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July 20
Orchids to
Overhead Door for replacing our garage doors and outstanding service! Thank you, from Pat and Ali.
Elliot at Kroger for doing a great job on your first day, from a customer who noticed.
Prime, streaming PickleTV…a pickleball network.
the short and to the point Susan Bruner letter and the informational column by Jim Merritt.
Comstock Concrete Construction Co. and the town of Hope for my great new cement sidewalk.
the Columbus Bike Co-Op for lending bikes for the kids’ take-it-apart workshop.
Gary of Certified Appliance for another job well done, from Theresa.
Heaven sent Adam and Becky Garrett for doing an outstanding job power washing at First United Methodist Church.
Onions to
not replacing two dead trees in downtown Fourth Street.
the city for leaving Christmas lights up on Fourth Street year-round and not maintaining them.
a $150,000 study when we can’t even take care of our own roads.
the city for not hiring an outside consultant to eliminate the dangerous roundabouts on Taylor Road.
the intermediate player who demanded the young couple leave the pickleball court Tuesday at Donner.
the prior federal executive for saying “be there, will be wild” to encourage the Jan. 6 attack on our government and causing at least 1,000 to be criminally charged in the attack he encouraged.
anyone wanting to give the former guy another chance to turn our democracy into a dictatorship.
local family diner for allowing a young toddler to run about the restaurant.
everyone parking in the street on Suburban Court blocking the neighbors from passing.
failed football coach who is an even worse senator.
law enforcement for using blanket policing by using Flock cameras and artificial intelligence against residents.
county employee using county equipment for personal use.
the local senior living facility who caters to the whims of one tenant while leaving the others in a difficult situation.
government officials who increasingly make our country look like a banana republic.
the city that will not let convenience stores or grocery stores put a store in from Rocky Ford to the airport on Central Avenue.
the two cars that blew the light at U.S. 31 and Middle Road and the car racing north on 31 weaving in and out of traffic.
