Category: Parish Council

Clerk’s Column November 2005

Visibility. At last it is plain for all to see that the Parish Council can get things done. There are white lines again on all the corners – except one. The operators ran out of steam, paint, or maybe courage, on the corner by Pennymarsh, but the Council has fulfilled one of its main functions …

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Clerk’s Column October 2005

The Meeting of the Parish Council on 6th October opened on a note of sadness, as the Chairman, Mr. Bernard Griffiths, paid tribute to the late Margot Townsend, expressing the Council’s great appreciation of her loyal and effective support, not only for the Council but for the whole community. She will be sorely missed. The …

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Clerk’s Column September 2005

A small, dusty suitcase had been lurking on the top shelf of a cupboard at Ash Barn for 22 years. At the Council Meeting on 1st September, the “new” Clerk placed it on the Jubilee Room table to cries of recognition – “Arthur’s case!” When this Clerk first took office in 1982, the mantle of …

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