Good evening, everyone, members of the Class of 2025, your loved ones, family, friends – and educators. Tonight is all about the sixty-five high school students here before us. Not much more than an hour away from being high school graduates and Somersworth alumni. Hilltoppers for life. And I know they know that tonight is also about their parents, their family, their friends – and the loved ones who came before us – and the teachers, counselors, paraeducators, coaches, advisors (and all of the school district staff) – that helped them to get to this moment and this graduation ceremony.

But the one thing in particular I would like to offer here at the start of our evening is the connection of all of this – right here, right now – to something much bigger. You all know what it is, but I wo

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