Sustainable Stephentown

What Is Your Vision For Stephentown’s Future?
Do you have ideas about what the future of Stephentown should be?  Do you want more local businesses and jobs?  Should we have a bank, a grocery store, a hardware store, a doctor, a dentist, a veterinarian? Should Stephentown have the local services that make a complete community? How about a local school again? How about making sure that the best land for growing local fresh healthy foods is always used for that purpose and family farms can remain viable businesses? What about maintaining our natural areas for recreation, hiking, hunting, etc.  What about fairer taxes?
Do you wonder why we are not attracting tourism dollars and businesses to our community even though we are at the crossroads between Albany and the Berkshires and between the mid-Hudson Valley and Vermont?
There are many ideas for a future Stephentown, but we have not created a collective vision of the future that we want. If you are interested in helping to shape this future Stephentown, please come and contribute to the conversation that is beginning in town. Let’s get together and build the thriving, resilient, local community that we want.
A group calling itself Sustainable Stephentown is starting to meet in town to discuss these things. Come be a part of the conversation. All are welcome. The next discussion will take place on February 16 from 7 to 9 pm at the Stephentown Memorial Library. For more information, please call Kevin Carpenter at 733-0290.