"With an antennae on its chimney will the town hall now lose its status as an historical building?"
Its one antenna, not antennae which would be plural of course. The problem with the entire historic building argument, is that the Town Hall is NOT listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The most direct way to find out if a property is listed is to check the National Park Service's NATIONAL REGISTER INFORMATION SYSTEM.
We did and found that the building itself is not listed. Now if the FD had mounted the antenna on the Josiah Bronson house on Breakneck Hill Rd, the Nathaniel Richardson House on Kelly Rd, or Tranquility Farm, it may be a different story. Or would it? The farmhouse at Tranquillity Farm was recently gutted and is being completely rebuilt. So much for preserving that property. The Town mounted the antenna on a chimney, they did not gut the structure.
There is the Middlebury Center Historic District which includes the area “roughly bound by Library Rd, North and South Streets, and Whittemore Rd” But, it does not mention buildings. If such restrictions were in place then residents living around the Green would be denied making exterior changes to their homes such as adding satellite antennas. The antenna tower should really be taken down as well, because it falls within this historical zone.
The Town Hall already has a host of different add-ons that would blemish its historic value such as conduits that run up the side of the building. The light for sliding in the back. Does Mr. DeAngelis want that light taken down, so the children can not slide at night? How about Mr. St John's security cameras, with wires in pipes that run up the front of the building. Should they be removed as well?
Was putting the new High Band antenna on the Town Hall chimney worth the $4,000 saving to the Town? We think so. The MVFD was able to save the Town $4,000 of the $5,000 that needs to be generated in order to hire a clerk to respond to Mr. DeAngelis’s FOIs.
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You know, one of the things that I find most entertaining about Mr. DeAngelis is his mocking of people's spelling & grammer, when he himself (supposedly a learned man) makes numerous and continual spelling and grammatical errors, such as the one you pointed out regarding his misuse of the plural. Makes me wonder if he is a free-lance writer for Middleburystayinformed.com, because he insists it isn't his site, and yet I recognize many of the same errors in grammer and spelling. Pat, you didn't pay too much for that "education", did you? Because I think I would demand a refund. Unless, of course, you got your degree at St. John U, which is based right here in Middlebury, in the general vicinity of an actual center of learning, the tax-exempt (check out what that means, Pat) Westover school. Pat, just remember, it's all satire, right????
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