Mad About Town

By Carolyn Marsh

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• Cries in the night and during the day

  By Carolyn Marsh - Jun 26
  I was almost run over the other day, by a van. It was one of the most terrifying things I have ever experienced, and I still don’t know how I got ...
  

• Dumping on Charm City

  By Carolyn Marsh - May 22
  The other day a little bird in a stand of trees told me that more than half the property in Camden is not on the tax rolls, either because it is ...
  

• The DMV and other sore points

  By Carolyn Marsh - Apr 25
  I spent a day at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Rockland last week. Sorry—I meant to say I spent an afternoon. I don’t know what good deeds ...
  

• Customer dis-service

  By Carolyn Marsh - Mar 21
  To those of you who asked, extensive research on the Web indicates that recycled toilet tissue (that seems to be the nicest way to say it) is fine ...
  

• Energy and other staffs of life

  By Carolyn Marsh - Jan 11
  Like many other people, I have been thinking a lot about energy. Not the kind that sends you leaping out of bed in the morning, with glad cries, ...
  

• Poles apart, and other observations

  By Carolyn Marsh - Jun 12
  I went to a school board meeting the other night. I haven’t been to one for so long (and as the editor of The Camden Herald I went to them all) ...
  

• Fireworks in the night, again

  By Carolyn Marsh - May 08
  The most recent entry in the “Am I missing something here?” department: This description of the tenure of Robert Nardelli, fired by Home Depot and ...
  

• Handicapping light bulbs

  By Carolyn Marsh - Apr 12
  The latest from the “Why can’t they get anything right?” department is the news that the millions of people in this country who have good intention...
  

• Turning green

  By Carolyn Marsh - Mar 06
  I never dreamed that Mr. Whipple would reappear in my life. By the way, a sidelight on the power of the Web, and television before it: Mr. Whipple ...
  

• Mad about town: evergreens

  By Carolyn Marsh - Dec 20
  I ran into Dave Jackson the other day. Dave has always seemed to me to be the embodiment of the genius loci of the Camden Public Library grounds, ...