ADM to quit R36m offices and relocate to Chintsa Municipality bows to pressure to cut costs by leaving lavish Chiselhurst premises PREMIUM By Andisa Bonani - 06 May 2021
Cash-strapped Amathole District Municipality (ADM) has announced it is pulling up its roots and relocating to lifestyle-orientated Chintsa on the East Coast, 30km from East London.
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As the world began to shut down, the overarching sentiment was things wouldn’t go on like this: Whether it was the president’s fanciful message about a two-week lockdown or public health experts’ vision of an escalating, focused campaign to beat back the virus, the situation was definitely going to keep changing, somehow. Instead, all the different optimistic visions were replaced by open-ended stasis, immense loss, and extreme isolation. Refrigerated trucks turned into disaster morgues sat on New York street corners last spring, while U-Hauls outside of a local funeral home housed the dead who couldn’t be preserved. Neither cohort could be honored or enshrined by loved ones.
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By Guy Page
The Selectboard of the Bennington County Town of Stamford voted Dec. 17 to affirm the constitutions of Vermont and the United States, in response to the governor’s restrictions on gathering for worship, work and socializing.
The vote follows the Dec. 3 decision by the Stamford Selectboard to defy Gov. Phil Scott’s Covid-19 emergency orders by not canceling a Dec. 4 public gathering: the traditional family-friendly lighting of the town Christmas tree. The Dec. 3 meeting featured an exchange between Selectboard member Dan Potvin and Rep. Laura Sibilia.
Potvin: “Laura, you took an oath to uphold the Constitution, I would imagine, and you guys are running over it along with the governor.”