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49 articles, 1 night = Town Meeting in Marblehead
Spending was approved, peace, diversity, and snow shoveling were denied under the big top
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Marblehead Town Meeting cleared 49 articles in three hours flat Monday, passing a $103 million budget with no discussion and voting down staggered elections, peace and quiet and, once again, a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers.
Here are the highlights:
Article 15 generated the first serious discussion. Town Meeting approved spending $314,000 on storm-drainage construction but former Waldron Street resident Toby Reiley warned residents that “if not this year then next year” they need to up the ante. He pointed to an abandoned storm drain in his old neighborhood that causes flooding issues. He said the town needs to start fully funding its infrastructure issues.
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Them, Amazon Prime’s newest horror anthology series, has a lot of potential. The premise escaping violence in the South, a Black family relocates to East Compton in the 1950s when it was still an all-white enclave and horror ensues is intriguing. In the wake of other television shows like
Watchmen and
Lovecraft Country that also took Black history and twisted it with fantastical elements, there was a real opportunity to explore different aspects of racial violence: redlining, white flight, and blockbusting. Unfortunately, Little Marvin, who created
Them and wrote four episodes, fails to live up to the potential of his own premise.
The sun shines brightly on the handsome homes and pristine lawns lining Palmer Drive in Compton, but a closer look reveals that itâs anything but a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Strung up in front of the home, newly occupied by the Emory family, are âpickaninnyâ dolls â the dominant historical caricature of Black children. The N-word has been burned into the front lawn. The symbols come courtesy of local white residents, a message to the newcomers â the only Black family on the block â that they are not welcome.
The plight of the Emory family is at the center of Amazonâs new anthology series âThem,â partly inspired by the Great Migration, when millions of Black families oppressed by the racism of the Jim Crow South relocated to the West, Northwest and Midwest. Set in 1953, the series follows the fictional Emorys, who have journeyed from North Carolina to settle in Compton, which at the time was dominated by whites, a sharp contrast
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THEM wastes no time pitting housewife against housewife.
The biggest difference between Amazon Prime’s new terror anthology and other neighborhood-based dramas: One housewife is Black, and the other is white. It’s also Compton in the 1950s, and the Black housewife, Lucky Emory (
Girls Trip‘s Deborah Ayorinde), is still reeling from the racist horrors she left behind in the South. Something terrible has happened to her baby son, and a move west signifies a fresh start without him. (Viewers won’t learn exactly what happened to Baby Chester until a very traumatizing Episode 5).