Several years ago -- maybe even 10 -- I felt it necessary to establish a website about building expansion at Schoharie school so I did that, and called it the Tattler. I was thinking of Addison and Steele's Tatler, published a few hundred years ago in London.
We shook things up a little, the school quieted down, and we discontinued the Tattler. Then, at the end of 2005, the Gilboa Dam crisis erupted and we started the Code Orange web site, later called Gilboa Dam Watcher. As we were phasing that out, the quarry issue erupted, the village decided to diddle unfair water rates to benefit owners of apartment buildings at expense of single-family homes, and the new school superintendent decided there could be yet another building project, this at "no cost" to residents. In the circumstances, I decided to reestablish the Tattler.
Matthew Avitabile, a Middleburgh village trustee, political activist, and proprietor-perpetrator of the "Jumping in Pools" blog, reports he is seeking reelection in the March village election. “I've decided to run for reelection with Dr. Tom Gruning from Grove Street to try and win both trustee seats. We're running to be fiscally responsible and politically responsive,” he said in an email.
If you plan to vote in the Middleburgh village election, please read his enlightening blog post.