a copy of the petition and has added a short description of it to the article. A copy of the petition is attached below the article.