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 [...]

Tomorrow: It’s important to have GAELS

Featured on the Times & Courier’s April 24 front page is the GAELS program at Clinton High School: It’s not just the name of the mascot, it’s an acronym for Greatness in Athletics, Education, Leadership and Service.
The program awards high schoolers for excellence in pursuits that don’t always make the front page of a newspaper. [...]

Tomorrow: Timeout on the field

It’s not as though the Nashoba Regional School District has kept its turf field plans top-secret — we had a story on the proposal to resurface the high school fields as far back as November, and the superintendent’s take last month — but officials in Lancaster are all of a sudden upset over the School [...]

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 [...]

Sterling 5, Nestle 0

That’s not quite how the discussion went, but no matter how you spin it, Clinton selectmen voted unanimously tonight to reject Nestle’s bid for Wekepeke water. Selectman Joseph Notaro Jr. said he didn’t like the “risk-reward tradeoff” of the deal — specifically mentioning the threat of lawsuits from Sterling residents, and the lower-than-anticipated payments Nestle [...]

Water on the brain

More Wekepeke brouhaha over the past week, as the saga of a salacious boy and his overactive water drill threatens to eclipse Tom Brady, “fashionisto” (66 reader comments as of Monday afternoon!), as the top story in New England today.
A quick run-through:
First there’s this NECN video report on the controversy. Not much we didn’t already [...]