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Brownsville a disaster zone

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Wake up ye citizens of Brownsville. Brownsville General Hospital has closed. The borough is cutting services. Our real estate values have dropped through the floor. Heat bills are out of sight. No improvements on the drug scene. Even the alarm warning system for fire is not working properly. The town continues to look as if it’s been in a war.

With all the depressing, stressful and upsetting happenings have you noticed how BARC has grown and prospered?

BARC owns five downtown buildings, all but one restored or remodeled. All these buildings provide BARC with rent except the H&R Block building, which is closed and in disrepair.

Things appear to be so great for BARC, the Flatiron building is closed a good deal of the time.

Run a for-profit business this way and see what happens.

Now here’s the kicker. BARC has a three-sided sign across from Eckerd’s. The present advertising is dated Oct. 15, 2005, “BARC cares”? It’s like planting flowers and not watering them.

Have you forgotten how BARC welcomed the Liggetts? They did so with open arms and saw to it the door stayed open for years.

Can you name something BARC has done to contribute to the health, safety or welfare for any of us?

Brownsville and the surrounding area is a disaster. Not nature, but man-made.

It’s time to make BARC and the Liggetts accountable; thereby, call a town meeting by Brownsville, Brownsville Township, Redstone, Grindstone, Luzerne and West Brownsville, to be held at the high school.

Call your councilperson, call your officers, call the commissioners.

Robert N. Hess

Brownsville

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