It seems to me that there is no point continuing this debate. All your points are personal opinions, not facts. Just a couple of things. 1. I did not write all the articles posted. They came from people like you. 2. I will not remove anything from the website, because they have been published and they are a matter of record. Removing them will not resolve anything. My personal opinions about the administration were not and are not dictating what is published. When people submit, I publish, as I am doing with your postings. Once more, what I said about you and your wife, and my desire to a mutual respect remains the same. As far as the administration is concerned, we may probably agree in more issues than you think. Happy New Year to your family.

Nick

Brian, the selectmen minutes that are posted on this website are the ones given to us by the town office. My understanding in that they do not release the minutes until after they have been approved by the board. Thus the reason the minutes we have posted were at least on session behind.

Now the personal observations of what transpires at a meeting, are just that,observations. Since I work most Tuesday evening I can not attend. I invite you to write your take on each of these meetings and submit them. Review of your post suggest that you do most of your reflection at night when the house is quiet. How about writing something Tuesday nights after the selectmen meeting to be posted the following day on the website.

I thank you for your continued support and use of this website. As you know it is not the quanity of readers but the quality.

I am a little confussed. Where on this website is the minutes from the town office? or are u refering to the link to the town office? There is someone that all ready records every meeting and takes minutes. My view would naturally be biased and probally innacurate. For example, I may misunderstand an issue, not hear someone correctly, etc. That is why it is best to leave it to the offical minutes, reported without any bias and reviewed by all the selectmen before publication. If someone really wants to know what happens at a meeting they should attend. If they can't they can always ask someone who did or just wait for the minutes to be published.

Maybe I misread your comment about minutes being published on this site without being accepted or signed. My comment was that any minutes published here as official minutes come directly from the Town office.

I agree that if people can not attend they should ask somebody, thus the idea of posting personal observations, which should be sited as such. Then read the offical minutes. We cannot always attend meetings (I work most nights in Augusta), but want to know what was discussed.

Even the newspapers will have some slant or omissions, so consider writing a piece. Selectmen meet tomorrow night.

Now wouldn't it be interesting if two people submitted their views on the meeting, and have us be able to read each one, I am sure that there would be some differences.

I think we understand each other now ...but when as this site ever published any official minutes from the town office? Other than the link that put up yesterday?

The president of Senebec Lake Association is Attorney David Glaser, he lives on Sennebec Road in Appleton. He would have the complete list of active members. Arley Clark was in charge of membership for many years and we all miss her.

Thanks Kay

Well lets see, I don't know if I am qualified to comment here bacause my spelling is so bad. But what the heck here goes. I feel that under the past board of Selectmen, Andy had NO DIRECTION. He was spoon feeding you items and you as a board of Selectmen were leaning on his every word. That is not the way it works, We as the town Taxpayers ELECT people to look out for us. WE as taxpayers provide funds to see that the community is run properly. As board of Selectmen we provide funds to hire a Town Manager to run the day to day activies.to take the load off the (5)Selectmen.(When I was in office we ran the town with 3 and had no town manager to lean on). THE TOWN MANAGER WORKS FOR YOU!!, YOU AS ELECTED OFFICIALS WORK FOR THE TAXPAYERS AND VOTERS OF UNION Not the other way aroud. When we feel that the community is not bening run the way we we want Voters make changes. if the Voters are not sataified with thoes changes we make more changes until the comunity is runing the way we can live with. It will never be all things to all people. So it is like a kid on his first bike staying uprite wableing doun the road through history.
As far as bill packard goes I hope he makes Hutch nervous by looking over his work. I could give you chapter and verse on waistfull highway spending.
It is our largest tax comintment outside of our schools That is part of what we the taxpayers elected him for.
Towns people who you never see voted for Mr. Packard Bacause they were here when he was part of the town crew. We laughed at some of the things he did but he saved us money, he worked very hard day and night to serve the town. Did you know that he single handly constructed Barrett Hill road as you see it now, from just past Randell Clarks house to just past Christeen Savage's home. The road used to run out into the blueberry fields not on town property you could not pass that part in the winter. Bill took it appon himself to strighten the road and build it on town property as you see it today. Oh by the way he did it for a budget of $1000 dolors and with all the money Hutch spends he has never inproved that strech of road. Did you know Bill was nearly killed out spreading sand in a ice storm so some damm fool could go out and get a pack of Cigerets or something lost control on the sheer ice and went off the road had to be cut out of the town truck, got pretty banged up we totaled the truck. alyes wondered how he lived through that one. He paid his dues for this town

Speeking of Town roads The town Voted to open Barrett Hill road to the town line many years ago, and yet Hutch has got ayay with plowing and maintaining just the part he felt like fixing and plowing. You were a Selectmen why did you allow him to do that? Was it bacause you depended on Andy to do your Thinking for you?, Just take Hutches word for it? That is just one of many issues that face our elected officals every day. In Maine we Still demand a lot from our elected officals . Hell I could go on for days about union and the town crew.
This web site was my idea orignaly. I got it set up It was My idea to get the word out in Union
that things needed looking into. I have spent 30+ years in the news media, I had a Television station in Knox County. Bacause I don't play well with others that the rest of our orignal group thought it would be better if I let other more moderate voices be herd, besides, I can't spell worth a damm. So don't keep ragging on Nick about not bening re elected to office You did that yourself
The voters decided to make a change it is just as simple as that!
Hell the town would not have a web site if we did not get this one up and running, check it out look into your town report.You had a cable channel for years and the money to run it but Andy chose not use it. Why? is it bacause selectmen did not want people seeing what was going on.It is the job of public elected officals to keep towns peopple informed of what is going on. Did your adminstration
Strive to do that? or post meetings in the town office at the last minuite and hope no wone but Austin showed up. Even the town report The same town report that you were happy to let others control the distrabition of and when volentiers wanted to deliver it to the people you got mad. why was that.? IT is time that the public taxpayer gets something for his/her money/ The town hall gang has had thier way for to long.
Why did you stand by and support Andy & other town hall employies when they tried to get rid of Linda MscAlaster our ELECTED treasurer She was protecting our tax money and not allowing money to be spent in area's that Ue did not vote for! The same people who remember Bill Packard Rember the service Linda MacAlaster has given to the town.
The Freadom of speech is being defended every day. My son Spent 22 years in the navy My Daughter 24 and just returned from Kuwait My whole family through history have served to protect this way of life.