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NATICK – The Town Seal Review Committee wants your input on creating a new seal for the Town of Natick that accurately and respectfully reflects our community.
Take the survey online at www.natickseal.org or find a paper copy at Town Hall, Morse Institute Library, Bacon Free Library, the Community-Senior Center, Natick Housing Authority/Coolidge Gardens, the Natick Service Council, and the Department of Public Works.
The deadline tor respond is May 1.
The Town Seal Review Committee was created by Town Meeting in Fall 2022.
It has seven individuals appointed by the Moderator. They are chair Mia Kheyfetz, Lincoln Anniballi, Saul Beaumont, Niki Lefebvre, Sandra LaFleur, Virginia Mayo, Joshua Ostroff, Simone Poliandri, and Todd Sonneborn.
The Committee is charged with reviewing the history of Town Seals in Natick; to propose a new Town Seal after a public process that shall include consultation with a diverse group of stakeholders including members of Indigenous communities; to hold at least one public forum; and to provide a report and recommendation to a future Town Meeting that shall consider implementation of a new seal.
All towns in the Commonwealth are required to have an official seal.
The seal is used by the Town Clerk in the form of an embosser to notarize certain official documents coming from the town.
In 1980, Natick Town Meeting voted to make a new official seal from an image that was created by a town resident in 1951.
The current official seal depicts, in the center, an image of John Elliot preaching to Indigenous peoples with the years of Natick’s founding and incorporation surrounding it; this image is placed atop an image of a bible with a tree protruding from the top with the text “Natick” and “Massachusetts” draped at the top and bottom of the image (note the latter details is not incorporated on the official embosser).
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