All Quiet On The Sturbridge Front

Bet you all thought I was gone huh? Nope, you couldn't be that lucky. I haven't been able to go to any local meetings lately which means I either have to write on what is in the paper or make stuff up. Of course there are many who say what we read in the paper is made up anyway. But who am I to say.




I am also one who tries not to write sensational things just to write something or to get readers. That could be pretty easy to do but why risk losing any credibility? Wait, I think I lost that about the same time I lost my... umm never mind.

But then according to the Worcester Telegram I may have missed a good meeting of the Board of Selectmen last night. Seems the Building Inspector has gotten himself into some trouble. Who was it that said "I only know what I read in the papers"? Harry Truman maybe? No matter, I have to admit that anytime I read something like this I wonder where the complaints came from, what they were and what either the builder, land owner or building Inspector did to tick off the complainants. I am not saying they don't have legitimate complaints since we don't know what the are, it just would be nice to know the story behind the story.

Of course up here at the little house on the lake we all get along and there are never any problems. Well except the time that the neighbor over there built a little shed. Or the time that one on that side may or may not have shot at a dog. And there was the time, oh wait that was me, let's skip that one.

But here is the real issue with this story, the second to the last paragraph in the Telegram story:

Mr. Creamer countered that Mr. Suhoski was copied on every item of the correspondence dealing with the “three outstanding requests for information” forwarded to the building inspector. 

Now if I were a Selectman, which is why I probably will never run,, I would have said, "Shaun, maybe it's becasue they stop by your office first thing in the morning?"