http://blogs.townonline.com/behind A look at and behind news and the hot topics of the day in Clinton and Lancaster. Wed, 07 May 2008 18:01:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/1052 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 ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/1032 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 ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/1022 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 ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/1011 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, ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/1002 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. ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/1001 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 ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/991 Say what you will about Patrick Brodrick's writing style or his politics, but he's done something today a lot of his critics thought they'd never see -- criticized selectmen Mary Rose Dickhaut and Kevin Haley. He doesn't detail any policy disagreements with them, or paint them with the demonic brush he ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/981 As you know from checking back every day at wickedlocalclinton.com, Swiss foodmaker Nestle is the only bidder for water from the Wekepeke Reservation in Sterling. Now that the bid is public, Clintonians and Sterlingites are taking a closer look at the legality of the deal -- whether Clinton has a ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/961 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, ... http://blogs.townonline.com/behind/951