The village will spend $28,400 repainting the north water tower. Thirty-nine years after somebody went up there with a brush, and we are still arguing about whether the kid was ever sick.
nsledger.com/village-votes-to-repaint-north-tower
$28,400 to remove the only interesting thing that has ever happened here. My father put a ladder against that tower in 1987 and the village told him to take it down. They can wait another thirty-nine years.
Every year this comes back and every year the same people insist they “always knew.” You did not always know. You put five dollars in a tin outside the hardware store like the rest of us.
I worked dispatch that spring. We took eleven calls about that tower in one night and not one of them was about a crime. People just wanted to tell somebody it was up there.
Whoever started a collection for my shop sign: stop it. I said I would do it in the spring. It is not spring. I am aware of the date.