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By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:17:47 +0000

Geoff,

Colin McEnroe poked fun at the Congregationalists in yesterday’s column.

By: Geoff Brown

Geoff Brown — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:02:18 +0000

Actually, the Congregational church was the official state church of Connecticut until the passage of the “new” state constitution of 1815 or thereabouts. Didn’t know we had such things as official state churches here, did you?

By: Peter Oliver

Peter Oliver — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:07:56 +0000

Terry,
When three voters sit in the same row (related or not) they do not constitute a “trio”.
My questions (the only ones I am responsible for) were not idle, they were requests for clarification including why the appraisal(which were given to the Selectmen in January 2007) was somehow replaced by a higher appraisal dated February 2007. After the meeting I gave my copy of the original appraisal to Board of Finance Chaiman Bill Willis for his record to be copied and returned. This is the second time a document has been provided to the Selectmen and then magically is changed when it hits the public purview, the first being the Buonome report which concluded that the fire house “sucks” to a rewritten report, both bore the same date of authorship.
The question about contamination at the firehouse was sparked by the history of my having been the receipient of a DEP request for my performing a Phase I study (at the Factory building) when there was oil detected in Factory Brook only to find out later that the source of the contamination was an oil tank at the firehouse.
I am not opposed to the ITW acquisition or the assumption of the Fire District responsibilities and property by the Town of Salisbury, however, I am concerned about process of accepting the potential of liabilities of contamination and the cavelier “I’m sure the State will help if such contamination exists”. Ask John Fitch about site cleanup.

By: Amy Deitz

Amy Deitz — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:32:01 +0000

My point exactly, Marshall!

By: Marshall Miles

Marshall Miles — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:44:52 +0000

By the way…Salisbury Congregational across from the town hall IS NOT A CHURCH.

It is specificly..”A MEETINGHOUSE”.

Ask the church elders and they will tell you where they congregate is a “Meetinghouse” not a church

By: Marshall

Marshall — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:14:36 +0000

No wasnt Hank Kimball the COuntry Agent? He always started to speak, and blither on, and had patriotic music in nthe background!

Hank Kimball was the fictitious county agent of the 1965-71 American television comedy Green Acres. The show was about a rich New York City couple who decide to buy and run a farm in the wacky and surreal town of Hooterville.

From Wikipedia

Kimball was an unusual, perhaps unique, comic creation (played by Alvy Moore) who was a friendly, helpful but scatterbrained man apparently educated past his intelligence. Like most Green Acres characters he didn’t start out as confused and scatterbrained. Over the first season he developed into the man who couldn’t seem to remember anything, unless, as Oliver found out, you specifically told him NOT to remember it. He had an unusual self-correcting manner where he would make a statement, qualify it, correct it again, correct it further and then lose track of what he was saying entirely.

Haney was a flim flam man, not a lond, disjointed talker!!

By: Amy Deitz

Amy Deitz — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:46:07 +0000

ACLU be damned. Way back when, the church was the main meetinghouse in a town. Salisbury is just going back to the old ways: meet in the church, and the town gets to vote on an important issue.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:25:02 +0000

Jake,

I’ve been saying for years that some ACLU do-gooder would get wind of this and file suit against the town of Salisbury for holding town meetings in the church on the grounds that it’s a hostile environment for atheists and non-Congregationalists.

Nothing yet. Take it away, Alan Dershowitz …

Marshall,

My recollection is Hank Kimball could barely put together 2 or 3 sentences, to say nothing of an entire oration. Were you thinking of Mr Haney? Now that guy could talk …

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:25:42 +0000

“…tonight at the Salisbury Congregational Church.”

Lordy, someone missed the ACLU memo about separation of church and state.

By: Marshall Miles

Marshall Miles — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:30:29 +0000

Terry!
It was what I expected of a town meeting…some new ifo, some old info, some laughs, some sarcasim (the rush to leave comment because of the snow!) some questions, and some answers…and then there was what seemed like a nominating speeech, that would never end, by Mr. Larosa. Now, I am sure that Mr. Larosa is a nice man, but, he reminded me of Hank Kimball, the county agent on Green Acres! Whenever Kimball spoke on the show, he went into long orations, with patriotic music in the background! All I could think of as he continued on was the Green Acres theme song….Green ACres is the place to be…farm livin is the life for me….

My thanks to our moderator for stepping in, or I fear we might still be there!

All in all, I wouild have perfered to vote earlier in the day, and have been snug as a bug in a rug at home at 9 PM (not trudging thru the snow!
It was filmed an will be on CATV 6 next week!

Congratulations to the Lakeville Hose Company!