Category: Angelo S. Lynn

Editorial: An opportunity waiting

Posted on February 27, 2014 |

• Editorial
• Middlebury
• senior center

By Angelo S. Lynn

The Page 1 story on about the Russ Sholes Senior Center presents opportunities to better serve that segment of Middlebury’s population in the years ahead.

The shocking news is the diminished active members of the group. At its current weekly luncheons only a dozen or so seniors routinely attend, with a larger group showing up monthly for a lunch that also features entertainment.

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Editorial: Vote 'Yes' on UD-3 lease of land for town rec building

Posted on February 20, 2014 |

• Editorial
• Middlebury
• town offices

By Angelo S. Lynn

Voters of the seven-town UD-3 school district will decide next Tuesday whether it is prudent to lease 2.5 acres of land to the town of Middlebury on which to site the town’s municipal gym. The UD-3 board earlier endorsed the project, which would also include a $400,000 bond vote for a 2,000-square-foot addition onto the building to be used for Middlebury Union High and Middle School sporting events.

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Editorial: Clear options for Middlebury

Posted on January 23, 2014 |

• Editorial
• Middlebury

By Angelo S. Lynn

After 20-plus years of intermittent discussion and an occasional vote, Middlebury residents will have a clear choice this Town Meeting Day on three options for their municipal building:

• To keep it as it is, do constant repairs and inevitably face another vote in the not too distant future to replace the current building;

• To raze the current municipal building and build new on that site at an estimated cost of $6 million to $10 million, or to renovate at a cost of $2 million to $4.5 million, all paid with taxpayer dollars;

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Editorial: A consequence of incivility

Posted on January 6, 2014 |

• Editorial
• Middlebury
• Nuovo
• resignation
• selectboard

By Angelo S. Lynn

Being vindictive has consequences. When a small cadre of Middlebury residents set out to discredit selectman Victor Nuovo for allegedly violating the town’s conflict of interest policies they did so in a relentless fashion — organizing a mean-spirited letter-writing campaign that attacked personal character as well as process. It has been beyond the pale. 

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