Howdy do honey bunch. Here we are in Awgus already. Can yew believe it? Like I keep saying, I thought I was jest celebrating that it was June 1. Yew know the summer is getting on a bit when the Savin Rock Festival comes and goes. It came and went this past weekend.
Yup. Cobina didn’t hafta get anywhere near all the crowds that were down there. See sat in her very parlor and was able to listen to all that was going on as, yew know, she lives jest a few hundred yards from the Old Grove.
Tennyrate, it seems a good time was had by all. There was music, fun and this year, it seems some brewed spirits were allowed. According to Mikey Walsh it is only the second time in the festival’s history spirits were about – at least those found in a still or brewery.
That must’ve made the place a bit more fun for a certain sort, I guess. Thankfully, there was nothing untoward happening. One must uphold the social fabric of the community, yew know.
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Sammy Bluejay made mention of the fack that the festival did provide a coming together pernt for the various candidates that are running for office come November. Of course, with the primary set for next month, both the candidates in the majority party seemed to make their way down there.
Nancy Rossi didn’t hafta go too far as her campaign office is in the Savin Rock Parkade. Sammy sez he didn’t hear any nasty commints or complaints about campaigning. Remember one year when one or t’other candidate was criticized for having people sign petitions down there. Yew’d have thought that somebody committed some kind of breach of etiquette.
The sum and total is that the campaign season is underway. Everyone expecks that Nancy is gonna get the requisite signatories on her petitions and we’ll have a full-blown primary. What happens after the primary is anybody’s guess. Cobina’s money is still on the proposition that whatever the outcome in September, there will be a three-way race come November. I may be wrong, but then again, I may not be.
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Whilst all that is going on, GOP candidate Dave Riccio is letting the factions of the Demmies fight it out. He is going another route, it would seem, and question the policies of the current and former leaders who have put our financial futures behind the political eight-ball.
Riccio this week came up with an interesting nugget about our esteemed Governor Dannel Malloy putting a halt to state fund sharing with cities. The query before the house is whether the Actors Colony was caught unawares by this move – witch could put things in a tizzy around here – or effen they have a contingency plan on how to proceed?
Remember, this possibility was mentioned during the Municipal Finance Assistance Committee (MFAC) two or so weeks ago. And there is talk that there won’t be any real budget agreement in the next few weeks even if concessions are got from the unions. Soooo, a city that depends on a goodly portion of its revenues from the state might be in deep trouble effen that money stays north.
From Malloy’s standpoint what does he have to lose? The state is on the verge of fiscal insolvency and he’s gotta count as many pennies where he can.
Seems to me yew and I have been talking about what a mess politicos have made state spending – and city spending – for many a moon. People scoffed at us 30 years ago and even 20. We said this reckoning was going to come, but no one wanted to listen.
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Nelly Nuthatch came to tea and said that she was buzzing about the berg and happened to be buzzing past the high school on Educational Way when what to her wondering eyes should appear but lotsa piping and equipment. She’s wondering effen there’s gonna be some digging around the back lot of the high school. That’s what it looked like and effen it’s got something to do with the building rehab? There’s lots and lots of stuff back there, and it looks like some digging is gonna take place. She chortled a little bit.
Effen they try to build a drainage ditch or something it would be rather silly. It is a swamp after all. The high school was built on a swamp. Remmeber those pilings they had to drive down to hit bedrock so many years ago?
Effen mem’ry serves the pilings went down about 70 feet before they hit solid ground. Wonder what the plan is for the new building and effen the kiddies are gonna hear the Ka-choom, Ka-choom, Ka-choom” of a pile-driver during school hours? Jest wondering.
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Madame Olga sez that the school system did itself a not-so-proud moment last week when it held an arbitration hearing for Vic Hogfeldt despite the fack he wanted a public meeting before the Bored of Ed. Funny, he sent letters and heard nary a word, but he refuses an arbitration hearing months ago, and it goes through. Uncle Joe Stalin would have been very proud. A show trial in absentia, he couldn’t have done it better.
Madame told me there were letters back and forth in the form of emails, and Vic told them he wasn’t showing because the law sez he can have a public hearing before the board. In fack, Cobina has a copy of said law on her desk, and it seems he might be right, though I’ll bet the mortgage the paid barrister for the bored will have a different way of looking at it.
Whatever the outcome, the board, the super, the assistant super, the system and the union should hang their heads in shame for what was not only wrong, it was un-American. But, I don’t think they care about that. Things could come out in the public hearing that maybe they’re willing to take the heat to keep in the dark.
Shame on ‘em all!
And effen they think this is over. No matter whot the outcome – and I think we all know what that is – the thing goes to the Superior Court as part of Hogfeldt’s suit against the Board and the city. Effen the city settles or loses this case, there better be some tidy resignations and firings coming down the pike – politicos and hired help.
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Finally, the Planning & Zoning Commish didn’t take up the matter of Captain’s Galley last week because its meeting clashed with the caucuses of the two parties. But, Iva Lootey tells me that there will be a plan for the property on which the Galley now sits that will be two or three stories, with a new restaurant on the ground floor.
The building is supposed to be pushed back a bit from the street, and then it will be two stories I think he told me, but it might be three, the mind does wander at times.
Stay tuned on this one, it could be a very interesting development.
With that bit o’ chatter, I’ll close this time till next, mitt luff und kizzez,