Residents Should ‘Think Twice Before Trashing Paradise’

June 9, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: It was a beautiful day on Jacktown Road ‒ cool breezes, sunlit new foliage, wildflowers, fat cattle in green fields, Sugar Creek galloping along, House Mountain in full plumage — when I came across my elderly neighbors, both close to 80, one with chronic fibromyalgia, the other currently undergoing cancer treatment, lugging a full bag of trash they’d picked up along the road, already well over a mile from their home. The same part of Jacktown Road I’d gleaned just two months before of beer cans, old diapers, bottles filled with tobacco spit, fast food wrappers and containers still oozing ketchup, etc. etc. ad nauseam.