First of all, I have to say that I am shocked that I have not received a single comment on yesterday's post about likely-upcoming layoffs in DPW, and the fact that there is not labor investigation in that department. Shocked.

But that's OK. Maybe some of the anonymous flamers have finally been cowed into silence by the truth of the situation. Anyway, one can hope.

I've just returned from a Planning Board meeting, at which the board considered one application -- the proposed indoor recreation center -- for nearly two hours. While it's great that the board is going to weigh in on the project, I was somewhat frustrated, that despite board chairman Clifford Van Wagner's best efforts, the conversation still devolved into the same well-trodden arguments for and against the rec center.

Now, this reporter gets to hear the same discussion at four meetings a month, rather than just two. Enough is enough. Lets make a decision on the thing already, nothing new is going to come out of further conversation.

The Planning Board also decided to hold their second meeting of the month next Thursday, as the regularly scheduled meeting would have occurred on Christmas Eve. I would have been there, but something tells me I would have been the only one.