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- the Winchester Informer
- I am part of a group of Winchester citizens completely opposed to dirty and hazardous businesses, like asphalt and wood burning plants wanting to come into town at the expense of our quality of life. I am concerned about preserving the rural character of Winchester. These types of development have no benefits for Winchester citizens and they create many health hazards and will cause the destruction of green space. Our Winchester is known for its precious natural resources; dramatic rocky slopes, unique wetlands and abundant wildlife. I feel there are many questions concerning these proposed projects that outweigh any benefits. The increase in traffic along existing streets and noise and air pollution would be very significant. I am also concerned that the town infrastructure cannot cope with the problems these types of businesses will demand. Furthermore, I am very discouraged with the Planning Board and Zoning Boards and feel they have been negligent in their duties to protect neighboring residents from health hazards and safety issues that will surely arise and affect the lives and livelihoods of many citizens.
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Three...Time to show Avitar the door. Avitar and town selectmen have ripped us off enough. Steve..... somebody must offset Leroy Austin house when it was abated some $91,000 in 2014 making it more marketable in order to sell it.
Another 2 1/2 day work week, next week, for most of the chosen few, how is your work week going to go, maybe cut back to 5 days?
Keene State is planning on building a natural gas steam turbine to heat the college and Keene needs to replace the costly LP gas with cheap natural gas in it's miles of gas pipelines. We are going to be able to build our new high school from this and heat the old one. So you bunch pea brain small town hicks think you're going to stop Kinder Morgan with it's billions of dollars backing them up. Winchester is going to get a big windfall from this and the idiots are going to fight progress, go piss up a rope. Along with the brain less selectmen. Dump Sepee and Chan-the-Man-Stephens and for they will be replaced by smarter people from the hundreds of new people moving into town to work on the pipeline.
Your statements are quite untrue and very misleading. You obviously have some agenda you are trying to push. As a member of the Colleges energy team, we are NOT planning on building a natural gas turbine, the one we have is quite efficient and recently updated. We have taken on a study to be more efficient with our older buildings in areas of cooling; not heating. Where you came up with your "facts" is beyond me. I'm also a resident of this town, one who keeps up with current events and I have never heard of any plans to build new high school here at all. As for the town getting any kind of a windfall, the idea of a few miles of pipeline to provide an opportunity for a few homes and public buildings to switch over to gas from oil heat, albeit more expensive has been floated around with all of the other rhetoric from this proposed project, when in all reality, this is just a ploy to gain approval. Nearly every meter of gas coming through our town and the state will be exported for profit from this company.
Also, I don't know where you get this idea that hundreds of workers are going to be moving here and become permanent residents and running for office. You surely must be quite the dreamer.
What the heck-people? The school board has not got its act together so we have no tax rate. We bad mouth the selectmen but the school board gives new meaning to the village is missing its idiot! Get rid of all of them.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I would like to thank the members of the Mt. Pisgah Sportsmen's Club for all that they do for members of this community. I was unable to prepare a Thanksgiving meal this year and am extremely grateful for the delicious, filling hot meal that they provided.
This group is one of the reasons that Winchester is the community I choose to live in. Great job, folks!
Stop whining townsfolk. I've lived in Winchester 30+ years and voted in every election. Nothing has ever changed and nothing ever will change. Then, as now, Winchester was and is the place nobody wants to live. The run down dirt poor uneducated welfare village that has way too many idiots. And you really won't improve things by increasing voter turnout. The majority - the non voters - are happy in in their tar paper shacks and decrepit trailers with their drop out kids who breed like bunnies living with them. They are incapable of even understanding a ballot - rubbing scratch tickets is more their thing. If you don't like it, accept it or leave. Our "historic downtown district" looks like something you'd see on poverty row, Alabama. Knock yourselves out townsfolk...maybe I'll check back in 20 years and marvel at the lack of progress.
The second issue tax bills will be delayed due to unforeseen circumstances WOW, guess its no surprise, its Winchester.
Check what I wrote on Nov. 26th. If you have an issue with the delay talk to the school board and their fearless leader. If you are on the board and have an ex-board member as the Business manager you should know how to fill out the paper work. If not remove the board and get employees that know how to do the job. The super should know how to do what needs to be done. Really enough excuses.
Just got the word that we have a new water and sewer truck for over a hundred grand and the old one only has around sixty thousand miles. Who in H--- would OK a purchase like that with out asking the people paying the bill. The water and sewer bills are high enough already. Come on select board, no one likes working three job, you are killing us.
The Winchester town department heads under the influence of the selectmen are like an abscess that keeps growing, not unlike any abscess that is cause by inflammation and bacterial infection but an abscess caused by greed, the deceptive practices and the need for influence. The dishonest practice of deceiving and misleading the tax payers into think that they must grown their departs with more manpower best of equipment and inflate their budgets amounts.
Take a look at past town reports of budgets like the cemetery dept, water and sewage depts, the town beach and the moneys to run these depts. Watch as the town owned boat landing budgets grows and grows. It was free a gift from the sportsmen's club. Now they ask the tax payers for funding for that and soon that will need a dept head.
At one selectmen meeting some years ago Sherman Tedford stated how the cemetery fund had a surplus of over $500,000 in the cemetery trust fund. {You must remember this money was set aside in a trust funds setup by the deceased families.} Next thing the selectmen are spending this moneys buying tractors, other equipment and hiring more and more people, then a dept head in charge to keep tract and acquire more funding. Now the cemetery has a department head, a larger budget that grows each year. Just like other departments like the town beach fund, water and sewage and the boat landing at Forest Lake.
Good luck suckers!!!
Well Bob, if you would put as much effort into running for office again and providing factual proof of all of your claims about dishonesty and corruption perhaps the good people in this town would back you once again. However your rantings on this blog can not be taken serious and only reflect the ramblings of someone disastified with his life in this town. Calling us all suckers and other derogatory names isn't going to get you anywhere or turn people to your cause. While it is true most people in the town don't care nor pay attention to anything that goes on outside of their little universe, there is a core of knowledgeable, caring folk that would like to see this old guard hit the highway once an for all and turn Winchester into something other than a cash cow for several families. This will only happen if people band together under a common cause and find leaders willing to step up .. Are you one of them, Bob?
Suckered suck·er
suck·er [súkər]
n (plural suck·ers)
1. a group or somebody easily fooled: an easily fooled or tricked person-s (informal)
2. a group or somebody who gives in easily: somebody who has little resistance to and is easily influenced by something
He's a real sucker for the foolery emanating from the town hall.
Linder said, As long as the selectmen keep expanding the town depts. with employees, the selectmen will always be in-powered to control the elections.
When did the Sportsman's Club "give" the Forest Lake Boat landing to the town? Thought they still owned it.
The Sportsmen's Club asks for the money to pay the insurance on the boat ramp site because they get no support from the town otherwise. Based on what I've seen being put in or taken out of the water there, they can use every penny!
The discussion WAS then. What is the town's liability on property the town does not own? The sportsmen club wanted the town to be liable for the property and maintain it... The town would have had to set up a budget line item in the town's budget and vote on and watch as this budget line grows. I would be shocked to find the town found a way around deeding the property over.
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