A friend once told me the first thing she did upon visiting a potential living place, was look for all all the free community publications she could find. In her opinion, it gave an accurate impression of local happenings, community involvement, and the overall liberal artsy-ness. I did the same when we were shopping for neighborhoods, and it proved effective at answering questions I didn’t realize I had.

Sixteen months later, I still skim these publications, for community news. One is a weekly, I retrieve from under the Mister’s car each Wednesday, and the other is a quarterly that arrives the same time as the water bill. Generally the quarterly is a recycled version of the weekly. I suspect it is an aging retiree’s pet project that allows him to write albeit with an absence of imagination, and showcase his watercolor paintings to the community.

Though informative, this publication is typically dull and laden with numerous “articles” in which varies civic organizations and elected leaders exchange thanks to one another in hopes of soliciting empty praise for themselves. It might make a person wonder why I bother opening the pages before tossing it in the recycling bin, but it supplies insight on zoning ordinances (sewer and livestock related), recycling, and hiking trails, even if the front page always reads like the minutes from a 4-H> meeting.

Imagine my astonishment when I discovered this excerpt in the town council article:

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I read about the shooting last month, but the article in the respectable subscription based paper failed to mention the motive was exorcism. Gotta wonder what those kids were thinking as they waited in the car. We know what the shooter was thinking, or rather that she wasn’t.

The police responded in three minutes. While commendable, it seems the Mayor neglected to also recognize the chiropractor’s own chutzpa in this. If he hadn’t jumped on the shooter, there may have been little order for the police to restore…..unless the demons had actually escaped.

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