I know many of you think I hate Cheshire-I don’t. I try to offer honest opinions. Compared to a lot of towns in this state and around this country-Cheshire is OK-but it IS BORING and needs to let its hair down a bit.

Also-this towns infrastructure needs an Extreme Makeover NOW!! This town has a lot of potential but the town government has got to get it in gear.

West Main Street is a disaster and needs to be fixed up SOON!! Hopefully, that money from the state will be used to spiff it up. This should be top priority after deciding once and for all-what to do with our community pool.

The people who run this town know what to do-make it ONE SEASON-and either strike up an agreement with Elim Park or put the pool in the High School WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUILT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

This needs to decide what it wants to be WHEN IT GROWS UP!! They need to start planning ahead-they need to decide what their infrastructure should look like-now it looks like a bunch of playing cards that have been scattered in the wind-a mish mash here and there.

I know we can do better.

So, a few posts ago, I told you that I was going to take a video of Cheshire’s Historical District and Orange’s Historical District.

Well on Thursday, I had some free time so I decided to go to Durham instead. I like Durham, it is quaint and pretty. I travel through the town quite a bit on my way to the shoreline-so I decided to film their Historic District instead.

So here are the two comparing videos-the first is Cheshire’s Historic District and the second is Durham’s-YOU DECIDE.

OMG-THIS IS SO SO TRUE

SOMEBODY PEGGED THIS TOWN

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A while back I ran into an old friend and we spoke about our days as writers and reporters.

I told this person I had a blog and that I had been publishing it for nearly five years and it was fairly successful.

This person who knows me quite well started laughing-she wondered if people really took me seriously. I told her it depended upon whether someone really knew me or not-because as you know-a lot of this blog is tongue in cheek some of it is real-some of it B.S.

Anyway after she left I wondered if I could have done this blog in another town-probably not-I think really now after living in this town for nearly 25 years, my purpose here was to publish this blog-I do enjoy it-many times I got fed up with it-but that is normal for me-but over the years I have amassed a large amount of loyal readers and I am happy for that.

Now I want to break away from Cheshire news and speak about Michael Jackson-I KNOW you are really sick of it by now-but I am not-I REALLY LOVED MICHAEL JACKSON’S MUSIC-I respected him as an artist-and it is really hard to relate to people who never saw him in concert-because THAT WAS THE REAL MICHAEL JACKSON-A TRUE ARTIST-MADE TO PERFORM.

That is where he was the most comfortable-that was where I believe he could be himself-it just seemed he was so different up on stage-he knew what he wanted-he was confident.

It seemed when he was off stage he fumbled around and tried his best to fit into this world-but it was not to be.

Most talked about throughout the years, was Michael Jackson’s so called plastic surgery-which he denied having-and his “transformation” from a black man to nearly white which was really strange to me.

But the biggest topic was Michael Jackson’s NOSE-the guy had so many nose jobs that the tip died-can you believe it.

People say Michael Jackson looked like a freak but you know what-I sort of thought that also until I found this Australian website that actually has an artists rendition of what Jackson would have looked like at 50 years old if he had not had the plastic surgery or nose job or so called skin lightening.

After you look at the comparison-ask yourself-do you actually think Michael Jackson would have been able to have the successful career he did IF HE LOOKED LIKE THE ARTIST RENDITION?

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I’m telling you-I think Michael would have been relegated to lounge singing in Las Vegas-Michael was a lot smarter than we gave him credit for.

And here is a good site on Michael Jackson’s infamous NOSE JOBS GONE AWRY!!

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IN OTHER NEWS:

I guess the Federal court dealt another blow to Connecticut-which now CANNOT force Interior Designers to have a license-I AGREE WITH THIS!! WHY SHOULD THEY??

I have a child who is very interested in Interior Design and is studying it. This should be good news for him. The state of Connecticut HAS GOT TO STOP TAXING AND LICENSING PEOPLE TO DEATH AND START RECRUITING BUSINESSES TO THIS STATE AND START GETTING ITS PEOPLE SERIOUS EMPLOYMENT.

This way, these people can pay TAXES to the state instead of the state trying to close the budget gap by taxing and licensing us to death!! The unemployment rate in this state IS WELL OVER 10 percent-UMM GET ON THE STICK HARTFORD!!

You can only squeeze so much water out of a sponge-and this one is ON ITS LAST LEG!!

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I believe you should be able to do what you want to earn a living as long as it is legal of course-without having to shell out money to the state for some phony license.

All of these things were dreamt up by state coffers to control people-driver licenses, and especially marriage licenses were not even in existence until after the Civil War (and you can guess why).

Finally a victory for the common person!!!

Did you ever wonder what it is like to be behind the wheel when you get old?

Take this “Senior Driving Simulator” test

Actually, most seniors I know drive  VERY WELL!! So this game is sort of an insult I think.

Also: I ran into a local resident who started talking about the old Cheshire IGA NORTH AND SOUTH-remember that? The NORTH IGA is now the Cheshire Liquor Store (I don’t know what they call it-because I don’t drink)/CVS and the Cheshire IGA SOUTH was where Everybody’s is now.

I loved the IGA-sometimes I go to Walsh’s in Wolcott  and the one in Southington whose name escapes me at the moment.

Believe it or not IGA is very popular in French Canada-here is a look at one of their flyers (EN FRANCAIS)

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Now I know Cheshire Town Council member Tim White has said that Cheshire will be eliminating three take home vehicles-and you know I have backed him up on this issue.

Depending upon how you look at it-take home cars can be a good or a bad thing or even both-there is a high potential for abuse-and if no one is watching the store-who knows where these cars may be driven.

For the record-I think the Police and Fire Chiefs should have take home cars-THEY ARE ON CALL 24/7 and leave personalities out of it.

Everyone else AS MY HUSBAND DOES WHO IS A FIELD AUDITOR CAN DRIVE THEIR OWN VEHICLE!!

So I came across some articles that talk about both sides of the issues-the good side of take home cars and the bad.

In fact, one town that I have featured-allows any officer to take home a patrol car-but the caveat is–they must respond to any emergency whether they are on duty or not!!

I would hate to see that overtime bill!!

Take home cars ripe for abuse

AND HERE IS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN:

No take home cars would hurt public safety

Audit Shows Vehicles Used Improperly

I know it is an election year in Cheshire-and SOME PARTY is really giving it to another party-but you know what? YOU CONDONED ALL OF THESE ACTIONS: THE POOL THE TAKE HOME CARS THE GAS USAGE WHEN YOUR GRAND OLD PARTY WAS IN POWER-WHAT TOOK ALL THESE YEARS TO QUESTION??

Every month-the Town Council should make the Town Manager read the municipal gas usage for each month!! They should ask for mileage on all of the take home vehicles so a comparison can be made!!!

BUT DO THEY??

By now, most of you know about the “rented temporary trailers” that the town of Cheshire has put up at the Soviet Swim Center so patrons may change and shower before using the pool.

The cost of these three trailers TO RENT was approximately $24,000.

HELLO!! DOES ANYONE RUNNING CHESHIRE EVER DO ANY RESEARCH??

Obviously NOT!!

If the town government had BOTHERED to use the internet or call FEMA-which still has approximately 60,000 of these Hurricane Katrina trailers sitting around in Missisippi and other Gulf Coast states that WERE NEVER EVEN USED-they would have run into the following:

FEMA spent $2.7 billion to buy 145,000 mobile homes and trailers after Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in August and September 2005, paying a bulk-rate price of about $19,000 per trailer, on average. FEMA now has 60,000 trailers in storage nationwide; several thousand of them — exactly how many is not clear — were never used.

To dispose of the used trailers, FEMA is operating an auction through a government Web site. Wednesday evening, the agency had 47 trailers on sale from its Hope depot. Bids ranged from $5,191 for a 2006 Coachmen Spirit of America trailer with possible water damage and a missing stove grate, battery and other items, to $12,600 for a 2006 Sunnybrook RV Sunset Creek trailer with “no obvious exterior damage.”

As I have stated time and time again, the reason this town gets away with spending the money that has been spent especially on this pool is because this is a transient town and outside of a few people-most of whom have political ambitions-NO ONE CARES!!!

We need make the Soviet Swim Center ONE SEASON IMMEDIATELY and make an agreement with Elim Park which has a NICE INDOOR POOL for off season use of the pool.

Secondly, you know, the 1970’s ARE OVER!! GET RID OF THIS TOWN MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT!! We have a person running this town THAT IS NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE POPULACE!! THIS PERSON IS NOT ELECTED!!

DO YOU SEE THE PROBLEMS NOW AND IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO IS THE TOWN MANAGER-IT COULD BE MY SPOUSE FOR ALL I CARE-THE SYSTEM THAT IS NOW IN PLACE IS ANTIQUATED AND IS RIPE FOR ABUSE!!

At least if the person who is in charge of this town knew their ass would be on the line every two or four years, there would be a hell of a lot of different behavior and a different attitude!!

“Oh it is more corrupt when someone is elected”

OH IT IS!! THIS PERSON ANSWERS TO NINE PEOPLE-AND THE POPULATION OF CHESHIRE IS NEARLY 30,000!!

WRONG!!!

And speaking of spending money-of course I am not able to take a photo of it-but the Herald has photos of the new Historical District signs near the corner of Maple Avenue and running through Cornwall Avenue.

In all honesty, If I were Cheshire-I would be EMBARRASED to put up these signs!!

CLEAN UP THE AREA FIRST!! FOR GOD’S SAKE, THE SIGN NEAR THE CHESHIRE COFFEE NEAR THAT BLUE UGLY ASS BUILDING LOOKS DISGUSTING!! CUT THE GRASS FOR GOD’S SAKE AND TEAR DOWN THAT BUILDING!!

On the other hand-I guess it is historical because that building looks like nothing has been done to it since the 1700’s!!

Another disgrace is where that new pharmacy is going in across from St. Bridgets School.

The photo of this building in its original condition which I could not get when I was doing my Cheshire Then and Now project  can be seen at the Dunkin Donuts in the Everybody’s Plaza-WHAT A NICE BUILDING!! TOO BAD THE TOWN DID NOT TAKE ENOUGH CARE TO PRESERVE THIS STRUCTURE!!

I am going to go to some other towns-like Orange-and take photos of THEIR HISTORICAL DISTRICT-SO YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE

TAKE PRIDE CHESHIRE!!

In other news: I am sure some of the racist Republicans we have in this town will get a big kick out of this:

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Oh, and here is an interesting item I found on E-Bay:

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NO TAKERS!!

I am going to buy the patch-but it on my shirt and go around on my scooter and pull people over.

A friend made a taser from an old ink pen shell so I am all set!!

YEA!!