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)
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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 [...]

Much ado about ‘nothing’

Lance Harris over at No Drumlins feels “insulted” by Selectmen Chairman Robert Pasquale’s comments to a Sterling selectman last week. Talking about local opposition to Nestle drilling for water at the Wekepeke reservation, Pasquale said Sterlingites’ fears were “concern about nothing” and that “those people up there in Sterling have a lot of time on [...]

Wekepeke’s Web

Straight from the horse’s mouth, a one-stop-shop for everything Nestle has to say about its proposal to bottle water at the Wekepeke reservoirs in Sterling, owned by the town of Clinton. This came in through e-mail today:
Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) is in the process of responding to an RFP issued by the Town [...]