Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Thur., Feb. 3, 2011

School roofs in Meriden, Wallingford, Cheshire and Southington, knock on wood, are in good shape and have been discussed and or inspected for snow-relate issues. It makes sense that school roofs should bear up, since the last we heard, safety standards for construction are considerably higher than the minimum required to support a roof – it’s one of the reasons school construction is expensive.

We note that First Connecticut Bancorp Inc., the parent of Farmington Bank, is planning to go public and convert from a mutual operation to a common stock company. This is probably great for some stakeholders, but it’s fair to wonder how this affects the average depositor.

Meriden Police Chief Jeffry Cossette is continuing to work on BP seeing reimbursement for Officer David Buck who was deployed as a National Guardsman to help clean up BP’s spill for three months last year. BP has come through for Southington, and we can see no difference in this case, so we continue to approve Cossette’s efforts.

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