It is obvious that a so-called "agreement" between the flower growers and our town's hopelessly outclassed council, peopled by working stiffs whose principal life wish is to keep their children from leaving here to find jobs and a future, is a contemptible surrender to ham-handed $1,000-an-hour lawyers, experts in trickery and intimidation.

Fight back! Let a humble lobsterman act the whistleblower and call the IRS, asking whether a profit-making enterprise called Gardens Aglow, operating within confines of a non-profit organization  is, in the eyes of the IRS,  subject to taxation.

If found tax-compliant, then taxes paid to Maine should partially find their way to Boothbay coffers. Are they? And for how much? And who tells us this is so?

Roads and infrastructure enabling paying visitors to Gardens Aglow to safely arrive and depart are paid by Boothbay taxpayers.

It is absurd that we receive no compensation for the obvious windfall befalling a group who, once considered an asset to our community, now are portrayed a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Yes, what our councilmen have done is shameful. Worse than humiliation inflicted upon citizens of Boothbay, by this abject surrender they foreclose efforts of the Anthony family to have their day in court  by nullifying their rights to  due process.

For this no excuse is acceptable.

As a body, they should apologize for this villainy and resign.

Paul E. McArdle

Boothbay