News and sports in the Whitewater Valley
A blog about what is going on in the Whitewater Valley
Editorial by John Estridge Let me preface this by saying the obvious for anyone who knows me or has read anything I have written: I don’t know a lot about anything. But I know a little about a lot. One of the things I have had in my cluttered, amusement-park-of-a-mind for quite a number of …
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An Editorial by John Estridge I guess with the large majority against the two new seats and with your large defeat in the State Rep race, you have come to recognize what people think of your tenure as council president. Prior to becoming president, you had a very bright political future ahead of you. Had …
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An Editorial by John Estridge This is something I promised myself and a good friend of mine I would never do again: Write an editorial about the Brookville Town Council. Being concerned by the – I’m grasping for the right adjective here – ludicrous, insane, puzzling, inexplicable, dastardly, unbelievable – actions by our Brookville Town …
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An Editorial by John Estridge A person told me to read an article in a local publication. After reading it, I was shocked, livid and otherwise upset. It was about the police-involved shooting in Cedar Grove on May 13. Zachary Chetwood, 31, called 911 and said he was going to commit suicide. However, after four …
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An Editorial by John Estridge When I turned 18 on Jan. 28, 1975, my dad gave me a choice: Leave and live or stay and not live. I chose the former That took me to live with my sister Karen and my brother-in-law Tom in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was one of the best educations I …
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By John Estridge My plan was to write one editorial/analysis on the timeline surrounding the Curtis Ward/Chuck Campbell/Brookville Town Council calamity that will negatively affect every taxpayer in Brookville and possibly in the entire county, especially Snob Knob, Snob Hill or whatever one wants to call it. However, the part about the READI Grant and …
By John Estridge It does not take Sherlock Holmes to figure out why we Brookville taxpayers have purchased a Pig in a Poke Golf Course and are about to annex Snob Knob or Snob Hill or whatever you want to call it. Here is a little timeline concerning what has occurred since July 7 to …
An editorial by Carla Hacker Good Morning Franklin County, Town of Brookville and Interested Citizens!Did you happen to read the Public Notices in the Democrat? It’s is the single most important reason we get this newspaper. It is the first thing we do when we get it: go to the back page to see what’s …
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AN EDITORIAL By John Estridge In covering town councils in several communities and four counties, I have experienced many, many meetings and many different council members and many different officials associated with those towns and cities. Tuesday night, September 14, was the ugliest town council meeting with the officials acting the ugliest I have ever …
By John Estridge It is the morning after the Brookville Town Council meeting where the golf course was purchased – not officially as we were all instructed – but it was purchased. I am sitting on my front porch. It is a beautiful morning if you call 100 in the shade with 210 percent humidity …