flag controversy

After months of silence, an advisory committee exploring a new flag and iconography for Massachusetts will meet Thursday morning.

One quarter of Massachusetts’ 351 communities have signed on to a grassroots campaign calling for the state flag’s controversial iconography to be changed. The activists behind the push claim Gov. Maura Healey is dragging her feet on finding a new state emblem.

The fire truck flag controversy in the Town of Poughkeepsie appears to continue among the public, even though fire officials have reached an…