Part 14: The Wine Wars: The Befuddled and Bemused

How the town of Chatham and its Board was played inside and out by Team Williams and let down an entire community.

Tonight, the Town of Chatham receives the Zoning Board of Appeals decision on whether Ed and Cherie Williams can use their garage for something. Just what that use is? Good question, and now a largely meaningless one.

While this shifting matter has been simmering on the ZBA’s stove, the real meal is already on the table.

How the Williams pulled this off is fascinating and made clearer by the recent posting of public information on the Town’s website. Was it a poorly conceived transparency policy or a survival strategy? It is hard not to think that dumping documents online and hoping no one notices the mess beneath them was part of the survival calculus. Whatever the objective, what is clear is that the more they reveal, the more they expose.

The new video section is more obscene than what used to sit behind the curtain at the old Video Cave across from the Val-Kin.

What, exactly, was that engineer, the one cosplaying as a Proud Boy, doing before the Planning Board on October 14, 2025? One…