"By: robertslager on 5/11/10
I just wanted to share a little note John Decas just sent along. Forgive the language. It isn't mine, but I felt it was best to share this unedited.

"Don't you realize that you are now irrelevant? That it is over? That no one is listening? You are are on a getting your ass kicked roll since before the elections. All of your candidates and town issues are down the hopper mostly because you have poisoned your own political well . You can lie, slander, dream up conspiracies all you want. Everyone is on to you and have given up on you because you never can back any thing up. Kickbacks, fire alarms, unnamed sources, race baiting just doesn't work anymore. Do you realize how pathetic you look and sound. Why do you continue to embarrass yourself, your family and your only Man of the Year supporter? All you are now doing is providing comic relief over at the other Observer. Thought you told me you had "an ace in hole". Time to pull it out big talking man.
Best thing you can do is find another town where they are not on to you. Your bullshit is history in Wareham."

RS - Is there a better example of what I was talking about in this column than this? If people needed a reason to keep fighting the good fight it's to stop people like this from controlling your lives."

The towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester kicked him to the curb the minute he insinuated a conspiracy theory surrounding an ambulance. Let's follow their lead. Notice their are no tin hatters from the former Tri-Town Observer.

"By: onsetgirl on 5/11/10
What happened to Mr. Holmes last night?? He disappeared? Was he at the table when the vote for the police cruisers came up?? I wanted to see were his support was going.

Why was Cara not sitting in her seat paying attention to the meeting??"

Mr. Holmes became ill. I assume Mrs. Winslow was outside speaking to the ambulance driver and Mr. Holmes' wife, at least that is where she was when I saw her, why do you care?

"By: robertslager on 5/11/10
Holmes took ill complaining of chest pains. I'm trying to find out more."

"By: downtheroad on 5/11/10
Regarding the concession stand idea for town meeting - 300 people (or even 150 to make a quorum) all file out for water and a brownie, how long is it going to take for all of them to be served and to finish their brownie before town meeting can be reconvened? Sounds to me like it would take at least as long as last weeks false alarm. And what's the possibility that if there is a snack break half the people will realize as they stand up that they can't bear another hour or hour and a half in their chair so they'll decide to skip the goodies and leave, possibly taking the quorum with them. And then there are all the crumbs for the janitor to clean up.

Regarding the camera flash - it was me. I was testing to see if the lighting was sufficient enough to prevent my automatic flash from going off. Obviously the lighting wasn't sufficient to do that. I tried my little test while nothing was happening so that it wouldn't disturb anybody. I still have the picture to prove it.

How I wish my flash hadn't automatically flashed. I would have loved to have been able to get a picture later on of Cruz waving his read card up in the air right along side our two newest selectmen during the Article 25 vote. What a front page picture that would have been."

And last year Andrea wrote after OPL about how Walter gave her the warm and fuzzies and Cara was seemingly void of any warmth. What an idiot. You elect people to vote in the best interest of the town, not the best interest of the personal agenda. Maybe you should retire again, you are a bitter woman.
Good luck with that ragman, I doubt he would speak to you if you were the last reporter on earth.