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Can T-ville be rescued in our lifetime? It will take money, vision, and a commitment by real community leaders, not the people who get elected.
Ahhhh, Ann's. Astros makes a good pie and so does the place in Scitico.
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Majority of T-Ville is a lost cause. Start by tearing down the falling-apart Strand Theatre to increase the parking lot of the Town's rec center. that would immediately help. then renovate the old Higgins building for Town Hall annex and to provide some cheap rents for "start up" business that are looking for such. create a "start up" center in Enfield. this might pump some business into the nearby restaurant (least for lunch biz)
gotta get the drugs and thugs off the T-Ville street corners so that people are so afraid to venture to Diana's Bakery and Caronna's Market, or St Pat's.
but for most part, its a lost cause. no one brings their kid to that pond to fish. too many drunks and druggies sitting on benches. plus, its a dirty lil'pond. need to add a sprinkler-type fountain to keep it clean (and give people something to look at)
agree 100% that Astros has great food (and their portions are huge). Danny's Pizza is another great place.
here's a local topic. anyone see the latest on Enfield in JI article blog,
http://www.journalinquirer.com/articles/2008/03/28/towns/enfield/doc47ed006cf0c3a275083476.txt
some very early election comments re: Tats and Clintons. Ouch.
>"Bottled Water Tab Issue Raised By Reader"
know didn't wanna talk "water" but did anyone else notice last night at Enfield Council meeting that some members were drinking bottled water?? town probably bought a ton of water to supply council and boe members. before it was labeled "taboo".
Talk about wasting a natural resource. the subsidized housing built along T-Ville's Freshwater pond all but eliminated any means to make that area more open & inviting. it could have been a great recreation area right smack in the middle of the T-ville downtown.
Someone really wasn't thinking when they built housing there. Shouldn't have been built "on" the pond.
and that vacant furniture store and its warehouse across from Town Hall is certainly a distraction. when ones travels down Elm to RT 5, that empty building is staring ya in the face.
the town could really use a crash course in urban renewal planning. recreation center needs more adjacent parking. its almost impossible to find a spot, and that one-way road makes its more confusing. kids shouldn't have to cross a busy main street to get to rec center, but often times their parents have to park across, by the pond.
The Pearl St library is an architechural gem, but there's no adjacent parking, and no one want to walk down there. that's such a shame.
"Majority of T-Ville is a lost cause. "
What a great response. Really. The Strand has always been a puzzler. Should it stay or should it go? It could be a great venue and an attraction for the area but it looks beat and it needs of big repairs. No parking either. I wonder what the inside it like?
The pond is a disappointment. It gets updated but no one will go. It wasn't part of a plan that included other properties around the area. I like the fountain idea but without something around it, who will cares. Bums, druggies, and drunks?
> It could be a great venue and an attraction for the area but it looks beat and it needs of big repairs.
If folks want to see great local theatre, they can take a short ride to Broad Brook to the playhouse there (Broad Brook, unlike Enfield, was successful in renovating a structure for this purprose). The two Enfield high schools and community college also put on performances and have venues that could be utilized by other groups. The Strand Theatre is a lost cause. Need to let that concept go. Taxpayers don't want to pump their hard earned $$$ into that venture.
The pond, well, there's another "pie-in-the-sky" dream. The idea of skating out there fell apart quickly (how many times has people been allowed to skate there. How many times was it "lite" for evening activities?
There's a kids' fishing contest in the spring, but that pond is a mud hole. There's better fishing @ pond near St Martha's, and there's no druggies and drunks stumbling by.
The Enfield "visonaries" are local-yokals, trying to re-live their childhood days in T-ville. Please tell them to give it up and face facts.
The Enfield "visonaries" are local-yokals, trying to re-live their childhood days in T-ville. Please tell them to give it up and face facts.
I agree. It's been said that nostalgia is a mild form of depression. T-ville will never be brought back to the days of old. It's too expensive and this town has no stomach for it. However there are those who are depressed who hold onto the dream.
>The Enfield "visonaries" are local-yokals, trying to re-live their childhood days in T-ville. Please tell them to give it up and face facts.
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>I agree. It's been said that nostalgia is a mild form of depression. T-ville will never be brought back to the days of old. It's too expensive and this town has no stomach for it. However there are those who are depressed who hold onto the dream.
ironic, isn't it, that many who grew there (like a former mayor, and a police chief) no longer live in T-ville. think maybe one Councilman still does live down there, but rest have left.
so whether they want to admit it or not, they've "given up" the dream by virtue of raising their children elsewhere in Enfield.
too bad the Town couldn't start over w/redesigning T-ville. Start with the pond - move that housing away from back, restore Higgins, leave Senior Center and Police Station "somewhere" in T-ville.
maybe then, it would have had 1/2 chance.
Let the political games begin in Enfield. Maybe T-Ville will get a new advocate in the State Capital?
But Enfield is still waiting for fiscal bailout from Rep. Tallarita and Amann to cover all those $$$ cost overruns for the Fermi athletic field fiasco.
"Tallarita faces Democratic challenge for House seat; race could go to a primary"
http://www.journalinquirer.com/articles/2008/04/23/towns/enfield/doc480f4f62f218f154062042.txt
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