Open Thread

by turfgrrl

March 27th, 2008 · 22 Comments

Tags: current affairs

22 Responses so far ↓ “Open Thread”

• 1 Anonymous // Mar 27, 2008 at 8:48 pm

  Poor Oxford! It’s funny how all of these Norwalk losers are just recycled further up the pike.

• 2 Aunt Bertha // Mar 27, 2008 at 9:18 pm

  #1 that is what some other school systems have said about the same people being hired in Norwalk…Herbert, Riccio,Corda. Let’s just let them go and pray (I know not in school) that this Board does the research and background checks that they have not done in the past.

• 3 Anonymous // Mar 27, 2008 at 9:56 pm

  Oyster park, how much talk have we had on it lately?

  “The landfill was capped and grassed, and ready to be adopted. After that, people illegally dumped. We did not find who did it,” he said. “Sometimes it’s impossible after the fact to identify the source.”

  That additional cleanup and capping will cost the city more than $300,000 - $59,000 to design a plan to fix the problem, $259,000 to cap the area where the garbage once sat and $7,000 for a final survey to make sure the area is in good shape, said Hal Alvord, DPW’s current director.

  Where does this project sit?

• 4 ME // Mar 28, 2008 at 9:30 am

  So here are the members, at least the ones who work 30 hours or more, of the NFEP (the peons union, as we call ourselves), having to attend a tedious workshop on Professional Day, and they can’t even give us a lousy cup of coffee! With the money they spend downtown on the 3rd floor! Good thing Corda doesn’t have to please anybody but the BOE members, but the members have to remember - THEY can be voted out of office!

• 5 anon // Mar 28, 2008 at 10:57 am

  #4 Corda does NOT have to please all the BOE members, just 5 of them. The rest are NOT pleased with him. Please don’t label ALL the BOE members as Sal’s cronies - THEY ALL AREN’T.
  Understand also that BOE members, don’t get a dime for their time. Even the Common Council gets a few sheckles, the BOE gets Nada. It’s unfair to lump all BOE members as Sal’s pets and those that are SHOULD be voted out.

• 6 Anonymous // Mar 28, 2008 at 11:30 am

  isn’t there a cleanup day at Oyster Park sat?

• 7 Anonymous // Mar 28, 2008 at 12:39 pm

  The only cleanup I’ve heard about is April 6th at Flax Hill Park. Didn’t hear about Oyster Shell.

• 8 Anonymous // Mar 28, 2008 at 3:56 pm

  3/29 9 to 12

  I was under the impression there was a cleanup at Oyster shell park meeting at the Aquarium

  meeting under the gazebo near the river on the north side of Maritime main entrance. People will then receive gloves and bags and brief safety talk. We will focus on the area at high tide line where alot of plastice waste floats in..

  I hope this helps

• 9 Anonymous // Mar 28, 2008 at 11:06 pm

  it is tommorrow at the Aquarium

• 10 anon // Mar 29, 2008 at 12:40 am

  What was the Professional Day workshop #4? And did everyone go to the same one?

• 11 Aunt Bertha // Mar 29, 2008 at 1:53 pm

  Many of you have seen this, if you have not it is a lovely lesson given by Red Skelton on The Pledge.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfz2XDXaeqc

• 12 Anonymous // Mar 29, 2008 at 7:29 pm

  Maybe its the beginning of the end of The Hour? The Advocate is building steam who will the next mayor rely on without The Hour?

  After much thought as to how to manage costs as well as retain and improve the quality of our news print, as of April 1, The Hour will no longer be using its own presses, but will be using the services of an outside printer in Westchester, N.Y.
  The change in printing locations will mean a change in schedule for Hour reporters. Our deadline will be moved back one hour, from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m.

• 13 Anonymous // Mar 29, 2008 at 7:31 pm

  City officials are concerned about a plan to build condominiums over a hazardous waste site on Platt Street.

  Lets keep the attention off of cresent st and on other sections of the city it won’t cost anything.

• 14 ME // Mar 30, 2008 at 10:35 am

  #5 - yes, I do realize that not ALL the BOE members are his buddies, but we still have to get rid of the ones who ARE.

• 15 ME // Mar 30, 2008 at 10:42 am

  #10 - Friday was Professional Day for the teachers and the secretaries who work full time are always required to go to one - often pointless and put together at the last minute - - in the mornings and then go back to work in the afternoon. This one was on using Outlook Express, so it was more useful than many. But the teachers get these great spreads at their workshops because their principals organize them and use school funds. And of course anytime anything goes on on the 3rd floor of City Hall, there are sumptuous goodies. But when we have ours, never mind a bagel, we don’t even get coffee! We’re just tired of being treated like 3rd class citizens. The Principal can be out for a day and school functions just fine (some would say better). A teacher can be out and replaced with a sub or the intern. But when WE’RE out, all hell breaks loose.

• 16 Aunt Bertha // Mar 30, 2008 at 10:58 am

  Teachers got no spread this past Friday. We all scrambled to purchase a lunch at a local drive thru. In past years they let the food service serve up some paste and salad. If you call that a spread? Also, anyone with a food allergy is always brown bagging it, they can’t have the pasteries, bagels,pasta… because of glutton. I try to remember to bring lunch on those so-called professional days. OH, and ME we teachers LOVE our secretaries and other paraprofessional staff members. You all hear our pain and give a great deal of support to us and the children in our schools! Thank you for your service.

• 17 Anonymous // Mar 30, 2008 at 11:43 am

  Speaking for the staff of my school, we LOVE our secretaries, and we are well aware of how dependent we are upon your support. You get paid too little money for the service you provide administrators, teachers, students and parents. If I could turn an appropriate amount of praise for you into gold, you would be wealthy.

  Boo! Hiss! to a superintendent who doesn’t know what a negative message he sent to certified and non-certified staff by not feeding them on Friday.

• 18 ME // Mar 30, 2008 at 12:08 pm

  Well, yes, if some of the teachers didn’t even get fed, that’s another disgrace. At my particular school, the principal uses his own school budget funds to provide great spreads - but he shouldn’t have to.

• 19 Anonymous // Mar 30, 2008 at 12:18 pm

  taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the spread for your nosh. pay for your own lunches like we all do at work. you get enough free lunches off our hard workin backs.

• 20 ME // Mar 30, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  #16 and #17 - thank you for your comments. We secretaries KNOW that the teachers appreciate us. The sad part is that nobody downtown appreciates either the teachers, the secretaries or the paras - in other words, the people who are on the front lines every day dealing hands on with the children, the 2nd lieutenants so to speak.
  And #19 - you might be right about the central office staff but other than a paycheck that doesn’t cover my expenses, I don’t get ANYTHING off YOUR hard working back, and I work DAMN HARD myself. If you think that providing a lousy cup of coffee at a workshop is more of a waste of your tax dollars than what goes on up on the 3rd floor of City Hall, you need to do a little more research.

• 21 ME2 // Mar 31, 2008 at 6:00 pm

  I am the original “ME” but I only posted the first one because I was at a workshop where I was bored because I couldn’t see or hear anything (and caffeine deprived).
  I’d love to know who picked up my “name” and ran with it, but of course I never will. That’s the trouble with a site like this.
  One comment that was attributed to me yesterday - by someone who I guess had nothing better to do on a beautiful spring day - was that half the people in town are named anonymous - and that’s true enough. But if you use a tag line like that there are so many out there nobody is going to think anything of it. But mine was mine and it was stolen (and by someone who either has a similar job or was making this up as he/she went along) and I’m mad.

• 22 Anonymous // Mar 31, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  It went very well a lot of interested people from and outside of Norwalk

  3/29 9 to 12

  I was under the impression there was a cleanup at Oyster shell park meeting at the Aquarium

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