Went to a would-be standoff between Amherst character David Keenan and the town over the house the town will soon be conveying back to Keenan after taking it for non-payment of taxes. He's paid up, but the house is in a state of disrepair.
Dave was going to tell inspectors they couldn't come in it, despite the town having gotten a search warrant. But after a talk earlier in the morning with Police Chief Charlie Scherpa, Dave decided to cooperate instead. Got a chance to snap photos of Gazette photographer Gordy Daniels, the chief -- and blogger-on-the-spot Larry Kelley.
Amherst has a good police chief to go to a town resident's house and talk him out of doing something stupid.
ReplyDeleteWhen the property was originally conveyed to Keenan for back taxes plus the responsibility of mitigating an environmental contamination problem, a heating oil leak, was it stipulated how and when his compliance with those two terms would be asertained?
The back taxes is easy. How about mitigating the heating oil soil contamination? It seems to me that because the environmental problem potentially affects ground water, neighbors, health and habitability of the properties in the area, there should be a clear agreement about when and how perforamnce on this will be measured.
I had an offer on a home with a 1000 gallon in ground heating oil tank. The bank would not give me a mortgage unless I proved the tank had not leaked oil into theground/ground water/nighbors. I hired a company to pump out all the oil, rmove the tank, and have the ground sampled and tested for oil leak. None! I got my mortgage.
You always have such incisive observations and questions, O'Reilly. You should run for town office!
ReplyDeleteDamn, I kinda got that Michael Dukakis thing going on when I wear an unstrapped helmet. Note to self: no more photos wearing a bike helmet (or driving a tank.)
ReplyDeleteHah! Larry, what a clever political pundit you are. BTW, is Gore going to declare or NOT??
ReplyDeleteGod, I hope not! (I gotta learn to stop betting publicly)
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary Carey. I'm a Amherst ex-pat born and bred in the republic of Amherst and exiled to Boston. I may come home some day.
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