Comments on: Historic District Board Approves Old School Requests

By: Deborah Bender

Deborah Bender — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:05:53 +0000

According to the U.S. Postal Service the address of the school is still 23 Park Row. According to McCormack, the front is the side, the side is the back, up is down and down is up. Isn’t it odd that someone (Mr. Bonadeo no doubt) changed the address? The reason for the address change was to give away a street! A dirty, colluded deal indeed.

By: Wayne Creed

Wayne Creed — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:39:58 +0000

The reason not all elements of the Old School project are under HDRB purview is because this is not so much a project, but by its very nature (or nature of the crooked $10 deal), has transcended life and become a metaphor for the mendacious narrative and corruption that define the Mayor, Mr.Panek, and 5/6 of Town Council. Not content to treat the truth as a mobile army of metaphor, they also insist upon re-establishing the laws of physics. The illegal Conditional Use Permit, championed by Tom Bonadeo and Joan Natali, proffered that the Old School, despite numerous historic maps, harbor plans, and comprehensive plans, as well as continuous proximity to years of football games and class recesses, was never in the Park (School Park). More, the front of the building, 23 Park Row, in a mind-bending twist that would make even Phillip K. Dick nauseous, has now been shifted to Plum Street. Yes, that is correct, the part of the building with the entrance is now the side, and the part with only bricks, mortar, and windows is now the front. How is that possible, you ask? Sorry, but not even Schrödinger’s equation could possibly account for this distortion. Where partial differential equations come up short, we may only need to revisit Psalms 120:2 for our answer: “Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.”, Or to quote Josh Billings, “There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.”

By: Theodore Warner

Theodore Warner — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:37:53 +0000

It was regrettable that I was not able to attend this meeting. As a member of the Historic District Review Board, I feel that the items we were asked to approve should have been approved. But I also feel that there are elements of the Old School plans that would not pass the muster of the HDRB. The question for me is: why isn’t every aspect of the Old School’s new design being placed before the HDRB?