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By DAVE CHRISTOPOLIS

To our fellow Americans: The hilltowns of western Massachusetts are a beautiful, bucolic stretch of towns sparsely populated by single-family homes sharing land with farms, rivers and rolling hills. The hills have been home to farmers, contractors, craftspeople, artists and do it yourselfers. In years past, local mills and small factories provided steady jobs. Today, many of those industries are gone. As a result, many hilltown residents have found new vocations or retired, caring for their rural properties and in many cases volunteering on a committee to help support their local municipal government. Living and working in the hilltowns is truly people helping people.