In the end there wasn’t the mad crowd of political flunkies who staged what would have been a spectacular tribute to Lucille Lortell in a remash of the West Side Story. The theatrics, for once appropriate, weren’t there, and instead a small troupe of political flunkies arrived at the White Barn property to add another milestone to a long series of events that started in 1999.

Despite the save cranbury web site, the saga of the Lortell foundation’s decision to interpret Lortell’s last will as a flexible document to keep the white barn theater going, but not at the physical white barn theater property is a murky one, though not unusual. Foundations it seems, have become a vehicle for leveraging many things, and not necessarily what the benefactor wanted. The NY Times recently reported;

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How many times do we have to close route 7 down before people realize it s not an acceptable artery connecting I-95 to I-84?

Accident closes Route 7 [Friday, 2:28 p.m.]

WILTON — Police closed Route 7 at about 2:10 Friday afternoon after a car hit a utility poll at Sealy Road. The accident site is about one mile north of Wilton High School. According to police, wires are across the road.

Traffic is being detoured and delays should be expected. Police don’t yet know when the road will re-open.

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Lauren Garrison at at Hour is reporting that the email system used by the Norwalk Public Schools system is inundated with thousands of spam emails. You would think that Dr. Sal Corda would be concerned, but no, this situation has been going on since summer when the IT department decided to switch form GroupWise to something else. Presumably they are now using Microsoft Exchange. With no bayesian filters, or other anti-spam/virus tools. How else to explain the lack of content filtering? I bet they spent a significant amount of money to deploy this “change” and decrease the performance of their email. This is what hack IT people end up doing when they drink the Microsoft kool-aide.

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