To the Editor:

I would like to comment on the lovely space we had for the wetlands meeting [October 28].  This meet-ing was for the proposed development in Hawleyville for the church, diner and apartments.

I guess the powers-that-be determined that this meeting would not be well attended.  The meeting was in meeting room #1 at the Municipal Center.  For those of you who have never had the pleasure of attending a meeting there, it is the size of a janitorial closet.  There was enough room for the commis-sion members, the people representing the developer, the reporter from The Bee, and then two extra seats for the public.   My neighbors, myself, and a couple of other people, got to sit outside the room in the entryway to the Municipal Center leaning forward trying to hear what was being said.

Here’s to hoping that at the next meeting we can all be together in one room!

Janet McKeown

10 Hillcrest Drive, Newtown         October 28, 2015