– News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Smooth, however short, drive home for the Holidays
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Warp: Christmas Sweaters and worse happen

While Quincy Quarry has been hitting egg nog early and often this week, it has still managed to crack a few eggs in the faces of local officials.

For example, the Quarry confirmed and so reported that while a tony street at the base of Presidents Hill was fully repaved in time for its residents’ holiday season gatherings, a repaving project in a workaday Quincy Point neighborhood was not completed before the cessation of non-emergency road work over the cold time of the year.

Coming up short on finishing up in Quincy Point
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Granted, a base coat of asphalt was laid at this incomplete Quincy Point pavement makeover, such is not the same thing as completed, pavement leveled around manholes, and the like as we head into snow and ice season.

Quincy Quarry also resolved an old mystery and a new one.

The old one was why were two asphalt patches left in a run of new concrete sidewalk that was part of a whole street makeover mostly completely last summer.

The reason for the patch jobs, a new granite curbstone bordered bed was laid this week as well as surely at great cost while at the same time but bupkis in the way of any worthwhile scenic improvement.

One bed, left center; the other, right background.
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Even so, the whole of the project continues to be unfinished as the bed has yet to be planted as well as likely will not be until sometime next spring but more likely then some per local SOP.

And for the new mystery, a pair of local Citizen Journalists helped the Quarry discern why an inventory of saplings was found lined up on the perimeter of Pageant field so late in the fall planting season.

At first, it was suspected that the trees had been left for dead.

However, it was soon discerned that at least most of the trees were in the process of planting along primarily Darrow Street in Houghs Neck.

Scrawny new saplings in the Neck
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Granted, the saplings planted in the Neck had but two-inch caliper trunks — unlike the massive and near mature couple of dozen trees that were planted and then meticulously maintained along Kim Jong Koch Plaza in front of Quincy two inexplicable City Halls a few years ago.

Even so, something is better than nothing even if at the end of the day these scrawny saplings are a slap in the face chessy attempt to curry favor among Nekkers who have long not been fans of Quincy’s peerless mayordomo.

Then again, quelle surprise as the mayordomo has long taxed locals to fund his grandiose edifice complexes mostly around City Hall while concurrently tossing a few crumbs back to the neighborhoods in the hope to keeping the villagers from rising up in fully understandable livid rancor.

When will locals rise up?
An old Universal Pictures image

After all, he imposes higher to considerable higher property tax bills on local homeowners than on identically assessed value properties in many other Massachusetts communities. 

That and then spends the tax dollars so extracted as recklessly as do sailors after a year at sea.

And finally, for a some time in the fast-approaching New Year surprise, be sure to note that Quincy Quarry is working yet another story on yet another Q-up by the Koch Maladministration. 

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