Dear Editor:
Besides the problems with the varsity baseball team, the Carroll JV Silver Ice Hockey team also had to forfeit their game in the city championship tournament against Keller after it was found that they, too, had ineligible players. This knocked them out of the tournament. What is going on in Southlake that this form of cheating seems to be so prevalent? What are the coaches and parents teaching their children? It appears that the lesson is to win at all cost even it you have to cheat to do it. Wow, what a lesson.
— Elizabeth Schweik, Mansfield
Dear Editor:
Given the current course and behind the scenes activities in our communities across Tarrant County, gas drilling is moving full speed ahead. Soon, the neighborhoods of Grapevine, Southlake and Colleyville will be fully consumed by the aggressions of the energy producers. Unfortunately, we will not realize the consequences until it is long past the time to take action.
The key front for our communities’ action is in the realm of our cities’ relevant regulations – the gas drilling ordinances. We need to ensure our communities are moving to increase the 500-1000-foot allowances, and to implement much tighter and costly requirements to ensure the energy producers are putting all possible protections in place. We need to be pushing our city leadership actively to make ordinance changes. Otherwise, individual entities that own significant parcels of land within our communities and bordering our green belts and nature trails are entirely free to sell us down the path to environmental destruction. Without our broader action, we will all be seeing, hearing, smelling, drinking, and paying dearly for the results.
Please don’t take offense to my passion. Our beautiful communities are at stake. Let’s not allow the natural beauty we enjoy all around us to be thrown away for a few pennies that end up costing us all in the devaluation of our property and, most importantly, affecting our health and environment.
— Nancy Kamm,
Grapevine