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Riley communications,
Old Saybrook
"De l’audace, encore de l’audace,
et toujours de l’audace."
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| Who
we are. |
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The "we"
referred throughout this website now essentially consists of, well,...
me. I'm trying to help raise public awareness of the dangers
facing the Connecticut River, and to provide a convenient way for
people to write to public officials
and make their voices heard. |
| The prior
iteration of this website generated some small amount of controversy,
because some people misinterpreted its contents as personal attacks.
If they had read through the site, they would have seen that there
were no personal attacks; indeed the people involved in the specific
projects which we opposed were never even mentioned by name. |
| I redesigned
the site because I am no longer physically able to do the work required
to keep it up to date, so the "news and updates" sections
had to go. Also, I'm trying yet again to make it clear that it's the
ISSUES I'm talking about, not the PEOPLE. If anybody misinterprets
anything this time around, so be it. I've made it as clear as humanly
possible. |
| I'll
never be able to paddle a kayak, nor do I own a powerboat. Rationally,
I shouldn't care about river preservation, because I don't spend a
lot of time on it. |
| But
I do care anyway, and here's why: |
| I
used to live in a nice part of Pennsylvania, and would probably still
live there if its character had not been utterly destroyed by unchecked
devlopment. What had been a charming, comfortable place to live has
been turned into an unending nightmare of office buildings, fast-food
outlets, strip malls, and developments packed with shoulder-to-shoulder
McMansions. Traffic has increased to the point that driving anywhere
is an exercise in agonizing frustration. What had been my home is
now a crowded, noisy, ugly, blighted landscape that is indistinguishable
from any other suburban area anywhere in the country. |
| You,
the people of the lower Connecticut River Valley, need to wake up
and realize the value of what you have, and how easily it could be
lost to you FOREVER. |
| I've
searched for many years to find a place that feels as much like home
as Pennsylvania did so long ago. I've found it here in Old Saybrook
and the many great little towns along the valley. |
| I
don't want to be driven out of my home again because of the area being
ruined by inappropriate development with no regard for what gets lost,
or for the lives of the people who have to live with its effects. |
| This
time I fought, as much as I could. I'll continue to express my opinions,
which are as valid as anyone else's. |
| Will
you fight, too? After all, it's your river.You don't have to
let anyone take it away from you. |
C.
Goff
Old Saybrook, CT |
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