What Would You Ban in Dover or Sherborn?
A number of surrounding communities have deep-sixed some interesting items and activities over the past year, but should Dover and Sherborn join the banning bandwagon?
Concord’s so-called bottle ban became a bylaw earlier this week, Brookline recently banned plastic bags and Styrofoam cups, and Arlington’s Town Meeting this fall upheld a seasonal leaf blower ban. Meanwhile, home-cooked foods have been forced out of many schools, an ostensible attempt to protect against allergies and childhood obesity. Let's not forget the most talked about ban of 2012, Middleborough's swearing ban. Dover and Sherborn haven’t exactly hopped on this banning bandwagon, but should they? Is there an activity or item you would want to see banned out of environmental, health or quality-of-life concerns? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Susan Costello
9:28 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I would absolutely ban deer hunting in our beautiful towns. It doesn't help with tick prevention and just gives hunters, who hunt under the guise of being helpful, magnanimous volunteers, a chance to take part in an inhumane, disgraceful and sadistic activity. Who cares that our bushes are nibbled on? Really! Surely our beloved, progressive towns are all more civil than that! more ›