You Think that I Am Blind

I enjoy holidays as much as the next person and take them off whether I deserve to or not, so if you have time off for Labor Day I hope you enjoy it (if you are retired must you return to work in honor of Labor Day or are you still okay?).

A lot of places around here have the kids getting packed into the yellow boxes on wheels and delivered to the education warehouses--whether they are schools with actual learning has a lot to do with how involved the parents and the community are with the teachers. In other words, an open question and your mileage may vary.

With the holiday, the Norwich municipal meeting schedule has slid to the right, so the Special Committee of the City Council will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 in Room 319 and at 7:30, in Council Chambers, it's a regular meeting of the City Council. A quick reading of the agenda suggests it's a busy evening as we get serious about updating the City Plan and turn our attention to revising the city's municipal website.

There will be reports on the Reid & Hughes building (I won't tell you what I call but it makes my mom cry), and if you'd wondered about that earlier Special Committee meeting and what finally happens, a full report by the committee is also on the council agenda.

We're almost out of Norwich Downtown Farmers Market days on Wednesday mornings starting at ten in Howard T. Brown Park until two in the afternoon, so it might be a good idea to stop by before our limited supply is completely gone.

Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 in the Kelly Middle School is a regular meeting of the Board of Education's School Building Committee (updating the progress reports on the renovations and upgrades of Kelly Middle School). Reading the August minutes, the project is moving right along and the committee should be applauded and thanked for their efforts.

At seven, Wednesday night in Room 335 of City Hall, is a Republican Town Committee meeting, and you don't have to be a Republican to attend or even like rye bread.

Thursday evening at six, in the Lakeside Pavilion at Mohegan Park, it's a regular meeting of the Mohegan Park Improvement and Development Advisory Committee. Five of its nine members' appointments have expired and not one set of minutes from any 2011 meetings are posted on line. The meeting time on the municipal calendar is different from that quoted in the ordinance cited as creating the committee. So there's room for improvement, which, as luck would have it, is already in the name.

Saturday morning at nine in the Central Fire House is the next installment of One City Forum and on behalf of the regulars who attend, consider this your invitation to take part (mainly because those familiar faces are sick of seeing mine and I'm hoping new people will distract them).

If you've been sitting around in Norwich waiting for 'somebody to do something,' let me be the first to congratulate you on your promotion to a Somebody. Don't worry, there's still plenty to do here and we can use all the help we can get. I don't mind. See you at something?

-bill kenny