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“Regarding the March 7 article concerning the city pushing for a downtown stadium, and the idea that the stadium would host multiple events 240 days per year: Get real. You already have Callas Stadium at North High and School Stadium at South High, which are underutilized. Taxpayers, remember First Urban Fiber, the airport runway extension, and the water and sewer debacle of 20 years ago, and the numerous other pipe dreams of our local politicians, in which they over-promise and then under-perform.”
— Hagerstown
“I do not live near the current stadium, but over the years I have read many complaints in the newspaper about the noise from the fireworks. Why is the city considering locating a new stadium downtown, next to several senior citizen housing communities?”
— Hagerstown
“I hope Pennsylvania has better luck enforcing their cellphone law, their new cell phone law, because it seems like Maryland, especially Washington County, has trouble enforcing the law. Has anyone ever seen anyone stopped for using a cellphone? Not in Hagerstown.”
— Hagerstown
“The idea to put a new stadium at the corner of Baltimore and Summit is moronic, to say the least. If you look at the successful new stadiums, you’ll find that they are located near interstates, or exceptionally good roads; for instance, the one in Frederick and the one in Salisbury. Putting one downtown, there is no road infrastructure to handle the ... it is a super bad idea, to say it as nice as I can say it, to put a stadium where the mayor is proposing.”
— Hagerstown
“To put a sports stadium down in the front yard of those two residences, the towers of the disabled and the elderly, is beyond mean, cruel and despicable, it’s positively evil. We not only don’t need a stadium, we don’t need it down there, where those people have nowhere to go, no way to go, to get away from the noise, the lights and the fireworks. This ... just can’t happen. It’s just too bad, it’s too positively evil. We don’t do that in Hagerstown. We’re a decent town.”
— Hagerstown
“I’m reading this morning’s paper, and I agree about Mr. Aleshire running for office. I’d like to see him be mayor. I vote for the best person, not just the party name, and I think he’s a good, decent person. I talked to him several different times, and I’d like to see him get rid of the BOE. That’s like putting the fox in charge of the chicken house. They’re all, I think teachers ... though I don’t know how they got so much power, can spend money and nobody can stop them, three people. That’s ridiculous. So let’s change things around in Washington County and cut things down.”
— Hagerstown
“I’m calling about the location where Hagerstown wants to put a new stadium. How do they know that this location would be feasible for the sod, which they’ve had trouble with at the stadium they have now? They don’t know what is under the ground, because across the street, for years you had underground gasoline tanks, so I think the EPA would need to check into this.”
— Hagerstown
“This is for our illustrious BOE, elected officials, and the county commissioners: $8,000 to wash the buses and all? Why don’t we work something out with the court system here locally, for community service hours they must fulfill, or have prisoners from the county sheriff’s department detention center to come out and wash the bus and pay them, and we’ll save a lot of money; $175,000 just to buy it doesn’t cover the whole cost. Use inmates.”
— Leitersburg
“On ... the ball park downtown, I think it’s out of the question. We don’t have the money to purchase all the property, and I see balls flying out every place on the streets inside town, and no fireworks. We own the Hager Park. Tear everything down around the Hager Park, including all the trees, make parking. Once the parking is available, you can continue on with the ball park.”
— Hagerstown
“I was just wondering why it’s necessary for a study for the new baseball stadium they want to put in. Why don’t they just put it to a vote, of all the people in the county? Because we don’t have the money for it. We’re all stretched to our ends here.”
— Hagerstown
“I do not live near the current stadium, but over the years I have read many complaints in the newspaper about the noise from the fireworks. Why is the city considering locating a new stadium downtown, next to several senior citizen housing communities?”
— Hagerstown
“I hope Pennsylvania has better luck enforcing their cellphone law, their new cell phone law, because it seems like Maryland, especially Washington County, has trouble enforcing the law. Has anyone ever seen anyone stopped for using a cellphone? Not in Hagerstown.”
— Hagerstown
“The idea to put a new stadium at the corner of Baltimore and Summit is moronic, to say the least. If you look at the successful new stadiums, you’ll find that they are located near interstates, or exceptionally good roads; for instance, the one in Frederick and the one in Salisbury. Putting one downtown, there is no road infrastructure to handle the ... it is a super bad idea, to say it as nice as I can say it, to put a stadium where the mayor is proposing.”
— Hagerstown
“To put a sports stadium down in the front yard of those two residences, the towers of the disabled and the elderly, is beyond mean, cruel and despicable, it’s positively evil. We not only don’t need a stadium, we don’t need it down there, where those people have nowhere to go, no way to go, to get away from the noise, the lights and the fireworks. This ... just can’t happen. It’s just too bad, it’s too positively evil. We don’t do that in Hagerstown. We’re a decent town.”
— Hagerstown
“I’m reading this morning’s paper, and I agree about Mr. Aleshire running for office. I’d like to see him be mayor. I vote for the best person, not just the party name, and I think he’s a good, decent person. I talked to him several different times, and I’d like to see him get rid of the BOE. That’s like putting the fox in charge of the chicken house. They’re all, I think teachers ... though I don’t know how they got so much power, can spend money and nobody can stop them, three people. That’s ridiculous. So let’s change things around in Washington County and cut things down.”
— Hagerstown
“I’m calling about the location where Hagerstown wants to put a new stadium. How do they know that this location would be feasible for the sod, which they’ve had trouble with at the stadium they have now? They don’t know what is under the ground, because across the street, for years you had underground gasoline tanks, so I think the EPA would need to check into this.”
— Hagerstown
“This is for our illustrious BOE, elected officials, and the county commissioners: $8,000 to wash the buses and all? Why don’t we work something out with the court system here locally, for community service hours they must fulfill, or have prisoners from the county sheriff’s department detention center to come out and wash the bus and pay them, and we’ll save a lot of money; $175,000 just to buy it doesn’t cover the whole cost. Use inmates.”
— Leitersburg
“On ... the ball park downtown, I think it’s out of the question. We don’t have the money to purchase all the property, and I see balls flying out every place on the streets inside town, and no fireworks. We own the Hager Park. Tear everything down around the Hager Park, including all the trees, make parking. Once the parking is available, you can continue on with the ball park.”
— Hagerstown
“I was just wondering why it’s necessary for a study for the new baseball stadium they want to put in. Why don’t they just put it to a vote, of all the people in the county? Because we don’t have the money for it. We’re all stretched to our ends here.”
