If you’ve found your way to this site, then you’re ready to contribute to making Ralston, Vermont, a better community.
How’s this going to work?
On various pages in this site you’ll find information about the Ralston community. Sometimes that information will appear in links at the top of this home page. At other times, Mr. E will send you documents and links that will help you develop a fuller sense of what has happened in Ralston, what is happening in Ralston, and how you can shape Ralston’s future.
You’ll have opportunities to share your ideas in a wide range of areas—from the arts to city government to education to the general quality of life. One principle will govern your work toward a better Ralston: Your contributions should be viable within the constraints that you’ll find once you begin exploring this site. Viable here means possible. When it comes to acting within a community, possible often means knowing how to work within existing rules and norms—formal and informal—or against these constraints by changing them. Think of the communities in which we live today: Many things that were once impossible by virtue of being illegal turned out to be, in fact, possible through changes in relevant laws.
You want to change the way things are done in Ralston? Identify and engage the mechanisms for change. You want to be able to fly without use of aircraft or jetpacks? Sorry, this is not that virtual community.
This is Ralston, Vermont, a.k.a. the “Green Island City.” And you are welcome!
Ralston, Vermont's "Green Island" City 