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I am a Star Valley resident and I became outraged after I read a letter to the editor in the Mogollon Connection and the Rim Country Gazette Blog. It stated that Vern Leis from the Star Valley Water and Sewer Commission has decided to ignore the reports that LFR has authored about the Tower Well. It further states that he wants to fire LFR and hire a local firm to consult Star Valley regarding its water needs and concerns. This same firm has consulted Payson for years. Sounds to me like this is a good deal for Payson and a bad deal for Star Valley. Is Vern just trying to please some Payson officials without considering the consequences to Star Valley? Just maybe Vern should move west to Payson where his best friends Buzz and Kenny live! Bon voyage.
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During the Star Valley Town Council meeting on June 15, Mayor Rappaport stated that he views the IGA as an “act of faith between two towns” and stated that “Payson is gifting Star Valley with many benefits” and that “ Payson is extending a hand of friendship and he does not want to push it away.” Well, Star Valley, let’s look at the many benefits. We get to have Payson tell our town where not to drill a well and how much water we can take from it. We get to have Payson come into Star Valley and drill more wells as long as they don’t compete with their Tower Well. We get to participate in the Blue Ridge acquisition even though we don’t need the surface water and, more important, we can’t afford it. Oh, and we get to “get along”. What’s in it for Star Valley? Bankruptcy and new friends!! Boy, Mr. Rappaport , you sure know a good deal when you see one! Have you forgotten why Star Valley incorporated?
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With all the commotion over an IGA between Payson and Star Valley for Blue Ridge Water, I have to ask the question, does Star Valley really need it? Seems to me that Payson did a safe yield study a few years back on Star Valley and concluded that Star Valley has over 4,000 acre foot of ground water available on an annual basis. I remember them also stating that Star Valley is using less than half that amount and will use slightly more than half that amount after the town has finished growing. So why would Star Valley want to spend any amount of money on something it doesn’t need? Am I missing something?
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Thank you for your honest appraisal of the water situations in Pine-Strawberry, Payson-Star Valley and Mesa del Caballo. Can you believe the Roundup ran a front page headline announcing that Payson had received an inch of rain. Why don’t they look at long-term trends and records. If they did, they would see that an inch of rain doesn’t mean a damn thing in the big scheme of things.
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So now the Roundup won’t carry letters to the editor by anybody associated in any way with the Gazette Blog and the Mogollon Connection. True story, folks. And another blow is struck against freedom of the press. Does this situation remind anybody of Communist Russia? Remember Tass and Pravda, the state newspapers. And look what happened to that system in the end. Truth always wins out.
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So (Roundup Reporter) Pete Aleshire says he is not asking Kenny Evans the tough questions about his $500 million investors because the Roundup is not an investigative newspaper. What a bunch of bull. In the old days, when the Roundup had a real editor, the tough questions were asked.
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What a mess the (Pine Strawberry Water Improvement) District (PSWID) is in. So, tell me, what is the difference between the District investing public money in a private enterprise (District’s investment in Hardscastle's K2 project) and the District's investment in a private well owner (Pugel). Same thing. Unacceptable then, but fine now. Isn't that what the District's board recall was all about?
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How much more obvious could it be. There are no professionals working at the District. None want to be associated with the District. Haney's resignation should make that very clear. We members of the District are now in serious trouble and we have only slightly more than one year to replace interim bank financing with permanent, less expensive financing. Do you have any idea how hard that is to do now? Do you have any idea how the Board resignations appear to a prospective financier? Yes, we're in trouble and no good direction out of the current mess. Compass Bank must be nervous. We now have property in this area that is very much in jeopardy. Tommie Martin's now infamous claim - "we have water" - couldn't be further from the truth. We don't even have a functioning District!
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