County must right a wrong in Snow Hill

Editor,

For years now, the County Commissioners have absolutely refused to pick up a phone and stop the county landscapers from destroying property in Snow Hill and causing incredible health problems for the citizens.

For this reason, the fight will be elevated to include the Maryland Environmental Protection, the state’s attorney, the Maryland State Police and our statewide elected leaders. I will also be rallying my neighbors and look for your landscapers to be arrested by the police the next time they are seen committing these dangerous and illegal actions.

It is clear that the commissioners have finally gotten sick of the Sheriff begging for money.

Perhaps they could put the Sheriff to work on this. It is embarrassing to walk around the municipal parking lot edge and see where these landscapers have been piling up garbage for years. People have to pay property taxes on that land they are ruining and using for county disposal.

But the most concerning thing about all of this is this callous nature of the spreading of allergens. This entire episode began many years ago when the county’s lead landscaper stood in front of me with his blower on full blast, blowing garbade and pollen and grass into my face. When I asked him to not do that, he told me to complain to the county commissioners because he did whatever he wanted. You all fired Ken instead of dealing with a lawsuit from me at the time. But that is not good enough anymore.

If this situation continues, my lawsuit will occur. Ken attacked me that day and deserved to go to prison. He was finally fired/retired because he was illegally driving a county vehicle truck every day with one eye. You all have a very large problem on your hands now. The town of Snow Hill is thoroughly on my side, and now the rest of the state is joining this party.

Property rights? Public health? To be a leader, you have to make decisions. For no one to have picked up the phone in six years and told the landscapers to use a lawnmower with a lead bag, a rake and a trash can to clean the parking lot every week instead of lazily just blowing everything on the surface of the lot onto private property. This is a ridiculous failure by the Worcester County Commissioners.

Greg Gunther
Snow Hill