People before politics
TO THE EDITOR: Kimmel shows leadership on Saranac Lake's push to become a city.
Our next state representative in Albany should be someone who can lead the way on issues critical to the people of the North Country.
The residents of Saranac Lake pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes to neighboring town governments which neither represent (the village) nor offer any services in return. Any fair-minded individual can see this for what it is, unjust and un-American.
Dave Kimmel publicly announced and staked a position on supporting Saranac Lake's push to become a city stating "I know that there are towns that would lose money, but you have to operate on principle, and the principle of taking money from a group of people and not giving them services in return ... well, sir, that's one of the reasons we fought the Revolutionary War."
As for Janet Duprey, "she doesn't think that it would be appropriate to have an opinion until the process moves forward more." Rudy Johnson stated that "he hadn't looked at Saranac Lake's situation too closely and that the people of the community should make the decision." (Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Aug. 7).
More recently, Duprey stated "The people of the village have a heavy lift to do to get everybody on board if in fact they decide to go forward with the request to become a city, and I don't want anybody to take that as me being negative — it's just the reality of what's going to have to happen." While Johnson has followed up with "If it's in the village's best interests, I would certainly support it. I want to listen to both sides in terms of pros and cons, but I would defer to the decision that the citizens came up with." (wnbz.com, Aug. 18) Wow! Again, feeble responses that make no attempt to lead the citizenry in correcting an injustice.
Tony Maglione
Plattsburgh
Happy ending
TO THE EDITOR: In the early morning of July 17, a sheriff's deputy saw my husband walking in Beekmantown. Words cannot describe how happy I am that you stopped and asked him where he was going.
He had surgery a couple days before and the hospital had given him meds to help him sleep but they woke him up. Confused, he got dressed and left the hospital. He basically was sleep walking. If you hadn't stopped and talked to him and noticed the saline lock still in his arm, who knows what would have happened to him.
I don't know your name, but thank you for making sure he was okay and for bringing him back to the hospital. Because of you it was a happy ending to a terrifying night.
Meredith Smith
Mooers Forks
