I don't want to come off like a broken record but two years ago you had a choice. You could either elect someone who had proven over the previous four years he could not handle sending Salisbury into the right direction OR you could have elected someone who had an actual vision, a platform with a master plan to set the City on a path to rebuild. Regardless of the outcome, the images above are just a small sample of what you got.
I say all this because there's a new election coming up. As we see it, you have Jim Ireton and Jake Day already showing interest to become your next Mayor. The way I see it is, I've not seen Jake Day flat out come out and say things just aren't working.
That being said, will the people holding forums for this upcoming election actually address the hard questions the people truly want answers for? More importantly, will the candidates deliver a master plan that does NOT include affordable housing units and even more assistance from the government?
Like me or not, we deliver factual information here on Salisbury News. Is it information people like Jim Ireton or Jake Day want to see, probably not. However, SOMEONE needs to hold our elected officials accountable and because I do just that, (hopefully speaking for many thousands of people who cannot afford to) and in the end they create Blogs about me and my Family. Yes, there's a price to pay but you have to admit, I have been the ONLY person out there who stands up to these people who have delivered boarded up houses and businesses. We have exposed the massive volume of business closures and unemployment figures. You are not getting that anywhere else and for that I'm the bad guy.
Someone needs to step up to the plate who has a business background. Someone with a vision the go after restructuring Salisbury without increasing taxes and borrowing from the government. Oh, believe me, it can be done. Guess what though, it's HARD WORK. Why do that when you can just ask for this grant or borrow money because it's there.
DEMAND better, Ladies & Gentlemen. This election is far more important than any one of you can believe. Voting for a Hillary Clinton or a Jim Ireton again will destroy America. Start rebuilding NOW. No more rain taxes or whatever else they're going to create to bleed us until we die. If you are not a registered voter, REGISTER! Take back your community before it's too late.
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Truth be told, those same areas have looked like crap for the last what, 30 years?
Joe it's time for you to move into Salisbury again Albero & Culver could be the combination to get Salisbury/Wicomico back up and running again!
And the idiot mayor has done Zero.
Go take a few pictures of the Village of Aydelotte in the next few weeks. The developer (Kirk Kinnamon) left them high and dry as the declarant on their homeowners association so now they have no legal means of collecting HOA fees to maintain individual lots or common areas this summer. From what I understand, there are also a bunch of dead beat home owners in there that won't cut their own grass or pay somebody to do it. Its going to be a jungle soon in that neighborhood.
This is just another case where the City approves something of special interest, but doesn't hold them accountable when it fails...
Wrong 923AM. I have lived in Salisbury for 36 years and I have to admit to admit Salisbury started to look like a mini Detroit maybe 5-8 years ago. I worked near Snow Hill Road and it never looked as bad as it does day along with Salisbury in general. Empty abandoned businesses, homes, poor road conditions (pot holes, patches, weeds along the sides of the roads, homeless people walking around everywhere, more pawn shops, freaky looking people hanging out at some local business that make it scary to even walk across the parking lot - just an overall feeling of POVERTY everywhere your go here in Salisbury. Spent the weekend in Ocean City/Berlin and it certainly it more appealing looking than Salisbury - as a matter of fact, there seems to be more building going in all around and POOR (literally speaking) looks like a city of neglect! Shame on you Mayor Liarton and Fake Day!
But the Mayor had a press conference and said he's going to get the pile of old mall removed! TWO YEARS AGO? Still greets visitors to our Civic Center.
These dumb@@es dont get it joe.
But the "blighted areas" are expanding, and beginning to merge into a small city ghetto. Little if anything is springing up in those areas, despite existing facilities, improvements snd infrastructure.
What little commercial/industrial enterprise sprouts, is almost invariably well away from these decaying, crime-ridden areas. Who can blame them? Nobody wants to park their car all day at work, to come out eight hours later and find it broken into, or stolen. Or be robbed in the employee parking lot. Or have to invest in military grade security to prevent break ins, vandalism and theft of company equipment and materials. Or present a seedy image to potential clients and business partners. Not to mention having to drive home through dangerous areas.
Better off start over somewhere fresh, where your back lot isn't the local dumping ground for garbage, you don't have "urban campers" setting up tents in the bushes, and your customers don't have to step around used needles and condoms to get to your front door.
As far as "affordable housing" goes...I am tired of hearing this term used as an euphemism for "Section 8", "welfare apartment projects", and "slums".
TIRED of it. And I'm not going to play along with it anymore.
"Affordable" implies "offered at a price neither virtually free nor towards the top of market value, that perhaps half the local workforce would find suitable and within their budget, without government assistance of any kind."
As in, decent housing intended to serve the needs of the working family, and allow the "working poor" to benefit from their decision to put in their 40+ hours instead of lounging around idle collecting welfare. We have much of that type of housing right here in Salisbury, or we used to before it fell into the hands of those who stand to benefit from the Section 8 cash machine.
Yes, we need decent, safe housing for the working class to call home, settle down and start re-claiming our neighborhoods from those who disrespect our values and way of life. To start re-building functional communities.
We do not need an oversupply of "free" or "almost free" housing for the freeloaders and parasites, who do noting but breed criminals and degeneracy. We do need an adequate supply of safe, subsidized homes, havens for the elderly, the truly disabled, and those who need a hand finding their place in the community, as their circumstances permit.
You don't get rid of rats, by building more rat holes. You close them off, and quit attracting them with a big fat piece of government cheese.
Steve Betz said...
But the Mayor had a press conference and said he's going to get the pile of old mall removed! TWO YEARS AGO? Still greets visitors to our Civic Center.
April 13, 2015 at 10:12 AM
I don't give a sh!t about that pile of rubble Steve Betz, it takes nothing away from the city and that must be your own personal agenda. The obvious run down houses and buildings in Salisbury are the eye sore. NSCC does nothing but Ride By Citations. They issue citations to old ladies who can't bend over and pick the weeds out of the cracks in the City's own side walks. They don't even get out of their trucks or Jeeps until they tape the citation on the door.
Jim Ireton and Jake Day are doing nothing but encouraging rental housing in Salisbury. Thank you Jim Ireton and Jake Day for forcing Annexations down our throats. New developments look nice at first and then the new home owner moves out and it turns into rental housing stock. The houses and lots are to small for families with kids. There is no room for kids to play sports in the yards. The yards are not big enough to even play catch with baseball or even kick the soccer ball. The only sports you can play in neighborhoods is basketball. The Ghetto thugs put up portable basketball courts in the streets and we have to weight for them to move so you can drive through. Then you try to enjoy your windows open and all you hear is thump, thump, thump, thump with the thugs bouncing the basketball for hours. Putting up those portable basketball backboards up is illegal buy the way. Call the police when you see them doing it.
The houses are so small and there are many times 5 to 10 cars in the driveway and front yard. Parking in the front yard is illegal by the way and NSCC won't do anything about it.
The first time home owners realize they are living in the ghetto and the yards are to small for their families and then they move to the county where they homes are nicer and they have acreage and a real home. Then the slum lords dive in on the homeowners who can't sell their houses they just left in Salisbury and offer them pennies on the dollar because they know the homeowners are desperate and can't sell the houses. Then the new homes are bought up by John Cannon, GNI Properties, Chris Adams, Doug Church and several other slum lords. The slum lords then rent out the houses to large families and multiple occupancy's with thug families, Haitians and Hispanics. The rent is then $1,500 per month and higher.
Welcome to the City of Chicago...I mean Salisbury. Thank you Jim Ireton, Jake Day, Laura Mitchell, Shanie Shields and unfortunately now Tim Spies.
Buying a home here in Salisbury is no longer an investment, it's a liability. If I can't sell my home of over 20 years for what I owe on it, guess there will be one more boarded up home.
The thing is there are no decent places for working people to rent. You either have to live in crime infested neighborhoods or rib Peter to pay paul and live in a decent neighborhood. This is the dilemma of many working people. I have worked at my job for 13 years. I am a salaried employee who works $40+ hours a week. I am college educated . . Masters degree. . And I work in an local office. I see almost $400 per pay period go to health insurance and that is with a $500 Deductible. Now i am not complaining about thst but I am complaining about the system. . I was at Giant pharmacy picking up a rx and the "young lady" in front of me was dressed to the 9s with her Michael Kors handbag and Jordan sneakers complaining about paying g $2 for her rx. I was thinking to myself I would love to pay $2 but my asthma inhalers are $120 for three of them. Well she whipped out 2 orange independence cards and took $1 off each card to pay for the rx. She was on her iPhone complaining but making plans to get her hair done for $70. Once she was done and I had paid for my rx I watched her drive off in a very new looking Mercedes truck. . .now again my dilemma is the TWO ebt cards. I work everyday and the 1 time I went to social services to get help with an electric bill the lady told me my gross income was too high. I politely asked here to look at my net. She told me I didn't qualify but yet there was a room full.of ppl with smart phones designer bags and clothes demanding this and that and getting it all the while complaining of having to re certify for their benefits. I pay their benefits but I can't get help but I can pay for someone else to live comfortably with section 8 food stamps and free health care while the middle class suffers. I am believing that the middle class will sone be nonexistent. Salisbury needs change the government needs change. We have to fix this broken system. There is no way that a working person should be less well off than someone who isnt. There's is no way the elderly need to supplement their income by working at McDonald's. There is no affordable housing for the average working salisburian. Crime is rampant. Just last night a intentional stowing on riverside drive. Crime is d o underreported in the news. Ireton needs to be fired. Run Joe you would have my vote.
Salisbury is an absolute dump. The "leaders" are liars, crooks, and thieves. They are only out for the University, bike lanes, gay bars,speed cameras, rain taxes, fire boats, and large developers like Gillis Gilkerson.
The residents and their quality of life means nothing to them. At least two collect public assistance in one way or another. That should say something to everyone right there !!
Glad Im not in the city limits, but its fast encroaching on me, so it must be time to move again.
Anything to stay out from under the thumb of such dim witted asshats.
These photos are mild compared to what we witnessed a few week ago while driving around Salisbury.
Children obviously school aged and a day and time schools were in session roaming the streets. Men and women with the paper bags going drinking something on the porches of their ramshackled huts not fit for human habitation. Trash littering streets and on private property. The inevitable pit bull chained up in mud pits some call their back yard.
Anyone familiar with the Baltimore area will understand this word analogy-Salisbury is to Route 13 as Brooklyn is to Ritchie Hwy on the Western shore.
Forget the mayor and council president. If there isn't a bar stool involved the mayor and day are invisible except to throw the minorities and the want mores a bone periodically in the form of "affordable housing" or some other tax payer subsidized uselessness.
You don't ever see them involved in some kind of neighborhood outreach projects like neighborhood clean up or take back your streets or rallies to bring awareness to the crime and drug problems. mitchell and shields are pawns who follow along blindly and never show any initiative themselves. They could be and should be promoting reading and other scholastic projects in the form of contests for the children but they are too busy being dragged around by the noses by their male counter parts doing exactly what they are told to do.
Anonymous said...
These photos are mild compared to what we witnessed a few week ago while driving around Salisbury.
Children obviously school aged and a day and time schools were in session roaming the streets. Men and women with the paper bags going drinking something on the porches of their ramshackled huts not fit for human habitation. Trash littering streets and on private property. The inevitable pit bull chained up in mud pits some call their back yard.
Anyone familiar with the Baltimore area will understand this word analogy-Salisbury is to Route 13 as Brooklyn is to Ritchie Hwy on the Western shore.
April 13, 2015 at 11:51 AM
Well said. You notice the same crap around Salisbury that I do.
Wake up Joe, it has been too late for quite some time.
Joe, a comment worthy of a post! There are many facts that shouldn't go unnoticed.
Anonymous said...
Steve Betz said...
But the Mayor had a press conference and said he's going to get the pile of old mall removed! TWO YEARS AGO? Still greets visitors to our Civic Center.
April 13, 2015 at 10:12 AM
I don't give a sh!t about that pile of rubble Steve Betz, it takes nothing away from the city and that must be your own personal agenda. The obvious run down houses and buildings in Salisbury are the eye sore. NSCC does nothing but Ride By Citations. They issue citations to old ladies who can't bend over and pick the weeds out of the cracks in the City's own side walks. They don't even get out of their trucks or Jeeps until they tape the citation on the door.
Jim Ireton and Jake Day are doing nothing but encouraging rental housing in Salisbury. Thank you Jim Ireton and Jake Day for forcing Annexations down our throats. New developments look nice at first and then the new home owner moves out and it turns into rental housing stock. The houses and lots are to small for families with kids. There is no room for kids to play sports in the yards. The yards are not big enough to even play catch with baseball or even kick the soccer ball. The only sports you can play in neighborhoods is basketball. The Ghetto thugs put up portable basketball courts in the streets and we have to weight for them to move so you can drive through. Then you try to enjoy your windows open and all you hear is thump, thump, thump, thump with the thugs bouncing the basketball for hours. Putting up those portable basketball backboards up is illegal buy the way. Call the police when you see them doing it.
The houses are so small and there are many times 5 to 10 cars in the driveway and front yard. Parking in the front yard is illegal by the way and NSCC won't do anything about it.
The first time home owners realize they are living in the ghetto and the yards are to small for their families and then they move to the county where they homes are nicer and they have acreage and a real home. Then the slum lords dive in on the homeowners who can't sell their houses they just left in Salisbury and offer them pennies on the dollar because they know the homeowners are desperate and can't sell the houses. Then the new homes are bought up by John Cannon, GNI Properties, Chris Adams, Doug Church and several other slum lords. The slum lords then rent out the houses to large families and multiple occupancy's with thug families, Haitians and Hispanics. The rent is then $1,500 per month and higher.
Welcome to the City of Chicago...I mean Salisbury. Thank you Jim Ireton, Jake Day, Laura Mitchell, Shanie Shields and unfortunately now Tim Spies.
April 13, 2015 at 11:28 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The thing is there are no decent places for working people to rent. You either have to live in crime infested neighborhoods or rib Peter to pay paul and live in a decent neighborhood. This is the dilemma of many working people. I have worked at my job for 13 years. I am a salaried employee who works $40+ hours a week. I am college educated . . Masters degree. . And I work in an local office. I see almost $400 per pay period go to health insurance and that is with a $500 Deductible. Now i am not complaining about thst but I am complaining about the system. . I was at Giant pharmacy picking up a rx and the "young lady" in front of me was dressed to the 9s with her Michael Kors handbag and Jordan sneakers complaining about paying g $2 for her rx. I was thinking to myself I would love to pay $2 but my asthma inhalers are $120 for three of them. Well she whipped out 2 orange independence cards and took $1 off each card to pay for the rx. She was on her iPhone complaining but making plans to get her hair done for $70. Once she was done and I had paid for my rx I watched her drive off in a very new looking Mercedes truck. . .now again my dilemma is the TWO ebt cards. I work everyday and the 1 time I went to social services to get help with an electric bill the lady told me my gross income was too high. I politely asked here to look at my net. She told me I didn't qualify but yet there was a room full.of ppl with smart phones designer bags and clothes demanding this and that and getting it all the while complaining of having to re certify for their benefits. I pay their benefits but I can't get help but I can pay for someone else to live comfortably with section 8 food stamps and free health care while the middle class suffers. I am believing that the middle class will sone be nonexistent. Salisbury needs change the government needs change. We have to fix this broken system. There is no way that a working person should be less well off than someone who isnt. There's is no way the elderly need to supplement their income by working at McDonald's. There is no affordable housing for the average working salisburian. Crime is rampant. Just last night a intentional stowing on riverside drive. Crime is d o underreported in the news. Ireton needs to be fired. Run Joe you would have my vote.
April 13, 2015 at 11:39 AM
You are white so you automatically don't qualify.
Speaking of Mayor there is an election rapidly approaching us and I would like to know what the Wicomico County Republican Central Committee is doing to find a candidate for Mayor. I don't want to hear any Bullshit that it is a non partisan election. BFD!! It is an election and we need a Republican Mayor and some Republican council members.
The mayor of the bury is just an all around loser. He's all jazzed up and taking credit for the closure of the adult themed store while the illegal drug business is proliferating due to his lack of any meaningful action. Of course the adult store was an eye sore and not exactly what anyone wants in their backyard but hadn't anywhere lead to the blight of Salisbury that the illegal drug business is doing.
Get your damn priorities straight mayor and council. Anyone with any sense would be embarrassed to even admit they were associated with the government of Salisbury.
12:40 actually I am Black or African American, whatever the politically correct term is these days. Those people up there simply looked at the fact that I have a job and work 40 hours and didn't even try to help. It didn't matter that my husband had dies 4 years earlier and we lost our home and that I was living in an apartment with one child in college and one in high school. I swallowed my pride to try and get help only to say I don't qualify but I would qualify if I sat on my behind and did nothing all day and waited for them to hand me a EBT card and a free health insurance. I just don't get it. I used to feel like that system was there to help people but now I totally disagree. The woman even told me if I moved out of my apartment and went to live with a relative then I would be considered homeless and would THEN qualify for benefits. I saw shocked. I ended up just making payment arrangements on the past due bill so they include a portion of it in my bill for the next 4 months. This system is totally flawed. And honestly, I am so sick of paying for other people to sit back and each whatever they want at my expense when I work every day and have to plan out each weeks meals based upon what is on sale. They should have to work or at least volunteer to qualify for benefits. And there should be a cap on the number of children that you get benefits for. I overheard some "young girl" say that she was about to have another baby and that they are giving her $800 per month food stamps and she pays no rent but has her own apartment. They sit there in that waiting room and discuss how to get more money and free stuff. They now even provide free internet. I guess the free phones were not enough. So now they can surf the net at my expense too.
- One Pissed Off Tax Payer
I moved AWAY from Salisbury a decade ago because of the same shit you all are describing....
Truant youth cutting school and blocking the road with impromptu football and basketball games,witnessing many fights in same said streets,open air drugs deals in front of the house and on the corner,etc,etc. Paying way to much for rent in a neighborhood that is infested with criminal activity.Garbage and busted beer bottles all over the place.Finding stolen property someone "dumped" in your yard running from the police.Oh and Haitian neighbors who locked their little kids outside alone while they turned tricks. That is Salisburys version of "affordable" housing,in fact working families cannot compete with the $1000 or more a month the Government pays to rent these places.If you just want a nice safe & quiet to live in,you better be ready to pay out the nose in the 1500-2000 range for that Affordable is paying $700-800 a month just to be next door to a boarded up house with "BGF" or "ABM" spray-painted all over the siding.
Now you are telling me TEN years later,nothing has changed????? No excuses!!! Why?
1:14 I totally agree with you. I am sorry that you had to go thru that experience. But glad that it was an eye opener for you because this country is in a crisis and we need new officials who not only talk but also pass legislation to help our area.
There should also be mandatory drug testing for adults and children over 16 who are getting welfare benefits.
Call me European american.
Take a good look at these pictures, because the fool who was the director of code and compliance and overlooked these problems, is now the TOP city administrator here in da 'Bury!
I see lots of complaining, but has anyone thought to organize a neighborhood clean up, park restoration, city beautification, or the like? I know that I would join in on that sort of thing, just because I would like the city I live in to be better than it presently is. Maybe all the people who see so many problems would be willing to donate time, materials, plants, whatever to just pick an area and clean it up. I am just making suggestions. How about someone pick a spot, post it on this site with a date and time, then invite everyone to show up and help out - say we start with a small area, like one road that we all just show up with trash bags, gloves and rakes. then maybe (because it is spring) pick an area to put in a flower bed or several. everyone that shows up bring something for the bed - a bag of mulch, a flower, a plant.
I just think that there is way more complaining and accusation, and not that much volunteering or suggesting. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the city officials may not be doing the right thing, but every person that lives within city limits has the ability to make a difference? even if it is temporary or small. The officials cannot and wouldnt stop us from just voluntarily doing something to benefit the area. We cannot control what others do, but we can effect those around us through our actions. If the people that live in that area see a group come in and clean it up, plant a bed, fix an old lady's house, then maybe they would be more inclined to improve upon the work and take more pride in their street, their home, their lifestyle. if nothing else it may shame them into NOT making it worse.
2:04 I used to do that but then you have those renters who don't give a damn about how their yard looks. AND the reason they don't care is because they don't have to pay for anything so they don't value it. They go buy and just litter and their yards grass uncut, trash and debris all over their yard. Just an eye sore. Makes the whole neighborhood look bad. So YES, I have tried or more than one occasion. We even had a community Raster Egg hunt and guess what they brought all the kids and left the egg shells and candy wrappers all over the place, even though there were trash cans available. One kid even threw the candy in the trash because he said it wasn't the "good" kind.
I like you idea 2:04 but (the inevitable but) it's more than just cleaning up. It's changing the mindset of people and this is where I feel the politicians and other officials need to be involved. It's them who can rally the people. Jim Ireton got people to get out and vote for him so he needs to be putting the same effort into getting these same people to get out and clean up these neighborhoods and clean up means more than just removing the trash. Of course everyone can be involved but without the involvement of the residents it's all for nothing. The police dept needs to be involved, the NAACP, the local pastors, the Salvation Army and other church groups esp the youth groups. everyone needs to be involved.
2:04 Is that you John Cannon? I'll say this again, the person who should be held accountable because he was top code enforcement officer, is now Salisbury's #1 city administrator. I bet John Pick is laughing all the way to the bank!
By looking at these pictures it's obvious only some have to abide by code compliance and not all.
2:04 whats the point? Really? I should volunteer to clean up some ghetto mess, and what a month later it will be back to a crap hole?
Been there done that. I cleaned up the crap hole behind me on the last vacancy and now it is a drug dealers paradise with 3 pits chained up and litter and crap in bountiful supply.
Oh yea for me... lots of good it did.
And 2:41 I was waiting for the "renter" rant. You are too stupid to realize that alot of these overgrown, littered dumps are owned and occupied by the owner.
It will never be any different when you all act as dumb as a box of rocks.
Buying a home hasn't been an investment in years. Buy a $200K home over thirty years, sell it for maybe $200K if your lucky then look and see how much intrest you've paid. You've probably paid $200K to essentially rent the place and its cost you a fortune to maintain.
The day's our parents/grandparent saw of paying $40K or so for a house in the 50's and 60's then selling today for $200K +/- are long gone. Especially in a town like this that's dying a slow death.
7:07 All depends on the location, location, location. Waterfront properties can be good investments and there are areas in the US that have great upside potential. Sadly, Salisbury isn't one of them.
Watch the County Council meeting for April 7 - (3rd) In it Someone says that the need for Insurance for the county employees dependents isn't necessary because most have already signed their dependents up for medicaid etc. So the County is pushing for more people to be on Government support(all paid by the taxpayer) instead of work benefits that the employee pays some fee for And this also shows that the income for County employees must be lower than reported. So where's the good jobs that were promised before the election.
Those that complain about how horrible "their" neighborhoods are, should be confronted with photos from 20 or 30 years ago, when people had the couth and decency to have enough self-respect to refrain from trashing their own neighborhood. And ask them what makes them such speshul sno-flaykes that they are incapable of maintaining them likewise.
Clean up your own $h1t, ghettards.
These photos are only the "obvious" ones that were vandalized and windows broken, so the bank ordered it to be boarded up with black painted plywood. For every one that was driven by and photographed for this article, easily four or five more on the way weren't even recognized as foreclosures.
The problem is much worse than people think.
Anonymous said...
These photos are mild compared to what we witnessed a few week ago while driving around Salisbury.
Children obviously school aged and a day and time schools were in session roaming the streets. Men and women with the paper bags going drinking something on the porches of their ramshackled huts not fit for human habitation. Trash littering streets and on private property. The inevitable pit bull chained up in mud pits some call their back yard.
Anyone familiar with the Baltimore area will understand this word analogy-Salisbury is to Route 13 as Brooklyn is to Ritchie Hwy on the Western shore.
April 13, 2015 at 11:51 AM
Did you call the police or the Superintendent of schools? It's still against the law to be Truant.
Anonymous said...
Take a good look at these pictures, because the fool who was the director of code and compliance and overlooked these problems, is now the TOP city administrator here in da 'Bury!
April 13, 2015 at 1:57 PM
Tom Stevenson
Anonymous said...
The mayor of the bury is just an all around loser. He's all jazzed up and taking credit for the closure of the adult themed store while the illegal drug business is proliferating due to his lack of any meaningful action. Of course the adult store was an eye sore and not exactly what anyone wants in their backyard but hadn't anywhere lead to the blight of Salisbury that the illegal drug business is doing.
Get your damn priorities straight mayor and council. Anyone with any sense would be embarrassed to even admit they were associated with the government of Salisbury.
April 13, 2015 at 1:11 PM
Doing what you sent him to City Hall to do.
Anonymous said...
I see lots of complaining, but has anyone thought to organize a neighborhood clean up, park restoration, city beautification, or the like? I know that I would join in on that sort of thing, just because I would like the city I live in to be better than it presently is. Maybe all the people who see so many problems would be willing to donate time, materials, plants, whatever to just pick an area and clean it up. I am just making suggestions. How about someone pick a spot, post it on this site with a date and time, then invite everyone to show up and help out - say we start with a small area, like one road that we all just show up with trash bags, gloves and rakes. then maybe (because it is spring) pick an area to put in a flower bed or several. everyone that shows up bring something for the bed - a bag of mulch, a flower, a plant.
I just think that there is way more complaining and accusation, and not that much volunteering or suggesting. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the city officials may not be doing the right thing, but every person that lives within city limits has the ability to make a difference? even if it is temporary or small. The officials cannot and wouldnt stop us from just voluntarily doing something to benefit the area. We cannot control what others do, but we can effect those around us through our actions. If the people that live in that area see a group come in and clean it up, plant a bed, fix an old lady's house, then maybe they would be more inclined to improve upon the work and take more pride in their street, their home, their lifestyle. if nothing else it may shame them into NOT making it worse.
April 13, 2015 at 2:04 PM
Are you an F*n Idiot or What!! I am not picking up after any fat, lazy welfare bum.. NEVER! That idiot Louise Smith tried a couple of times to pick up the trash in the Church Street area on a Saturday and by Monday the streets had trash in them again. Screw those lazy thugs and screw the idiot that bring up that stupid idea again.
12:07-I don't live in Salisbury and if I did I wouldn't have voted for him.
Let's get one thing clear and get it clear now. I am NOT one of those stupid American democrat voters. No one fools me. How democrat insider and obamacare architect was so right when he said obamacare will pass because of the STUPID American voters.
As far as someone not calling the PD when seeing truant children, if the BOE has money to waste on gift cards and other frivolous expenditures they sure as hell should have someone on the streets taking care of this problem. Of course the BOE is run by a bunch of democrats and partying and having a good time on tax payers money is more important to them than making sure children attend school.
Let the scum lay in there thug filth.
LOL 11:34 You must be a democrat because it's typical of them to want everyone to do their job for them.
It's not like it's rocket science is it? Teachers do take attendance and it is what they are paid to do and if they can't handle it then they need to get the hell out and let someone who can handle it do it. There is an ass for every single one of their seats and they better not ever forget it. Not only is there an ass for the seat but someone who do do the job better.
Bunch of losers at the BOE can't even have a "meeting" without a food trough in front of them. Let them spend less time at the stuffing meetings and doing their job.
There are abandoned homes everywhere. All one has to do is traverse any of the back roads, heck, even the front roads for that matter. Abandoned stores, empty warehouses, vacant homes, they are on every corner. I have lived here all of my life and I have never witnessed such an economically starved region as I have around Wicomico/Salisbury.
Have you smelled the air after a rain? It's such a stench, I have to cover my nose. Smells like those greenies I see people spitting everywhere. Didn't mommy tell you how nasty that habit is? Don't know what it's from, but it's unbearable!
even worse than the businesses and homes that have already been vacated are the number of businesses/homeowners that are walking the tight rope on the edge. Accounts receivables for many companies are in the 6-7 digits and the names on those list are the "who's who" of the county. One big push and this whole place will slide into the dark hole!
Looks the same around as it did when Jimmy Carter was president but then even though interest rates were 22% you could survive unlike now.
I know some who have simply walked away from their mortgage because they owe more than the house is worth and have lost their job due to the recession and can no longer afford to make the payments.
There are others who are staying in their homes until the bank finally forecloses on their home. I think people would be shocked by the number of homes that have been or are waiting to be foreclosed on.
Just drive down Riverside drive. People are selling their homes all up and down the street. I guess people are fed up and want to get out of Salisbury asap!
My house is next, there are so many short sales and foreclosures selling dirt cheap, I could invest $40,000 in upgrades to my house and make everything like brand new and would be lucky to get $40,000 for it. The neighborhoods have all gone to pot, I've thought and thought, did the math, it's time to move on to an area that welcomes business and provides jobs instead of low income housing. The trash here in this town is just begging cockroaches to move here.
5:15 Cockroaches? You must have missed the eviction on Preston Street a few months ago, then.
As just 1 example the 4th building pictured is a house on the corner of Eastern Shore Dr & Washington St. this house has looked like this for 30+ years. It almost burned to the ground years ago and one of the residents a blind man died as a result of the fire. This yard has never been really cleaned up despite 2 walk throughs to improve Washington St. Citations might have been given out, but no clean up has ever been done!
I agree with 1:57 the messes you see were here when Tom Stevenson was head if Coding and they never received attention. He never should have gotten his promotion, and we had no choice to vote him out!
Comment for 12:07 there used to be a neighborhood assoc in the Presidents Neighborhood area. We did clean up yards at no cost, we cut down weeds and saplings all over trimmed and improved yards, but what we could not get is any support from area churches or the people living in the homes to help clean others yards. Most of the area is rentals who don't care, a yard is something they use to get to the front door or their car only!
Some of these neighborhoods look the same now as they did when I was a child. Im now 32 years old. Since people are complaining as if any "change in leadership" will even care about this, why dont the citizens take pride in Salisbury and celan up the neighborhoods. We do that all the time here in PG County people take pride in their town and keep it clean.
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