Deb Roux is on a mission.

The Ward 12 resident attended the July meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, and asked city officials what Manchester has planned in 2026 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

She says she then emailed each board member the day after the meeting with the same question, but never heard back.

She took matters into her own hands this past week, when she kicked off her own celebration by using her allotted three minutes during public comment to read aloud as much of the historic document as she could before time ran out, getting as far as the following passage:

“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of a

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