The movie of the week was The Intouchables which we saw with Vickie and Larry after Mexican fare at Railroad Square. It is rare that we like the same films, but we all came out of this one glowing. And there is a great Nina Simone song that plays in the hang-gliding scene. When a movie pulls you in like that, you are hardly aware that it is in another language with subtitles.
Melissa has a bumper sticker that says "I eat local because I can," and she has been canning, jamming, pickling and freezing berries and peaches for the winter. Soon it will be tomato sauce time.
On the town office front, a lot of the Sturm und Drang seems to be gone, and it's all much friendlier. The observers are polite and chime in as needed. We are busy getting estimates on demolition of buildings. It appears that the school board might give us the property that the old high school is on if we pay for the removal of the building. On Wednesday, Andy, Lucia and I walked through the MFT building and the old high school with two guys from a demolition company. We are finding that fears of huge costs for removal are not true; in fact we find a lot of things we are told by negatroids are not true. We are working to put real dollar amounts on the three sites still under consideration, and gradually settling on about a 1600 square foot building as optimal. The Downeast Credit Union building is a 1520 sq. ft. modular and it has a big lobby, 3 offices, a kitchen and bathroom. Very efficient use of space.
