Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Editor's Notepod, Tues., Jan. 7, 2012

Southington’s library has digitized old newspapers, and these are now available to the public. This is a fine step for the library to have taken.

Glad to read that councilors and Meriden and Wallingford politicians have taken to Twitter to keep in touch with constituents, with news and with each other. The practice should help keep them out of trouble.

Meriden has decided to bill for water and sewer quarterly instead of every six months. It’s hoped that this change will reduce delinquency and keep city cash flow up.

Cheshire had its discussion about Veterans Day holiday at a board of education meeting last night. Nothing became heated, and we guess the idea is still somewhere near the drawing board.

Although there’s clearly more information to come, initial discussion about charter school siphoning off funds from urban school districts doesn’t sound like much of a plan. We’d like to see this notion worked out better before Connecticut goes off on this sort of tangent.

We guess it’s a good thing for everyone’s snow clearing budgets (Meriden and Wallingford and probably Southington and Cheshire, too) that we’ve been having a mild winter, since costs of Irene and Alfred have accounted for most of that money well before the season began.

The new Bubble is up in Cheshire Community Pool at Bartlem Park. The pool isn’t open yet, but this is very welcome progress.

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