The decision to sell, or not to sell, Middletown’s water system is complex. The advantages and disadvantages were outlined in our story on the issue, by reporter Daniel Walmer, in our June 5 edition. If you were looking to be told that the solution is obvious, then you were disappointed. It’s not that simple.

A great tradition at Kuppy’s Cruise-in, the car and motorcycle show held on Middletown’s streets every year to raise money for the Four Diamonds Fund, is that the crowd gets to meet the show’s honoree – the child battling cancer, if he or she is healthy enough, or their family.

Congratulations, high school graduates! You truly have arrived at the gateway to adulthood. You’ll be reminded of that over and over, in speeches by valedictorians and superintendents, in plaudits from parents and teachers and principals and aunts and uncles after the last notes of “Pomp and Circumstance’’ have drifted into your soon-to-be past.

By Jim Lewis

Perhaps it was the Christmas spirit that moved a record number of people – 200! –  to buy tickets for the Middletown Holiday Candlelight Tour of Homes on Dec. 8 and 9. And maybe the 224 people who paid to see the