Some random musings over coffee:
Spring arrived at 7:32 AM EST today.
I got an email yesterday announcing that SoBo Book & Bean is not closing. Marie has taken on a partner, Amanda Lash, and SoBo now has new expanded hours: Monday thru Friday: 9am-5pm; Saturday: 9am-4pm; Sundays/additional hours by chance. Stop in and have coffee or get a good book.
Driving through town this morning I saw a sign at Fogarty’s saying they are looking for summer waitstaff.
Pricepoint Eyewear, the newest business on Main St. is open and looks great. I love the neon signs in the windows, especially the neon cat glasses.
I heard yesterday that the Town’s Conservation Commission is organizing an Earth Day road clean-up on April 18 and they will once again sponsor well testing this spring. More information to come, once I get all the details.
Did you happen to see the story in the Portland Press Herald about the wedding business in Maine? Even with the down economy people are still going ahead with weddings and all the trimmings. This should bode well for South Berwick. With the Red Barn at Outlook, Springhill Lodge, and Hamilton House the town has become a place for weddings and we have many other businesses and services that serve the wedding trade. The Press Herald article, Blissfully booming amid a bust, quotes Nicole Bouchard from South Berwick’s Monkey Business Bakery.
I hate plastic bags. The other day I had to run a bunch of errands and everywhere I drove I saw plastic bags blowing across the road, plastic bags stuck in trees and shrubbery, and plastic bags floating in streams and puddles.
Molly, I’m with you on the plastic bags. They seem to be everywhere. There were even a few that revealed themselves when one of the massive snowbanks in front of my house finally melted.
I had always brought home my groceries in them, and just brought them back to the store for recycling. This year I made a conscious decision to switch to reusable fabric bags. I just wanted to make one more small change for the environment. As it turns out, its become so much more than that. With the longer handles on the fabric bags, its easier to bring all of the groceries in the house in one go, and they don’t fall over and spill all over my car like the plastic ones did!
Public Access to our Elected and Appointed Official’s Meetings
More than ever with the further complications and demands on our time and the rules, regulations and policies surrounding issues which affect our individual lives, Town and Region, we need greater access and information about public proceedings.
The need for filming and broadcast of our local town meetings is greater than ever. Broadcast of meetings seems to be a non-starter from official Town sources or via our cable TV systems.
Does anyone have the knowledge or technical expertise about what is involved with pod-casts or other digital recording of meetings for distribution over the Internet?
It is time to continue the dialogue…
Jack Kareckas