To prepare for the inclement weather, the North Haven Board of Education is postponing its superintendent's budget presentation. We were supposed to get the numbers on the night of Feb. 1, but now the meeting's been rescheduled to 5 p.m. Thursday Feb. 3. Hope we'll all be ambulatory by then.
Also postponed to a later date is the community outreach forum that was being organized by the Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce, Yale-New Haven Hospital and the first selectman's office over the hospital's plan to open a 24-hour medical center in the Crossroads complex at 6 Devine St. The forum was to take place at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 2 in Memorial Town Hall. First Selectman Michael J. Freda said they're going to try to reschedule for the end of the month, possibly later.
Hopefully the roads will be clear for Thursday, when American Legion Post 76 holds its annual Four Chaplains ceremony at 7 p.m. Thursday Feb. 3 at the recreation center on Linsley Street. Post Commander Dan Riccio will officiate along with Charles Morrissey, the chairman of the Four Chaplains event. State Rep. Dave Yaccarino, R-North Haven and Sen. Leonard A. Fasano, R-North Haven, will be among the dignitaries in attendance at the event that pays tribute to the four clerics who gave their lives so that others were able to live on the USS Dorchester during World War II. Competing with an audience that night will be the monthly Board of Selectmen meeting, slated for 7 p.m. in the library's community room.

Get ready for what is expected to be an awful budget season. Hamden Legislative Council President Jim Pascarella has announced tentative dates for budget public hearings and deliberations.
Expecting that Mayor Scott D. Jackson presents his 2011-12 budget in mid-March, the council will start meeting with department heads about their budget requests on March 22 and 24. The reviews begin at 6 p.m. both those nights and will be held in the third-floor conference room in the Hamden Government Center, 2750 Dixwell Ave.
The public hearing on the Board of Education budget will be held at 7 p.m. March 29 in the Hamden Middle School auditorium. The town budget public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. March 30, also at the middle school, 2623 Dixwell Ave.
Council deliberations on the budget will take place in April and May. The council, by charter, has to pass a budget by mid-May.
Pascarella said a lot of what the 2011-12 budget looks like will depend on the state. Dare I say that we shouldn't depend on too much?