Another Secret Meeting?

  We noticed that the Board of Selectmen have posted another secret meeting for tonight (Nov. 24.) This follows last weeks Board meeting that ended with a secret (non-public) meeting. We understand that there was some disagreement amongst Board members as to whether the secret meeting subject qualified for being kept from the public eye.
   What is going on in Town that it requires so many secret meetings? Do you remember the last Deliberative Session where Selectman Chartrand boasted that the Town government is "radically transparent" (his words, not mine)?
    When View asked about minutes of the last secret meeting, we were told that the Board had sealed the minutes.  Does that sound like a "radically transparent" government?

Where were they?
 
    On Tuesday, the Exeter Post of the American Legion held a program in Gale Park to honor our past and present veterans. A number of veterans and observers attended the event.
    As was pointed out by one of the speakers, this year marks 100 years since the start of the `War to end all wars.'
    Unfortunately, what was very noticeable at the event was the absence of our selectmen, Town Manager and Town department managers. Apparently, our elected and appointed officials, like too many others today, look at Veterans Day as just another day off of work.