Public opinion in this country is everything.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

In attendance at this months  meeting was Dick Howard, Mike Scott, Shawn Dunmire, Trisha Grover, Dick Kozlowski, Curt & Sue Rung, Alice Dunbar, Laura Manners, Larry Bedow, Jon Reitz, Theresa Baldwin, Paul Sadler, Jean Howard, Gary and myself.

Jon Reitz questioned the board the cost of this engineering study for the windmills.  Mike Scott explained the only cost is the initial cost to the lawyer.  The engineering company makes their money off from the windmill companies.

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tags: assessor, board meeting, highway, judge, public safety, windmills

The Town of Wirt was formed from Bolivar and Friendship April 12, 1838 and named by Peleg Sherman after the writer, William Wirt.  The first settlement was made in the northern part of the town of farms owned later by Mott Whitwood and D.S. Willard.  The first pioneers were Benjamin Crabtree and Levi Abbott who came from Amsterdam,  Montgomery County in 1912.  Other earlier settlers where Chauncey Axtel, Horace Ketchum, Alvan Richardson, Nathan Gilbert, James Smith, Simon Wightman, Reuben Whitney, Philip Applebee, Josiah Wheeler, Joseph Allen, Jonah French, Gilbert Thomas, Levi Applebee, Calvin Wheeler, Isaiah Jordan, Elisha Dakin, Robert Almy, Pliny Evans, Aaron Smith, Sheldon P Stanton and John Scott.  Clark E. Newton came early from Madison County and bought land west of South Branch Creek.  With his brother, H. B. Newton, he began clearing land on Lot 39.  Mr. Newton was a stone mason by trade and he helped plaster the first county courthouse in Angelica.

tags: History, name, wirt

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
- Lady Bird Johnson

Let’s help Andew Ray earn his Eagle Scout Rank by helping out the Richburg Colonial Library.  In order for Andrew to earn his Eagle Scout Rank he must complete a community project.  Andrew chose to help the libary by earning enough money to make a sturdier railings for the stairway leading into the library, along with upgrading some of the landscaping and the library sign. 

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tags: richburg library