Ed, about that pay raise for Mayor Bencivengo. Personally I think this mayor does deserve a raise. You can’t compare him to Gilmore; that is a slap in the face. Gilmore didn’t take a raise, but you mean to tell me he didn’t take anything under the table? Please tell me why we got into such a terrible debt, Mr. Gilmore. He went about taxing us little by little until he built up a surplus. Mayor Bencivengo is a good guy, a family man, and he is doing the best he can. What about the police chief, I understand he is a very lax police chief. If he needs to make more money, pay him a dollar more than what his highest paid police officer gets. Let’s see what he does for the community. I do feel that you can’t put Bencivengo and Gilmore on the same square. Please use your intelligence. And Capodanno, don’t know what his problem is, but you can probably guess.

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So, yes on the Benci raise, nothing for the chief. You’ve solved the town’s problem’s just like that. —Ed. Note