What’s been repaved, exactly?

I realize that my memory may have gone downhill a bit, but not my eyesight.

A few years ago, Honesdale’s borough council realized a rather large grant of some kind that was said to be used for the purpose of repairing and repaving some of this town’s streets.

Some of those streets have not been repaired or repaved. Among those streets were Ridge Street and Forrest Street.

Only Lower Ridge Street has new paving back to the Honesdale Borough Garage and up less than halfway to the top, while Forrest Street—as anyone who has to use it knows—would make an excellent Tank Testing Area. 

Meanwhile, Upper Ridge Street and lately Vine Street have been overused, causing them to go downhill.

It has been observed that there have been what seem to be privately owned areas of property that have received considerable repair work, while street repair is being held off.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Honesdale says it intends to seek a new grant to “beautify” Main Street.

Tom Atkinson
Honesdale, PA 

Town of Highland should resist FIMFO claims, threats

Three cheers! The National Park Service, by its determination that the Camp FIMFO project is not in conformance with the River Management Plan, is simply reinforcing what hundreds of Town of Highland citizens have been saying all along.  

It has been clear to everyone in the town that Camp FIMFO’s proposal of 146 RV campsites is out of conformance with the rural character of the river valley.  

The Town of Highland Planning Board should not be seduced by the self-serving appeal to local rule made on July 26 by the Camp FIMFO attorneys, nor be intimidated by their transparent threats of ongoing legal entanglement. 

As Oliver Wendell Holmes stated in the 1932 Supreme Court decision that authorized the dams on the Upper Delaware, “a river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.”  

Yes, and we do really treasure it. 

Thank you, National Park Service, for being true to your mission.

Peter Kolesar
Eldred, NY

Andrew Boyar
Eldred, NY

Molinaro: vote ‘NO’ to support democracy

Marc Molinaro’s MAGA caucus supports HR 4563, the remarkably misnamed  “American Confidence in Elections Act.”

Sixty-plus courts have already confirmed there is zero credible evidence of fraud in American elections, so why this bill?  It is simply a blatant attempt to reduce turnout by restricting voting by mail, making it harder to register to vote and in every way making it more difficult for the elderly and disabled and college students to vote. Let’s face it—Republicans love low election turnouts. 

Mr. Molinaro repeatedly describes himself as “bipartisan” and “moderate,” because he knows that he is too extreme for our 19th CD. Well, he can support that self-description by challenging his MAGA colleagues and voting “NO” to this bill that would make voting so much harder for so many people.

We need Marc Molinaro to stand up for democracy!

Edward Kornbluh, DDS
Schodack Landing, NY