Your April 4 editorial on Silver Scone was without fact and misrepresented what is actually happening at the Planning Board hearings for Silver Scones in New Ipswich.

Ashley Saari has been covering the proceedings and should have been consulted before the editorial was published. She knows that Richard Smeeth and Liz Freeman, both alternates for the Planning Board, have both recused themselves from the Planning Board since the hearings began. Nancy Clark resigned, immediately, the day after she was sworn in to her newly appointed position, after finding out about a legal conflict of interest.

The editorial could have been written by Jane Elwell herself, as it has that familiar, "they are all against me and the poor, poor pitiful me," ring to it. Shame on you for getting this story all wrong and misrepresenting the facts. The one true fact remains that, in your words, "the staunchest opponents to Silver Scones," only want Bank Village, District 1 to remain a quiet, peaceful and quaint residential neighborhood, without a restaurant with an 18-car parking lot smack-dab in the middle of it. 

Stan Zabierek 

New Ipswich

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