Coddington sideways and dead trees double feature exposé

Yet another sideways and dead tree
A Quincy Quarry News photo

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Coddington Hall sideways and dead trees double feature exposé.

After nine months of Quincy Quarry’s unrelenting coverage of the various sideways and then later dead expensive trees bought last year via local taxpayer funding and then planted at the even then already over budget as well as Attorney General-sanctioned Coddington Hall renovation project, the Quarry is now running a double feature story on the continuing inability of the Koch Maladministration to successfully manage to merely but minimally nurture less than a score of somewhat recently planted trees.

That and the maladministration’s failure to remove all of the remains of all of the seven trees that have – to date – died on its so-called watch.

Park and Forestry CSI team looking for a clue
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

The fatalities include all of five members of the conifer family and who were relocated to the grounds of Coddington Hall last summer, only to later die as a result of obvious neglect by the City’s Park and Forestry Department.

While the Park and Forestry Department’s Crime Scene Investigation team was photographed investigating around Coddington Hall by a stealth Quincy Quarry special operations unit, the Park and Forestry Department’s CSI team was on the wrong side of the building and thus unlikely to find any self-incriminating evidence.

Sideways tree while leaning in wake
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Per the stealth treecropsies conducted by Quincy Quarry advisor and local tree surgeon Douglas Fur, Fur determined that these serial killings were unarguably the result of inexcusable neglect.

While the formerly long sideways dead conifer and three other family members of their species were finally removed two months ago after expiring over seven months earlier, the remains of the last deceased member of the conifer family are still inexplicably standing and where all can see its decaying remains.

Further appalling, there are also two also long dead deciduous trees inexplicably still standing on the grounds of Coddington Hall as well as that one is dangerously sideways and clinging by its roots.

First you see the pole, then later you don’t
Conjoined Quincy Quarry News file photos

Perhaps even more amazing is a recent statement by the duly embattled incumbent Mayor Thomas P. Koch excoriating the local Y for not yet replacing but mere shrubs and bushes it planted last year that did not survive last winter’s barely record-setting snowfall at its new facilities even though the Y is still in the middle of the demolition of its old building.

Granted, such pandering is nothing new to Quincy’s pander bear, especially during a deservedly heated election season, but the failure of his maladministration to care for the city’s year new landscaping up the street from the Y only underscores his craven as well as multiple shortcomings.

Another Sideways tree clinging by its roots
A Quincy Quarry News photo

What is arguably even more inexplicable is that – amazingly – an also long and almost as often featured problematic telephone pole on the Coddington Hall property has finally been removed.

At the same time, one would think that when the telephone pole was taken down that at least the adjacent dead tree could have also be removed, but apparently such was beyond the Koch Maladministration’s problem management skills.

Quincy Quarry considered reaching out to City Hall for comment as at least much of the work involving the telephone pole was contracted out by the City of Quincy to entities other than Verizon, but then the City Editor wisely directed this reporter not to bother wasting time effort given the expected as well as all too typical non-response and/or nonsense affected by city officials.

Regardless, expect Quincy Quarry to continue to follow these serial tree killings as well as still ongoing public safety story.

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