What readers said this week
Here is a selection of comments on stories posted by the Times-call on its Facebook page Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2023.
Johnnie St. Vrain: A flurry of questions about Longmont snow removal rules
ZACH GONZALEZ >> The HOA will fine you, but their snow removal team pushes snow onto my property every time they shovel. You would think they want to help us, not create more work than needs to be done. Not to mention the quality of the streets in the St. Vrain neighborhood are pretty bad. Some mag chloride would be really nice and go a long way in the neighborhoods!
PATRICK MCFARLANE >> Don’t worry about it. The sun will take care of it. Just like the streets, lol.
ANDREA WOOD >> What about ice grand canyons at the end of the residential streets that make me feel like I should be fourwheeling up boulders for a living? Can anyone help with that?
JORDY TEE >> Doesn’t matter what the rules are. None of them are enforced.
Estes Park tramway to cease operations unless buyer is found
MT CHAISE >> There is/was a tramway? Who knew? Huh, first I ever heard of it after a couple of decades. Perhaps that is the issue. Nah, there are buyers, but they’re (circling) vultures.
RAY COMEAU >> Interesting. (I) wonder what the permit fees are to operate on the mountain. Used to live just below it. Maybe Fun City owners would purchase it.
TOMMY NEWNES >> Oh no, that’s been on my list of things to do for years.
MINDI PIPER >> On top of the mountain where it goes there use to be a restaurant.
RAY COMEAU >> (The) town of Estes should buy it.
JENNIFER KEARNS >> Oh wow! I hope someone buys it!
PATRICK MCFARLANE >> When I win the lotto. I love that tramway.
JUSTIN WISEMAN >> I got $20 and a left Twix. Do we have a deal?
Business filings in Colorado surged in fourth quarter of 2022
BRENDA WELSH KELLEY >> Funniest thing I have heard all day. Colorado is going to crap.
THOMAS LAWSON >> Thank you, Blue!
Defendant sentenced to probation in connection with psilocybin mushroom grow in Lyons
BRADLY HARTMAN >> Did any of you actually read the article? It definitely sounds like they were doing more than “just growing a plant.” They seized several different types of drugs as well as almost $60,000 in cash.
NICK INSOMNIAC >> Love how the title says she was arrested for mushrooms but she had all this in her home, but I guess the mushrooms (were) the important part, right?
PHIL RUDDY >> How wasteful of resources. Name one person who has died from mushrooms.
ALISHA BURRAGE >> Psilocybin should be legalized. Alcohol should be illegal! Wake up! Ignorance is what fuels the fear based thinking. Fear based thinking fuels control. Round and round we go. Fighting resistance with resistance. Knowledge is power. Educate yourself, do your homework on how miraculous this fungi is and the healing properties it carries.
JEFFREY JUSTICE >> “When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know”
JUNIOR CUTLASS >> Put more effort and focus on what’s really killing us, fentanyl.
DEANY GOODE >> No victim, no crime.
JEN GUSACK >> Hasn’t psilocybin been decriminalized?
BRANDON KENDRICK >> This isn’t news. Nature should not be a crime, and (the) Times-call shouldn’t be part of the problem.
KELLY HILFERTY >> Leave them alone. Go solve some murders.
Officers seek information about Longmont mattress arson
RODNEY SMITH >> How do we sleep while our beds are burnin’? TYLER KETCHUM >> Bed bugs are getting bad!
ZOEY SHERRY >> Come on down to Colorado Mattress Burn.
Mead postpones decision on ... solar project
RODNEY SMITH >> It’s Weld County. Of course they’re not going to want solar. They’d rather drink fracking fluid.
Woman arrested after displaying toy gun
JACOB GILLMAN >> For how ridiculous this article may sound, if someone pulled a fake gun on me and I couldn’t tell it was fake, then a possible tragedy could occur. Fake guns are unwise in certain situations.
THOMAS LAWSON >> Wonder why the police didn’t shoot her?
LANCE TOUVE >> Make toy guns illegal.
GREG MALLORY >> Felony charges.
Longmont hires Ronnie Maynes as new senior services manager
RACHEL LONG >> Congratulations, Ronnie!
PENNI WAHLERT ANDERSEN >> Wow! Go Ronnie!
LEAH ANDERSON >> Congrats, Ronnie! You were awesome to work with!
Drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison for fentanyl overdose death
BECKY NUESKEN >> This is the right charge for all drug dealers that cause death, whether or not they know their pills are laced with fentanyl.
LORI STRADER >> Five years for a person’s life! Not right!
TALLIS SALAMATIAN >> Let’s see how long he actually serves.
LORRAINE MUNIZ >> The system is so broken. Five years for taking a life.
ROSIE WOMACK >> Five years? That’s an insult to victim and family.
LINDA GINGERY >> And that is what is wrong with the justice system! Five years and he will be out in half that. … He should be serving 32 years just as the new law allows! This is a huge slap in the face to that woman’s family and friends!
ERICTEH MILL >> I know I’m getting old when I stop recognizing the people who make crimes in Longmont.
Niwot bookstore holds first teen writing workshop
FRANCES MARINO >> So great to see so many interested in writing.