Letter to Editor

 

Local Woman "Slams" City Council
For Square Construction When Streets
in Severe Disrepair

 

 

Letter to Editor Front Porch News Texas:

 

I have recently moved back to Sulphur Springs after being gone for about 40 years.  Needless to say, I was shocked at what had been done to downtown i.e. the square and all the buildings.  While I realize that every city loses their downtown shoppers to malls, etc., Sulphur Springs has ruined the best part of the city with all the changes made on the square.  We have one of the most unique courthouses in Texas and you have made it almost impossible for people to admire and appreciate it. 

 

Even though the above changes were very disturbing, the very worse use of taxpayers’ monies has been spent on Main, Connally, and Houston Streets.  When I have to drive down that small section of Main Street (known by some residents as “Maxwell’s Folly”), I am appalled that the citizens of Sulphur Springs have allowed their tax dollars to be used in such a useless manner.  The street is hardly wide enough for two vehicles (small) to pass, the benches are always empty and it certainly resembles nothing like the old Sulphur Springs.  Very few people are going to shop downtown no matter what businesses you put in there because there is no good parking anymore.

 

Then you drive through the residential areas or even out Gilmer/Broadway and find potholes big enough to lose a VW in.  Every intersection, business drives and residential driveways are rough and uneven.    That is truly embarrassing when you are showing visitors some of the city.  I am very happy being back in Sulphur Springs with friends and family but after living in bigger cities, I am shocked at the amount of taxes we pay here and the cost of water.

 

I am not the only citizen of Sulphur Springs that feels this way about what is being done with our tax dollars.  I have always tried to stay out of politics and do not know who is on the city commission but am begging them to please curtail Marc Maxwell’s wild hairs and quit spending money on useless things and fix our streets, intersections, drives, etc.

I don’t know if you will print this or not but at least I have had my say.  I do know that our paper in Amarillo always had a lot of letters to the editor printed and people do listen and heed some of them.

 

Very truly yours,

                                                                                                 

Patsy (Pat) Sanders Rhodes