A sad example of a small town that has suffered from the grandiose desires of a handful of elite locals with a legacy of bloated pet projects. The foolish idea that we should sculpt our downtown to attract some speculative business base, well we the tax paying citizens have toted their torch... While our children walk dirt paths to poor street crossing within a block of our elementary schools. Was anyone thinking about belt tightening when they decided to demolish the landscaping in the courthouse parking lot and build a rain-water catchment park? Our leadership has failed at their role as caretakers and stewards of our city,  and their arrogant carefree expenditure of our taxes is only topped by their failure to attract new investors to replace a mill that has outlived financial viability. I am just keeping my fingers crossed that we don't end up with yet another mill owner walking away from a toxic site that ends as a fenced epitaph to the incompetence of our leaders.