To all who sign in support of this initiative:

I am formally requesting along with my co-sponsor, Matthew Mandell RTM District 1, to petition the Town of Westport, Board of Selectwomen and the RTM to the naming of Sherry Jagerson Park, located at 191 Hillspoint Road.

191 Hillspoint Road is currently under name “Sherwood Mill Pond Preserve.” This preserve exists as it is today because of the environmental love and care of Sherry Jagerson. 

In 2009, this project was executed under Sherry Jagerson, Wendy Crowther & Liz Milwe. The department I worked for, Parks & Recreation Maintanence Division were the manual labors for three months along with Public Works to excavate the property, build up the land, install a boat launch, saltwater natural plants, and accessible walkways with benches. 

Up until 2014, myself along with Casey Burke, Tim Zubrinsky, Nick Vena, Nick Rosa, and guest service employees volunteered to help Sherry maintain that park as it is seen today. 

It is Sherrys vision and hard work since the start in 2009 and 15 years later, why this park looks the way it does. 

She was a steward for Nash Pond. She helped create the Sherwood Mill Pond Preserve, on the site of the former Allen’s Clam House. 

Sherry led one of the first initiatives to ban plastic bags in the country. She created the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, helped found the Westbridge Coalition, was a founding board member for United with Kenya, and served on the board of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport.

It is this reason, that I and Matthew Mandell petition the Board of Selectwomen to naming Sherwood Mill Pond Preserve to Sherry Jagerson Preserve.