Editor’s note: The Jasper County News reserves the right to edit and omit comments for length and/or content.
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“What was on Bob’s mind when he started driving the red truck on a regular basis knowing that he did not have a valid driver’s license. The smart thing to do was to let his friend drive him around. A real friend would never have let him leave from the party intoxicated and rive off putting his life and our lives in danger.”––Male (written message)
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“I was disappointed to see Aldermen Cook on the front page again for some of the same charges as in 2007. He asked my family to give home a second chance and we voted him back in. He needed more years on the state retirement and he did not have a job. Our family knows he has not changed from his old ways. Will he want another chance when it is election time again? ––Female (written message)
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“To the Jasper County News Talk Back. Some people in the community feel that it is terrible that the Jasper County News had Bob Cook on the front page and the charges could have been just listed in the jail docket. Cook feels he can’t be touched because he is an alderman. People on the national level is put in the paper when they do wrong. I applaud the paper for the article. Bob did this to himself.” ––Female (written message)
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“Check July 20 Editor’s note. One would think when one talk back, one know for sure what we’re talking about. Thanks.”––Female (written message)
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“Regarding Supervisors Board meeting, we need to be careful in what we repeat from someone else, by let it be known that the Vossburg voting precinct need to be made handicapped accessible, a good move for handicapped people, it may not get fix in time for August voting, but I thank it show that with all the storm, rain, win and heat, someone is trying to make things comfortable if possible.
I can’t help but wonder who was in this meeting, to say wheather [sic] or not this request had or had not been brought up before. I noted that it was stated that “Supervisor Curtis Gray left the room to call Prentiss Henley.” ––Female (written message)
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“I have two questions. Number one, where did the big windfall come from all of a sudden right after election time to overlay at least two of the roads in Beat One that people have been complaining about for years? Question number two: I wonder what kind of tricks our sheriff has up his sleeve right here at election year this time. Perhaps another drug bust like last election? Thank you.”––Female
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“Yes, I’d like to comment on the Talk Back about the supervisors spending money on the voting precinct. I think they should be able to do that. After all, Hol-Mac’s been tax exempt since 1965. I guess they’re not ever gonna make enough money to pay their taxes.”––Female
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“Yes, it’s time for people to get up in arms about spending, spending, spending. When we read the paper where we’re spending $800,000 for a Laurel contractor to fix bridges and you say it’s not coming out of the tax payers’ pockets. Just who do you think pays federal taxes and where do you think the money is gonna come from? We need to make industry pay their taxes. We need to quit building bridges that probably do not even need fixing in the first place. Thank you.”–– Female
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“Yes, I’d like to comment about the learning center we’re building to train three or four hundred people to work. First thing I’d like to ask is, why do we have to spend on a new building? We’ve got two old Hol-Mac buildings on Highway 15. We’ve got a Dalex building and we’ve got a goat barn. Why don’t we utilize some of the buildings we have sitting around we’ve already built? And when you get ‘em trained, just where are they gonna go to work at? Could it be Peco or the dollar store? ‘Cause there’s no where to work around here. Thank you.” –– Female
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“Yes, I’d like to know, I live on County Road 23 on the south end, and they are replacing the water line and cutting the water off and everything. How come we’re not under a boil water notice? Thank you.”––Male
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“I’m calling in reference to County Road 23 at the Antioch Community. Uh, what the, uh, supervisor has done now to the end, closest to 18, is good, just come up there and finish filling in all the holes, ruts and everything, so we don’t have to keep dodging them before somebody hits somebody else and somebody gets hurt. Finish our road out to other end, just like you did the beginning of the road. But at least put a thicker coating of blacktop on it so it’ll last for a while. Thank you.”––Female
