Although 65
citizens were present at the meeting, none took advantage of an invitation by
council Chairman David Sherman to address the issue. In similar fashion, the
council adopted the “miscellaneous offense ordinance” sans comment.
A similar state of mutism met the ban at its first
reading, Oct. 12, when Councilor James Walsh explained how the ordinance
committee had come to recommend the item.
“We took it upon ourselves, without direction from the
Town Council, to take this up at our last meeting, because we felt it needed to
be addressed,” he said. “With the new state law going into affect Jan 1., we
felt it important to get something in the books.”
Since legalization of consumer fireworks – products
with a “minor explosion hazard” not including bottle
rockets, skyrockets and aerial spinners – many cities and towns have raced to
take advantage of a local out written into the enabling legislation.
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