Sept. 10, 2026 Newsletter

Email: indivisiblenorthquabbin@gmail.com Website:  https://www.indivisiblenorthquabbin.com

A "Community Conversation" with State Sen. Comerford on Thursday, September 24th at Fisher Hill School

Indivisible North Quabbin invites you to join us for a Community Conversation on Thursday, September 24, 2026 from 6:30-8:00 PM.  State Senator Jo Comerford will be the featured speaker.  Sen. Comerford's district covers Franklin, Hampshire and parts of Worcester County.

Sen. Comerford will talk about issues that affect the residents of this area. Please come, listen and learn.  A time for questions will follow Sen. Comerford's presentation.  This event

is at Fisher Hill School (Media Center) at 59 Dexter St. in Orange.  See the flyer to share with others.

Senator Comerford and their hardworking team have been very busy this legislative session.  Below are just a few of Senator Comerford’s goals/actions on our behalf- (ALL 175,000 of us). 

Some of these included: protection of food security; promotion of access to health care, funding K-12 education, dealing with climate change issues & safeguarding our future. 

Sen. Comerford also worked hard on other issues. Some of these included co-chairing the  conference committee leading to passage of an Act Enhancing Child Welfare Protections (Bill # H.5629).  

** Strong Advocate at the State House “for what our region needs and deserves”

** Secured millions in  Fair Share Funding for her districts (for example in areas of education & transportation)

** Education-worked to ensure that children of all ages and adults get a fair chance at a good education- Rural School Bill 

**Worked to get the omnibus FARM (Fostering Agricultural Resilience in Massachusetts) bill passed. **Supported Steve Connors as a tireless Veteran’s advocate and cheered him on as he retired from leadership of  Western Massachusetts Veterans Outreach Project.

**Took action to protect immigrants and curtail ICE.

Make a Plan to Vote Early Now and Help Plan for the October 17th No Kings Rally with Indivisible North Quabbin

The Indivisible No. Quabbin Steering Committee needs your help to plan an October 17th Vote Early Rally and get people out to vote early in every North Quabbin town and across the state.  Then you can do other work on Election Day (Nov. 3) such being a poll monitor, helping give people rides to the polls or working as a poll worker.  All voters in both Blue and Red states can help make voter turn out set records.  Let's do this to save democracy and help build a country where everyone counts and where the right to food, health care, affordability for basic needs, access to education and justice are for all people.

What you can do now.

• Check your voter registration to make sure you are registered and an active voter. Go to https://www.sec.state.ma.us/voterregistrationsearch/ to make sure you are listed as active.
• Make a plan to vote early in your town.  Find out when you can do early voting in your town between Oct. 17-30th.  For example, there will be early voting in Orange on Sat, Oct. 17th from 8-2 at the Orange Town Hall.  
• Go with friends and neighbors to the polls.  Join with 3 people to vote or make it a march to the polls.
• Sign up at https://mobilize.us/s/oOdirO  to join the Oct. 17th event with Indivisible North Quabbin. 

Join us on Saturday, Sept. 19th at 9 or 9:30 to help plan a rally for Saturday, October 17th at Memorial Park and to organize people to vote early.

This planning meeting will be at the 1st Universalist Church at 31 No. Main St.  We will do planning for Oct. 17th and work together to figure out what needs to be done such as publicity, music, peacekeeping, and signs, etc.  Come with your ideas to organize people to vote early and recruit others to vote.  Across the country we need to get massive voter turn-out to save democracy.  Send ideas and questions about planning for Oct. 17th to indivisiblenorthquabbin@gmail.com.  All are invited to the planning meeting on Sept. 19th.

Check out the Resource Page on our website.  Click on links for what other events are happening in the state -- https://www.indivisiblenorthquabbin.com/p/resources.html

Indivisible North Quabbin   -- North Quabbin Towns: Orange, Athol, Royalston, Warwick, Wendell, Petersham, Erving, Phillipston, New Salem.

Email: indivisiblenorthquabbin@gmail.com