Thank you all for your comments and conversation - it has been interesting and fun.
If you have never emailed me before, email me your email addresses at ehladyx@yahoo.com and I will let you all know when I bring up a new blog - privately, that is…..
If you don’t usually read the front page of Connecticut Local Politics you haven’t seen that the blog is ending, as of yesterday. Since this is happening, the East Hartford Residents Blog will also shut down.
Good Luck to everyone and pay attention to the activities!
The Senator has announced this morning that he will end his bid for Governor.
My apologies for not getting this up promptly -
Citizens of East Hartford it is time to wake up. Last Monday night the sitting Chair of the 7th Republican district brought in new people whom the town committe has never seen before with a prearranged plan to vote Victoria Gaudette Brinius and Michael Brinius off of the Town Committee.
Victoria is right now the Secretary of the Town Committee and Michael is the Vice Treasurer. They both ran this past election and received high vote counts. In fact not 10 minutes after this happened the whole Town Committe put Michael’s name forward as an altermate on the Inland Wetlands Commission.
Let’s try to understand this. The 7th District Chair is Joe Kronen who for the past 2 local elections has not supported the endorsed town committee slate but rather has worked for unendorsed candidates even going so far this year as being their campaign manager and his wife their treasurer. All this while staying a district Chair of the Town Committee and going to meetings etc to see what we were doing. He did not contribute anything to our endorsed slate. Why does he want to be on the Town Committee ? The answer is clear.
We have a few Republicans in our town who believe it is their job to stop our committee from ever getting anywhere.When promising new people come along they do all they can to discourage them. If that doesn’t work they try to get rid of them. Some of these people were mentioned by others during the last campaign.
Victoria and Michael have taken out the necessary papers to get signatures to primary for their seats . It is imperative that the Republicans in East Hartford understand what is truly happening here. If things stay the way they are right now East Hartford Republicans will not move forward. They will go backwards. We need to stand together and move ahead.
If you vote at St. Christopher and are a registered Republican please contact me or Victoria if you wish to sign the petition at 860-289-5220 or 860 568-5140. thank you Debra Gaudette
I thought I would pass along this link from the Ct Judicial Dept for your convenience. You now can check public auctions on foreclosed properties by town:
https://sso.eservices.jud.ct.gov/foreclosures/Public/PendPostbyTownList.aspx
So, as it claimed in the media that Town Officials feared the loss of “key” department heads for fields of greener pasture (e.g. $$$), our current HR Director, Steven Bielenda will leave for Enfield. Its bound to happen just as it does in the private sector.
BUSINESS AND RESIDENT STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS
MAIN STREET IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
The Town of East Hartford’s Development Office, the Economic Development Commission and the Redevelopment Agency have surveyed many businesses and residents in the Main Street area from Bridge to Bridge.
The results of these surveys will be discussed in two separate meetings.
The first meeting will be a Business Stakeholder meeting on January 5, 2010, 8:00 am at the Town Hall in East Hartford, 740 Main Street, East Hartford. Any East Hartford business is invited to attend.
The second meeting will be for East Hartford residents and will be held on January 13th at 7:00 pm in the Second Floor Conference Room at the Town Hall .
Surveys are on line and can be found on the Town of East Hartford Website on the front page under Main Street Improvement Program. Any East Hartford business or resident may fill out the survey.
If you have any further questions, please call the Development Office at 860-291-7300.
You may or may not know, but the DPUC is investigating EHTV based on the claim that they have too much money initiated by one certain Town resident. The DPUC plans on issuing their final verdict sometime in February.
The claim is that Channel 5 has almost 1 million dollars in their coffer and continues to receive some Town funding at taxpayer’s expense.
Channel 5’s answer to this claim is that they are saving the money for the necessary upgrades to their Town Hall studio and digital. Makes sense to me. If it is not true, then there is something definitely wrong and does need to be corrected. However, any loss of Channel 5 is devistating. What little news that we receive from the Town Officials is broadcast over Channel 5 - a service that cannot be replaced.
As we get together with friends and family to welcome in the New Year, lets all take a moment to be thankful that they are with us and remember those who are not. Let’s also hope for a better year ahead.
Happy New Year everyone!