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FINALLY replaced, not that all that many use this crosswalk …
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive file photo

It was a rough week in Quincy this past week.

Even per Quincy standards …

At the same time, Quincy Quarry must first only properly moderate the pain with some good news: the whacked late at night on St. Patrick’s Day pedestrian traffic signal on Burgin Parkway at its intersection with the General’s Bridge in Quincy Center has finally been replaced. 

Not that all many people actually use the crosswalk or the bridge for that matter.

In any event, soon thereafter commenced more traffic accidents and crime elsewhere in the Q.

Yet another house whacking in the Q
A still image from Boston 25 video

First up, in wee early hours of the morning on Tuesday not all that long after closing time for Monday, someone subsequently found glassy-eyed and smelling of alcohol care of a Quincy Police Department K9 Team Six member. 

So apprehended, the individual was then booked on charges as the latest house whacker in what has been a long ongoing string of late night house whackings in Quincy.

So frequent have been instances of local house whackings in Quincy that this latest whacking scored extensive coverage by other and mostly broadcast news regional media. 

In particular, by Quincy Quarry’s media brethren at Boston 25.

Faster than the Red Line. WAY faster!
An MBTA Transit Police image

Next up, someone apparently in the throes of a nic fit attacked a couple on the platform of the Red Line station in Quincy.

Apparently, the couple did not give their alleged attacker a cigarette as he purportedly “requested” as it would appear they did not have one on their persons. 

Fortunately, at least MBTA Transit Police personnel quickly responded to the scene and then arrested the alleged violent cigarette moocher.

Flashing a piece for show and tell time at Central Middle School …
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Things then only headed further south in Quincy when a seventh grader at Central Middle School was bagged for packing a piece to school and then all but contemporaneously then suspended. 

Additionally, the student’s parent who had legally bought the piece is looking at serious trouble over not duly securing the hand gun under lock and key.

No word, however, where was the handgun’s ammunition as the gun was said to have not been loaded while it spent the day in school.

The biggest of the week, however, was also the most expensive.

It was also a twofer.

The first part of the twofer: the tools on stools fools on the Quincy City Council approved Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch record-breaking going away $406 million City of Quincy Fiscal Year 2024 budget.

Thanks for the votes suckers!
An old Columbia Pictures image

Not only does Mayor Koch’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget work out to a doubling of City of Quincy spending since Koch was first elected as the mayor of Quincy, the properly counted and record setting going away $36 million increase from last year’s city revised final budget, the increase also works out to a record-breaking 9.8% spending increase.

In turn, this koched-up spending increase will set the stage for likely to be painful increases in the property tax bills for homeowners come Calendar Year 2024.

Very painful increases.

Quincy teachers picketing for a fair contract
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

On top of expected hits kick in homeowners’ checkbooks as well as elsewhere inflicted upon both local taxpayers, essentially all City of Quincy rank and file union member employees who will only be seeing 3% raises this fiscal years are also going to take hits. the tools on City Council stools approved raises for a few dozen of Mayor Koch’s senior hack hire coat-holders ranging from around 20% to as much as 33% for Operations Director but mostly more like Events Planner Helen “Wheels” Murphy.

So what, apparently, for the fact that by far most rank and file city workers are looking at but 3% raises this year.

In short, as well as yet again: Only in Quincy.

Oh so ruinously only In Quincy …

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