By Dakota Antelman, Managing Editor
WESTBOROUGH – Those interested in joining Westborough’s soon-to-be-formed Town Seal Review Committee can now submit letters of interest to the Town Moderator.
Established by Town Meeting vote last month, the committee will review the history of town seals in Westborough, consider whether to replace Westborough’s current seal and provide a report to a future town meeting based on that deliberation. If it suggests changing the seal, the committee will be further tasked with laying out a possible process for making that happen.
Letters of interest must be received by June 30, 2021. A review of the letters will begin on July 1, 2021.
Learn more about how to submit a letter of interest… https://www.town.westborough.ma.us/home/news/letters-interest-now-being-accepted-town-seal-review-committee.
The town seal has been a topic of intense debate in town particularly over the last two years.
The seal features a depiction of the cotton gin whose inventor, Eli Whitney, once lived in town. As a series of protests and social movements regarding racism in America have prompted a reexamination of historical symbols and figures, some have discussed the ways Whitney’s invention helped industrialize systems of slavery in the American South.
As a result, critics say Westborough should remove the cotton gin from its seal.
With others in town arguing the seal should remain unchanged, the matter will, for now, be in the hands of the Town Seal Review Committee before ultimately coming back before Town Meeting.
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