By Alison Aloisio
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WOODSTOCK Woodstock’s annual town meeting April 26 will feature votes on purchasing Buck’s Ledge, adopting a medical marijuana retail ordinance, making Woodstock a second amendment sanctuary town and replacing the Bacon Bridge.
A proposal to buy the 640-acre Buck’s Ledge property, which overlooks North Pond, would not require tax money. Instead, the town’s share (not yet determined) would come from a dedicated land conservation account, with the rest paid privately or by grants.
A proposed medical marijuana caregiver retail store ordinance, if approved, would allow for the retail sale of medical marijuana in town.
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While the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement is steadily gaining ground all across the country, one Rhode Island town is moving to scrap a resolution approved two years ago. Since the original vote in 2019, the Riverton town council has held elections, and the pro-Second Amendment majority has been replaced with new council members who say the resolution is “inappropriate,” because it reflected the personal opinions of the council members and not the town itself.
Of course, you could argue that the repeal of the resolution is just as personal. Based on the arguments made by one of resident pushing to get rid of the resolution, it certainly seems that the repeal effort is based on some flawed assumptions about the efficacy of one of the state’s newest gun control laws.
Prior Tiverton resolution supporting Second Amendment set for repeal
Marcia Pobzeznik
Daily News correspondent
TIVERTON A resolution passed by a prior Town Council supporting the Second Amendment and opposing the infringement on the right to bear arms has “faded into the sunset,” because there is now a new council, according to the Town Solicitor Michael Marcello, but the current council plans to grant a request by two residents to repeal it.
The resolution that was initially introduced by Justin Katz in May 2019 declaring Tiverton a Second Amendment Sanctuary Town, was done because state government “has a tendency to overstep its bounds,” said Katz, a councilman at the time, adding that the Second Amendment “is uniquely threatened by the politics of our day.” The first vote on the resolution failed 3-4, but it was tweaked and re-voted a week later with the Sanctuary Town removed, and passed 4-3 with then council President Robert Coulter, Katz, Nancy Driggs and Don