<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp70a1a183yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A slim harvest in CranberryLand USA when voting to submit warrant articles for Annual Town meeting.</span><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a world where Town Meeting is the purest form of democracy and where 4 of 5 Board members have never won a contested election, the Planning Board on a 2-3-0 vote opted not to submit an article for MBTA Communities Zoning. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will APA-MA be awarding an Ignoble Award for Notorious Efficacy in Noncompliance? </span><a shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners</a></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">TBott</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Wishing all a happy and heathy and hopefully more empathetic New Year</span></font></div><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp6044fdedyiv4877253327ydpfe580de2signature" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><div style="font-family: new times, serif;"><div style="font-family: serif;">Thomas Bott <font color="#9d1811">CranberryLand USA</font> Town Planner</div><div style="font-family: serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="ydp6044fdedyiv4877253327ydpfb687fb8yiv6753380931yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519652102965_53159"><font id="ydp6044fdedyiv4877253327ydpfb687fb8yiv6753380931yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519652102965_53160" color="#4c76a2" style="font-family: serif; font-style: italic; background-color: inherit;">Practicing Planning in the Commonwealth since the last Millennium </font><font color="#808080" size="2" style="background-color: inherit;"><i>#TownPlannerSilverJubilee</i></font></span></div></div></div></div><div class="ydp70a1a183signature"><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:serif;"><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>