Comments by lightenup
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Posted on November 6 at 5:27 p.m.
Is the run at 9 a.m.?
Or is it at 7 a.m.?
Posted on October 23 at 6:14 p.m.
nutsabouttools: Before it burned in 1999, the Santa Fe depot was on the north side of the tracks at Neosho St.
Posted on October 14 at 7:52 a.m.
dhc66 wrote: "Everybody said that Price Chopper, Dillons, Reebles, and Aldi would be stores of the past when Wal mart expanded. True, they did take some of the pharmacy business, and I'm sure they took some of the grocery business."
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After Wal-Mart expanded to sell groceries, FOOD-4-LESS closed and then DILLONS WEST closed. (Dillons said it was a lease issue, but if they were really making money in that store, they'd have cared enough to stay around.)
Posted on September 29 at 9:15 p.m.
Melissa, the financial crisis is a lousy rotten deal to be sure. But there's not much we can DO about it. So, meanwhile, we're chatting away about the "milling two inches." Forgive us for focusing on our own community.
Posted on September 29 at 2:47 p.m.
"Local traffic will be encouraged to use alternate routes."
Let's see.. to get to the H.S. and Middle School, (and to get to Staples, Applebees, Wal-Mart, Golden Corral, etc).... I guess the only alternative routes are I-35 to Industrial or take 24th Street from Prairie Street.
With Graphic Arts on the "permanently disabled" list, there aren't too many options.
Leave early.
Posted on August 18 at 1:08 p.m.
I think we should be dragging people off the turnpike to shop at BLUESTEM.
Destination shopping - in Emporia.
Bluestem is a classic, one-of-a-kind store. It's the Cabela's of the Farm and Ranch World.
My late step-dad wasn't a farmer or a rancher, he was a machinist, and whenever he came to town, he LOVED shopping at Bluestem.
We take it for granted 'cause it's always been here, but it's an amazing store.
Posted on August 18 at 1 p.m.
Ditto to what create just posted: "Bringing those biggies in will only mean a swan song for the businesses already here -- the ones who have stayed here in Emporia through thick and thin to ride out the economic seas, choppy or smooth sailing."
Our local businesses were homegrown by OUR people.
The money spent in homegrown businesses stays in Emporia, doesn't get sent to some "home office" in some other state.
I'm all for Emporia growing stronger and healthier in every which way possible, but especially at this stage of the game, Box Stores would not be an asset.
Let's put our collective energy into BRINGING JOBS TO TOWN- white collar jobs, blue collar jobs. Employment opportunities, the more varied the better.
That's what will save Emporia.
Posted on August 4 at 4:25 p.m.
What a wonderful girl - one who looks beyond herself. Perhaps you'll be a trend-setter for the entire community. Happy Birthday, Alex.
Posted on June 22 at 7:32 a.m.
gayzettesux: your hostile comments say more about you than they say about anything else.
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Posted on November 19 at 10:08 p.m.
It's so sad to lose such a nice guy.
On Losing a friend