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ZOMG! Dancing Gumby! South Windsor Town Meeting, Library Skeds

Here are five things going on in the area today.

Posted by Ted Glanzer (Editor), January 21, 2013 at 04:41 pm

Good morning, South Windsor! Today is Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013; there are 343 days left in the year.

Kids, if you don’t do anything today, check out the video taken by Southington Local Editor Jason Vallee of a life-size Gumby dancing to “If You Steal My Sunshine” at the Southington Polar Plunge over the weekend. I have no idea why this video makes me happy.

But it does.

Here’s your Daily 5:

1. The South Windsor Town Council meets tonight with a work session beginning at 7 p.m.

2. The South Windsor Board of Education meets tonight also at 7 p.m.

3. Reading Round-Up at the South Windsor Public Library at 10:00 a.m.

4. Story and crafts at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford at 10 a.m.

5. “A Lincoln Portrait -The Man who Painted Lincoln" (George Henry Story) will be on exhibit at Wood Memorial Library and Museum opening Friday, Jan. 18 and continuing through Feb. 28.

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Keith I think Buford makes a lot of sense. The large majority of this tax increase was caused by the…Read More past council members for years more worried about getting reelected than the current council. This increase was fueled by years of cutting to the bone, pushing things off when they should have been dealt with in a timely fashion. Mayor Delnicki (not Delnickie) who you have praised so much over the past day or so himself warned numerous times that this increase was coming. He stated numerous times on camera and in the press that there would be a day of reckoning in the future due to the cuts we had made over the years and now that it is here no one wants to face it. Now that you and Tom are on the same side it is interesting how much your perspective has changed? It is interesting in your article that you reference how certain councilors have embrace the borrow and spend mentality yet you and your cohorts voted against amendments to fund the pension based upon a more realistic 7.75% discount rate in comparison to 8% as well as an amendment that would have prevented us from taking $800,000 out of found account(savings account) which could negatively impact our future ratings. In regards to the fields you have stated you are in favor of them so if so why not take advantage of low construction costs and historically low interest rates to invest in something that will make our town a more desirable place to live? In regards to the hockey rink why is it that we never even got the facts about what the financial impact would be to the town. We both know it was because somehow egos got in the way of exploring what would be best for our town. Our town is a great place to live but if we continue down this past that wont be the case in a very short time.

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Yes, certainly Hank.

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