If you hang around Bellevue Council meetings long enough, you'll find that certain ideas and topics come up again and again, a few years apart.

Most people don't recognize this because, quite frankly, people with intact cognitive functions do not hang around Bellevue Council meetings for very long if they want to remain that way.

Some people, however, must attend because it is their job to do so. And they eventually start to see the stories repeat themselves.

Was there ever a spring more anticipated than this one? It's been a long, cold, overly-snowy winter and we're all feeling a new sense of energy as the temperatures climb, the daylight lasts a little longer, and flowers and buds begin appearing.

Many of us turn that energy towards our homes in the spring and summer. We've spent the winter planning and making lists of what needs to be updated, repaired, renewed.

A letter to the editor in this week's paper asks whether property tax millage increases being considered by both local school boards are justified.

Good question.

Hopefully all of you have survived the weekend blizzard without incident. A few North Boroughs residents remained without power as late as Monday morning, but for the most part there was no serious damage to report.

Which is not to say that the storm did not require a massive community effort on all levels.