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Our View: Oxford County town’s anti-mask resolution misuses Americans with Disabilities Act Selectmen in the town of Paris are among those making a mockery of rights won by people with disabilities. By The Editorial Board Share Thirty-one years ago next month, a group of protesters with disabilities ditched their wheelchairs and crutches and began moving – slowly – up the 78 steps of the U.S. Capitol’s West Front, demanding their rights. All five members of the Paris Select Board voted Monday night in favor of a resolution opposing Gov. Mills’ executive orders on face coverings, w...

Our View: Anti-mask resolution misuses the Americans with Disabilities Act Selectmen in the town of Paris, among others, are making a mockery of rights won by people with disabilities. By The Editorial Board Share Thirty-one years ago this month, a group of protesters with disabilities threw down their wheelchairs and crutches and went up the 78 steps of the Capitol’s West Front, demanding their rights. Known as the Capitol Crawl, it was the culmination of a decades-long and ultimately successful effort to get Congress to pass the Americans with Disability Act. It took one protester, an ...

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