Your article on the closure of the Hix Bridge exit reports “uncertainty over the land’s ownership.” Uncertainty? There is no indication of any extant ownership documents or riders to ownership documents taht would indicate any stipulations to the purchase. The deed is absent of any conditionality at all. The fact that “the town did significant work improving that property,” may or may not have been relevant to the ale, but there was clearly no quid pro quo, implied or otherwise. After your reporting, the “uncertainty over the land’s ownership” now resides in your readers’ minds as if it were factual.

Additionally, the assertion that Masons are public-spirited is true in a general sense, but the idea that any Masonic charter exists with public service as a stated value is simply an invention. Masons are dedicated to charitable acts, not to public service per se. When the Town of Westport declares itself a charity, we can discuss this further. Until then, please let us stick to actual facts.

Chas Cowing

Westport