Dear Editor: In Support of Mary Janacaro-Hensleigh

Dear Editor and my friends throughout Jefferson County,

After a six-year term as a County Commissioner for you folks and nearly five years as your Undersheriff, I write to wholeheartedly endorse Mary Janacaro-Hensleigh for County Commissioner for the Whitehall district.

I grew up in Whitehall in Pleasant Valley on a small farm. Mary and much of her family grew up “just over the hill.” I have known Mary and her family for well over fifty years. I went to school with many of them.

I served my commissioner term with Mary’s mother Joyce, who was one of my teachers when the family first moved to Wh...