Natick conducted a study a few years ago, and if you click on this link and read the report, you won’t understand why Town Meeting approved the fluoridation in the first place. Now we’re paying $700,000 to clean of the manganese which is a byproduct of this health risk. (Thanks to cutaia for the link.)
Natick’s Planning Board was “irked” when the Commonwealth rejected their request for a $17 million dollar grant for support of infrastructure requirements due to the proposed Mathworks expansion plans, according to an article in the Metrowest Daily News.
Click on this link to read the story. http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x795996467 Read more »
I’m not surprised that we have what some might call a “lawyer” in town who loses his temper when he reads opinions that differ from his own. Read more »
What if the Fire Station Police Complex had been built facing South Street and the Colonial Block had been restored to retail?
At the very least, the folks buying those condos next to Casey’s wouldn’t be looking at a parking lot out their front window.
And the Colonial, with it’s 1000 seats, would have made for a great town meeting venue, and the building would’ve been paying property taxes.
If you’re looking at the Colonial marquee and wondering what’s playing, give us a day or two to put up the letters. I think it’ll be retrospective …classic horror, with the Bride of Frankenstein next on the bill !
Town meeting approved a huge chunk of our tax dollars to remove the Manganese from the water supply. It sounded like a good thing, until I read more information from ccutaia.wordpress.com and began to wonder why our Administration is always guilty of finding ways to waste our hard earned money. What came first, the flouride or the manganese, is like what came first, the need for raising higher taxes, or the higher taxes that were burning a hole in the pockets of the Administration, that caused the spending in the first place. When we voted Yes to the operating override, it seems to have opened the wallet of the town budget, with a “here, take my money please”. Just what is wrong with Town Meeting members? Maybe the flouride is causing a loss in common sense.
When I read that Town Meeting approved a lease for the Elliott School property, I had to remind myself that just because the “rubber stamp” worked, it may not be the will of the majority of people who live in Natick, and actually could have been denied if everyone who was elected to Town Meeting had actually cared enough to show up. Little more than half of those on the roster were there.
People elected who don’t show up insures the Town Meeting system will remain a rubber stamp.
This was one of downtown Natick’s few remaining original sights. The orange sign may have been glaring, but it never changed through the years. Until now. Goodbye, Town Paint. The new white sign and new name just doesn’t do it for me. What about you?
There were lots of people who thought the town needed more money to run the schools, and were convinced that they needed to vote “Yes” . Now that the brainwashing worked, Patrick Reffert gets another clerk with an executive title and salary to boot, and town hall employees get pay raises “in order to remain competitive with surrounding towns”.
Based on the comments I’ve received here, I guess it’s not safe to criticize those politicians either. What an odd group of people we’ve elected.
A member of the Natick School Committee named Frederick Coburn, or Dirk, as he may wish, wrote to the New York TImes a couple of years ago about his opinion on the name of the Natick school teams. (Never mind he wasn’t supposed to publicize the school committee opinon in advance of their vote)
In a letter to the newspaper, Town Meeting member, Jerry Pierce writes the following:
March 31, 2008 Read more »
