Work on repairing and renovating STEVENS HIGH SCHOOL has been underway for a few months now and it looks like a lot of the trees there have been cut down, much to the dismay of many, who thought they would not be and that construction could have been done around them. It looks just like another large paved lot, with asphalting to render the 'campus' hot but easy to plow and set up for buses to turn around and park, as well as for faculty and students who will have places to park?
The plans for the city, as some call the TOWN OF CLAREMONT, seem to be mostly tearing down places, tarring the lots, keeping them vacant and also turning the broad street area into aTtypical 'flat-land'.
The old GOODWIN COMMUNITY CENTER remains empty and forlorn and the city is sitting on it in further moments of indecision that plagues the AREA.
The old UNIVERSALIST CHURCH that sits,'idle and decrepit', between the FIRE STATION and the FISKE FREE LIBRARY is another landmark that is ignored and supposedly rendered unusable.
We can also point to other church areas now falling into neglect and on a suggested list to demolish and or sell.
But to get back to STEVENS when the wood pellets begin to rise in price, one wonders what taxpayers will say when taxes and things for the school go up and up as the demands for bio-fuels and pellets increase.
