Yes, you are correct. They didn't want to hear the people. The meeting was scheduled for 2 hours. The board, who started all this, quit after 23 minutes. The crowd was Not "unruly"! Most were middle-aged and most shouting happened when they realized the meeting was over before it really started. And then this "unruly" crown sang God Bless America! Unbelievable touch by the citizens.

Living in the Boston area, I was the video of the meeting. The Board simply shut things down because they didn't want to get berated another 50+ times. That's leftist democracy in action.

The town council can't overturn.

Westminster's citizens should go after these board members in every phase of their daily lives. Berate them in public, at the grocery store. Shun their friends & family. Don't let kids play together. Hell, burn effigies in their yards. Make it difficult for them, their families & friends to live there. These petty despots seek to use the power of govt to reduce people's freedoms, incomes and property.

Sound extreme? Increasingly, it's the only thing the avg. citizen has to fight back against these despots.

Hi Glenn! I'm a long time reader, happy to join.
I live in the next town over and the stores in Westminster have been gathering signatures about how this will effect their businesses for weeks. About 500 people showed up for the meeting. About 60 were to speak. Instead the 4 people from the town board decided there was to be "no clapping" -- a condition that obviously broke down after the first 4 speakers. The board said the crowd was Unruly! -- for expressing their opinions in a New England town hall!! And they disbanded for "safety reasons" What a sham! How spineless of the Board. These are THE CITIZENS who had taken time off to address their concerns with pre-written comments they were not allowed to make. It was embarrassing that the Board couldn't politely stand up to actually having to talk to their own townspeople for 2 hours and ducked out.