Remember the envelopes we placed into our last issue to encourage Newsletter contributions? That was a first for us; we weren’t sure what would happen. We found out soon enough, for your response was absolutely super. Through mid-January, we raised nearly $3500, from 116 separate Newsletter households.
by Steve Johnson (Jason Street)
People who don’t clean snow from the roof of their cars. Or those who don’t clean more than a peephole from one window. Come on, you can do it. Everybody’s in a hurry; think about safety and visibility! Legislation was introduced last year to require drivers to remove ice and snow from their vehicles before hitting the road, by State Rep. Cleon Turner of Dennis. A previous attempt by State Rep. Brian Knuuttila (Gardner) called for a fine of $500 and up to six months in jail for failure to clean. Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and several provinces of Canada have all proposed similar measures to make driving a snow fort a punishable offense. Right now, it is a penalty of insurance liability (you spray, you pay). Hopefully the oversight will extend to truckers who don’t cover their loads.
By Dolores Schueler (Brunswick Road)
I plan to transition out of my role as a primary distributor of the Neighborhood Newsletter, but still plan to work for the Newsletter in some capacity. Fifteen years ago, when the Neighborhood Newsletter was just being reborn after a hiatus of a couple of years, I saw Nils Fonstad out delivering newsletters on my street and offered to help. He and Bill Berkowitz were taking on the entire delivery, so I offered to help revive a distribution network that had been in place in the Newsletter’s first incarnation. Since then, the Newsletter has enjoyed great popularity, and finding help has generally not been a problem.
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