Can somebody take the time to enlighten me? I must be the dullest tool in the shed, here.

People have been "sighting" mountain lions for decades.

Millions of people have and continue to live, recreate, commute, and work in densely populated New England over these decades.

Especially in recent years, nearly everybody has a camera in their pocket (phone) or in their fanny pack, or on their kitchen table, or anywhere else relatively accessible as they're sipping coffee, or hiking or skiing or snowshoeing or canoeing or hunting or fishing or snowmobiling or logging or doing yardwork or farming or any other of the myriad things that people are doing while they claim to see these lions. Don't forget the probably hundreds or thousands of automatic wildlife cameras that are set up in the woods every year, and the thousands or hundreds of thousands of images that are recorded and viewed from these cameras each year, year after year, decade after decade.

And don't forget that millions of acres each winter of snow that millions and millions of critters leave tracks and other sign on and in that stay visible for days and sometimes weeks (until the next snow) that millions of people pass over on snowmobiles, skis, snowshoes, and however else, day after day, winter after winter.

And don't forget the thousands upon thousands of miles of roads that critters must occasionally cross, and eventually a number of them are killed on.

And don't forget the bones that all critters leave somewhere when they die that my dog routinely sniffs out and drags around that are on display for all of us to see, for a while at least.

And given all of this opportunity for all of these people over all of these years, NEVER, NOT ONCE, has a SINGLE PERSON, come forth with a SINGLE PIECE OF UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE of the existence of a SINGLE MOUNTAIN LION. Just one picture is all it takes, and there hasn't been one.

I haven't calculated it, but the odds of there being lions without ANY evidence is probably astronomical.

But with all of that said, these folks are still out there telling anybody who will listen that the state is "ignoring" them, and "insulting their intelligence". As for Mimitz, I would love to meet somebody that sees lynx "all the time" and find out where. Those cats are pretty scarce around these parts.

I work in the woods (and I don't work for MassWildlife, FYI) and I've never seen any lions or any sign of lions.

Where's the evidence?

"Dann will act as the interim administrative assistant until the close of the fiscal year, which ends on June 31."

The city has never illegally dumped anything but the concern for the general population. The anonymous "huh" must be related to Gary. Let's right some mis-perceptions. Neither the dump nor the expansion is actually over the aquifer, it is over a tertiary recharge area that would have to basically defy physics to leak into the water supply. Also, the Barnes Aquifer is not pristine. The aquifer is already polluted with trichloroethylene (TCE) and the water is being treated accordingly to make it potable.

A group of us used to play in an empty grassy spot of Bridge Street cemetery way back in the 1970's. We made grave etchings as well. Can the police legally order people from a cemetery?

So let me get this straight. Since the city has been using an adjacent property to the dump for illegal( unpermitted ) dump related activity they now do not require a permit? Will this ruling apply to anyone that has been conducting illegal activity on any adjacent parcel?

s/shut off your utilities as of the morning of the move/shut off the utilities at your old place as of the morning of the move/

The menu is not worth the price. Nothing very special about the place.