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The People's Meeting Michael Colby Analysis

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To the editor, I am writing in response to a letter to the editor that was printed in the Hardwick Gazette on September 16, 2015. The title of this letter was The People’s Meeting, written by Michael Colby. In this letter Colby can be heard, once again, harassing and slandering the chairman of the Walden school board, Ray Lewis. It seems as though Colby is attempting to sway the Walden community to question Mr. Lewis’s character. In considering the unscrupulous characteristics and motives that Colby has consistently demonstrated, there need be no question about the root of his distrust for others. In his letter Colby expresses his concerns about the motives behind Lewis’s decision to place his daughter in Danville School. He is also concerned

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