Ok, I’ll bite.

I have an anonymous tipster, who in the past has given me anonymous tips all of which have panned out.

Yes, and I got another anonymous tip. Fortunately, this anonymous tipster sends public documentation, which means the stuff is true, and it also mean (I hope) that the suing stuff doesn’t apply here.

The anonymous tipster answered the question I hadn’t actually asked myself, “Whatever happened to Christopher Ryan?”

Now, Christopher Ryan was Mayor John Moak’s initial pick for Newburyport Planning Director (mucho controversy) who decided to withdraw his name during the interview process.

And we ended up with Nancy Colbert, an “all’s well that ends well” scenario (I hope.) Ms Colbert was Newburyport’s Planning Director before Nick Cracknell and has also had a whole lot of zoning experience to boot working with Taintor and Associates.

My anonymous tipster sent me an article from the Lowell Sun, December 6, 2006. Apparently, “The Board of Selectmen and Planning Board (for the town of Ayer) voted unanimously to hire Concord planning educator Christopher Ryan for the newly created director of planning and development post.”

So it looks like “alls well that ends well” (we hope) for Christopher Ryan and the town of Ayer, MA (which is off Route 2, slightly beyond Route 495 down along Fitchburg.)

Mary Eaton
Newburyport