The Editor's Notepod, Sun., Oct. 18, 2009

Meriden: Gallery 53 may sell some of its collection to raise a little cash. That’s understandable, but we hope tat the need does not drive them so far they sell items which are of particular local significance. All galleries and museums make occasional acquisitions and, as they say, de-acquisitions.

Area: on-line reviews of restaurants and other businesses. The idea, as it was a few years ago with newspaper restaurant reviews, to be “in-your-face,” and that’s one thing if a review is signed and quite another if it is anonymous. Naturally, owners fight back if needed with reviews inspired by themselves.

Wallingford: Choate and the town. The whole business of Old Durham Road, whatever else it may have been, was a disaster for the relationship between the school and the town administration.

Meriden’s school breakfast program, which was such an issue of conscience a few years ago, has now been extended to the entire system, including, at last, the high schools. How strange that something which caused so much political heat at one time can, after a few tweaks of history, seem ordinary and usual.