What to do with sex offenders?

When the Times & Courier discovered the man selling knives to middle schoolers from a Clinton High Street store was a Level 3 sex offender last month, it lead to a few other interesting revelations: Namely, there are several Level 3s in the High Street area and just a short walk from Clinton Elementary School.
Is [...]

Dunn is done…

Lancaster Selectman David Dunn is one name that won’t be on the ballot in Lancaster this spring. The chairman of the board has announced he’s not running again after completing one term.
Dunn has certainly drawn both critics and fans in his three years. He’s not one to mince words and tells it how he sees [...]

Who isn’t running?

Boy, it’s feast or famine at election time. Either no one runs or everyone runs. John Rousseau who has often been featured in in the Times & Courier followed by the words “was arrested and charged with” has announced he’s running for selectmen.
He says the past is the past and he’s focused on the future. [...]

A tragedy in every sense of the word

Nightmare goes on and on…
We all recoiled last April at the story of 10-month pregnant Katie DiSessa and her baby’s death by the hands of an alleged drunk driver. The mental images of her boyfriend, James Rousseau holding his lifeless baby boy after rescue workers performed a Cesarean section to deliver the baby. He had [...]

Eggplant parmesan, please!

At long last, the wait is over. Sit-down Italian cooking is returning to the Clinton area. News that an Italian restaurant will locate to High Street is likely to get mouths watering. This town has been without an nearby Italian sit-down restaurant since Silvester’s went belly up just across the town line in Bolton — [...]

Seniors and the downtown…

Do most senior citizens in Clinton live and walk downtown?
That seems to be the presumption by those who see a downtown location for a new senior center as a priority. The Council on Aging’s current plan to put one on a municipal parking lot seems to be driven by this need to have a [...]

Talk about choices…

Who says local politics is dead? Certainly not in Clinton. For those of you following the local election cycle it’s still a month away for the closing date for folks to announce their candidacies for the Clinton Town Election and it seems candidates are already coming out of the woodwork.
We’ve got four candidates running for [...]