What is the state of our community relations?

I welcomed the opportunity to write this piece to try to dispel some of the notions that seem to surface every year. In general, our relations with the towns of Medford and Somerville are healthy and positive. They could most definitely be better, but they could also be much worse. Those who think we have bad community relations have probably never seen truly hostile town-gown situations. We are fortunate not to have that situation.