Town Councilmember John Leaver, citizen Rick Dole are leading a group that gets an E for effort for their ad hoc rallying of merchants and residents to shop – and eat – locally and late Friday, Sept. 4. Let’s rally around our merchants to kick-off the Labor Day weekend. We can all take some of the monies we are not spending traveling and recreating and buy ourselves or families or friends a gift and treat ourselves to dinner out. Make it a weekend-long pleasure to walk First and Morris Streets and keep our local dollars local.

Let’s put on our local masks and keep our local...