Selectboard Meeting of April 20, 2010.

To read the Selectmen's agenda click here! Sorry, Kristin LaPlante did not email the agenda.

Storm water management project, (at 2:07).

Work began on the first of three planned projects intended to manage storm water. The following pictures were taken on Wednesday April 26, 2010.

Request to close the boat launch on the north side of the lake, (at 4:13).

Some residents suggested closing the ramp for the general public. Earl Johnson stated that the property is owned by the town and that it would legally not be feasible to close the ramp.

Earl Johnson criticizes the press, at (8:40).

Earl Johnson:

“It seems like the newspapers don’t like to report the news much any more, when before they use to. Mr. LaMountain has, ahh Mr. LaMountain.. Mr. La..Frei ahh Mr. Frei has lost both of his appeals in court, his first appeal and his second appeal; he also lost the battle he had in Superior Court. So he lost three court cases in the last month and a half. He also lost his federal lawsuit. And I might add that Mr. LaMountain, his federal lawsuit that he had against us and thirteen other people in this town hall was also dismissed. So I don’t know what else is gone happen in the future but so far that’s just about every lawsuit these two have thrown on the town they have lost. Mr. Frei won one lawsuit because of a technicality and I will question that one once I’m no longer selected. But the rest of the stuff they all lost. I will add that this has cost the town money. Every time they throw a lawsuit at the town it costs the town money and we have to pay for it.”

Earl Johnson’s statement “He lost three court cases in the last month and a half” is fiction. Earl Johnson obviously is on increasingly higher doses of Ocycontin which must be clouding his brain AND conscience, or simply put, he is a habitual liar.
Unlike the selectboard, I inform the community about the outcome of my lawsuits against the town, last time with the piece “Earl Johnson must be laughing his head off..” Earl Johnson’s remark about me winning only one case and only on a technicality is a lie too.
Winning or losing a case on “a technicality” is language used when referring to a case that is decided not on the merits of the case but instead on a procedural deficiency, a matter subject to procedural law.
My case against the Planning Board of which he was a member at the time was decided based on noncompliance or violation by the Planning Board with provisions mandated in chapter 41, section 81P of the General Laws. Earl Johnson’s “a technicality” claim is just another lie.
The “three court cases” Johnson claims I lost in the “last month and a half,” are in fact one and the same case and there is no final decision in this case yet. I filed a so called request for further appellate review (FAR). I filed the FAR request on April 7, 2010. The request is pending as clearly stated on the Supreme Judicial Court’s website. To view the status of the FAR request, click here!
The case Johnson refers to is the case in which I try to expose his lies about the illegal conveyance and subsequent building of two dwellings for two of his sons without the required frontage, known as “Johnson LandGate.” It is the only case pending, and the only active case since my case against the Planning Board was adjudicated in my favor by the Appeals Court and the Superior Court judgment vacated. The Appeals Court ordered the Superior Court to issue a new judgment, a judgment ordering the Planning Board to endorse my ANR plan, the plan Earl Johnson refused to sign out of spite.

The fact that a despicable individual like Earl Johnson was not only elected to any office but re-elected several times over many years by this community will remain one of the biggest mysteries to me. Furthermore, the fact that this community is willing to pay for the retirement in form of a pension for this despicable individual is simply put, incomprehensible..

Highway permit [drive-way permit] to sign, (at 13:17).

Earl Johnson made a motion to approve a driveway permit on Vinton Road and Petersen seconded the motion, all in favor. No more details were discussed.

Chicopee Bass Association fishing derby, (at 17:09).

Petersen moved to approve a request of the Chicopee Bass Association to hold a bass fishing derby on August 1, 2010. There is a website informing anglers of all fishing contest in the US, click here, to get to their website. Meeting was adjourned at 7:23 p.m. (at 23:15).

The video has several interruptions that are not the doing of the Holland Blog but the Cable Commission’s.

April 28, 2010, Peter Frei