Monthly Archives: September 2018

Juvenile mink, not rabid fisher cat

Posted on September 3, 2018 | Comments Off on Juvenile mink, not rabid fisher cat

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CORRECTION

Further research lead the four observers to conclude that we saw a mink, not a fisher cat on Saturday in our neighborhood.  Deb and I concluded that its head was that of a fisher cat.

I have never seen either a mink or a fisher, and had no idea that a mink could be that large and stand with it rump that far off the ground.

The animal control officer (probably Robert LaPlante) said to Deb that someone called in about the animal eating berries right next to him in the area, and that the ACO opined that it was probably just a juvenile forced by its parents to find new territory and not rabid.  That sounds more likely to me too, versus the odd behavior being a sign of it being rabid, as it was not acting and/or looking sick – just not afraid of people.

So in sum, probably a juvenile mink, not a rabid fisher cat.

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Primary election this Tuesday, 9/4

Posted on September 1, 2018 | Comments Off on Primary election this Tuesday, 9/4

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Primary election this coming Tuesday, 9/4

Please remember to vote this coming Tuesday in the primary election.

 

Please vote for Denise Garlick

I ask those of you in Precincts 1 and 2 to join me in voting for Denise Garlick for state representative in the Democratic primary. 

As our state representative, Denise has –

  • worked hard and actively supported the town’s interests at the sate level, 
  • helped obtain the proper remediation by DCAMM of the former Medfield State Hospital site, 
  • helped the town purchase of the former Medfield State Hospital site,
  • been endorsed by Bill Massaro, our town’s closest observer of all things MSH related, Congressman Joe Kennedy, and a long list of others,
  • reported back to residents annually on what she is doing.

You would all be as disappointed as I was, when I listened to the debate between Denise and her challenger, to learn that her challenger knew so little about our town that he thought the Medfield State Hospital was still open and full of DMH patients – he had no understanding about Medfield’s biggest issue.

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