Thursday, November 21, 2002 :::
Of Local Interest
Bill Jones is dead.
He's probably too local to be of meaning to either of our readers (Dean, do you recognize the name as the repeated 50-vote city council candidate?), but read the article. I knew, incidentally, that he wasn't much older than 70 (I'd looked up his age on the voter list), but I also knew he wasn't well. It's been a while that he hasn't been well, actually.
In funnier news, Ed Cyr beats his wife. Okay, that part isn't funny, but his being arrested is funny, besides which, the beating is still funnier than Bill Jones passing, if not funnier than much else.
I'm sorry. I plead lack of sleep. And, frankly, a little shock that Jonesy really is mortal. Was. He was kind of out of his gourd -- one foot in, so to speak -- for long enough that I'd come to assume he'd just stay that way. Think Boris Yeltsin.
Anyway, Ed Cyr was a leftist (even by Cambridge standards) who lost his council seat as I came into town. I didn't actually experience him much, but my general impression of him, combined with my general pleasure at anything that demeans the Council, doesn't lead me to be upset to see him causing trouble for himself. Unlike Jonesy, he's younger than I would have guessed; not having seen him, only knowing he'd been on the council since the mid 80s or so, I assumed he was older. We do get some fairly young councilors in this town.
Meanwhile, current Council leftist Majorie Decker is going home for a spell.
::: posted by Steven at 8:51 AM
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