Back to the future for Goodwill

It was hard to make the argument -- although some people gave it their best shot -- that Goodwill Industries, which has been operating in Westport for half a century, doesn't have the right to move its facility a few hundred feet up the Post Road. So once the traffic issues were addressed, it was a pretty easy call, it seems to us, for the Planning & Zoning Commission to approve the site plan, as it did last week, unanimously.

And it was gratifying to read all the comments from Westporters on Westport Now, disagreeing with a store owner who had some problems with the "element" that Goodwill attracts. Goodwill has been a valued member of the community for 50 years, and this is hardly the time (a season of goodwill, remember) to be stiff-arming this fine organization.

We wish Goodwill Industries the best as it continues its mission of helping those most in need of help. Certainly in these uncertain economic times, we all may have come to realize that "There, but for the grace of God, go I."