As we get closer to the vote on the dam, keeping it or removing it, please remember we are a town of a whisker over 5,200 people.  After this is over, we will still be a small town, meeting one another at French & Brawn, on the street, Hannaford’s, church and the voting facility and we, hopefully, will smile and say hello even if we know the other person did not agree with us on the vote.

Behaving with civility is one of  the most important acts we do when living in a small town.  Let’s not devolve into despising or disparaging those whose point of views differs from our own.

As Diane Kalen-Sukra, author, said:  “At its heart, civility is the disposition of those who understand that we live together to flourish together—that the wellbeing of our neighbor is bound to our own, and that we have a duty to one another and to the common good.”

Karen Grove lives in Camden