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As summer winds down, it is time to start thinking about the impending annual arrival of the cold time of the year even if no one wants to do so.
Prefacing case in point, in the wake of the Koch Maladministration cutting the budget line for snow removal in its Fiscal Year 2024 budget by 18%, the Farmers’ Almanac just announced that it is predicting a cold and snowy winter and especially so for New England.
Granted, recent winters in Quincy have been light on snow. Even so, the City of Quincy’s response to same has not exactly been even but merely mediocre.
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Additionally, while climate change does appear to be happening, Quincy is still probably due for a snowy winter even if such winters are becoming fewer and farther between given the impact of climate change.
After all, California was hit with at least near all-time record snowfalls and rain last winter after years of drought.
Even so, causality is a dubious phenomena.
At the same time, however, suspect planning by the Koch Maladministration is something that is not uncommon.
In fact, far from it.
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Maybe Koch can get the demented crew that published articles declaring that Quincy, in addition to being a very highly rated beach town as well as the16th rated municipality IN THE NATION for first-time home buyers, to tell the world that Quincy is also a DESTINATION hub for cross-country skiing.
Louie,
You do realize, don’t you, that a city with a favorable rating for first time homebuyers is a city that is a fellow traveler with the likes of Lynn and Brockton?
They also noted that Quincy has a great performing arts scene.
I nearly choked on my coffee when I read that.
Really! We had to fight hard to prevent the Ruth Gordon Amphitheater from being filled in and the promised Arts and Entertainment center had not been discussed since Koch promised it 4 years ago.
I’m sure you have seen the nice job they have done across from blacks creek near the stadium. I go by there 4 times a day. The small shrubs they planted seem to be OK but the little trees not so good. They appear to be dying — not getting enough water even though it’s rained. They need a real good soaking just about every day until they take. There’s irrigation up there but not nearly enough they need to soaked. Yesterday I called Park & Rec but you know how that goes. I thought you might be interested in this, that’s why I’m sending it to you — just more tax money going to waste but I hope not.
Thanks for the FYI!!!
Quincy Quarry has a related complaint about another aspect of the recent several million dollar or so renovation work at Merrymount Park and has thus scheduled personnel to check things out on Thursday. One would think that the city’s parks peeps could manage to properly take care of recently planted trees literally right next to their country club of a headquarters but apparently not.
I don’t understand what was wrong about the NATURAL landscape that was there before Koch’s henchmen got hold of it. Why must everything have a trimmed, and tailored look? They’ve re-planted with NATIVE trees and bushes? What the hell do they think was already there? They could even have installed the stone wall without destroying the entire hillside. All at much lower cost.
Funny business as usual in the Q
I believe in helping nature help itself. Not a fan of tearing down trees, but do it if you can help the land by putting in better shrubs and cut down the overgrowth. The job they did at Pageant field is outstanding. Those new plantings will be beautiful. Gotta give credit, it was a good job.
Not an endorsement, just observations
Johnson,
Did you not see what Mr. Scarry and the Quarry’s Editor had to say about shoddy care of new plantings tied to the several million dollars spent on a remake of Merrymount Park?
Simply put, sod laid and expensive trees put in cheap holes and then not properly watered are an Rx for trashed turf and dead trees.
Then again, failing to properly take care of plantings on city property throughout Quincy other than around Shitty Hall has long been pretty much SOP all the way back to Mayor Koch’s years as the head of the Q’s Park & Recreation Department.
Baloney.
“Helping nature . . . ” By cutting down the trees and putting in “BETTER shrubs?” Be serious.
Face it guys, some of the work they are doing is good. Not the highest of priorities as many are hurting, but good work. I wish they would focus on the people’s needs. That work is nice to have. People have real needs. Nobody cares either.
Blind chicken, kernel of corn, etc.