An Experiment.
By Jim Conley • July 19th, 2006 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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We’re going to suspend our (some say too) rigid comment rules and open up the floor to anyone who wants to post a comment. As long as you have a valid e-mail and you register under your full name, an alias is allowed. We’ll see how high-minded Brookline responds.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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My alias was drawn from the British hamlet of “Muddy River”, before that known as.. land around ” Punch Bowl Village” (for a tavern favored by Royal Officers ) of King Charles’.. Mass Bay Company, Gov. Winthrop c1638.
As we all know “the village ” was historically, and still is the center of town.
Most particularly parcel B2..the precise spot ( Pearl St.) where Mr.Ellis ran his “Punch Bowl” full of rum and fruit to refresh the ‘Red Coats’ garrisoned at Boston and their ships anchored at south bay beyond the ‘neck’ to waters
of the harbor at Dorchester. And who knew Ellis’s Historic Tavern Site would at this date 300 years later , be a marsh full of land contamination and toxic poisoning. Yes, this wetland is protected by law , being located on the old Village Brook, draining into Muddy River, in the floodplain and wet mead lowland ,and our Board of Solicitors wants to rent it to centers who deal in deadly germs and infectious bio products…This public hazzard is not a nutrition problem Allen ..
Im not sure the constitution of the Commonwealth ,ratified in 1780, meant for this to happen..This proposal is not in the best interests of the area…the residents, students, shopkeepers,or taxpayers, Public health is at stake here ..
Land deals with the Selectboard acting as Brokers to enrich their business associates, partners, or personal position should not be acceptable as usual course of business .
I’m not in favor of reinstalling the “whipping post”in the Brookline Village square as it was in the ‘old days’, but some better method of controlling the scoundrels among us needs to be devised. Maybe the “stocks”in the
“Village Square” was not such a bad idea!!
Get your department beyond animal waste in the parks ..test the two buildings “we” rent to day care and pre school at the Pearl Street site for mold ,dioxin , PCBs,and radon gas and continued water in the cellars.
Take Dopeazio Esq.with you shes not doin much .Please dont take Jeffery he never gave taxpayers a break…