Entries from December 2006

December 31, 2006

Happy new year!

We should see the results of Blue Back Square start to roll in 2007. Let’s hope that it proves half as helpful as promised.
And let’s hope that revaluation doesn’t kill us on taxes, create a fight over school funding or make us forget that we’re all in this together. Wise leadership at town hall and [...]

December 13, 2006

Bye, bye, drunken Evelyn

St. Joseph’s College announced today that Evelyn Lynch, who got caught driving drunk after bashing into a parked car in a quiet residential neighborhood near the school, is leaving as of Dec. 31. Of course, she’s been gone since her arrest so she’s really already history.
Let me be among the first to say good riddance.
There are [...]

December 6, 2006

Dog-gonnit, the town must act

Look, it’s not that I don’t have sympathy for Walbridge Road resident Faith Kilburn, who wants to keep her 22 little Shih Tzus until they’ve gone to the great dog park in the sky. “They are my children,” she said, according to today’s account in The Hartford Courant.
But much as those of us who have [...]