By LeAnne Gendreau NBCConnecticut.com A game of Frisbee took a painful turn Sunday when a man was bitten by a rattlesnake in Marlborough. A man and his friend were tossing the ring around on West Street Sunday when the disk landed near a snake, state police told the Hartford Courant. The man went to...
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Lifted from Marlborough Sewers Unfair Petitions underway. We’ve started a couple of petitions regarding the sewer. We went out today and started collecting signatures. If you’d like to review and sign the petitions, please give me (David) a call at 860-295-6405 or 860-710-2576 (cell) and I’ll come by your home. I’m not going to...
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June 29 (Bloomberg) — Tuition and fees at private U.S. colleges and universities for the 2009-2010 school year will rise an average 4.3 percent, the lowest percentage increase in at least 37 years, according to a survey. The average percentage increase is the same as in the 1972- 1973 school year, when the National...
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His name is Dr David Sklarz, the newly retired Superintendent of the West Hartford School System. The appointment was made Friday night. The Board of Education had trouble getting a quorum, three members were trying to find an open route to the school. The storm had left many roads impassable. Eventually in attendance were...
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A faithful reader has asked for a new post / thread / explanation started on the Sewer. Explain the Sewer? I’d rather try to bring peace to the middle east. The more I look in to the sewer program the more it stinks. The sewer might just be town politics at it’s worst. The...
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From CBS News: You Will Work Longer Buried in all the bad news is an elegant, if slightly frustrating, fix to this retirement challenge. Work a few more years – retire at 67 rather than 62 – and you could have at least 30 percent more retirement income to live on when you do...
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From the Hartford Courant: The bill includes $1.5 billion in increased income taxes, plus about $125 million in new fee increases that are virtually the same as the fee and fine increases proposed in February by Rell. Rell is expected to veto the plan because she believes that the tax increases are too high....
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From the Raveis Company: The stats don’t look good for real estate in Marlborough. May should be the start of the selling season. Inventory is high, almost 2X what was normal 2 years ago. Prices are down, but it can take up to 14 months to sell. Sales Sales in May were 0. This...
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From C Norton via the Comment section: I recently moved to Marlborough from San Diego. San Diego has a consolidated Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk, and a consolidated Treasurer/Tax-Collector. Would it be possible to amend the town charter to merge some of these positions in Marlborough? In the 09/10 budget we have the following costs for these...
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June 23 (Bloomberg) — Home resales in the U.S. probably advanced for a second month in May as record foreclosures caused prices to drop, economists said before a report today. Purchases of existing homes rose 3 percent to a 4.82 million annual pace, the highest level since October, from 4.68 million in April, according...
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From the Federation of Connecticut Taxpayers Read this and keep in mind, Marlborough’s debt is 186% the average Connecticut town and that Connecticut’s debt is among (#2 I believe per capita) the highest in the country, and that our National debt, is 37K$ per. Keep in mind that 37K$ is per person, if you...
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Churchill is my favorite quote source. Lady Astor: “Sir, you are drunk.” Churchill: “That may be so madam but you are ugly and in the morning I shall be sober.” Woman in crowd: “Sir, if you were my husband I’d poison your tea.” Churchill: “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.” Labour...
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Yes: 291 No: 231 Now on to next years. The bonding issue of 1.59M for the road repair failed. Comparison of June 1st vs June 18th votes. No Yes Total Vote June 1st 281 218 499 June 18th 231 291 522 DOWN UP UP Apparently some No votes changed to Yes votes.
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Via Email to the Editor. This website actively solicits articles from all Marlborough residents regardless of viewpoint. And does not endorse any viewpoint. On the eve of our budget vote, an op ed piece is in order. This is especially true given the flier left in my mailbox by the Democratic Town Committee supporting...
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The Town Democrat Committee dropped this flyer in a number of mailboxes around town. For those who did not receive it, here it is.
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