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As chair of the Windham Selectboard, I was recently vilified in a letter sent to various Vermont news outlets.
Besides the peculiar accusation that I am “classless,” the letter criticizes a challenge at this year's Town Meeting to another sitting Selectboard member who was up for re-election.
Although the letter suggests that such a challenge was unprecedented, it wasn't: two years ago, as incumbent Selectman, I was challenged unsuccessfully, and nobody thought much of it.
But a lot has happened in Windham during the intervening two years.
The utter failure of the traffic light scheme at Malfunction Junction comes as no surprise to those of us who witnessed the sad demise of the sane solution proposed in the late 1990s: remove that sorry joke of a park at the lower end of Main Street and put...
