The Fayville book should be finished by Thanksgiving..the other one by next summer.
You’ll see more about both of them, thanks to the Historical Society.

Glad you’re interested!
Donna

My interview is part of the oral history project I have been working on for the Southborough Historical Society. Eventually there’ll be two books based on people’s memories; the first that I’m working on now is about Fayville, based on interviews with many people who grew up there and have lived there all their lives.
I hope people will read the column next Friday…I can’t submit it in its entirety to this blog. If all else fails, e-mail me and I’ll send you a copy.

If one of the schools purchases the property then that will effectively negate the contributions that they made to help fund the “quint”. The Town will still get the approx $23k in tax revenue. The bill will be divided up and given to the rest of us property owners.

Your concern is valid but let’s flip the coin.

The “traditional” way assumes that a citizen regularly travels to Town Hall to keep track of meetings and has a car or other transportation assets that will permit him or her to attend a meeting at a distant point. It also assumes that the citizen has time available to attend at a specific time. Alternately, if you want to observe but cant attend some of the meetings it requires cable service and a television.

The “traditional” vision of open meetings makes use of 18th century technology. While it is the devil we know, it does impose considerable barriers to participation. A blog, in my opinion, also imposes barriers but i would submit that these barriers are substantially less than the traditional system.

In my fantasty world Fay or St. Marks buys the property and does not subdivide the lots, i was devestated, yes devestated when Deerfoot was ripped apart (bye, bye sheep and llama with the sweet sounding bells around their collars) to put in eyesore homes that never do seem to be all full of dwellers at the same time…… Perhaps one of the schools could use the home as housing for faculty or for administrative purposes; it would actually make an amazing cultural arts center.

‘Today and tomorrow, Panzano’s will support Taza’s in full force. When customers spend $50 or more at Panzano – including two or more Taza chocolate products – they’ll receive a free Taza Cocoa and Massachusetts Farmers Market tote bag.

“The staff here will also be wearing Taza’s T-shirts as a show of support on those days,” said Mullins, who also agreed to knock 15 percent off the price of all Taza’s products.”

Does the open meeting law requirement re posting agendas allow them to be posted on line only? Since the town library offers free access to the Internet, perhaps that would satisfy the access for anyone who does not use a computer.

Also, take a look at this site: http://www.localocracy.org/
Its an interesting concept re town involvement.

To save money, could we get just black out the agendas in advance and save the special legal fees?