One less Knuuttila supporter (again)

Following up on last week’s revelation that Stephen Kerrigan doesn’t endorse Brian Knuuttila, the state senator candidate appears to have lost another of his claimed supporters this week, as a Web user claiming to be Mark Elworthy disavowed the Gardner Democrat at ClintonMass.us:
Rep Knuutilla should NOT be using my name on his list of people [...]

Knuuttila’s endorsement misstep

Here’s a real “behind the Times” for you: guess how much effort went into publishing “Clintonians Offer Support for Knuuttila,” a seemingly routine campaign press release about endorsements of a state Senate candidate?
Not enough, apparently. In the longer Web version, your editor made a gaffe assuming former state Sen. Mary Padula, one of the endorsers, [...]

Something fishy in trash fee hike?

A seemingly straightforward vote to raise trash fees in Clinton earned a couple brickbats over the weekend.
One member of ClintonMass.com complained that it’s now impossible to find trash stickers since Clinton single-family homeowners have begun hoarding them. The $2.50 price won’t take effect until Aug. 1, and since the July 16 vote, savvy consumers have [...]

Museum is a regional icon

Hot on the heels of our story on Gordon Lankton — named an “honorary Clintonian” by the Board of Selectmen earlier this year — our sister paper The MetroWest Daily News, based in Framingham, sent a reporter and photographer out to tell their readers about Lankton’s (and present-day Clinton’s) largest cultural contribution to Central Massachusetts: [...]

Blogsport = Clinton commentary

First we had the shark tank, and now we’ve got a bloodsport. I’m thinking of changing the name of this blog to “Behind the Chainsaw Massacre,” or at least “Newspaper-cut.”
Late last month, former Selectman Joseph Notaro Jr. started the newest blog to take on the local political scene. Its name is supposedly a description of [...]

You’ve bought the farm

The long and winding (Clamshell) road has finally led to a closing. Just received this e-mail from Don Lowe, via Friends of Rauscher Farm leader Gloria Parkinson:
The closing has occurred and the deed has been recorded. I met [town attorney] Bob Gibbons in Worcester at noon and he gave me a copy of the [...]

Quorum questions

Less than two-thirds of the warrant articles facing Clinton were voted Monday night, because the town failed to meet its quorum requirement — 250 voters — before 10 p.m.
I did a Google search on massachusetts town meeting quorum and came up with the following quorum numbers for (open) Annual Town Meetings. The population figures are [...]