Whatever happened to the concept of neighbors helping neighbors? Seems to me if the neighbors had spent a couple of hours on week-end doing a little yard work and hammering some nails instead of calling law enforcement, the problem would have been solved.
Yes of course they could have offered help, but the information presented ranges from barely accurate to totally false.
The two primary instigators are Janet Brown an elderly woman who used to run the town historical society, which position she abused by terrorizing people and trying to control what they could do with their old but not "historical houses"- mine included which was built in 1895. One of her reports was to the health department about my property being overrun with rats. What she neglected to inform the gentleman at the Health Dept. was that what she was actually referring to were "Mourning Doves"- you know, the birds that go "coo, coo"- you see in her opinion they are "flying rats" and she was quite offended to see some of them roosting in the branches of my trees. She doesn't have any "flying rats" cause she had all her trees chopped down!!!
The other neighbor-Ann Keating who used to teach my son math when he was in high school, had built her shed on my property without my knowledge or permission. I didn't realize it until I wanted to install a new fence along the actual property lines. The old one was looking bad and my little Terrier mix dog Daisy (a pound pupppy-all my dogs have been rescued) could easily burrow her way underneath whereupon she would take a stroll around the neighborhood cadging food, returning usually within the hour with her belly virtually dragging on the ground- I used to call her my little "low-rider". When my husband went to her house to ask her NICELY and IN PERSON to move the shed off of our property she did not respond. After four weeks he tried again- still no action.
Four weeks after that I went to the zoning officer-John Lane and asked him to please handle things tactfully- as she had been my son's teacher and I did not want a feud with any of my neighbors. She ignored the zoning guy too and he flipped out and sent her a letter demanding that she have her property surveyed within 30 days or face fines of $250.00 per day. She got her property surveyed and what do you think it showed???? She was encroaching on my property!!!
After that she sent me a threatening letter demanding the $400.00 that the survey had cost her-as if I had had anything to do with that. Please tell everyone you know about this travesty of justice.
Yes of course they could have offered help, but the information presented ranges from barely accurate to totally false.
The two primary instigators are Janet Brown an elderly woman who used to run the town historical society, which position she abused by terrorizing people and trying to control what they could do with their old but not "historical houses"- mine included which was built in 1895. One of her reports was to the health department about my property being overrun with rats. What she neglected to inform the gentleman at the Health Dept. was that what she was actually referring to were "Mourning Doves"- you know, the birds that go "coo, coo"- you see in her opinion they are "flying rats" and she was quite offended to see some of them roosting in the branches of my trees. She doesn't have any "flying rats" cause she had all her trees chopped down!!!
The other neighbor-Ann Keating who used to teach my son math when he was in high school, had built her shed on my property without my knowledge or permission. I didn't realize it until I wanted to install a new fence along the actual property lines. The old one was looking bad and my little Terrier mix dog Daisy (a pound pupppy-all my dogs have been rescued) could easily burrow her way underneath whereupon she would take a stroll around the neighborhood cadging food, returning usually within the hour with her belly virtually dragging on the ground- I used to call her my little "low-rider". When my husband went to her house to ask her NICELY and IN PERSON to move the shed off of our property she did not respond. After four weeks he tried again- still no action.
Four weeks after that I went to the zoning officer-John Lane and asked him to please handle things tactfully- as she had been my son's teacher and I did not want a feud with any of my neighbors. She ignored the zoning guy too and he flipped out and sent her a letter demanding that she have her property surveyed within 30 days or face fines of $250.00 per day. She got her property surveyed and what do you think it showed???? She was encroaching on my property!!!
After that she sent me a threatening letter demanding the $400.00 that the survey had cost her-as if I had had anything to do with that. Please tell everyone you know about this travesty of justice.