It would be fun, I think, to run for a position on the Ipswich Select Board. Making speeches, inspiring the masses with brilliant rhetoric, shaking hands, slapping backs, kissing babies.
Doug Brendel
Worried about what, exactly? Helen Weatherall can tell you.
She’s that high-energy member of Ipswich’s Green Energy Committee and Community Development Steering Committee, and an associate member of the Planning Board, who’s now running for the lone soon-to-be-open position on the Ipswich Select Board.
Helen has been out campaigning, street to street, door to door, and she’s gotten an earful from local residents.
They’re worried about lots of things, she reports: the status of Pavilion Beach for use by non-locals; the abuse of open spaces; the timetable for lifting pandemic-era restrictions; the actual affordability of the so-called “affordable” units in the proposed Bruni mega-project on Essex Road; and more.