As Artie Johnson of LAUGH IN used to say - "VERY INTERESTING!!!!!"

{Now the Shade Tree Commission is involved with the issue of The Water property.}

and who is on the Shade Tree Commission?

Ok, ok - here it is - WWW.Newmilfordboro.com and just click on Committees/Commissions. I'm pretty sure you'll recognize two names.

I just wonder WHO will be the recipient of "sock it to me."

Happy Thanksgiving all.

I'm glad that there is more resistance to this over development in New Milford!

Jimmy in all reality, who cares who is on the shade tree commission...can you ever see the bigger picture beyond your microscopic glasses of simply republician and democrate....point IS...this is our hometown..my parents were hardworking immigrants from Ireland, we lived in the Bronx they worked the buses, dug the graveyards and worked so so hard to save for a house in "the suburbs" for their three daughters, we were raised to take pride in what we had, where we came from and what it took to get there....we moved to new Milford in 1977. I love this town, proud to be raised here, have many friends from here and an endless childhood memories....the thought of my neighbors..my friends homes being flooded unnecessarily, cutting down the trees on our quiet lined streets, seeing a four story building go up...makes me wonder what my parents did it all for? Next thing there will be proposals for a new sign (as I am learning there are big time meetings for that too) "Welcome to the City of New Milford"...Maybe Pelham and Riverdale are looking more attractive now after all....

Guess you got an early start on your thanksgiving turkey 3;30AM - wow.

Dawn, As I mentioned and PROVED in previous private correspondence, I was against over development before there ever was a SOD. What you see is not what I see. I see the a & p boys taking full advantage of this issue without so much as even a mention from their lips. I have seen Annie, Howard, Diego and Peter ripped apart publicly day in and day out until just very recently. Hate to break it to you quite this way, but it IS a matter of politics. Score TWO for De BariVille. I believe it was a masterpiece of manipulation. I believe that this issue will sally about for a while, Hekemian and Inserra having a WHOLE lot more money than the members of SOD could ever keep up with, and will eventually win in the end..Much to my regret.

Happy Thanksgiving.

So Jimmy are you saying that DeBari orchestrated this so that the republicans would win a few years back based on their stances of never developing the water company property, then they would flip like pancakes to support ramming a monster of a development down the townspeople's throats. So much so, that the electorate would revolt and replace said Republicans with new Democratic shills so that they could then flip, also like pancakes, to screw over the residents and finish DeBari's wet dream of our very own Pottersville? Wow! If that's how it happened, why then isn't DeBari working in the White House for Obama? Because that is pure Chicago-style games.

Where's our George Bailey? Where are our Woodward & Bernstein? Where is our "DeepThroat"?

Let's just watch what happens. REMEMBERING which group accepted monies from The Water Company, Hekemian AND Inserra.

and the multi unit dwelling that Mike himself approved of in that area.

We can go back and forth for weeks, but it will all boil down to a roll of the dice in court.

watch.

Tony, as we say in Hoboken - "not for nuthin" -- but I've been pleading for a ballot slot regarding this issue for the past three years. I believe that something like this which will affect the whole town should be decided by the whole town. and with the mayor's power/option to appoint/reappoint members of the zoning board, who knows if someone with experience will be reappointed?

Mary had to take it on the chin with the ballot question of the Field of Dreams issue. Seriously, I just wonder how many non flood zone residents would have the compassion and understanding of what our neighbors go through with these flooding issues.

BUT at least if it were on a ballot, partisan politics would not come into it.

Jimmy, Mizz Flanagan summed it up best and she's right why do make this into a Republican & Democrat issue? The NM Republican Club sent mix messages this election cycle. Their candidates were against the UW development while their other members, including our Mayor, knocked on voters doors telling them this development is a done deal and ridiculed a tiny group of concerned citizens called SOD, which did not help Howard and Peter. They gave it to the Democrats, it's really that simple. For the record, I too was against this development, like so many more in town were, way before the birth of SOD. SOD may not have deep pockets, as you pointed out, but we have the tenacity to fight this battle to the very end, no matter what the odds are, and we're doing it with support from Republicans, Democrats and Independents.

SOD!

Jimmy, to start, you're not the first person I've WOW'd & believe me you'll not be the last..now the important stuff,( I see you deleted one of your comments here to a Laurie) In one of the many meetings I've attended when Mr Collucci spoke he said he went door to door asking folks about the UV development & his pitch (to your average New Milfordite) went a little something like this..."Hey I"m here to inform you the property (in question) is in consideration to be developed, if it is your taxes will go up...so what say you, are you for this or not?"....There are many ways to skin a cat...I have humbly spoken at many board meetings...problem is I am not a lawyer so i don't speek the jargon to jump thru the loopholes .. I am not an engineer so I cannot aptly question the accuracy of catch basins... I am not a political member so I don't have to take a side to get something else to do something else... I am just a girl who knows what is right..where will that get me, I don't know Jimmy, up at 3:30 am after my son wakens with a cough and I can't get back to sleep, it gets me on the patch still fighting the good fight...if that cannot wow anybody, WAIT UNTIL: trees are cut down; roads cut up; furniture is floating down the street; snarled traffic; car accidents; crowded schools, the apartment building, the pouring of concrete & more homes flooded & what would WOW me the most ..to see the bank accounts of Dipple, Hekemien.Kensey, Delveccio..etc if the deal gets said & done.

And oh to CLARIFY, when Colucci claimed he went door to door this was BEFORE UW had sold the property to Hekemien, it was to be developed by the town for recreation...etc...as it was turned down (perhaps due to the sales pitch) it was sold to Hekemien...the town had an opportunity to purchase this land back and failed to do do...these are our elected officials.... now it is up to "us" concerned townspeople and some with intelligence in office to salvage the last open space left in this town......I implore you, my neighbors and friends to get involved.

LQQK:

The only things I have read on these pages of The Patch is how bad the Republicans were and NOTHING at all about the a & p kids. NOTHING!~!

and - I - am making it political?!?

I'm only pointing out the obvious.

David and Goliath. All that has to be done to take down this development is hitting them with a well placed stone. Doesn't have to be a big stone. Just has to hit their vulnerable spot.

Paris and Achilles. Again, a vulnerable spot on the biggest, baddest. Brought down by a well placed arrow.

Instead of fighting about which party (Democrat or Republican) is full of BS or more righteous, perhaps we should be concentrating on finding Heikemian's armor chink and exploiting that weakness.