Mailbag

To The Editor:
It has come to my attention that the lovely historic and completely unique Susan’s Pleasant Pheasant Farm Inn may be destroyed in the name of “progress.”  I am shocked to learn of this. I have spent many long and peaceful weekends there with my young children who learned about the pleasures of the Catskill Mountains from the gracious hosts, Susan and Jim Kelly.
It will be a real travesty if the inn is destroyed and its historical significance to the region is lost.

To The Editor:
I thought that Margaret Inge’s “At Your Service” column in last week’s paper was about the best thing I have ever read in the Catskill Mountain News. Thank you Margaret, for writing about the beautiful commitment vows in marriage. We need more of this kind of writing in today’s world.

To The Editor:
I will give Ms. Bauer’s letter a very brief answer because, if she persists in regurgitating “partners-for-profit’s” propaganda and obfuscation, that is all that it deserves. Instead of persisting in misleading people by referring to “average” salaries, they should publish (as I said in my original letter) median salaries to show where the money is really going.

To The Editor:
What a wonderful surprise to wander into Cassie’s Café in Roxbury a few days ago and find Lisa Palazollo waiting tables. Lisa is not the regular waitress there. She took it upon herself to approach the restaurant owners with a novel idea: if they would let her wait tables, she would donate all of her tip money to charity. They agreed, and for a week or so, Lisa put in the hours for the sake of the Smile Train which provides surgery for under-privileged children.

To The Editor:
A heart-felt thank you to Cassie, Bob, Dottie, Heather, McKenzie, and all of the patrons at Cassie’s Café in Roxbury for their gracious participation in last week’s fundraiser for The Smile Train. I had pledged a donation to the organization, which provides cleft-palate surgery to under privileged children around the world, and when Cassie’s Café hired me as a relief waitress I decided I would donate my tips to charity. It was a very pleasant surprise that, within five days, thanks to Bob’s tireless promotion and the generosity of their patrons, I raised $1,250, a contribution sufficient to provide surgery for five children.

To The Editor:
We are writing this letter to address the current discussion concerning the bridge replacement project in Halcottsville. Week after week letters have appeared in this newspaper by people whose names we do not recognize or who are not residents of the Halcottsville community.
For the most part these letters sound like they were adapted from a common template; one that is filled with factual inaccuracies. It astounds us that people are willing to compromise their integrity by not fact checking before they sign their names.
We will attempt to clear up some of these inaccuracies.

To The Editor:
I am among many in Halcottsville who is concerned about the hamlet’s bridge reconstruction. This bridge crossing is the means of entrance and egress for the majority of our (Bragg Hollow) residents. A long-term bridge closing would oblige us to use tertiary roads to access Margaretville, Roxbury and beyond, a not insignificant issue considering the additional response time of emergency vehicles this would cause.

To The Editor:
“You can’t know who you are until you know where you are.” — Wendell Berry
Five years ago, my husband and I came to the area looking for property for our retirement, and spent the night at the historic Susan’s Pleasant Pheasant Farm Bed and Breakfast. We’d been captivated by the beauty of the area, its quaint villages and friendly people. Susan and Jim Kelly, proprietors of the B&B, suggested we take a ride up Bragg Hollow and check out the properties available.

To The Editor:
Fleischmanns taxpayers beware! Once again our taxes will be increased!
This is pay day for the misconduct of our village government during a former administration, when in July of 1999 the village board authorized the sale of two village wells for the meager grand total of $15,000. now the mistakes of the past years are haunting us in the form of an unnecessary water tower which will theoretically replace our loss of the sold wells. Please note, whereas, the sold wells gave Fleischmanns a separate source of water, the proposed water tower will be fed by the same spring water which currently supplies the water to our village.

Editor’s note: The following letter was written to the Greater Margaretville Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and members. The author asked that it be printed here as a letter to the editor.

Dear Greater Margaretville Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and members:
Thank you for the information in the recent broadcast e-mail notifying the membership about the pending name change for our local chamber of commerce. We will be away the week of the meeting and will not be able to attend but we are registering three NO votes for the Membership Ballot (Molnar Financial Group, Inc., Margaretville Lodging LLC and Margaretville Mountain Inn B&B).