This is a great piece of journalism. It's quite obvious that Randy Holhut worked with a one-of-a-kind editor, and one of the best in the newspaper business.
It was a real privilege for me to have known Norman Runnion and to have worked at the Reformer when he was editor. That newspaper has never been quite the same since he left; obviously, it's taken a nosedive in recent years, and there is no recovering from it.
Keep up the good work at The Commons. It's a fantastic community newspaper!
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The affordable housing article presents developers, past Selectboard members, and other town employees as progressive and compassionately concerned about the homeless and low-income residents, and those of us questioning the project as troublemakers who look down on the poor and needy. But it's a farce to call an $11.7 million project affordable and progressive! That construction fee breaks down to $468,000 per apartment, which is outrageous. Not only that, but residents at the three already-existing Windham & Windsor Housing Trust...
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