Showing posts with label Virginia Wootten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virginia Wootten. Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2022

Today was "Earth Day." Does anyone really care?

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Earth Day lost its relevance decades ago By Will Collette From this.... The first Earth Day in 1970 was a popular uprising against corporate...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

In case you missed it: Council meets Monday night

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Main items of interest: Toxic Waste and Toxic People By Will Collette JoAnn "Shingles" Stolle about to get full seat on Z...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

CCA Party rearranges the pool chairs

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New Steering Committee roster posted with no fanfare By Will Collette New information emerges from the CCA Party's secret clubho...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Gävle Goat Lives, Wooten speaks, 2014 ends and lots of job openings

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Charlestown Tapas By Will Collette Gävle Goat Lives! This is how the Goat usually ends up, but not this year For the first t...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Short Council meeting

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Council approves budget that will unnecessarily raise taxes By Will Collette By Charlestown standards, this meeting was done in a f...
Monday, May 13, 2013

What’s that up in the sky: drones in Rhode Island

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Bringing beer or bringing trouble? By Will Collette Rep. Teresa Tanzi has introduced the first legislation to regulate the use of d...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Where’s Virginia?

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Plus … the Rise of Aqua-NIMBY and the Charlestown Ice Follies Dan Slattery LUVS his Forums By Will Collette The latest in the ser...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Council quintuple header on Monday?

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COPAR, Town Administrator, Citizens Forum on tap Mine run-off from the COPAR quarry into Charlestown wetlands (December 21 photo by Stev...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Council presents its News Year's wish list to state legislators

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Belated Town Council meeting review By Will Collette After pressing the issue with Town Hall, Clerkbase coverage of the December 10...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Town Council review delayed

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Coming at you...later By Will Collette Due to technical difficulties, we won't have an instant review of the Town Council meeting t...
Friday, October 26, 2012

CCA reveals location of secret clubhouse - it's TOWN HALL!

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Where are the meetings advertised? When did the last one occur? When is the next one? Do they meet the requirements of the state Open Meeti...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

CCA adds affordable housing for the elderly to list of things they hate

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CCA Council candidate George Tremblay launches all out attack on imaginary elderly housing cheats By Will Collette As predicted , C...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Do political parties matter?

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Depends on who you ask, where you ask and how you ask it By Will Collette In the recent debates over the importance of political pa...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Things you’d like to know about the Charlestown Citizens Alliance – but were afraid to ask

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2012 Field Guide to   Charlestown ’s shadow government, Part 1 By   Will Collette Former CCA President and present Town Council Vice...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

CCA adjusts leadership as old members leave the state

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Did they have elections and nobody knew? By Will Collette With no announcement, just some minor modifications to the leadership list...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

CCA hits the panic button

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“Be afraid, be very afraid” By Will Collette The Charlestown Citizens Alliance sent out a very peculiar e-bleat to its followers o...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Citizens Forum reveals that Charlestown residents oppose the YMCA camp deal

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Council Prez Tom Gentz being constructive, not destructive. Of the six residents who took to the podium to address the Town Council ...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Deputy Dan wants more diligence on phantom open space

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Wants a town posse to defend town from outlaw gardeners By Will Collette I never knew Charlestown  was under threat from outlaw gardeners u...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

The CCA’s latest bogus issue

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Deputy Dan Slattery to lead Charlestown Open Space Cadets? Who knows what lurks on Charlestown ’s “phantom properties?” By Will Collett...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

FAQs about the Charlestown Citizens Alliance

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What is the CCA? That’s the Charlestown Citizens Alliance. It is an unincorporated association started in 2006 now registered with the stat...