This represents an effort to make sure that we are doing all that we can to ensure our young people are responsible and safe. We must continue to educate the young people in the community...

It’s typical of the piecemeal approach the governor and the legislature has taken to property tax reform. They tweak something here or there, but it’s never a big-picture approach.

It’s not an incentive. It’s like a gun being put up to your head.

More than anybody in town, I would like to move on from the Blue Back debate.

We want to end the Blue Back Square debate and I am sure that we will all be able to breathe a sigh of relief when we can move on. I feel more confident than...

He’s going to face that conflict inevitably. The town is involved in ongoing litigation in which his brother had been a leading attorney. It’s not about whether you’re for or against Blue Back Square. It’s...

We thought the position needed to be updated in that regard.

Given his background and history, it raises some questions. It doesn’t mean the requests are improper, but I would say that every single member of the council has an eye on this.

The real shock was when somebody would turn into their driveway, so to speak, and their next-door neighbor had a huge billboard on their front lawn.

There is no question that Jim Francis is the right man for the job because he will be able to step in on day one and be ready to help us with the many challenges...

It’s limited enough that you’re not unduly focusing on anyone’s First Amendment rights.

The increase in our grand list is the highest that we have seen in decades. The growth we have seen on the real estate side shows that a lot of people are reinvesting in their...

Given the anticipated public interest we know will accompany these applications, we have set other dates aside for further public hearings. We want to make sure we give the public an opportunity to speak.

This is a maintenance budget that provides the current level of services that we offer now. This budget is not all doom and gloom because there are some things within it that we should be...

Now is not the time to bring in a town manager who would feel compelled to bring in their own people because we want to retain the first class management team that we already have...

Our economic environment looks very bright.