Aaron Fuda is an activist. He’s also a frequent visitor to the courthouse, cited in recent years for junkyard violations and charged with furnishing liquor to a minor earlier this year. That liquor charge has since been dismissed and the junkyard violations have been addressed, but Fuda’s free spirit remains just a little too freewheeling for Norway.

Fuda, a clothing-optional kind of guy, hosts the annual FudaFest at his home on McKay Road. It is well-attended, which means lots of cars to park, and it’s loud, which means the neighbors complain.

On Friday, town fathers found Fuda in violation of a 2005 disorderly house ordinance. A house is considered disorderly if police are called to the property three or more times in one month, which they were at this year’s FudaFest. That’s a lot of police calls, and it seems fair to neighbors for the town to rein in unruly behavior that spills off the property. Especially since Fuda has suggested that if he can’t continue to host his Fest at his home, he’ll bring the affair downtown.

If Norway is troubled with the “fully unclothed activism festival” on McKay Road, it surely doesn’t want the frolicking down Main Street.

Fuda does, to be fair, post signs asking his guests to remain on the property and sets up toilet facilities to contain waste. For neighbors, though, it’s like living next to a festive and popular campground. Fuda could certainly do more to maintain the peace, especially since some of his neighbors have lived there longer than him.

However, we urge town officials to employ this new ordinance as aggressively to all property owners and not simply to Fuda and his Fest. Anything less would lend credence to Fuda’s assertion that the town is overly focused on him and his activities because it takes issue with his alternative lifestyle.

Perhaps Fuda could learn something about quiet nudity from the folks at the McLaughlin Foundation. There, the disrobing is done with great discretion among the ferns and flowers. And no one complains.

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