Two of the Disorderly Seven Get “De Novo” Trials

Invoking district court rule 2.14, Wes and Meg are sentenced and their cases sent to superior court for “de novo” trial. Wes is also arrested on a theft charge for when he allegedly accidentally walked out of the KSC library with books in his backpack. Despite apologizing and giving the books back, charges were pressed. Here’s the raw video:

Comment Ratings Offline For Now

Just a quick FYI – many of you have noticed that the trolls were easily able to exploit the Comment Ratings software. The programmer claims he’s working on a better version. If that is released, the feature may be re-enabled, but the mandatory user registration policy has successfully reduced the drive-by anonymous trolling, which was the original intent of the ratings software.

As Free Keene enters its fifth year, thank YOU for reading, participating, and making us relevant! Hopefully this will be your year to move to New Hampshire!

FIXED: User Registration Emails

Apparently a wordpress plugin had broken the registration email process here on the blog. New registrants were not sent initial registration emails but should the person have requested a password reset, it did send that out. Anyway, it’s fixed now and so if you have registered for an account and did not get the email, please try the password reset. If you have not yet registered for an account, you can easily do so now. Please use the login widget in the top right sidebar.

Andrew Carroll: “Thank You”

From Andrew Carroll’s blog:

It’s been several months since my campaign ended and while it has left me decidedly agnostic on some issues (i.e., what to call myself, politically), or has changed my mind on others (i.e., talking with liberals in Keene has helped me re-discover many of my liberal tendencies), it has only strengthened all of my prior faiths that made me fall in love with New Hampshire over two years ago.

And as I sit here in sunny California, visiting my sorely missed friends and family for Christmas, I am left with an even greater longing to step foot again in snowy, downtown Keene, dressed in suit and tie and equipped with as many door hangers as my impoverished budget could afford…

and knock on doors. (more…)