FARMINGTON — Voters on Monday elected two incumbents and a new school board member. Selectman Mathew Smith, unopposed, received 473 votes. RSU 9 school board Director Iris Silverstein was re-elected over challenger Nancy Porter by a vote of 445-103. Heather A. Huish, unopposed, received 502 votes for the school board seat vacated by Ryan Morgan. […]
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Marijuana is a bane
Recently, John Kelly, White House chief of staff, said that he believes our culture has lost many things, and one of them was religion. Corinthians 1-9 admonishes people to be careful, that their liberty becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak. I say that children in grade school and older are weak, weak […]
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Say 'no' to bloated budget
“It takes a school to bankrupt a town” — gee, I loved that rather crudely written sign along Route 2 as the second vote came due on RSU 9’s million and a-half dollar increase. I believe that conscientious citizens are doing a great service to the town of Farmington and to the school districts across […]
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Weighted vote is undemocratic
For some unknown reason, RSD 9 residents have allowed weighted voting. Weighted voting is described as a system where one vote carries the “weight” of many votes. There are a total of 16 School Board members for RSD 9 — five from Farmington, three from Wilton and the rest of the towns get one apiece. […]
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Say ‘no’ to school budget
There have been millions of taxpayers’ dollars spent for debt service payments for past buildings and renovations. Administration salaries are more than $100,000, excluding benefits, and automatic retirement increases demanded by state law for school personnel. All that for an area that the school’s superintendent labeled as being a lower socio-economic area. Enough already. Residents […]
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RSU 9 director asks 2 Farmington voters to hold budget questions
FARMINGTON — A Regional School Unit 9 school director asked two Farmington women to hold questions Wednesday night while they were waiting for the districtwide budget meeting to vote on a proposed $32.97 million school budget. Director Nancy Porter of Farmington gave a handwritten note to Elaine Graham and told her to pass it to […]
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Pornography symbolic of sick society
This is in response to a recent article about how Playboy Magazine would not be presenting any more frontal nudity. For that, we can be thankful. Perhaps there was too much competition from Penthouse and Hustler. But, evidently, the real killer to Playboy’s circulation is the pornography on the Internet. Scott Flanders, Playboy’s CEO, put […]
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E. Graham: Is God sending a message?
In watching and experiencing the latest weather, I have to wonder if God’s hand is still in the elements. Is God sending a message to a rebellious nation, as he did to rebellious Israel? Strictly devout early colonists very much believed God used the elements to chastise his people if they rebelled against God’s holy […]
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E. Graham: Disservice to a great church
“Revitalize.” That is a word used by Pope Francis in reference to the church. Revitalize means to bring back to a healthy condition. The pope talks about ministering to “wounded souls.” I agree, but the wounded souls are all those who refuse to obey the disciplines of our great Judeo-Christian faith. To me, revitalization is […]
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E. Graham: A more pure church
I was saddened to hear some of the comments Pope Francis recently made to reporters. In newspaper accounts, it was said of former Pope Benedict that he carried a very heavy heartache over the misdeeds of priests in the Catholic Church. His heart’s desire was for a more pure church. I guess most of the […]