
I was raised in a small New England town, where municipal snowplow drivers cleared snow from elderly residents’ driveways in return for a cup of coffee at 2 a.m. Town Meeting is a proper noun in New England —a Saturday in March or early April when residents voted on the town’s funding and organization.
Such as how much money to provide the volunteer fire department for new radios.
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