I've never been much of a fan of Shakespeare, but I have to think that some of our Planning Board meetings are akin to what it must have been like to go watch plays at the Globe Theatre, back when Romeo and Juliet was hot off the presses.

At tonight's meeting, when Matthew Jones took the floor to discuss the proposed Arcadia Communities senior living at the intersection of Seward and Morgan Streets, he was all but met with boos.

The room was packed with detractors, and not one person spoke in favor of the proposed 4-story building. Each time someone spoke out against the proposal the audience would cheer. Each time a Planning Board member said something negative about the project, the audience would cheer. All the while, they standing room-only crowd talked amongst itself about the project's many shortcomings.

It's wonderful to live in a community where the citizens take such an active interest in local happenings, but I feel it's time I made a suggestion of my own: Since the volunteers on the Planning Board have to put up with all of these malcontents, lets move the meetings up an hour, the Planning Board has a chance of leaving city hall before midnight.