{"id":233,"date":"2024-06-21T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/?p=233"},"modified":"2024-07-12T17:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T21:41:57","slug":"sudbury-250-logo-chosen","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/2024\/06\/21\/sudbury-250-logo-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudbury 250 Logo Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n@media all and (max-width: 600px)\n{\n\t.SudburyDepartmentLetterheadContactPane {display: none !important;}\n}\n<\/style>\n<div style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;, &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif;  display: flex;  align-items: center;  flex-wrap: nowrap;  margin: 0.5em 0;\">\n<span style=\"max-width: 82px;  display: inline-block;  vertical-align: middle;  flex: 0 0.5 82px;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative;  padding: 101.21951219512% 0 0 0;\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute;  top: 0;  left: 0;  right: 0;  bottom: 0;\">\n<img src=\"\/img\/town-seal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"83\" style=\"width: 100%;  height: 100%;  margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block;  vertical-align: middle;  border-bottom: 3px solid;  display: flex;  flex: 1 1 auto;  align-items: center;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block;  vertical-align: middle;  flex: 1 0 11em;\">\n<h2 style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;, &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif;  font-size: 24pt;  font-weight: bold;  border: none;\">Town of Sudbury<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;, &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif;  font-size: 15pt;  font-weight: normal;  margin-bottom: 0;\">Sudbury 250 Committee<\/h3>\n<\/span><span class=\"SudburyDepartmentLetterheadContactPane\" style=\"display: inline-block;  vertical-align: middle;  font-size: 10pt;  text-align: right;  line-height: normal;  flex: 0 1 auto;\">\n<div><a href=\"mailto:Sudbury250@sudbury.ma.us\">Sudbury250@sudbury.ma.us<\/a><\/div>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<p><u>For Immediate Release<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Sudbury 250 Committee, at its meeting on 6\/20\/2024, has chosen a Logo Design from the six entries that were submitted to the committee, to present and represent Sudbury\u2019s commemoration of the 250<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The winning entry was submitted by Sydney Merrill and Robin Merrill of Sudbury to the Sudbury 250 Committee (\u201cThe Committee\u201d). In their entry, they said, \u201cOur design includes the silhouette of Sudbury&#8217;s Revolutionary War Monument, located in Mount Pleasant Cemetery\u2026 It was fun to create the logo, and we look forward to hearing the outcome of the logo contest and joining in the coming Sudbury 250 events.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2024\/07\/Sudbury-250-Logo.png?version=41c4c61758306ffdb41f1a552e179eb3\" alt=\"Sudbury 250 Logo\" width=\"470\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2024\/07\/Sudbury-250-Logo.png 470w, https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2024\/07\/Sudbury-250-Logo-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2024\/07\/Sudbury-250-Logo-439x300.png 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each of the members of The Committee voted independently and their votes were tabulated. The committee members expressed their great appreciation for the time, commitment, and design of all the entries.<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chair Radha Gargeya noted that \u201ceveryone who submitted the entries honor Sudbury with their love and care.\u201d Committee Vice Chair Jan Hardenbergh commented that \u201cI was very impressed by the quality and the creativity of the entries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the criteria that The Committee members used to inform their choices are: \u201csimplicity, color scheme, ease of recreation\u201d, \u201cnice proportions of text, the symbol is specific to Sudbury, bar with 13 stars\u201d, \u201cfeatures a statue honoring the Minute Men of Sudbury, color choices\u201d, \u201c\u201duse of Minuteman statue, colors used, ability to \u2018pop\u2019 simplicity\u201d, \u201cidentifiable purpose, multi-use, Sudbury\/USA colors, storytelling\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee agreed that its work will serve these purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To celebrate and commemorate the 250<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the American Revolution through various planned events,<\/li>\n<li>To have the said events take place mostly between April 19, 2025 and July 4, 2026, while encompassing events in the American Revolutionary history,<\/li>\n<li>To include and engage all Sudbury citizens, starting with our children and students,<\/li>\n<li>To tell and record stories that are untold or under-told, and<\/li>\n<li>To inform and entertain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chair Radha Gargeya adds, \u201cLet us all celebrate the 250<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary so we bring the town and our community together in commemoration, joy, pride, and reflection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sudbury Select Board established the Sudbury 250 Committee to plan for the commemoration of the 250<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the commencement of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Sudbury 250 Committee Members<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Timothy Cobbett \u2013 Faculty, History Department, Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School; Sudbury resident.<\/li>\n<li>Leila Frank \u2013 ex-officio member, Select Board Office Supervisor, and Information Officer<\/li>\n<li>Radha Raman Gargeya \u2013 Sudbury resident<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Gilman &#8211; Faculty, History Department, Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School<\/li>\n<li>Jan Hardenbergh \u2013 Sudbury Town Historian<\/li>\n<li>John Neuhauser \u2013 Commander, Sudbury Companies of Militia and Minute<\/li>\n<li>Rachael Robinson \u2013 Director, Sudbury Historical Society<\/li>\n<li>James Weigel \u2013 Trustee Wayside Inn, VP Finance Mass Air Space Museum, Retd. 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US Army<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/\">Sudbury 250 Committee\u2019s website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudbury 250 Committee, at its meeting on 6\/20\/2024, has chosen a Logo Design from the six entries that were submitted to the committee, to present and represent Sudbury\u2019s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of American Revolution. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/2024\/06\/21\/sudbury-250-logo-chosen\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Sudbury 250 Logo Chosen\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}