Does Mayor Pritchard have the city on the right path?

I think Mr. Pritchard is probably doing a good job; I haven’t heard any big criticisms, except that many residents would like to see the city make good on its promise to provide an alternate community center soon.  We shouldn’t have to wait for a new library to materialize — to see if it can also serve as a community center.  With all the empty buildings in town, surely one would make an excellent center.  The downtown Amory site, with ample parking, might be a good choice.  Even if our future library includes a community room for educational events, I feel that the library should have ample space for exhibits, like how “our town” was part of the underground railroad, early area settlers and their writings, the boxcar people, and other materials that the library has packed away out of sight.  There also should be a room commemorating our most famous home-grown writer, Carl Sandburg, and other local authors.  I’d like to see regular writing workshops held there, encouraging and instructing aspiring authors on “how to” submit work for publishing, e-books, and self-publishing.  We could make Sandburg proud of “his burg”!