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 [...]

Tonight only: Your vote counts!

The most important show of the year hits Fallon Auditorium tonight: Clinton’s Annual Town Meeting, at 7 p.m.
Leading the list of topics to be discussed are tax and zoning incentives for redevelopment of mills, a proposal for a stronger town administrator and citizens’ petitions to curtail selectmen’s and the fire chief’s powers. There’s also the [...]

No comments

Clinton’s Internauts are buzzing today over last night’s 4-1 vote to adjourn the selectmen’s meeting without public comment from the audience. For what it’s worth, this was a first for me. I can conservatively estimate that in five years in this business, as reporter and as editor, I’ve covered upwards of 350 board meetings in [...]

No cash for dams

According to a spokesman for state Sen. Harriette Chandler, the Senate budget passed last night leaves out state Rep. Harold Naughton’s House amendment, which would have provided $250,000 to help repair the five dams on the Wekepeke reservoirs in Sterling.
We’ll have more on this in a story later today at WickedLocalClinton.com.

Behind the tally sheets

Here’s my favorite part of covering elections: deconstructing the results. If you’re following along at home, the results quoted here are the hand and machine tallies as they stood Tuesday afternoon. Nine provisional ballots are excluded from these results.
Herewith, in no particular order and with no guarantees of relevance, a few observations on the exercise [...]

Your Wekepeke wishes

This week the Times & Courier is restarting what we hope will be a weekly feature, a Web-based opinion poll. The poll will appear every Monday as the first item under “More Headlines” on the Wicked Local Clinton and Wicked Local Lancaster homepages.
What should Clinton do with the Wekepeke land? ( surveys)
This [...]