Friday, November 11, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Fri., Nov. 11, 2011

Meriden officials have presented a new plan for downtown to an audience at Lincoln. This blueprint will certainly be discussed, argued about and perhaps altered, but it looks exciting and actually doable.

It seems fair enough for state cable, phone and internet providers not to be paid when power which runs them was not available – or is it? Which organization was actually responsible for failure of service? But then, too, this will help spread the financial burden regardless of fault.

Southington’s new school board members were sworn in and promptly had to face decisions on vacations to change because of storm days after Albert. They found two days easily enough, but others will have to wait for January.

It appears a Saturday morning operation to clear up debris along Meriden's Quinnipiac Gorge Linear Trail will go forward with the help of volunteers. Since this is city work, everyone is urged to be extremely careful with chain saws and moving tree trunks.

Congratulations to the Sheehan High School marching band. The Wallingford school organization took home its second straight U.S. Scholastic Band Association state championship at Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport last Saturday.

Hartford is considering electronic tolls as a way if financing needed work on the I-84 viaduct, built in 1965. So far it’s just a study.

Five students at DePaolo Middle School in Southington are participating in NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. If they can get 50,000 words on paper by the end of the month, they qualify, and these hearty students are making the effort.

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