Dying isn’t cheap, but it’s cheaper here

Check out Times & Courier reporter Patrick Brodrick’s story today on the cost of being buried in Clinton. We all know the cost of living is rising, but apparently the cost of dying is, too.
Right now it only costs about $200 to get buried on a weekday — $350 on weekend. DPW Director Chris McGown [...]

Good weather for ducks

Man, weeks like this make you really respect the work our public servants do. I was out ’til midnight Monday watching the waters rise in Lancaster and rapidly take a few homes, but firefighters and DPW personnel kept working through the night and were there bright and early the next morning to pump out what [...]

Here comes the flood…

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Conflict of interest

At least one person — who claims to be a longtime town official — thinks someone who works for a bank shouldn’t be a selectman. Selectman candidate Kevin Haley’s boss received an anonymous letter recently saying the Flagship Bank Veep and loan officer shouldn’t be allowed to run for the Board of Selectmen because it [...]

Veterans agent under fire

Is Clinton Veterans Agent Gerald Coppenrath doing his job? His former assistant says no and so do several area vets, but is this just a case of a couple of disgruntled people tarnishing Coppenrath’s image?
The Times & Courier dug into the story this week after hearing scuttlebut for months about the veterans agent. These stories [...]