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Oh, come now, with all the threads on this forum you can't find anything to entertain yourself?

There are a Total Topics: 13490 today and I don't know how many threads and you come here to complain.

Are you saying none of those 13490 topics and Lord knows how many threads have any fun and informative posts?

Wow! Really Wow!

My oh my, you must be really bored.

You are the DISKONNECTED one, most people I talk to refer to you as Elk DisKonnected. The Forum went downhill when you and Patriot came on.

It is difficult to tell where the Most Crap is coming from, Delaware or Elk County. The Forum continues to reach new lows everyday. The fun and informative posts are gone, thanks to a few people.

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Ross, this all old hat information from 4 years ago.

DEBID, you said it for a lot of people. Most of us have nothing to do with Elk Konnect but Ross in his sick and twisted vendatta continues to rant on. Liz and her family have worked hard for Elk County and for the people and they don't deserve the trash Ross has made up about them.

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My apologizes for taking so long to respond to the above post.
It's just that I have been busy.

How are we supposed to believe you are not associated with Elk Konnected?
You keep telling us that however, it's hard to swallow.

Perhaps you misunderstand the definition of associated,
From Merriam- Webster =     to join as a partner, friend, or companion, to bring together or into relationship in any of various intangible ways (as in memory or imagination).

Your friends from your FaceBook page at
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David Whetstone ----- Elk Konnected Steering Committee
Pat Perkins ______ He givesive appearances as an Elk Konnected Follower IMHO
Rudy Taylor-------- Told me he is Elk Konnected Affiliated
Charles Durbin----------- He gives appearances as an Elk Konnected Follower IMHO
Jennifer Montgomery----------- Elk Konnected Steering Committee
                                                And Elk Konnected's Youth Development Action Team
Diane Amberg or Diane Silverman ---- which is it? Also associated in the same fashion as you in my opinion.

I just wasn't about to go through all 1368 friends on your Facebook. I bet there are even more people in there associated.
No, I did not hack (cause I don't know how to Hack)  your FaceBook it is open to the public.
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You left it as public information for everyone to see.

I do believe this says other than what you say, and I quote, "Again, Ross, I am not associated with Elk Konnected"  in my opinion that is just plain wrong..

Ross you are so full of crap, this is one of the dumbest post you have made. You won't be satisfied until you ruin everyone and everything in Elk County. All because you got thrown out of a meeting many months ago.

Janet, keep on posting and telling it like you see it and hear it. You have a lot of people that agree with you.

I get so tired of reading that garbage.

Anyway, thank you for being honest that your son did benefit from this trip even if the windfarm people were the sponsors. I understand he is a very outstanding young man.

Janet, I think a lot of people are tired of Ross's Garbage. I know a lot of people have quit posting or participating because of Ross and Patriot.

There are two components to a net increase or decrease in population.  

One is net migration.  More people moving out than moving in, results in a negative net migration.  This is a cause of Elk County's declining population, but not as much as you might think.

The other component of population increase or decrease is natural growth or decline.  That is death rates and birth rates.  How many Elk County citizens leave the realm of the living in a given year?  How many new souls are welcomed into the county by birth?

This natural decline has accounted for 60 to 80 percent of the population decrease in each of the past several decades.

And, refuting yet another massive exageration by Ross, the population of Elk County has not surpassed 10,000 since 1910.  Forty years ago, there were only 3858 people residing in Elk County.  The county has lost one fourth of that number over the past four decades, or six-tenths of a percent per year.  

While this is not good, it's certainly not a loss of over 7,000 in the past thirty years or so as Ross would have you believe.

Great Post Charlie, Ross has posted a lot of inaccuracies.

My grandmother used to buy a paper back when Sam Shade owned it in Sedan. My mother used to purchase the paper, the Sedan Times Star back when Sam Shade owned it in Sedan. I purchased the paper when Martin Heller owned it in Sedan. Rudy, I used to purchase your paper but I prefer something to be a little less biased, therefore I shall no longer purchase the old rag that circulates. I'll go as far to say as I won't even line my damn birdcage with it. My dog used to enjoy reading your paper as it done its' deed. There seems to be some hard feelings over the landslide ousting of a former commissioner, the "leader" of Elk Konnected. The money grab that they had with all the grants from taxpayer money will be harder to achieve now. And the Elk Konnected mansion is looking more like a dilapidated trailer house. Your socialist, liberal, biased views are no longer tolerated with me and I'll call for a boycott of the Prairie Star, Montgomery County Chronicle and all of the newspapers in the Taylor Family. ---Robert

Well Robert I am disappointed in you and your attitude about this. If you feel this is the way to disagree, then I will not be stopping to eat at your place again. I have stopped there a couple of times and had planned to again. I think you are really hurting your business with the above post.

First, it's disconcerting that you seem to think reducing the tax burden on our citizens is a bad thing.  I suspect a majority of taxpayers might disagree.  As  might a significant number of folks who might otherwise consider relocating here.

Second, I've never advocated a reduction in government services that measurably enhance the fundamental qualities of life and are functions of government... efficiency and cost control in government operations, highly trained, professional & responsive personnel, better roads & infrastructure, better law enforcement, the best fire protection, excellent ambulance services and the best teachers & curriculum... and the projection of our positive attributes to the outside world through an effective & professional presentation.

Third, I do suggest that government should excel in providing those basic functions, and the private sector needs to work harder at providing the other things that attract positive attention... shopping, dining, entertainment and housing opportunities, etc.  Call me old fashioned, but I don't think government makes communities.... people and communities make communities.

 

I would say that you and Ross are doing a pretty good job of ruining Elk County and discouraging anyone from moving there. I speak from firsthand information on this. You have the Wichita Big City attitude.