Ballot Question 2 - Police Station

Ballot Question 2 - Police Station 

Didn't we already vote for this? It came in over budget?

How much more will it cost?

How long is the loan?

What will be the interest rate?

Does Templeton have a bond rating?

NO BOND RATING

NO OVERRIDE

 

New federal law for driver’s licenses bumpy ride for Worcester area residents

By Elaine Thompson
Telegram & Gazette Staff

Posted Apr 28, 2018 at 8:16 PM  

Updated Apr 28, 2018 at 9:03 PM

 

WORCESTER – Justine Bwira stood patiently in line with a handful of documents at the Registry of Motor Vehicles Thursday, waiting for her number to be called so that she could get a license.

When she finally got up to the counter she handed a clerk what she thought were all the required identification documents, including a voter-registration correspondence the city had mailed to her. Even though it had her name and address on it, she said she was told it was not enough to prove she lives at that address.

“I’m not happy,” Ms. Bwira said with the emotion visible on her face as she hurried out the door of the RMV. “I’m going home and coming back with more proof of my address ... I have to do this today.”

Ms. Bwira is not alone in the confusion and inconvenience surrounding the requirement for additional forms of proof of identification, U.S. citizenship or lawful presence in the country, and principal residency address in order to get the standard driver’s license, nondriver Massachusetts identification card or the new REAL ID driver’s license and ID card.

The new license and ID card, which became available in Massachusetts March 26, are a requirement of the REAL ID Act, a federal security standard adopted by Congress in 2005 in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack. The goal is to hinder the ability of terrorists to go undetected by using fraudulent identification.

After years of attempts by some members of Congress to alter or appeal the law, Homeland Security in 2013 announced that implementation of the first of four phases would begin January 2014.

The final phase, which requires REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses for domestic air travel, to access certain federal facilities and to enter nuclear power plants, went into effect Jan. 22. States can also continue to issue the standard driver’s license, but they will state that they are not acceptable for official purposes. The REAL ID license either has a gold or black star on the face. People with a standard driver’s license will be able to use an active passport to fly within the U.S.

Twenty states, including Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, have been granted extensions until Oct. 10 for REAL ID enforcement. The drop-dead date for all states to be on board with the REAL ID Act is October 2020.

Linda L. Chruney, assistant to the president at Central Massachusetts Safety Council in West Boylston, said the law is working well in areas of the country that are in full compliance. Her parents went to the nation’s capital three years ago for their 50th anniversary. Because they do not have a passport or REAL ID driver’s licenses, they were not allowed to go into any federal buildings, she said.

She said the state could have done a better job of educating residents about the new law.

“I think there was some public-service announcement on TV. And the registry put signs on the side of the highway. I didn’t see a lot about it,” she said. “It seems like they probably didn’t do as much as they should.”

RMV spokeswoman Judith Riley said a public information campaign was launched the fall of 2017 with a press release, social media, signs in malls and on billboards and information on the RMV website.

Beginning in February, she said, the state also expanded its postcard license-renewal reminders to a letter to include information about the new enhanced identification requirements. The RMV discontinued the mailings in November 2008 to save money. After an outpouring of complaints, the practice was resumed in 2013.

Recent breakdowns in the the RMV’s network has added to customers’ frustrations and long lines.
“You’ll never get your license unless you go online because you won’t have the right forms with you. That’s what happened to my son,” William J. Conley of Dudley said Wednesday.

Mr. Conley, a retired Marine Corps colonel and College of the Holy Cross administrator, said he has time to go online and get information, but a lot of people don’t. He tried to renew his wife, Kathleen’s, license online, but you cannot do that to get the REAL ID license. With all the required forms of identification and more, Mrs. Conley was able to get the new license at the AAA in Auburn.

Their 52-year-old son, William J. Conley Jr., had a much different experience at the Southbridge RMV branch Wednesday. He said his license expired in March, but he forgot because he didn’t get a license-renewal reminder from the state.

“I got there at 10 a.m., got a (number) at 11:15 a.m. and I did not get out of there until 3 p.m.,” Mr. Conley said. “If you impose additional ... requirements and you don’t provide the personnel to handle it, of course, you’re going to have four-hour waits.”

Ms. Riley, the RMV spokeswoman said the agency added additional workers to allow regular staff to be trained without impacting service delivery before the new ATLAS computer system was implemented and has retained those workers to help with the transition. ATLAS, the RMV’s first new system in 30 years, enables the issuance of credentials that comply with the REAL ID law.

Meetings the Week of April 30, 2018

Meetings the Week of April 30, 2018

Tuesday  4/10/18

Adv. Com                    PCS Town Hall*                       6:30 pm            

Wednesday 4/11/18

Adv. Com                    PCS Town Hall*                      6:00 pm

PRE-TOWN Meeting

Recreation                      PCS Town Hall*                       7:00 pm

* Pauly Cosentino Sr. Town Hall

When in Doubt...

When in Doubt...

Get It Out!

Please do your own research and support-

Article 35- Fluoride Warning on Water Bills

Article 36 -Moratorium on Water Fluoridation

Article 37 -Fluoride  Legislation

 

The "Bashash" Study:

Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6–12 Years of Age in Mexico

 

 

 

Thank You, Alan Mayo!

Thank You, Alan Mayo!

 Thank you for your years of dedication to the Town of Templeton.

You will be missed. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors.

From the TA Report:

 

May 7th Ballot Question 1 - Override

Question 1 - Override

Please VOTE on May 7th

 This article is a permanent increase in taxes. The strategy behind this article is to put the ALS ambulance service in jeopardy to force voters to increase their taxes.

In my opinion, it's not enough money to actually address the shortfall to provide 24/7/365 ALS ambulance service to the residents of Templeton. It appears the selectmen threw in a number of other things like Snow & Ice, training police officers, insurance costs...you get the idea - to sweeten the deal? Why the selectmen voted for these items versus money for road repairs is anyone's guess.

I do NOT support this article for a number of reasons. 

No Bond Rating 

No Override

Julie Farrell

 

 

 

Annual Town Election May 7th

Annual Town Election 

May 7th 

11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Middle School Gym

Vote BENNETT  for Selectmen!

May 7th!

Bring those reading glasses to read the OVERRIDE QUESTIONS!

New Study Unearths Paradox: Opioids Cause Chronic Pain

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Friday, April 20th 2018 at 10:30 am

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We all know that surgery is often painful, but a new study will have you thinking twice before you fill that pain-pill prescription. As this new science reveals, even a few days of opiates can set you up for a longer, more painful recovery

A just-released study has called into question the feasibility of using opioids to manage post-surgical pain. Rats given repeated doses of morphine experienced inflammation and pain for three weeks longer than non-medicated test subjects.

On April 16, 2018, researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder released an animal study^[1] examining the effect of opioids on pain, post-surgery. In the study, an exploratory abdominal surgery was conducted on male rats called a laparotomy. 

Laparotomies are routine surgical procedures in the United States, often conducted when pelvic disorders are suspected, and one for which opioids are the standard post-surgical pain management prescription.

Rats were treated with moderate doses of morphine immediately post-surgery for seven days, while a control group was given saline solution. A further experiment was conducted to determine the effects of two-days of gradual tapering from morphine after eight days of dosing, versus the effects of abrupt withdrawal. A third experiment fed subjects morphine for seven days prior to laparotomy. Rats were then measured for sensitivity to touch, as well as expression of inflammatory markers in the spinal cord.

In a surprise to researchers, results showed that opioid pain treatments prolonged pain for three weeks as compared to non-medicated subjects given the saline solution. Opioids further had the effect of “priming” specialized, immune system cells in the spinal cord to become more sensitive to pain. The longer the rats received morphine, the longer they were reactive to pain. Tapering from the medication had no effect on pain sensitivity as compared to quitting cold-turkey. Researchers concluded that “morphine can have a deleterious effect on postoperative pain,” and suggested that longitudinal studies be performed to determine if this same effect can be seen in humans.

In an interview with Science Daily, the study authors are well-aware of the implications for current pain-management procedures in most hospitals and pain clinics, as well as how this study might impact the nationwide debate about opioid abuse. According to senior author Linda Watkins, "This indicates that there is another dark side of opiates that many people don't suspect. It shows that trauma, including surgery, in combination with opiates can lead to chronic pain."

Is Templeton Fiscally Stressed?

Identifying Fiscal Stress Using the DLS Trend Dashboard
Tony Rassias - Bureau of Accounts Deputy Director

This article follows Deputy Commissioner Sean Cronin’s introduction of the Division of Local Services’ (DLS) Municipal Finance Trend Dashboard. As outlined in that article, the Dashboard “is comprised of key municipal fiscal health indicators based upon data that is part of required municipal submissions to DLS, annual financial statements, state agency databases, and the US Census. It graphically displays trends in revenues and expenditures, municipal operating positions, demographic information, unfunded liabilities, property taxes, Proposition 2½ data, and debt.”

It is our hope that this new resource will help local officials identify areas that may be trending in the wrong direction and negatively affecting fiscal health. Cities, towns, school and special purpose districts can utilize these metrics to both assess current conditions and track performance over time. To assist in these efforts, this piece will define and highlight indicators of fiscal stress as they relate to governmental financial operations. Utilizing the DLS Municipal Finance Trend Dashboard, local officials can identify and monitor these early warning signs. In future articles, we will outline approaches, practices, and procedures to address difficult circumstances and prevent their re-occurrence.



What is Fiscal Stress?

Fiscal stress doesn’t necessarily imply that the fiscal roof is about to collapse, but rather foretells that significant challenges may loom ahead should a community or district continue down a certain path. These challenges may then eventually affect taxpayers, creditors, vendors, employees, retirees, local officials and the local governmental entity itself.

According to a Pew Charitable Research Report of July 2013:

When budget gaps widen and a city cannot pay its bills, meet its payroll, balance its budget, or carry out essential services, the local government is viewed as distressed. Officials usually respond with some combination of service cuts, worker layoffs, tax and fee increases, reserve spending, and borrowing. If those measures do not work and the city no longer has the money to meet its obligations, the distress can escalate into a crisis or financial emergency, which may include defaulting on a bond payment or, in rare instances, filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.

A fiscal crisis can occur in any city, town, regional school or special purpose district. It causes public discontent with government, breeds low morale with its employees, prompts concerns by retirees about retiree benefits, and sends signals to the credit market of heightened credit risk.

Identifying Fiscal Stress Using the Dashboard

Monitoring fiscal activity within a fiscal year and trended over multiple fiscal years can determine whether a community is meeting its objectives. Our Municipal Trend Dashboard can be used to view indicators of fiscal stress including operating position, unfunded liabilities, property taxes, revenues and expenditures, demographics, and debt. Below please find some examples of Dashboard information revealing potentially problematic trends.

 ( Looks a lot like Templeton's Data)
Combining the above metrics, we see a community that has no available reserves. Obviously, this is a very precarious situation to be in financially. DLS recommends that the local government establish a sound reserve policy as outlined here.

Taking the above three metrics together, we see $250 million in unfunded liabilities. Such liabilities could put a strain on the community's future ability to provide core services to the public.
(Can't be Templeton's data - no actuarial study has been performed to calculate Templeton's OPEB liability.)

Merck Accused of Fraud, Deceit and Negligence in US Gardasil Case

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Tuesday, April 17th 2018 at 1:45 pm

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Merck's aggressive agenda to increase HPV vaccine uptake rates, despite causing thousands of severe injuries, is hitting a stumbling block in a court case alleging blatant corruption. 

There has been documented evidence that the HPV vaccine has caused more injuries than any other vaccination in history. Despite this evidence however, the HPV vaccination has continued to be hailed a success by the pharmaceutical industry and governments alike.

According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) VigiAccess database, as of April 09, 2018, a total of 85,329 reports of adverse reactions have been filed regarding the HPV vaccination. These reports include 37,699 reports of nervous system disorders; 2450 cardiac disorders, (including 38 cardiac arrests) 533 reports of Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS); over 3200 reports of seizures or epilepsy, 8453 syncope and 389 deaths.

In July 2016, a case was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, Los Angeles County (central district). The case involved a 16-year-old female who between 2010 and 2011 received three injections of Gardasil, the HPV vaccination manufactured by Merck. Shortly after she received her third vaccination, she suffered a severe adverse reaction, the nature and complexity of which, failed to be diagnosed until 2015, when she finally received the diagnosis of Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

For those of you who are unaware, Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is an abnormal response of your body when you are upright (usually when standing). It is caused by a problem with the nervous system which controls the autonomic functions in the body. This part of the nervous system is called the autonomic nervous system.

The symptoms of POTS occur when you are upright and are relieved when lying down. These symptoms are associated with an abnormally high and persistent increase in heart rate within ten minutes of standing.

(Description of POTS taken from Patient Access website)

If this diagnosis was not devastating enough for this young lady and her family, in 2016, she was further diagnosed with an underlying small fiber neuropathy, existing within and throughout her body.

Her family firmly now believe that the vaccinations caused her illness because prior to receiving the HPV vaccination, she was physically active, and had not only participated in her high school basketball team but had also engaged in other athletic activities.

It is for this reason, that the family decided to file a case against the manufacturer of the vaccine, Merck, accusing them of:

1. Fraud and Deceit
2. Negligent Misrepresentation
3. Defective Product - Inadequate warnings & information
4. Medical Malpractice
5. Medical Battery
As you can see these charges are extremely serious and if won, this case would set a precedent for similar cases to be brought against the manufacturer of this vaccine in the future.

Merck Accused of Fast Tracking a Vaccine for Financial Gain

Dishonest CDC caught hiding data proving that guns are used FAR more for self-defense than for crime

Monday, April 23, 2018 by: JD Heyes
Tags: Alt-Left, badmedicine, badscience, CDC, Collusion, conspiracy, corruption, Cover-Up, criminologist, defensive gun uses, firearms, Gary Kleck, gun rights, guns, hiding data, lie, research, Second Amendment, self-defense, statistics

(Natural News) One of the Left’s biggest knocks on guns is their claim that very few Americans actually use one for self-defense purposes and that firearms are used far more times to commit murder and other crimes.

Not only is that untrue, it’s very untrue. And what’s more, at least one government agency has known it’s untrue for at least 20 years — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Recently discovered statistics from the CDC dating back to the mid-to-late 1990s that were never released to the public indicate that defensive gun uses (DGUs) are much more common than criminal uses of a firearm, The Daily Wire reported.

According to a new report from Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, the agency conducted the surveys in 1996, 1997, and 1998 but neglected — purposefully, most likely — to make public the fact that Americans use guns in millions of self-defense situations every year on average.
But many people — arguably most Americans — believe otherwise. That’s because they’re treated to a steady diet of naysaying from the Left-wing, gun-hating establishment media arguing that Kleck’s research is inaccurate. 

For example, in January 2015 Politico Magazine writers Evan DeFillipis and Devin Hughes (financial industry guys, not researchers with advanced degrees) wrote that such claims are a “tragic myth: that millions of gun owners successfully use their firearms to defend themselves and their families from criminals.” Further, they wrote that such claims have “nearly no academic support in public health literature.” (Related: Why black Americans are demanding their gun rights, even while oppressive liberal mobs are trying to disarm them.)

Well, that’s due in large part because the public health agency that has the correct data never released it.

As noted by Reason Magazine:

Community Forum @ Narragansett Middle School

Community Forum @ Narragansett Middle School

TONIGHT!

6 PM

There will be a community forum presented by the NRSD School Committee on Tuesday April 24 at 6 pm in the auditorium. The purpose is to discuss ideas and gather information about the eventual opening of the new Templeton Elementary School, and how it effects the reorganization of the District. 

All Templeton and Phillipston residents with an interest in the District are encouraged to attend this forum. Complimentary babysitting services will be provided by National Honor Society student volunteers.

 

Opportunity Zones could offer tax benefits across Central Mass.

 

By Cyrus Moulton
Telegram & Gazette Staff

Posted Apr 20, 2018 at 8:14 PM   

Updated Apr 21, 2018 at 5:36 AM

 

Twenty-five census tracts in a dozen area communities from Athol to Worcester have been submitted to the U.S. Treasury to be designated as Opportunity Zones where investors can gain tax benefits for investing in the areas.

“The Opportunity Zone program helps leverage private investment in Massachusetts cities and towns and can be a catalyst for job creation and economic activity,” said Gov. Charlie Baker in a news release. “I look forward to working with our congressional delegation and local officials to support these new economic development opportunities across the Commonwealth.”

The Opportunity Zone program was created as part of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and provides a federal tax incentive for taxpayers who reinvest unrealized capital gains into Opportunity Funds - specialized vehicles dedicated to investing in low-income areas called Opportunity Zones. The zones themselves are to be comprised of low-income community census tracts and designated by governors in each state.

Of Massachusetts’ 1,478 census tracts, 581 tracts were determined by the U.S. Department of Treasury to be eligible to be considered as Opportunity Zones. Mr. Baker recommended 138 Opportunity Zones, the maximum number for Massachusetts, according to the release.

According to the state these include: two zones each in the communities of Athol, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster, Marlborough, Orange, and Southbridge; a single zone in Spencer, Ware, and in Webster; and six zones in Worcester.

Applicant municipalities explained why their nominated tracts offer attractive investment opportunities, what level of planning they had already completed, and key demographic data such as median family income, unemployment, and poverty rates - both in the nominated tract and in the wider community.

Government Accidentally Releases Documents On Remote Mind-Control

by Tyler Durden

Sun, 04/22/2018 - 12:00

Just months after the  mysterious 'brain-melting weapon' accusations in Cuba, that left several US diplomats with long-term mental damage, something very strange has popped up... from an even stranger origin.

Earlier this year, MuckRock Journalist Curtis Waltman (who specializes in filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests)  wrote to the Washington State Fusion Center (WSFC) - a joint operation between Washington State law enforcement and the federal government - to request information about Antifa and white supremacist groups.

He received a satisfactory response to the question she had asked, but as Waltman notes, when you send thousands of FOIA requests, you are bound to get some very weird responses from time to time... and so he did - attached to the response was a file titled "EM effects on human body.zip.”


 Inside were documents like this:

As Waltman writes, what you are looking at here is “psycho-electronic” weapons that purportedly use electromagnetism to do a wide variety of horrible things to people, such as reading or writing your mind, causing intense pain, “rigor mortis,” or most heinous of all, itching.

 Now to be clear, the presence of these records (which were not created by the fusion center, and are not government documents) should not be seen as evidence that DHS possesses these devices, or even that such devices actually exist. Which is kind of unfortunate because “microwave hearing” is a pretty cool line of technobabble to say out loud.

How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe: A Special Investigation

The disinformation campaign—and massive radiation increase—behind the 5G rollout.

By Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie

March 29, 2018 

 

Things didn’t end well between George Carlo and Tom Wheeler; the last time the two met face-to-face, Wheeler had security guards escort Carlo off the premises. As president of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), Wheeler was the wireless industry’s point man in Washington. Carlo was the scientist handpicked by Wheeler to defuse a public-relations crisis that threatened to strangle his infant industry in its crib. This was back in 1993, when there were only six cell-phone subscriptions for every 100 adults in the United States. But industry executives were looking forward to a booming future.

 

Remarkably, cell phones had been allowed onto the US consumer market a decade earlier without any government safety testing. Now, some customers and industry workers were being diagnosed with cancer. In January 1993, David Reynard sued the NEC America Company, claiming that his wife’s NEC phone caused her lethal brain tumor. After Reynard appeared on national TV, the story went viral. A congressional subcommittee announced an investigation; investors began dumping their cell-phone stocks; and Wheeler and the CTIA swung into action.

A week later, Wheeler announced that his industry would pay for a comprehensive research program. Cell phones were already safe, Wheeler told reporters; the new research would simply “re-validate the findings of the existing studies.”

 

George Carlo seemed like a good bet to fulfill Wheeler’s mission. He was an epidemiologist who also had a law degree, and he’d conducted studies for other controversial industries. After a study funded by Dow Corning, Carlo had declared that breast implants posed only minimal health risks. With chemical-industry funding, he had concluded that low levels of dioxin, the chemical behind the Agent Orange scandal, were not dangerous. In 1995, Carlo began directing the industry-financed Wireless Technology Research project (WTR), whose eventual budget of $28.5 million made it the best-funded investigation of cell-phone safety to date.

Outside critics soon came to suspect that Carlo would be the front man for an industry whitewash. They cited his dispute with Henry Lai, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, over a study that Lai had conducted examining whether cell-phone radiation could damage DNA. In 1999, Carlo and the WTR’s general counsel sent a letter to the university’s president urging that Lai be fired for his alleged violation of research protocols. Lai accused the WTR of tampering with his experiment’s results. Both Carlo and Lai deny the other’s accusations.

Critics also attacked what they regarded as the slow pace of WTR research. The WTR was merely “a confidence game” designed to placate the public but stall real research, according to Louis Slesin, editor of the trade publication Microwave News. “By dangling a huge amount of money in front of the cash-starved [scientific] community,” Slesin argued, “Carlo guaranteed silent obedience. Anyone who dared complain risked being cut off from his millions.” Carlo denies the allegation.
 

 Whatever Carlo’s motives might have been, the documented fact is that he and Wheeler would eventually clash bitterly over the WTR’s findings, which Carlo presented to wireless-industry leaders on February 9, 1999. By that date, the WTR had commissioned more than 50 original studies and reviewed many more. Those studies raised “serious questions” about cell-phone safety, Carlo told a closed-door meeting of the CTIA’s board of directors, whose members included the CEOs or top officials of the industry’s 32 leading companies, including Apple, AT&T, and Motorola.

Carlo sent letters to each of the industry’s chieftains on October 7, 1999, reiterating that the WTR’s research had found the following: “The risk of rare neuro-epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled…in cell phone users”; there was an apparent “correlation between brain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head”; and “the ability of radiation from a phone’s antenna to cause functional genetic damage [was] definitely positive….”

Carlo urged the CEOs to do the right thing: give consumers “the information they need to make an informed judgment about how much of this unknown risk they wish to assume,” especially since some in the industry had “repeatedly and falsely claimed that wireless phones are safe for all consumers including children.”

The World Health Organization classifies cell-phone radiation as a “possible” carcinogen.

The very next day, a livid Tom Wheeler began publicly trashing Carlo to the media. In a letter he shared with the CEOs, Wheeler told Carlo that the CTIA was “certain that you have never provided CTIA with the studies you mention”—an apparent effort to shield the industry from liability in the lawsuits that had led to Carlo’s hiring in the first place. Wheeler charged further that the studies had not been published in peer-reviewed journals, casting doubt on their validity.

Meetings the Week of April 23, 2018

Meetings the Week of April 23, 2018

Monday  4/23/18

ZBA                                 PCS Town Hall*                     5:30 pm

Conservation                    PCS Town Hall*                    6:00 pm 

BOH                                 PCS Town Hall*                    7:00 pm

BOS                                  PCS Town Hall*                    6:30 pm

 

 

       

Tuesday  4/24/18

Berkshire Wind               Sterling                                    10:00 am

Mass DOT                       Gilbertville                                7:00 pm

Elementary Reconfiguration Meeting

Auditorium

6:00 pm

 

Wednesday 4/25/18

Adv. Com                                       PCS Town Hall*                    6:30 pm

Thursday 4/26/18

Mass DOT                         Athol                                      6:00 pm

Adv. Com                                          PCS Town Hall*                    6:30 pm

                         

* Pauly Cosentino Sr. Town Hall

After 28 years, Templeton antique shop to close

By CARSON MCGRATH
Staff Writer

Friday, April 20, 2018

TEMPLETON — After 28 years at 10 Baldwinville Road, Country Mischief will close its doors — and try to sell all of its one-of-a-kind antiques, knick knacks and furniture before the end of May.
Gail Whittle, founder of Country Mischief, said she has enjoyed serving the members of the community and making plenty of friends along the way. She’s had customers from all over the country, she said, mostly hearing about the unique shop by word of mouth.

“We’ve made a lot of good friends doing this,” Whittle said. “People are very concerned. I think they are happy for us, but sad at the same time.”

Starting in a small ice cream barn across the Templeton common, Whittle said she has been in the business for 34 years. Since then, she has worked to grow her store, which has been open 7 days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and hasn’t taken much time off over the years. You would never find her anywhere but in her store on weekends, she said. But now that she has decided to retire, Whittle said she is looking forward to adventuring to new places during her free time, and she will be enjoying the company of her grandchildren.

When Whittle first opened the shop on Baldwinville Road, she converted one of the 20 rooms into a tea room. Since that time, the little tea room has had many transformations — from a small restaurant with a small menu to having its own chef. Though the store is still open until the end of May, the restaurant closed in February.

Even though community members will miss the one-of-a-kind shop, Whittle said she’s leaving on a high note. According to her, 2017 was the biggest year for the store, selling many items, along with serving customers in the restaurant Wednesday through Sunday until it closed.

Everything in the store is discounted until the shop closes, Whittle said. For those looking for an even better deal, she said to join the Country’s newsletter on its website at:
www.countrymischief.com.

Oops!

Oops!

Looks like town meeting will NOT be held in the auditorium on May 19th.

Let's hope there is enough parking for the ten people who attend Annual Town Meeting! 

Full TA weekly report for April 19, 2018  HERE.

 

Democratic Party Sues Russia, Trump, Wikileaks For Conspiring To Hurt Hillary In 2016 Election

by Tyler Durden

Fri, 04/20/2018 - 11:23

 

Did The Democrats' "The Russians did it" narrative just jump the shark?



The Washingtoin Post reports that The Democratic National Committee filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Friday against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks organization alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 campaign and tilt the election to Donald Trump.

The lawsuit alleges that in addition to the Russian Federation, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Wikileaks and Guccifer 2.0, top Trump campaign officials, including Donald Trump Jr, Roger Stone, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and pretty much everyone else who has been mentioned in the same paragraph as Trump....

 ... conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and help Trump by hacking the computer networks of the Democratic Party and disseminating stolen material found there.

DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement...

“During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump’s campaign,”
“This constituted an act of unprecedented treachery: the campaign of a nominee for President of the United States in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,”

The lawsuit asserts that the Russian hacking campaign - combined with Trump associates’ contacts with Russia and the campaign’s public cheerleading of the hacks - amounted to an illegal conspiracy to interfere in the election that caused serious damage to the Democratic Party.


We look forward to Trump's tweeted response to this farce; we also look forward to the Democrats collecting millions of dollars in damages from Putin.

As a reminder, the president has repeatedly rejected any collusion or improper activity by his campaign. This week, he referred again in a tweet to the “phony Russia investigation where, by the way, there was NO COLLUSION (except by the Dems).”

Edgartown Massachusetts says no to being Poisoned by Their Local Board of Health! from FAN

Edgartown Massachusetts says no to being Poisoned by Their Local Board of Health! 

from FAN

The first local victory came in Edgartown, Massachusetts.  On April 12, a referendum vote of 700-253 (a whopping 73%-23%), ended all hope of fluoridation in Edgartown. According to a report on the in The Martha’s Vineyard Times,

“The town’s board of health voted to add fluoride, prompting a controversy over the decision and the process used to issue that order. The town’s water commission opposed the move. Ultimately, a petition was circulated to bring the fluoride issue to a townwide vote culminating in Thursday’s no vote.”

Local residents had only 90 days to collect enough petition signatures to take the issue out of the hands of the pro-fluoridation Board of Health, and they ultimately met and exceeded the petition signature requirements to force a ballot vote, giving authority over fluoridation to water consumers.  This effort was followed up with an extensive education campaign within the community and in the local newspaper’s editorial section, led by concerned citizens.  (Click here to see all related articles)
The issue electrified the community and prompted proponents days before the vote to round-up a statement from over 35 professionals, along with a former US Secretary of Health and Human Service, which urged the community to vote for fluoridation.
The second came in Walden, NY on Tuesday April 16 (just two days ago), when the council voted unanimously to end fluoridation in this village, which is located about 10 miles from Newburgh, NY, which was the second town fluoridated in the USA in 1945. Grand Rapids was the first.
Hats off to one of the councilors Lynn Thomson, who helped the village jump through all the hurdles that the state of NY Department of Health (DOH) puts in the way of any community that wants to stop fluoridating. The mayor and the village councilors wanted to end this outdated practice months ago but the DOH did everything they could to stop them, which included a last-minute offer to pay for the fluoridation chemicals.

Candidates Night Thursday April 19th

Candidates Night Thursday April 19th

Tom Royer of Kamaloht Banquet Facility at 1 North Main Street, East Templeton, is hosting his annual Meet the Candidates Night on Thursday, April 19, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. (at Kamaloht).

All candidates are encouraged to attend and speak on behalf of their Boards or Commissions so residents of the Town of Templeton can put a face to the name of members running for election.

Each candidate will be given the opportunity to promote their campaign policies and convey to voters what qualities they possess that would make them best suited for the position they are running for.

Any candidate wishing to participate should contact Tom at 978-630-0005 by Thursday, April 12, 2018. If you are unable to attend and wish to submit a letter to be read at the event, submit those to Tom Royer by April 14, 2018. He will not be accepting letters after that date.

Goldman Sachs Analyst: Curing Patients Not a Sustainable Medical Business Model

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One of the most reviled companies in the United States recently gave Americans yet another reason to distrust their power: A recent Goldman Sachs report reveals the company questioning whether or not curing chronic illness is compatible with a sustainable business model.

In an internal report viewed by CNBC about the potential of the biotech industry and gene therapy titled “The Genome Revolution,” analysts asked: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?”

“The potential to deliver ‘one shot cures’ is one of the most attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically-engineered cell therapy and gene editing,” wrote analyst Salveen Richter. “However, such treatments offer a very different outlook with regard to recurring revenue versus chronic therapies,” analyst Richter wrote in the April 10 report.

“While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.“

Richter cited a Hepatitis C drug manufactured by Gilead Sciences that achieved a 90% cure rate. As CNBC noted:

“The company’s U.S. sales for these hepatitis C treatments peaked at $12.5 billion in 2015, but have been falling ever since. Goldman estimates the U.S. sales for these treatments will be less than $4 billion this year, according to a table in the report.”

In light of the reduced profits as a result of the success of the drug, Richter wrote:

“GILD is a case in point, where the success of its hepatitis C franchise has gradually exhausted the available pool of treatable patients. In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”

Indeed, cancer is a highly profitable disease. In 2015, the world spent $107 billion on

Gardner schools seek $700K override to avert layoffs

By Paula J. Owen
Correspondent

Posted Apr 15, 2018 at 7:20 PM  

Updated Apr 16, 2018 at 6:04 AM

GARDNER – School officials are seeking a Proposition 2½ override to help fill a $926,000 shortfall in the next fiscal school budget and help stave off cuts to 21 positions, including 11 teachers.

Superintendent Mark J. Pellegrino said the cuts will have a significant impact on the arts program in the district.

“Specifically, there will be fewer electives at the high school and middle school, and the elementary schools will only have arts every other week instead of the current schedule, which is every week,” Mr. Pellegrino said recently.

Gardner is one of only a handful of communities in the state that has never passed an override or debt exclusion request, according to town officials.

At its April 17 meeting, City Council will consider approving a $700,000 override request for the school district. The measure must also be approved at a special town meeting and special election.
If the override does not pass, the superintendent said 21 positions will have to be cut: 11 teachers, a district coach, eight paraprofessionals and a secretary.

He said the district is also suspending the hockey program to save $34,000 until there is “renewed interest.”