] Only serious inquiries by applicants with a demonstrable
] ability to maintain the lighthouse will be considered,
] she said.

Wanna buy a lighthouse?

New London Harbor Light In Need Of A New Caretaker

] Popp had budgeted a 2.5 percent raise for himself, which
] would have boosted it to $56,375 after July 1. But
] Riverview Avenue resident Bill Howard proposed raising
] his pay to $80,000 as part of the city's $12.4 million
] budget for 2003-04.

He deserves a lot more if he can run a huge city like this on only $12.4 million next year. Seriously, doesn't that sound like very little money?

Popp Is Given ‘long Overdue' Salary Increase

] TOMS RIVER -- One of the 18-year-olds accused of
] bludgeoning to death eight birds at a Lacey zoo sustained
] a broken jaw, a fractured nose and other facial injuries
] after he was assaulted by fellow inmates at the Ocean
] County Jail.

Not that I think violence is the answer, but ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!

What goes around, comes around!!!!!!!!

Rattle wrote:
] ] Three teens with a "morbid sense of entertainment" have
] ] been charged with killing eight exotic birds at a zoo for
] ] abused animals, authorities said yesterday.
] ]
] ] The slayings capped a violent night of revelry that began
] ] with an attack on a duck at a county park, continued with
] ] an arson-and-graffiti spree at a paintball facility and
] ] included vandalism at a church, where $5,000 worth of
] ] stained-glass windows were shattered.
] ]
] ] The three spray-painted swastikas and defaced a "God
] ] bless America" inscription at the paintball complex,
] ] replacing "God" with "Satan," authorities said.
]
] ] The birds were found dead in their pens Monday morning.
] ] One duck’s eye was gouged out; the emus had their
] ] windpipes crushed and jugular veins slashed, in addition
] ] to being beaten on the heads.
] ]
] ] "They suffered immensely,’’ said veterinarian Sherry
] Podhayny.
]
] I hate this town. This is typical of the people in this town.
] Fuck this town.

How about this one? http://www.app.com/app2001/story/0,21133,743552,00.html
A 10-year old and a 12-year old are being charged with the cemetary vandalism. This shit simply DID NOT HAPPEN when we were kids! Can you imagine if we DID do this shit? We would no longer be ALIVE, our parents would have killed us.
I feel very strongly that I am not capable of raising children in this current world. And even if I was, Ocean County is not the place to do it. I never heard such horrible things in the APP as I have the past week or two. The 10-12 year olds' parents ought to be hung, and the bird-killers' parents ought to be shot alongside their children. I don't care how old you are, if you were raised correctly, you don't DO this stuff.

RE: The Trentonian | Ocean County teens get bored, resort to killing exotic birds

] He would not divulge the Eastern Pequots' list of
] potential casino sites. The tribe has met twice with
] Preston officials about the abandoned Norwich State
] Hospital site, which is situated on the Thames River
] along the most direct route between Foxwoods Resort
] Casino and Mohegan Sun.

This article is about Trump wanting a piece of the Connecticut casino action. But what I wanted to address is the Eastern Pequots using the Norwich State Hospital land for their new casino.
1. I -love- abandoned mental hospitals. Marlboro Psychiatric is probably the most beautiful area I've ever seen... unbelievable architecture and gorgeous lands... that's how I feel about Norwich too.. it's just incredible. I will be SO PISSED if they put a casino there.
2. The grounds of Norwich State Hospital are within spitting distance of Mohegan Sun. They are DIRECTLY across the river from one another. Will they run a ferry from one casino to the other? This will make THREE casinos within 10 minutes of each other!! And within 20 minutes of me!! I haven't lived here that long, but I know enough to see that crime and "bad element" have been going up and up and up because of the casinos. Not that I have a problem with them, mind you. There really isn't anything else to do around here, I just have a love-hate relationship with them. Pretty soon, though, if they put in this third casino, New London county is going to become Connecticut's Atlantic City, and I'll be pissed.
3. The Golden Hill Paugussetts should, by all means, build a casino in Bridgeport. Bridgeport is already a slum, a casino could possibly help, and I liked their billboards in Bridgeport when they were fighting for recognition: "Vote for the Golden Hill Paugussetts, The Tribe With a PLAN!".

Trump wants a piece of the action

Rattle wrote:
] ] At least 100 dead fish were seen yesterday floating in
] ] the Oyster Creek by the nuclear power plant here, a
] ] veteran fisherman reported.
] ]
] ] Plant investigators saw four dead fish by the Route 9
] ] bridge that crosses the creek and another near the
] ] plant's property line, but officials here said the plant
] ] did not cause them to die.
] ]
] ] "We've checked all of our systems and we've done
] ] nothing," said Ernest J. Harkness, site vice president at
] ] the Oyster Creek plant.
]
] ] The plant was shut down since Tuesday following an
] ] electrical malfunction. Power generation should resume
] ] within the next two days, Harkness said.
] ]
] ] In December, the largest fine ever assessed on a New
] ] Jersey nuclear power plant for causing a fish kill --
] ] $372,912 -- was levied by the state Department of
] ] Environmental Protection against Oyster Creek.
]
] Oh yeah.. The plant is _never_ killing the fish. Not this
] time, not earlier this year, not every six months this
] happens.
]
] This time it was only a few hundred (or the offical number of
] "four"), last time it was thousands. Does this mean they are
] getting better?
]
] The workers are still striking too..

For God's sake, will you MOVE already?! I've been pissed that you live within spitting distance of that plant for some 10+ years now, would you please MOVE!? Don't come crying to me when you grow a third eye from the radiation. :.)

RE: Asbury Park Press | Official: Plant did not kill any fish

] NEW LONDON, Connecticut (CNN) -- Touting U.S. generosity
] in fighting AIDS and poverty, President Bush said
] Wednesday he would challenge European allies to make a
] "similar commitment" on those fronts when he travels to
] the continent next week.

Bush touts U.S. generosity, calls on Europe for 'similar commitment'

] Woman Finds She Can Bank On Strangers' Honesty
]
] Purse Containing $40,000 Is Returned By A&P Employees

Way too much money to be carrying around.

] Delivering the commencement address at the U.S. Coast
] Guard Academy on Wednesday, Bush is expected to highlight
] "the great role America's compassion abroad plays in
] averting wars and in solving problems," White House press
] secretary Ari Fleischer said.

Yes. Compassion. Averting wars. Solving problems.

Bush to tout U.S. generosity overseas

Our power just went out here at work for about 35 minutes. Somewhat unusual, as it was the whole facility, not just the computers but the lights too, shipyard and everything, and not just one building. My power was on at home, so it wasn't the town. But that didn't stop people from speculating. My favorite theory so far: Bush is speaking at the Coast Guard Academy's graduation today, so they turned off the town's power for him. Also I just heard a rumor that the bridge is closed. The INTERSTATE 95 BRIDGE over the Thames River... "Well, if he's coming down by motorcade, they might have to close the bridge!!". I love my town.