Daily Five: Variety Show; Disagreement

1.     Today, thunderstorms and showers are possible, particularly before 2 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. The high should be 84, with a low of 63, according to the service.

2.     Another day, another event for Waterford Week. Tonight at 7, it’s the variety show at Clark Lane Middle School’s cafetorium. Along with all the acts, a citizen of the year and a town employee of the year will be announced.

3.     There was a disagreement between Planning Director Tom Wagner and Town Treasurer Bernard Pisacich at the planning and zoning commission meeting Monday night.

Pisacich videotapes many of the town meetings, including the planning and zoning commission meeting Monday night. Wagner, along with some of the commissioners, was not talking into the microphone, making it difficult for Pisacich to get the discussion on video as well as making it difficult for anybody in the public (about 20 people) to hear. Pisacich twice asked Wagner to speak into the microphone, with Wagner responding by saying Pisacich was “out of order.” Wagner later said he would have rules for Pisacich in upcoming meetings, while Pisacich countered, “It's open government.”

After the meeting, several members of the public sided with Pisacich, including board of education member Kathleen McCarty, saying it was very difficult to hear the commissioners and that they should talk into the microphone.

4.     Tonight, the board of finance meets to review the capital projects completed in 2010. Capital projects are expensive, non-operational costs, such as fixing a road or buying a new fire truck. In the review, the finance board will see how effective all these projects were.

Also, the group will vote on a $15,460 appropriation to replace the boiler at Goshen Fire Department (another example of a capital project).

5.     On this date in 1977, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz, a.k.a. the Son of Sam, is arrested for killing six people in New York City. And on this date in 2003, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko marries his wife while in outer space. His wife was in Texas, so they did the ceremony via video.

Quote of the Day

“It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.”

-Norma Shearer

Trivia of the Day

Who is the only actor to have two posthumous Academy Award nominations?

Yesterday’s Answer: The Montreal Canadiens have won the most Stanley Cups with 23, although the franchise has not won one since 1993.