City needs to clean up its streets, too

After reading Greg Hill’s Aug. 22 letter (“Water tower: This hunk of junk is a waste of money”), I’m finally inspired to write. I, too, am a recent transplant to Marysville (six years), and I have to agree with his views.

I’m pretty much neutral on the water tower issue. It doesn’t hold a lot of sentiment for me, but I do feel a need to preserve our history regardless of which city it is. I do feel the situation could have been handled better. There is no excuse for not having discovered the poor condition of the roof ahead of time.

The biggest point Greg brings up is the deplorable condition of State Street. My wife and I are almost daily walkers along the downtown stretch of State so we see things up close that the people in cars don’t. We’ve been to many towns around the country, and I can say without hesitation that this is one, if not the most, dirty and unkempt street we’ve ever seen.

side from the terrible condition of the roads and sidewalks, the filth is an issue that sorely needs to be reckoned with along with the unkempt condition of the properties.

As I understand it there is going to be a multi-million dollar renovation of State Street in the near future. Unless the city starts doing something, the merchants start cleaning up around their place of business, and the people start taking some pride in the appearance of our city, all we’re going to end up with is a multi-million dollar garbage dump.

Marysville

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