- DIVIDING HAMMOND editorial

EDITORIAL - DIVIDING HAMMOND

EDITORIAL
HAMMOND
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The Hammond Town Board demonstrated last night why the voters of their community removed two of them from office during the November elections.

After spending the past two years dividing the citizens of Hammond into opposing camps and convincing the majority of the community that their allegience was to out of town wind companies instead of the people who elected them, they voted to pass a controversial wind law with no public notice, no public hearing and no effort to take into consideration any of the objections that their constituents have raised over the past two years.

No one could be too surprised that the town board passed the law just before they left office.

The newly elected members of the town board will just have to use their new majority to repeal the law when they take ofice in January.

By starting over again, it's possible that the new town board can hammer out a compromise ordinance that's acceptable to the majority of citizens in Hammond.

The first step, however, wil be to give the citizens of Hammond an opportunity to offer their views to a board whose membership is committed to the citizens who elected them instead of out of town multibillion dollar foreign corporations.