April 22, 2015:

To the Editor:

The letter to Mayor Mary Marvin from Erica Curtis published in MyhometownBronxville (April 15, 2015) was very well written, and I could not agree more. It has been my experience that anytime anyone wants to, in effect, take something from someone else, you can be sure of certain things. First, they do not like or partake of whatever it is they are taking from the other party and, second, they will usually use money as the reason, i.e., the cost is far too great to bear and therefore this is the one and only way to solve this issue.

Well, let me play devil's advocate. I am not a big fan of flowers or fountains, so let's pave over that "eyesore" by the Lawrence Hospital traffic circle. I mean, what good is it, really?? It generates zero income, it has to be maintained by village employees, and we could just as easily pave it over and sell 360 degrees of advertising, which could add some much-needed money to the village coffers and, hopefully, offset the cost of the darn snow removal.

I will close with a quote: "There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited." Now, who the heck said that drivel?? Oh, that would be Ebenezer Scrooge's nephew, Fred, in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, circa 1843. I guess, hopefully, that sentiment still has some meaning today. By the end of the day, Scrooge surely agreed. 

Paul Grunseich
16 Wood End Lane
Bronxville, NY

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