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The Fifth Grade Chorus left the cupcakes behind when their families escorted them from the building after their concert presented to the Blue Ridge School Board meeting on March 4th. Maybe it was just as well that the 24 youngsters weren’t asked to sit through the 12-point agenda just for the sugary nuggets of pleasure at the end. There probably wouldn’t have been enough cupcakes for all of them anyway.

The singers provided pleasure aplenty for everyone else though. Music teacher Kristen Burkhart led half of the 5th-grade chorus through 4 numbers from Broadway musicals The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, George Washington, Jr. and The Sound of Music. Celebrating Music in the Schools Month, the other half of the chorus is scheduled to perform for the Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) on March 12. Maybe they’ll get cupcakes then.

One doesn’t always get a second chance, but Lanesboro is giving (or getting) one this month. The borough’s March meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, failed to draw the legally-constituted quorum necessary for governance. Present for the meeting were borough council President Todd Glover, council members David Glidden and Jason Fissel, along with Mayor Chris Maby and Secretary/Treasurer Gail Hanrahan. Council needed at least one of the four missing members - Dan Boughton, Regina Dilello, Dale Rockwell, or Colleen Y. Wilkes - to gavel the session to order.

Alas, at 7:12 p.m. Council President Glover conceded defeat and announced that council would reconvene in two weeks time, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19, to take up the agenda from this evening’s postponed meeting. The March 19 meeting had previously been scheduled and advertised only to open sealed bids concerning the interior renovations for the Community Center. With this meeting’s agenda added to it council will have a full plate.

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