02/23/2026
To our community,
Common Ground started with a simple belief: our small town should belong to everyone who calls it home. Right now, that feels especially important.
Whether we talk about it openly or not, politics touches our everyday lives. It shows up in our schools, in public safety, in healthcare, and in whether our neighbors feel safe and welcome here. For us, standing up for dignity, inclusion, and accountability is not about creating division. It is about caring enough to get involved and making space for people who have too often felt marginalized.
Public service is about serving the whole community, not just part of it. Leadership is strongest when it listens, learns, and shows up in spaces where many different voices are present.
Our town includes people of color, immigrant families, LGBTQ+ neighbors, multigenerational families, newcomers, working class folks, mom-and-pop shops and newer local businesses. That is who we are not just as a nation, but within our community as well.
Common Ground exists so that people who have felt overlooked in our small town know they are seen, valued, and supported here.
We will keep showing up. We will keep building connection. We will keep creating space for hard conversations. And we will keep working toward a community where everyone feels they belong.
Chelsea & April
