By the time yew git this missive, honeybunch, the kiddies will be back in school. Yup, and Friday of this week is Sept. 1. I jest seems I writ to yew yesterday that it’s June 1 and we should celebrate the coming of the summer season. With Labor Day this next Monday, the summer season is all but over. Things are already getting back into normal rhythms with meetings by various groups. In fact, our email bucket is getting more meeting notices than we’ve seen in a while.
And jest so yew know, we changed our email address and website address due to technical reasons. Effen yew or somebody else has to git to us, it’s [email protected]. The changeover has caused a bit o’ confusion amongst our regulars, but things are getting back to normal effen yew ask me.
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As yew probably saw on our front page last week, the groundbreaking for the new West Haven High School took place. Whilst notice went out a couple days before and news outlets were given the word, the whole event happened without too much fanfare. In fack, when I told one or two people who should’ve been in the know about it they were quite taken aback.
Whilst Sammy Bluejay made sure he was there to see whot was afoot, he did say that he got the distinct impression more of the event had to do with the fack there is a Democratic primary in a couple o’ weeks. In fact, we here at the papyrus have noticed an uptick in “photo-ops” as we kind of expected. This ain’t our first rodeo and when it comes to making sure people see some type of progress, the most they’ll ever see is around election time.
Word is on the primary that both sides think the race is gonna be somewhat tight. Yew can expeck that the current leadership of the party will get its 2000-plus out come Sept. 12. The question before the house is whether Nancy Rossi has some chops outside her own seventh district.
As yew may remember, up until the last municipal election, Nancy was quite a force up there, and it was a similar case. Anyone who was gonna beat her was gonna hafta bring out more votes and she usually does. That’s what happened.
Still Sept. 12 or no Sept. 12, with the “A Better Way” Party now the city’s official thoid party, there is gonna be a three-way race come the November election. This is jest a good barometer of what strength she can muster citywide.
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Iva Lootey was in t’other afternoon, and there’s a bit o’ concern about the fack there is a thoid party and it is – once again – jest the out-faction of the Democrats. That’s what happened when Rich Borer formed the “A Better Future” Party in 2005. It was jest Democrats under a different title.
Problem was the Republicans were shut out of the “minority representation” seats because the ABF polled more numbers. The further problem was that those who ran under the ABF were still registered Democrats.
An appeal to the Secretary of State’s office elicited nothing short of a silly ruling. Though they were Demmies for the purposes of minority representation, they were of the thoid party it was dictated. So, for the first time in the city’s history, all the boards and commishes were filled with Demmies of one stripe or t’other. It was not a good situation.
Let’s hope Dave Riccio – whom I hafta say every once in a while is not a relative of our esteemed editor – has a good showing in November and we don’t have the same scenario we had a decade ago. Keep yore fingers crossed.
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hearing when he could have a full hearing before the board.
Let me put it to you this way, effen Vic prevails and it is found that his rights were violated, heads should roll, not only in the school system, but by those members of the school board who knew better and said nothing. And effen this costs a cash-strapped city even $1, somebody – and it better be somebody higher up – should be given his walking papers.
Like I been telling yew, this will all depend on the time line. Vic had a clean record up to the time he started asking questions. Then somebody told him he had a “bulls-eye” on his back, and sure ‘nuff he did.
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One more thing about the schools: the kangaroo court that Supt. Cavallaro had concerning Vic Hogfeldt resulted in a recommendation that everyone expected. The gal who oversaw the hearing – the one that Vic said from the start he didn’t want, opting for a hearing before the Bored itself – did what was expected. She recommended that Vic be terminated. Soooo, expeck that the good people on the school bored, the ones that were asleep at the switch, vote to accept the recommendation.
This, of course, isn’t over. Vic contends the arbitration hearing was a violation of his due process and didn’t participate. He never wanted an arbitration and said so as far back as the springtime. Let me put it to yew this way: Effen this case, which is goin’ to superior court toot sweet, costs the city even $1 heads should roll, and they should be the heads of those barristers and professionals who let things get this far afield.
Hogfeldt it appears has a right to a hearing before the bored according to statute and was ignored when he asked for what was rightfully his. When the smoke clears on this, effen the courts find he was denied his rights, there should be some resignations on the board and some firings in the school system.
Interestingly, the fack that he wasn’t given the hearing of his choice has turned the heads of even some of his biggest detractors. It’ll be interesting how this all plays out.
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Allingtown is in for a bigger makeover effen I read things correctly on our papyrus last week. I even asked Nelly Nuthatch effen she read the same thing. She did. It seems that David Beckerman the man with the many properties along the center of the borough, is not stopping with the Atwood, the new building that stands where Carroll Cut-Rate used to be.
He’s planning on building a sister construction in the place of the old Park Theater – across the street on Cellini Place. And, he owns the former Forest Theater property, and it is said that once the final touches are put on the re-route of the intersection (and those touches have been finished) a new construction is going there.
That’s the most construction seen in Allingtown since Wilson was in office. That will force other places in the neighborhood to do something, and the entire area will look rather spiffy.
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I see the WestFest is planned for this weekend on the Green. Cobina might git in her gassamobuggy and see what is going on. No, she ain’t gonna go in one o’ them ball pits or anything like that. The UNH people are helping put the thing together and they’ve made a strong effort to become part o’ the community. The boys and girls at the college have also been more forthcoming toward the city. It’s nice to see. Cobina could remember a time not so far gone when the university and the city weren’t exactly sending Christmas cards to one another. That’s all changed over the last few years.
With the bit o’ chatter, I’ll close this time till next, mitt luff und kizzez