Sens., truth and videotape

Well, would-be sens., at least — the two Democratic candidates for state senator in Lancaster and half of Clinton. You’ll recall that they met for a debate in Sterling in June, and you may recall the debate was on the same night as Clinton’s Town Meeting, shutting part of the electorate out from seeing the [...]

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 [...]

Knuuttila’s all-in

I won’t even try to duplicate Lance Harris’ excellent job summing up Brian Knuuttila’s “stormy Tuesday,” so straight to the this-just-in: Knuuttila may be a quitter, but it’s the sheriff’s office he’s leaving, not the campaign trail.
Attempting to go where seemingly no Bay State politician has gone before (cf. Kerry, 2004; Romney, 2006), Knuuttila, a [...]

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 [...]

Safe at school

The nomination papers are in and Clinton has five-way races for two seats each on the select board and Parks and Rec. Commission, and open-seat battles for collector, solicitor and Planning Board.
The development I find most interesting is the lack of a race for the town’s second most important board, School Committee, after the rocky [...]

Wee want your vote

What a great tradition we have in Clinton, the annual Leprechaun Convention and Parade. Edward Sheridan and the folks who help put the convention together, and those who participate in it, deserve all the thanks they’re getting today.
That’s not to say it doesn’t have its serious side, by which in Clinton is meant its political [...]

Small-town politics

While everyone else is focusing on the local Senate races, where a gaggle of former state representatives are going after seats being vacated by Pam Resor and Robert Antonioni, this week the Times & Courier cast an eye toward the open seat left as James Eldridge asks the voters of Resor’s district for a promotion. [...]