Terry Cowgill

LJ 01.10.08

January 11, 2008 on 2:14 pm | In Local, Main, Media |

Sorry to be so late in posting the update on this week’s paper. I won’t bore you with the details, but I’ve been unusually busy.

The lead on page A1 is mine this week: a Lakeville teen (the son of a well known Hotchkiss couple) was critically injured in a sledding accident on the school’s golf course. There were also two fires — one in North Canaan and another in Cornwall. I must commend our staff writer Karen Bartomioli for outstanding work on both those stories, as well as on the sad but sensitive piece she wrote on the man in North Canaan who died in an apparent suicide.

Elsewhere on the front, the Dean Meadow property on Lake Wononscopomuc has finally been protected by a conservation restriction and it’s been a busy year for Sharon Hospital’s new women’s services center

Inside, we have Tex-Mex dinner being served at Cheffrey’s, a special selectmen’s meeting next week in Salisbury to discuss whether the town should put forth a resolution urging Rep. Chris Murphy to investigate Bush and Cheney, a new wine store will open soon in Salisbury and woe is the business scene in Sharon.

On B1, Chinese educators visit HVRHS to learn about technology, while North Canaan’s downtown may be perking up and Dolly Spadaccini celebrates 40 years of working for Region One. BTW, because of an editing error, both the photo caption and the skybox headline flagging the story on page A1, suggested Spadaccini was retiring. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I believe during the party I even heard muted chants of “10 more years!.”

And as a follow-up to last week’s piece on motorsports legend John Fitch, we have an editorial urging the state to help people like Fitch who are on the brink of financial ruin because of leaking underground oil tanks on their property.

Elsewhere, the exchange of words on Dan Shaw’s blog continues. People are shocked — shocked — that I would want to defend myself against an anonymous commenter who accused me of unethical behavior. Imagine that …