Angelo’s Praise --- a little too soon

Looks like I was a little too quick with praise and thanks to Angelo’s for cleaning up the mess of trash on the Dean Street sidewalk alongside the restaurant. This afternoon (4:30PM) there were bags and boxes of trash discarded on the sidewalk and not a trash container with a lid in sight.

Is the City toothless in this matter? All bark and no bite? A favorite line in an old movie is, “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Well, come on, Woodstock. Angelo’s is on the Square, remember? The famous, historic Woodstock Square. The place we’d like hundreds of tourists to drop lots of their cash and keep the merchants in business.

It’s summertime. Even on a Monday in August – in the week before school starts – Woodstock could draw tourists. But, if they come once and walk by that trash, they won’t come back. They’ll tell their friends, all right; they’ll tell them to go to Lake Geneva.

Who wants to park by or walk by smelly trash in bags and boxes alongside a restaurant right across the street from our famous Opera House?

This problem needs to be cleaned up permanently. It’s time for the “talk” to stop and for action to take place. I’m sure the folks at Angelo’s are very nice people. So, what’s up with all the trash in bags and boxes this afternoon, rather than in those nice containers with lids that are used sometimes?