Pardon me, would you repeat that?
 
The Town Hall meeting on May 10 reinforced my earlier opinion that the acoustics at the town meeting were not only deplorable but atrocious. I confirmed that opinion in a brief discussion first with our first selectman and then with the chairlady of the Board of Finance who agreed with me.
 

Pardon me, would you repeat that?

The Town Hall meeting on May 10 reinforced my earlier opinion that the acoustics at the town meeting were not only deplorable but atrocious. I confirmed that opinion in a brief discussion first with our first selectman and then with the chairlady of the Board of Finance who agreed with me.

There have been too many fires, and one is too many, recently in the Northwest Corner. When such emergencies occur, those who are affected, who need to find a way to rebuild not just a structure but their lives, often find strength they did not know they had to do so. They also find welcome and sometimes unforeseen help and support from their neighbors, families and friends.

100 years ago — May 1913

SALISBURY — Miss Amy Teeter is able to attend school again, having been obliged to stay out for some time on account of eye trouble.

For Sale (advertisement): A good, young horse, seven or eight years old, weighs eleven hundred and is afraid of nothing and will road ten miles an hour. Having no use for a horse will sell cheap at once. Charles McArthur, Millerton, N.Y. L.B. 258.

LAKEVILLE ­— Dr. Bartle is having a garage built for the accommodation of his car.

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What if it had been Bush?

What if the George W. Bush administration had singled out the liberal equivalents of the Tea Party Patriots for special attention from the IRS? What if the Bush Justice Department had trampled the First Amendment in its seizure of phone records of The Associated Press reporters and what if a Bush State Department, CIA and National Security Agency had messed up the Benghazi story so thoroughly?

What would the biased liberals and their lamestream media have done? Fox News wants to know and despite the source, it’s a valid question.

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If AT&T and Verizon have their way, we can kiss our beloved landline phones goodbye.

For the second year in a row, AT&T has introduced legislation into Connecticut’s Committee on Energy and Technology (E&T) that will allow them to restructure their entire relationship with customers and oversight/regulatory committees to no one’s advantage but their own. And our E&T committee, which shows sure signs of having been captured by the very industries they are supposed to vett, has again passed another disgraceful bill along to the legislature.

The best I can say about the health of the Social Security (“SocSec”) system is that it’s not as sick as Medicare/Medicaid. However, contrary to a column in the March 21 issue of this newspaper: (1) It does face eventual bankruptcy in its current form and (2) before 2010 it was not the case, but Social Security does now, and will continue, to contribute to the country’s debt and deficit. Here is why those two “myths” are in fact true.

Debt and deficit