For several months I have been receiving damning email from a "Becky Rockhold Powers" mostly trying to defend the street super. Today in the Quincy Herald Whig I see that she has only now married Kent. The only thing can say to rest my case is this. First, it is a good idea that she is a high school graduate and a gem City Graduate and has a good job. Because the last line says it all, like father, like son, he is a Highland graduate. There was no mention of any college or a job anywhere. 

I find it totally ironic that the Chamber of Commerce rightfully awarded Mr. Farr, the model citizen award. The reason it is ironic as the City, which he was awarded for being dedicated too has steadfastly refuse to do anything to the street to his house and force him to drive on a dirt road. I wonder if the Chamber is going to scam all the "Coroporate" members again this year as the Chamber has done the last four years. You know, locker room Jim, where you promise to put out a business directory each year for more money and then defraud them. I can remember when the Chamber went ballistic when a calendar promoted took money and then didn't print the calendars.

I don't know Mr. Hutchins, the President of the La Grange Foundry, but he started the history of the foundry several years after it as built. No big deal, but when you do history, you should start at the beginning even if you just mention it and go on to where you want. The other thing I take exception to, is that he stated that it is hard to find high quality employees. Evidently his history lesson didn't include the time Gardner's tried to go to Oklahoma and build a foundry to close this one only to find that the best workers were here in La Grange. It cost Gardner's millions to learn that lesson that this President seemed to have missed. Plus, after the gambling boat gets going, the foundry will not be the largest employer according to the figures being bantered about.

How many people in Lewis County are willing to add a 20% increase to their taxes. A letter to the Canton editorial wanted the voters to forget the mistakes made in the past. I am sorry to say to the person that just came around, that, there were no mistakes made. The Lewis County School Board "DID IT ON PURPOSE". It was no mistake that "pave my drive free" and others deliberately chose to close the La Grange School. The Lewis County School Board deliberately chose to put those children in a dilapidated school. They knew exactly what they were doing and it was totally on purpose. No mistakes were made. The taking of the La Grange was coldly calculated over 30 years ago, and pave my drive free and no prayer here hammered the last nail in the coffin to close the La Grange School.

Prayers should be on order for Patricia Cottrell and Jeanie Farr, both who are in hospitals. Sorry (no prayer here).

 Speaking of (no prayer here), I keep hearing rumors that he and (pave my drive free) do not plan to run for office next term. That will be an excellent idea for the people of La Grange. Like the cockroaches they are, who only come out at night and hold their secret meetings with their puppet Mayor and four Councilmice, they have held the people of La Grange hostage for over six years to get their gambling boat. Like Clinton, they have taken the office of mayor and Council of the City of La Grange to its lowest level in the history of the town. Thirty years ago, cockroaches who would have sold out their school and violated the City Ordinances and the Charter of La Grange, they would have been run out of town. But, like the four mice, the new people of La Grange have let them slide. 

Now that they have sold out our school so THEIR children can go to a better school, (Highland), that can now offer THEIR children so much more, AND, now that they have their gambling boat for their retirement, why hang around? 187 people voted for a puppet mayor and two people who sold them out twice, out of 700 voters and the mayor is tickled to death.

The new sign up for Mayor and a Councilman from each ward will be in the paper soon. Will the people of La Grange vote for the puppet again, or someone honest to do the job? Will there be three people to run for Councilmen that will not be like the three mice that are there now? I will never ever forget that one night when I had the confrontation with no prayer here and pave my drive free. The three mice hid so far back n the corner, I thought they were trim on the woodwork. Scared to death. Mike Lowe. David Burbridge. Roger Sherwood. When you have Councilmice like that, how can you fight for the rights of the people of the town?

Once I get it all scanned in, I will add two excellent additions to this page. Once is about the Park Ranger and what the word perjury means. And, then other is a lot of aerial photos of the City. Mr. Tonnies took me flying with him the other day while he took pictures and was nice enough to allow me to go to and use my digital camera. I took over 80 pictures from all angles. All I have to do now is get past this three day garage sale. I think every body and their brother came today though.

Started our garage sale today ad over a hundred cars came. Posted a sign to everyone that stops in to notify them that the City and the Street Super refused to fix the road up the hill, even though it is a City Street. Just want everyone who drives up the hill know what kind of Mayor and Street Super we have.

Slowly getting things back up to speed. With our huge garage sale coming up and getting ready for it, time has been on the short side. After this weekend, the Gossip page will be back to updates every other day. Be patient. Stop filling my email box up. This way of publishing the Gossip Page over the two columns won 5 to one.

We have set up a website so that people who sell on Ebay or other auctions can have a place to put their pictures. If you need a place call me.

My neighbor lady went to the hospital the other day for heart problems I believe. Bob had to PAY to get a load of rock on the CITY STREET going to his place as his ole buddy the street super is too lazy to put some of the city rock on. For the past ten years, I have been rocking the road and grading it and smoothing it out and cleaning the snow off. Too bad the Mayor and Council won't help a man who has worked for the City for years and donated years of overtime for nothing and have the City screw him over like this. But, that is what 187 people voted for a do nothing Mayor and a screw you Council, just tickles the Mayor to death.