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Valley Floor Day 2016: Strength in Numbers

April 17, 2017 in /by

By Hilary Cooper, Valley Floor Preservation Partners Published May 6, 2016 Sunday, May 9, is our ninth annual Valley Floor Day celebrating the successful extended-community effort to raise $50 million to protect the Valley Floor as open space in perpetuity. It was a monumental effort. There was opposition. There was doubt. Ultimately, strength in numbers […]

Valley Floor Day 2015

April 17, 2017 in /by

By Hilary Cooper Valley Floor Preservation Partners Published May 8, 2015 The years-long, passionate effort to preserve the Valley Floor as open space was not an easy one. It began as a meandering path of failed negotiations, a community divided, contentious town elections and wary fundraising advisors; but, ultimately, doubters joined believers, a diverse partnership […]