Strategic Class WarFare Heats up On The Boothbay Peninsula

The Working Waterfront Park and the Party of The New but heads again and again!

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The other day I was exiting from Back River Road going onto 27. There was no traffic and so I did not complete a full stop before pulling out but was thinking that I should have done so. I turned right toward the roundabout. The roundabout, or the obstruction in the middle of the road as I like to call it, has a different set of rules from all the other intersections on the Peninsula. At the roundabout, where roads were rerouted so that all paths would converge at one point, the rules are that one is not supposed to stop if there is no traffic. It occurred to me that special rules for special folks are a subliminal message of the roundabout that serves no practical purpose other than as a grand entrance to the Country Club that is slowly and visually absorbing the Town Common. The Common occupies the Center of Town and that is where Paul Coulombe wants his wealth culture to be, at the center of everything, dominating all.

I was also aware that changing the rules …