A question mark hangs over the future of Naples popular waterfront restaurant HB s.
A vote by Naples City Council on Tuesday could result in the eatery s demolition and relocation or stretch out a long-anticipated multimillion-dollar makeover for a decade or longer, disrupting business.
That s according to Tim McCarthy, an architect with Hart Howerton, who plans to make those points at what s described as a rare de novo hearing. It s a new arena for all of us, including City Council, as far as I understand it, he said.
The unusual hearing is the result of two appeals filed by city residents challenging the Design Review Board s approval of plans to remaster HB s in its current spot.
Published: 6/13/2016 8:31:13 PM
Temple Selectwoman Gail Cromwell is defending her right to address issues with elected officials in public session.
Recently, Cromwell’s fellow board members Ken Caisse and Chair George Willard took issue with Cromwell bringing up issues with the town’s treasurer, Shannon Kelley, during a public Select Board meeting, suggesting that it would have been more appropriate to discuss it in a non-public session.
The disagreement came on the heels of a larger issue of multiple town employees and public officials resigning their positions, claiming conflict with Cromwell as the main cause. While two of the women – one of whom is Kelley – have since agreed to stay on in their jobs while the board attempts to craft policy to help ease the situation, Town Clerk Wendy Drouin and Deputy Clerk Jeanne Whitcomb have resigned their positions permanently.
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Published: 3/1/2021 4:11:38 PM
Temple residents had an opportunity to weigh in on recommended changes to town lands, including talks about relocating the highway department, at a public forum Thursday night, some of which are featured on the 2021 warrant.
The recommendations came from the Temple Land Use Committee, which was formed at the 2020 Town Meeting to examine town properties and recommend changes to their management. The committee released a list of recommendations in December.
Twenty-one people attended the public forum, and the committee is scheduling another discussion session for May, prior to Town Meeting on June 12.
A new home for the Highway Department
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Published: 2/19/2021 12:18:59 PM
Temple residents are set to vote on a broadband internet bond and several recommendations from the town’s Land Use Committee at Town Meeting in June. Voting for elected officials is still scheduled for March 9 along with the required vote on the ConVal warrant. A motion to move the town vote back to June by Select Board member Bill Ezell went unseconded at a meeting on Feb. 9, despite several residents asking Ken Caisse and George Willard to reschedule due to COVID-19 concerns.
The 2021 total operating budget is $1,230,558, a 0.2% increase from last year’s $1,228,165. Those totals do not include warrant article expenses.
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Even before “Mayberry,” before “Happy Days,” before Disney, the small town had been held in the American imagination as a kind of Eden, with no urban filth or crime; the houses have big porches, the happy freckled children play on rope swings.
It was heaven.
Anderson, in 1919, pulled back the curtain on this fraud. Life is claustrophobic, narrow, everyone knows your business and nonconformity is barely tolerated. Young people feel a powerful urge to get out, to live freer lives elsewhere.
A small town proceeds peacefully enough in times of prosperity, allowing a certain live-and-let-live attitude.
But in McKean’s 12 stories, set between 1971 and 2015, in Ganaego, Pennsylvania, the citizens’ lives become more and more stressful. The huge mill along the river, which had employed nearly everyone, either directly or indirectly, shrinks in size, falters, closes.