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When it rains it pours flounders …
A Shamiema Harris image
April showers showed up early this year.
That and also for the most part, it was conversely a slow week for news about Quincy.
Wicked slow.
The drip rate of Sugar Maple trees this time of year slow.
As to why, perhaps it had to do with Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s annual going to into hiding after his annual buzzing at last week’s Granite Communications’ Saving by Shaving fund-raising event.
Trying to hide the wide?
A Granite Communications group selfie
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The former Skipper and his not so little buddy …
A file photo
Laying low did not work, however, as Quincy Quarry’s social media webcrawaler found him trying to hide to the right of conversely as well as curiously unshorn Governor Maura Healey and who can be seen peeking over the top of the prop check in the above PR photo image.
Regardless, the current governor looks to perhaps not be as good a sport as was former Governor Baker.
Then again, the photogenic Baker always received a sporty manner of a crew cut than the incoming new marine recruit buzz cuts invariably — if not also amusingly — inflicted up Mayor Koch.
Say goodbye to your hair helmet …
Image via Facebook
Surely both cuts were but inadvertent, however …
In any event, Quincy Quarry’s coverage this week opened up with its exclusive coverage of yet another apparent fatal drug overdose along the same block in the Quincy Point near the USS Salem last Saturday night.
Then on Tuesday, Quincy Quarry noted that it was National Multiple Personality Day and thus likely sent chills down the spine of many an adult male who has seen Clint Eastwood’s classic Play Misty For Me.
Next up, Quincy Quarry News yet again scooped all other media with its coverage of the latest local pedestrian whacking and which occurred at an intersection along Washington Street with a long as well as occasionally fatal history of whackings.
A very recent pedestrian whacking in Quincy
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image
In turn, Quincy Quincy followed up with coverage about how the Town of Weymouth scored $336,000 in federal Safe Street for All traffic safety grant funding whereas the City of Quincy appears to have scored zip.
Needless to say, Republican Weymouth Mayor Bob Hedlund is likely still chortling.
Quincy is a great patriotic city with many newcomers flocking to live in the family-oriented neighborhoods.
Quincy is run by the great Mayor Thomas Koch which is an Independent and has greatly bettered the city of Quincy during his mayoral tenure.
There are many great restaurants, easy access to the T, great school system, and only a 20 minute ride to Boston and Logan airport.
There’s also a 3-mile causeway along Quincy Bay with a lot of parking which is great for walking while enjoying the view of the historic Boston islands and the beautiful Boston skyline from afar.
Quincy has many public celebrations for its residents and visitors including a Flag Day parade followed by a fantastic fireworks display. There’s also an Independence Day parade, a lighting of the tree to celebrate the holidays, and a New Year Day Parade.
For those who don’t want to pay the cost of living to dwell in the neighboring city of Boston, less crime, more families, great neighbors, AMAZING local family-owned restaurants, then Quincy might be considered the best city to live in all of Massachusetts.
Having fun with your rose-colored Visual Reality glasses, eh?
T. S.,
As John Adams famously remarked, “facts are stubborn things.”
For starters as to this verity, an overwhelming majority of Quincy’s housing stock consists of apartments with many to most not family-friendly.
Further troubling, essentially all of the many thousands of new apartments built in Quincy in recent years are not family-friendly. At best, some of this new housing is amenable as transitional housing for couples with a child no older than a preschooler.
And as for Quincy public schools, its students’ aggregated MCAS scores have long been all but steady stuck at around the 35 percentile level on the MCAS test, meaning that by far most public school students elsewhere statewide are doing better to much better.
Next, touting easy access to the T is wicked amusing as well as that a 20 minute drive to Boston or Logan is pretty much only perhaps possible in the middle of the night.
At the same time, no argument: Wollaston Beach is a jewel. On the other hand, it is frequently closed to use c/o pollution spills and over which the EPA has slapped the City of Quincy with a $100m-plus fix-it order.
Speaking of local events, in recent years Quincy’s Flag Day fireworks displays have given rise to wildfires. So what for the easy fix of moving the display to over the harbor somewhere along Wollaston Beach as well as likely more readily viewed by more people.
And finally, as for the costs of living in Quincy, it is only fair to note that local property taxes went up by half again or greater than that of Quincy’s peer communities as well as the statewide average this year.
Additionally burdensome, more of the same is looking be the case for the next few years, if not also for at least the rest of the decade. Further fair to note that these increases are greatly fueled by profligate spending and dubious decisions made by Mayor Koch.
But sure, everything else in the Q is hunky dory, especially for dining mavens such as Mayor Koch.