http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20130119/NEWS02/701199955
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Select Board rejects artist’s offer, goes with 1921 seal
By Susan Smallheer
Staff Writer | January 19,2013
Rutland Herald
SPRINGFIELD — It’s official. The town seal will grace the cover of the 2012 town report.
The Springfield Select Board voted 4-0 this week to use the 1921 seal, rather than accept an offer from a local artist to make a custom charcoal drawing for the cover. Select Board member Peter MacGillivray was absent.
In recent years, the town has adopted a smaller, more compact format for the town report, and has also saved money by having a single-color cover displaying the town seal.
Town Clerk Meredith Dexter Kelley said local artist Sandra Williams had submitted samples of her work and offered to make an original charcoal drawing for the cover for free.
But Select Board member Michael Knoras made the motion to have the town seal on the cover, noting that letting one artist do the cover might create more problems with other artists in town.
Select Board member Stephanie Gibson suggested that maybe in the future the town could adopt a more colorful and creative approach to the town report.
Gibson said the town report could be illustrated with different photographs and have “special touches.”
There are ‘‘a lot of local artists,” she said.
Knoras said the town could charge for “advertising.”
Kelley said Wednesday that Springfield Printing would be producing 2,300 copies of the town report, which is mailed to every voting household in the town. She said the list has been adjusted to avoid multiple copies of the town report going to a household.
The town seal features a “symbol of youth,” in the words of its formal, 1921 description, and evokes “the union of brain and brawn.”
The seal shows a young man — or mannish young woman — in a short tunic outfit, holding a hammer in one hand and a scroll in the other, standing on a large machining gear. The young man stands in front of Comtu Falls and the concrete bridge over the Black River, with some downtown buildings and a couple of pine trees in the distance.
Kelley said the seal was commissioned by longtime Springfield Town Clerk Merrill L. Lawrence, who first became town clerk in 1882. The seal was adopted by the town on Oct. 22, 1921.
Kelley said the seal’s artist was Russell W. Porter, whose grandfather was Samuel W. Porter, who was also a former town clerk.
By law the town report has to be in the hands of voters by Feb. 23, and she expected to have it in the mail by Feb. 21 and 22, but she was still collecting information — including the finalized town and school budgets — for the report, which covers the 2012 calendar year.
If everything inside the Town Report is slanted, spun, and manipulated to read well (like the town water report) why not use ART from a local Artist. There is more fiction inside the jacket then the Town Seal can shoulder.
ReplyDeleteI read the Town Report for last year it was a list of all the local criminals and reports on the activities against the well being of the people of this town.
what did the dude say ? Advertising ? They can't even get advertising for the town right, didn't they just pay an out of state marketing firm. YES, but who would want to remember that or ADMIT that was foolishly spent money..
Local marketing firms and local artists everywhere but they need to pay for the brand new and grand concept of turning the wheel. Why ? 'cause it is your tax money.
It is interesting that the article states the seal shows a "young man - or mannish young woman". You would never see it written as "a young woman - or a womanly young man". The author of the article shows how insensitive she is to differences. Even better, say "a youth" and not try to guess what the original artist was portraying.
ReplyDeletego where a veil
DeleteI want to see Homer Simpson pictured astride our $600K parade vehicle. Or maybe the defunct wreck center off-loaded to SMCS for three cents on the dollar.
ReplyDeleteI wanna see Homer doing the gangnam style dance hanging from a stripper pole of a smoke stack going
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Springfield style...........
Wow, I think you've set a new record for whining. That Tower was bought 10 years ago with the backing of a town wide vote, it was even a separate article on the ballot and it passed overwhelmingly. GET OVER IT, its going to be here for another 30 years at least
Deletei know but what happened to the promise that puggy made. you remember the chicken cook outs. they were going to cover half the cost.
DeleteHad to stop the cook outs because it was putting out more pollutants than the Biomass will.
DeleteThey should just use a rendering of a gallows for the town to illustrate what those controlling the town are doing to the citizens.
ReplyDeleteCould we at least remove those two trees and replace them with belching smokestacks?
ReplyDeletehow much wood
Deletewould a wood chuck burn
if the biomass facility was in YOUR BACK YARD...
Once again consumed by superfluous concerns, the insanity continues in Springfield. Logos and seals, the stuff of great debates in a town on the fast track to "oblivion and beyond"!
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