To the Editor:

Thank you for starting to look into how some of these local officials think they have immunity from everything. Everything is secret, they simply don’t respond or show up at pre-determined meetings and it requires a FOAA to get anything from them.  It took me 13 weeks to get only some of the information.

I just wrote to the full (Norway) SelectBoard the following:

This Town so needs to apply some ethical standards to it’s operations.

Norway is one of the few municipalities that doesn’t have a formal code of ethics and everything that I have seen tells me you are desperately in need of one.

Use my tax dollars as membership in the MMA to get assistance.  They can help you. You need it. Your people obviously feel they can be out of control.

You are sinking deeper into a backwater small town by way of your “leadership”.

Pat O’Brien

Norway