Home, April 6, 2015 - Right into Town Meeting!

We got home on the 2:45 boat after doing some typical shopping along the way. The car was filled "to the gillens" as Jecca used to say when she was little.

We arrived home to a wonderful new bathroom upstairs! We are thrilled; it doesn't feel like it's our house. After being agog at the bathroom, we hauled our weary bodies to Town Meeting where there was a vote to see if funding for a new school could be on the ballot. Surprisingly, it passed without even a discussion! But, it was a very personal and intense town meeting with a lot of zoning articles that mean a lot to the people in the various neighborhoods. Most discussed was the proposal to develop the land known as Glowacki's Pit. It failed. The result will probably be more development which is too complicated to explain in our travel blog. The town also voted to put a new firehouse on the ballot. We went for all three nights of Town Meeting, quite grueling. The second night was important because it had to do with the town tampering with the pensions of town employees. Town employees were out in force and the article was defeated. Another emotional discussion concerned the banning of lighter-than-air balloons which threaten sealife and the beaches. It was very personal because it is the livelihood of Tammy Bunting King, a former student, who has delivered balloons since she was a teen. The article, however, passed. And, the other very personal issue concerned a nonprofit funeral home, proposed by Catherine Flanagan Stover. She proposed it be built next to Newtown Cemetery on land that the Cemetery Commission wanted for new burial sites, which made it a complicated vote for me as a Cemetery Commissioner. At any rate, it passed.
    The next week the town voted to override proposition 2 1/2 so that a new school and firehouse can be built.

At any rate, it is good to be home, although we are both COLD!