Pier Points

To the Editor:

It sounded like the famous lines from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Mr. Bumble says, “Well? What do you want, boy?” Oliver holds up his bowl, his voice shaking. “If you please, sir, I … I want some more.” That was food.

I didn’t attend the Mattapoisett Planning Board meeting which addressed a request from the residents of the Village at Mattapoisett condominium cluster housing site. They asked that the contract they signed when purchasing units in the complex be amended so they will not have to pay for trash collection. They do pay town taxes.

The ABC Disposal contract with the town says “…all persons residing in the town shall be entitled … to public trash collection.”

Your story in the August 6, 2015 edition of The Wanderer quotes Paul Osenkowski, a town resident, as “voicing his concerns that to allow this request would be heading towards a ‘slippery slope,’ noting the possibility that, maybe, in the future, they would be asking for snow plowing and road maintenance.”

Maybe they’ll ask for more!!!! Maybe ask for more? How dare they!

My family grew up in Mattapoisett. We moved here in 1967 for summers and in 1971, we became year-rounders. Five Wordens attended Old Rochester Regional High School where each received a fine education with caring faculty and dedicated staff. This summer, they were delighted to return and embrace the beauty of the bike path and the Nasketucket Shaw Farm Trail along our splendid coast.

Hundreds of somebodies asked for a great school and protected woodlands, coastal wetlands, and upland meadows. Mattapoisetters listen. A better school? Trails for walkers and bikers?

Some of us create slippery slopes, embrace them, and help others to share the ride!

Mary Worden, Mattapoisett

 

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