Archive - Feb 1, 2010

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Liveblogging - "Be the Media You Want to See: How Social Media and Citizen Journalism Are Changing the World"

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This Week in Woodbridge

This week in Woodbridge starts off with a Human Services Commission meeting at 7 PM at The Center and a 7:30 PM Town Plan and Zoning Commission meeting at Central Meeting Room at Town Hall on Monday evening. There are no public hearings scheduled for the Town Plan and Zoning Commission, however, they are scheduled to discuss updates from the Economic Development Commission and the “Town Plan of Conservation and Development in particular as it relates to the Town’s acquisition of the properties n/f owned by the Woodbridge Country Club”

Tuesday at 6 PM will see the next in the Town Operating Budget Presentations. Scheduled to present is the Pool and Gym, Building Maintenance, The Center, Benefits, Debt Service , and Revenue. To end off the evening, the Woodbridge Board of Education will present their budgets. There are reports that both supporters and opponents of the proposed school board budget are planning to attend the meeting and a Facebook Events page is up for those on Facebook that will be attending in support of the school budget. It is worth noting that there isn’t a lot of room in the Town Hall meeting room, and many more may end up watching the proposal from home on WGATV.

Also on Tuesday, starting at 7:30 PM, the Commission on the Use of Publicly Owned Property will meet in the Senior Center Lounge. Wednesday the Police Commission will meet in the Training Room at the Police Department. Friday will be National Wear Red in Woodbridge Day, as proclaimed by the First Selectman Ed Sheehy on January 14th. It is part of a national campaign by the American Heart Association to raise awareness about heart disease amongst women.

Also at 6 PM at Beecher Road School is Second Grade Social Night. People interested in participating should contact Margaret Hamilton. Ending up the week, or starting the new week, depending on your perspective, the Tanglewood Marionettes will perform “Hansel and Gretel” at the Woodbridge Library at 2 PM on Sunday.

If you know of other important upcoming events in Woodbridge, please contact ‘editor at woodbridgecitizen.com’ to help spread the word.

(Originally published at the Woodbridge Citizen.)

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Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Groundhog… Music Monday

It is clear and cold out, but warmer this morning than it has been in the past few days. I look out my office window and wonder if the monthly lapin invocation will bring better luck this month, if it will snap the metaphorical cold spell. Tomorrow is Groundhogs’ day. Will the groundhog see his shadow? Will the rabbits see theirs? Will they all simply huddle in their tunnels waiting for warmer days? We shall see.

“But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step”

I was a paperboy forty years ago. Now, I write blog posts. When someone important dies today, I hear about it on Twitter, instead of finding it on the front page of a newspaper delivered by an aspiring young musician. “Something's lost but something's gained in living every day.”

So, Buddy Holly’s death made Don McLean shiver. Joni Mitchell managed to find something gained in living every day. And then, there’s Buffy:

Every single night
The same arrangement
I go out and fight the fight
Still I always feel
This strange estrangement
Nothing here is real
Nothing here is right
I’ve been making shows of trading blows
Just hoping no one knows
That I’ve been
Going through the motions
Walking through the part
Nothing seems to penetrate my heart

So, what will your February be like? Will bad news on the door step make you shiver? Will you simply be going through the motions? Or will something be gained in living every day?

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