We received a few e-mails from concerned people wondering why
no post lately?
Well, first of all it was the holidays and we chose to focus
on family and friends and not town issues,This is not our job or our life.Secondly we feel we have given the people all the tools they need to find the information they need, it’s all right in the town minutes.
Our goal was always to hand this blog back over to the
original blog owner after this year’s voting.
Now with that said here are 2 things we feel you should be thinking
about and researching.The study to close Thayer Library, This is totally un-needed and frankly stupid! The whole problem with Thayer library is the new board of Trustees! The selectman would be better off trying to research a way of just dismissing this group and starting all over with the old bylaws in place and new trustees who understand the importance of not making the tax payers financially support this place and not to compete and duplicate services that Conant is already providing. During the takeover of the Trustee board and it was hostile and full of lies, the new trustees were told over and over again that it would be a danger to put this burden on taxpayers and it would be senseless to duplicate Conant’s services, in the end Thayer would be closed. Not listening they did this anyway and here we are with the library itself paying the price of bad decisions made by a few people.
Get rid of the Trustees, not the library!!!!!
A second thing of importance that we feel you should be
paying attention to is the law suit against the planning board because of their
decision to deny the Dunkin Donuts/gas station from coming to town. This was scheduled to be in court last week and we do not
know the outcome yet, but for the first time we actually hope the Town of
Winchester/Planning board loses! We do understand that the actions of 1 board
member and 1 alternate will be used in the suit against the Planning board.
Comments that they made and not removing themselves from the whole application
will favor the Group wanting to build. It was very obvious that Gordon was only
interested in protected her friend(Plifka/Kulicks) business in town and not
serving us the towns people. Bellans failure to understand and interpret laws and
inaccurate letters to the Keene sentinel was also very obvious and pointed out
by the towns own attorney. Guess who will be paying for the mistakes and wrong
actions by these two? You the taxpayer, and in way more ways than just the
legal fees.
How and why?The loss of property tax that this vacant lot being developed would have created
The loss of potential jobs
The loss of the town’s part of the food tax
And the fact that other businesses who might want to come to town someday now feeling that they do not want to deal with our dysfunctional planning board.
Not to mention the large legal bill that will be caused by the inappropriate actions of a few planning board members.
