I’m writing in response to the Feb. 28 letter by Chris Stevens titled “Footer Dye Works vital part of our heritage.”
May I just say he failed to mentioned that the following places: Queen City Station, the SS Peter and Paul Monastery, the Liberty, Maryland, and Strand Theaters that were demolished because they were falling apart and the others that were demolished — Rose Hill and Gov. Lowndes Mansion — because they were part of the current interstate system and the highway was not going to be rerouted to save two homes.
Now the Footer Dye Works building is much a mystery and a lot of residents of Cumberland have noticed it could be unsavable due to a few facts: people have noticed bricks falling out of the building and birds are living inside the Footer Dye Works.
Before the National Park Service approves saving this building it should inspect the building for themselves to see if it is savable or not.
If unsaveable it must be demolished as a last resort, as city council member David Kauffman has stated at a recent meeting (“Vote on Footer Dye sends decision to city council,” Feb. 14 Times-News, Page 1A).
John M. Davis
Cumberland
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Park Service should determine if Footer building can be saved
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Which buck is it, and where is it supposed to stop?
Barack Obama has made Nixon look like a choir boy! “Obama worse than Nixon” the supermarket tabloid’s headlines read recently.
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Theft of car’s bike rack sour note during Scouts’ visit here
On the evening of June 6, while our Boy Scout troop camped at the Paw Paw Tunnel (Route 51, Mile 156.2 of the C&O Canal) someone stole our bike rack.
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All ‘gave some,’ but these from our local area truly ‘gave all’
Between June 14 (Flag Day) and July 4 (Independence Day), I’m responding to several recent editorials and letters to the editor.
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Freedom isn’t exactly what he thinks it is
In the June 2 Times-News, R. Steele Selby (“Just how free are we?) defines freedom as “the capacity to do whatever he or she wants to do” and asserts that this definition is “most likely nearly universal.”
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What Maryland calls the Fair Share Act isn’t fair at all
The Fair Share Act was passed in 2009. This law allowed for service fees to be part of the collective bargaining process.
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We have lots to show for our education dollars
I would like to take this opportunity to respond to Judith Weller’s latest anti-education diatribe, “The money they already have isn’t being spent wisely,” (June 3).
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Western Md. Veterans continues its mission
My name is Dan Brashear, I am the founder and director of Western Maryland Veterans.
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Maybe the cyclists and casino workers should be armed
Again, unfortunately I have to remind Don Carns Jr. of Beans Cove, Pa., on his latest repeatedly inaccurate letter published June 10 in the Cumberland Times-News (“Township is nothing like either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia”).
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Let’s all kick in $1 to help save Frostburg’s Palace Theatre
As a former resident, I have many fond memories of the Palace Theatre (“Theater wall crumbles: Palace exterior collapses, unfit for entry: officials,” June 6 Times-News, Page 1A).
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Develop the waterway
Since the debate over removing the dam started about four years ago, I have been concerned about the effect the dam removal would have on the area’s welfare.
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