Friday, July 10, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Fri., July 10, 2009

Wallingford: Battle of the signs. The question people – and officials – need to ask themselves is at what point does a decent concern for unanimity and freedom from commercial speech, as it were, give way to over-punctiliousness about rules and codes for their own sake.

Southington: The switching in numbers seems to indicate a change in school districts, to keep class sizes consistent. The matter, then, for the school board and the administrators to decide will be whether the small discrepancies in uniformity of class size is worth changing community patterns and calling forth the families which must change schools and dealing with the issues that all entails.

Southington: The fee for out-of-towners to use Crescent Lake is probably illegal. The level of concern over the possible use of a public resource by someone who doesn’t actually live in Southington is fairly remarkable. Should relatives of local residents, accompanying their in-town residents be charged? How about mere friends?

Cheshire: The same questions should be asked about non-resident use of resources here as in Southington. And a real effort should be made to find out how many non-residents actually use or attempt to use any town facility.

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