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If you are now enjoying meaningful, uninterrupted community access television in your area, understand that you are being served because it is your legal right as a cable subscriber to have community access. You should also be grateful that a commitment has been made to you by your cable provider to give you quality community access television. If you live in the towns of Salisbury, Lakeville, North Canaan, Falls Village, Norfolk or Sharon, you are probably well aware of the lack of community access for the last year. Please let it be known that Planet Cable Access has been fighting for your rights since the public access station’s closure in June of 2001. More ... Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation has submitted thirteen names to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to present to the Litchfield Superior Court for approval as the founding Board of the Sharon Area Community Health Foundation (SACHF). The submission is the culmination of a two-month recruitment effort initiated at the request of Attorney General Blumenthal during the final stages of the sale negotiations between Sharon Hospital and Essent Healthcare, Inc. Berkshire Taconic's board of directors ratified the slate at a meeting on April 26, and it was formally submitted to the Attorney General's office on April 30. He will review the slate and submit his recommendations to the Litchfield Superior Court for review and final approval. More ... The Judiciary Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly, in March 2002, voted down bills that would authorize marriage between two people of the same sex ("same-sex marriage") and that would, as an alternative, establish a right for gay couples to enter into a "civil union" similar to that in Vermont. The basic argument in favor of these bills is that gay people involved in loving, committed relationships should have the same "rights" as men and women who are married, and that the only way to do this comprehensively is to allow same-sex marriage or civil union, sanctioned by the state. More ... Spencer, the nursing home cat whose adventures have appeared in The Voice [March 15], has developed a knowledge of the Geer Memorial elevator, which can whisk him to the first floor from "his" third floor. The attraction on the first floor is a lady cat named Lucky. I hasten to add that both Spencer and Lucky have been neutered, so there is no chance of any Spencer/ Lucky offspring. But—and this is a big but—Spencer would like to play with another cat, and Lucky is too old and staid for that kind of "nonsense." More ... You and your husband buy new, extra-wide daily pill containers. Heaven forbid you ever get them mixed up; you both would be dead within minutes! More ... In those far-off days of my country childhood, there were many little pleasures that still come to mind as I miss those early experiences. Do the youngsters of today, the city-bred ones, know such innocent joy? More ... |
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