The Latest Word on Parking

Yesterday, Gossips reported that alternate side of the street parking would be suspended on weekends, beginning this weekend, July 1, and continuing through October 31, but, according HPD chief Ellis Richardson, the suspension did not apply to Monday, the Fourth of July. A call to Common Council Police Committee chair Chris Wagoner and a second phone conversation with Council President Don Moore finally yielded, last evening, the information that alternate side of the street parking would be suspended for the entire three-day weekend--Friday to Saturday, Saturday to Sunday, and Sunday to Monday. But since there's been so much confusion and so little clarity, the Gossipsmobile, just to be safe, will be parked overnight as if alternate side of the street parking were still in effect.