Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! I just checked the Undertoad Blog and Julie LaBranche, Newburyport’s City Planner is resigning on or around September 6, 2006. Go check out the Undertoad Blog.

Mr. Ryan puts the blame on (from what I understand) Mr. Moak’s good friend, our building inspector Gary Calderwood. Yikes! (And I’m not given to explanation points.)

For the City of Newburyport this is a disaster. Julie Labranche was/is terrific, and to lose Julie without Newburyport having a Planning Director is terrible.

Oy, Vey.

George Cushing (of Frog Pond at the Bartlett Mall), the political consultant for the Newburyport Political Blog is mighty, mighty upset.

“Oy Vey”
George Cushing expressing his displeasure

Mary Eaton
Newburyport