At risk properties - a burning issues.

The townpeople of this rural New England enclave will meet to today to discuss a burnining issue. One that raises the temperature of many for vastly different reasons. Some because they live next to an 'at risk' property and see their property values 'at risk', others because the recognize a softening up process leading to higher taxes and others because they just want an affordable home in the town they work in.

Yes, specter of Chapter 40B, the law that allows a developer to circumvent Lincoln's 2 acre (that's right, you need a 2 acre plot to build a house here) zoning is make an appearance again, too late for Halloween, but you might see some fireworks.

In 'Olde' England, people will gather tonight to celebrate a different burning issue. One that took place in 1606 long before 40B developments or even the founding of America. Guy Fawkes, the fall guy of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament will be burned in effigy all over England and there will definitely be fireworks.