A Box of Rain Will Ease the Pain

If that is indeed what it takes to ease the pain, up and down the East Coast, there should be piles of pills mixed in among the broken branches and other storm detritus as we certainly had ourselves a time in the precipitation department this weekend.

I'm not especially disappointed the "Big Storm" proved to be not quite and I hope that was true for where you lived as well. The only effect to our Sunday was not having electricity for about seven and a half hours--for those who lost much more, from property to lives of loved ones, I know we got off very lucky and if I knew how to be grateful I would be.

This is actually a quiet week for meetings which is just as well as we'll be cleaning up around here for the next few days with the first municipal meeting of the week being a doubleheader on Tuesday, at six, when there are special meetings of the Board of Public Utilities Commissioners and the Sewer Authority (respectively) at the Norwich Public Utilities' offices at 16 Golden Street. Based on the agenda it will another opportunity to learn more about the infrastructure proposals for Shipping Street. Or you can keep talking to a neighbor who knows even less about it than you do. I know exactly how you feel-my mind's made up. Don't confuse me with facts.

Wednesday morning at 8:30 in the Munson Room at the Mystic Seaport it's a regular meeting of the full council of the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments. The agenda isn't posted but their July meeting minutes are available here and help me understand why the meeting was in Mystic Seaport and not in the Council's offices in the Business Park.

Thursday afternoon at three in Council chambers at City Hall it's a special meeting of the Committee of the Council that will very quickly go into executive session. Their findings will be part of the next City Council agenda and meeting on Tuesday, 6 September.

And finally at seven, in the Planning Department conference room at 23 Union Street, it's a regular meeting of the Inlands Wetlands, Watercourses Commission whose August meeting minutes are here.

And that, in a week that has school openings and all the hullabaloo that goes with that, is a look ahead at the miracle of democracy here in the Rose of New England. See you at something?

-bill kenny