Lisa Lessard Pearson
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49 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Lisa Lessard Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So this was very unwelcome news.
We worked as a tribe board, bringing in the school committee, the finance committee, and the select board to work collectively on developing a solution.
And that's about the only magical thing that happened.
This was a community problem that we were going to solve, and we were going to do it together.
There's a laundry list of needs, including shoring up our senior center and lighting at one of our schools.
Some of them may seem insignificant, but it's a game changer.
The town was able to give some money back.
The schools also gave some of their money back.
This is from their own budgets.
And the positions that were going to be hired were put on hold.
And obviously, we gave a lot from our reserves.
It was a very...
It was very loving, and that's an odd way of putting it, right?
But everyone at the table understood that this was a community decision, and we all needed to pitch in, all needed to give things up.
And I'm very proud of the way Belchertown handled this problem.
But we're not out of the woods yet.
Could something like this happen again?
Yes.
First item on the agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance.
We need to...
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