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Monthly Archives: November 2013

Congratulations to Councilmen Greg Vurckio and Kevin Smith.

06-Nov-13

Daur The election results are in.  Greg Vurckio was endorsed by both the Republican and Democratic parties, and won election easily.  It was mostly a contest between myself and Kevin Smith.  The vote: Kevin Smith 117 John Kuhner 87 Congratulations to Kevin and Greg, and a thank you to all the Councilmen – I’ve seen up […]

Making Denning History.

04-Nov-13

purchase provigil online I was speaking with the former town historian, Jean Switzler, yesterday, and she told me that as far as she knows there’s never been a Democrat elected to any position in the Town of Denning.  “If there has been it’d have to be before my time,” she said.  She is almost ninety.  She might have […]

Wind Power Generation in Denning?

04-Nov-13

Going door-to-door along Mountain Lane yesterday I was asked what my opinion was about “the big wind turbine,” and I had to confess that I had no opinion about it, because I had never heard of it before. (It felt like a bit of a political defeat, to be going door-to-door and get asked about […]

On Local Deer Populations.

03-Nov-13

Going around town speaking with people I’ve encountered a fair amount of resistance to my claim that the local deer population is too high, and I’d like to go into this issue a little deeper. First of all, I’m aware of the history: many of the flatter areas in our hills were pastureland not long […]

Response to the Seriously Concerned.

02-Nov-13

While going around door-to-door yesterday evening an older gentleman said to me, “You’re John Kuhner? I’m voting for you for sure.” He went on to explain that “some woman I never saw before” was at the Town Dump passing out leaflets “saying you were a communist or something like that and when I saw all […]

A Christian Pope!

01-Nov-13

Almost everything in life that you’re supposed to do is obvious – I think most people can look back on only four or five serious decisions in their life (which haunt us forever, of course) when we really do not know what the right thing to do is.  But it is so unusual, so horribly […]