CHEMTURA LAUNCHES CLEANUP PLAN

Apparently this story has "legs". This is an expression which indicates that a story will have a number of followups. Today's K-W Record , on the front page of the local section carries the above title. I hate to be a skeptic but is this due primarily to the municipal election on October 25? Are the ongoing and apparently never ending Chemtura (Uniroyal) spills only news at election time? David Ash the former General Manager at Chemtura must be laughing his head off. It was generally felt that his job was "consolidated" due to the last fire on his watch and yet these problems continue. One of the issues in today's article which got my attention was voiced by a nearby resident ".. who runs a child-care centre from her home,(and)is worried about letting the children out to play in the yard or rake up leaves."