Don Lowe First Selectman Column 11/03/2025
This Saturday, November 8 from 10am to 2pm in front of the Daily Market is the 3rd Annual “Stuff the Gazebo” event, sponsored by the Sherman Scouts. This is an opportunity to help those in need by bringing food products and dropping them off with the Scouts. Canned foods such as tuna and peanut butter, or pasta, cereal, and mac-and-cheese are appropriate. So are household items like laundry detergent and paper towels along with many other food and household products that people in need can use. Everything that you contribute is delivered by the Scouts to Sherman Social Services. Big THANK YOU to the Scouts for thinking of people who need a little help.
Also on Saturday, November 8, from Noon to 4pm, is the SPTO-sponsored “Harvest Fair”. This is a fun family event that features crafts, games, music, food, and lots more. Good job SPTO to keep this great event rolling along! I have always enjoyed this event.
The proposed new Sherman Senior Center Committee is holding another public informational forum on Sunday, November 16 at 2pm in Charter Hall. The meetings only last an hour and serve as another opportunity to learn specifics on this project before you vote on it at referendum on December 6.
In addition to these forums and the information provided on the Sherman Town website, a mailing will be reaching your mailboxes in the coming weeks that offers a wealth of info on this important project. Please get informed about this proposal to build a new Senior Center in Sherman. Our committee has reached our with in-person forums, remote forums, social media, NIXLE, Town website, and the local papers. But if you are still missing key information before you decide your vote, please contact me at my office and I will help in any way that I can.
Early Voting was sort of a success. We had more than 260 voters in the two weeks that polls were open. (We have more than 2,500 eligible voters for municipal elections.) There is some thinking going forward that, while Early Voting is probably here to say due to its better accommodating voters’ schedules, one week might be enough for smaller Towns. There’s a great deal of expense in staffing for such a long period and I hope that possibly the State will reconsider this. I will be asking them to do so.
I write this column on Mondays, and this paper appears in public on Thursdays. In between those two days there will be the Tuesday, Sherman municipal elections. If I have been fortunate enough to be re-elected, then I send out a big THANK YOU. If I am not elected, I will still send out a big THANK YOU for having me as your First Selectman these last eight years. It’s been the honor of my life.
