Friday, June 11, 2010

The Editor's Notepod, Fri., June 11, 2010

State: The new law “incentivizing” new school buses to be equipped with seat belts is of really marginal safety value. There are probably kids who ride a bus who should be in reverse-facing car seats and others whose bulk needs specially-sized straps. Who will enforce wearing them? Correctly?

Wallingford: it’s great that PTOs and principals are making lemonade and accepting the fact of change. There’s still been no even mildly persuasive explanation of why this is a better educational system to divide k-2 from 3-5.

Wallingford will gain jobs from Holo-Krome’s move to town and lose them from Respironics’ (formerly Novametrix) layoffs. As the mayor said, “the other side of the coin.”

Cheshire’s Strawberry Festival on Saturday reminds us of the advent of the strawberry season in our part of Connecticut. Take advantage of them whenever you can – that is assuming you are not allergic to the berries as some folks are – and enjoy a local delicacy.

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