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If Electra's average income is so low the school kids qualify for free breakfast and lunch, then how is it that we can afford $11,000,000+ for a new school? Hm?
The grocery store is closing before the end of this month. I'm told it's for sale at $350,000 as is.
The nice little BBQ place that was on the corner of Highway 25 and West Cleveland that we all enjoyed so much, intended to put in a more permanent building, and would be open several days a week on a regular schedule. I hear, but can't verify, that after they bought the small ATM building to convert to serve food, city hall gave them so much static they gave up and went back to Vernon.
Electra is fixing to be faced with a lot of emptiness: Dinsmore, First Ward, Citibank, Cameron, the BBQ corner, and now the grocery store.
In addition to that, Dollar General, which formerly leased all their properties, is now building stores, and they build them out on the main highways. I don't know of any plans for Dollar General to build here, but if they do they'll very likely go out north on the superslab, which could mean yet another empty building in the downtown area.
It remains to be seen what Pilgrim Bank will do with State National. Rumor has had State National teetering on the brink of closing this branch for years; this time, it might come to pass.
If city hall follows through with plans to decamp to Dinsmore, there will be little left of downtown.
Each closure takes away a portion of the tax base, which puts the town's considerable indebtedness onto those who remain.
This was a great little town to grow up in, and remained so for many years. The people in charge of what's left appear to be determined to cut off the town's nose to spite its face. They don't pay for it: WE do.
8. Who has lumbered us with gigantic debt?
Anita Huguelet McMurtrie
