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The homeless camp by the water in the woods off of Exit 6 between the off ramps from 91 N and 91 S is starting up again and it needs to be broken up ASAP! I can not comprehend how this is allowed to go on.
The other night my wife and I were coming off the exit and we saw a man carrying a bull rake, shovel and a Fed-Ex package walking towards the camp coming down Willow St. from the East Rock area. He opened the package, took whatever was inside, threw the box on the ground and kept walking towards the camp. I hate to jump to conclusions but it seems pretty clear that this individual stole the rake and shovel from someone's yard and stole the Fed-Ex package from someone's yard. I live in East Rock and had several packages stolen off my porch last summer. I'm not saying these individuals are responsible but they are clearly committing crime in the East Rock area and I am sick of it.
Last summer this camp was allowed to exist and grow into the late fall. The individuals who are living here litter the area with their garbage and regularly hold up traffic with their panhandling. Can somebody please stop looking the other way and do something about this?
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Ravenclaw (Registrierter Benutzer)
XYZ (Registrierter Benutzer)
j r (Registrierter Benutzer)
Care about NH (Registrierter Benutzer)
Anna (Registrierter Benutzer)
Jeff Lee (Registrierter Benutzer)
Concerned East Rock Resident (Registrierter Benutzer)
Anna, I did not post this issue with the intention of it becoming an avenue for individuals to criticize specific alders or city officials and I am sorry for JRM's remarks. However, I see that you have taken the time to address his remarks but not the issue that I originally posted.
Could you please shed some light on what, if anything, you or the city are doing about this homeless camp and the issue it is creating for us East Rock residents?
Anna (Registrierter Benutzer)
Concerned East Rock Resident (Registrierter Benutzer)
Ravenclaw (Registrierter Benutzer)
N (Registrierter Benutzer)
XYZ (Registrierter Benutzer)
Ravenclaw (Registrierter Benutzer)
I can attest to the existence of these encampments - though the one near English Drive consists of just one (blue) tent. The woods further downriver, roughly where the long-term camp used to be, includes at least one large site (big blue tarp I think) fairly deep in the woods and one camper by the river - who happens to be throwing garbage and what look like bags of feces over the bushes/into the river. In addition, sleeping bags and other gear have appeared at the very nice riverside campsite. I have not been to the one near the rink, but there is definitely activity under the Route 91 bridge that is consistent with a nearby camp.
I think the City may have slipped up in evicting the long-term residents (who were reasonably honest, if messy) and bulldozing the area so as to make it easier to get in. The current crowd seems more undesirable. Alas.
Nashneighbor (Registrierter Benutzer)
Concerned East Rock Resident (Registrierter Benutzer)
Jeff Lee (Registrierter Benutzer)
Jeff Lee (Registrierter Benutzer)
Concerned East Rock Resident (Registrierter Benutzer)
Rob Rocke (Registrierter Benutzer)
Ravenclaw (Registrierter Benutzer)
NHVCyclist (Registrierter Benutzer)
The encampment is indeed active again...I saw people filing in and out of it yesterday bringing in bags of who-knows-what (which will likely pile up or pollute what should be a lovely river for kayaking/canoeing).
Like most I'm sensitive to the plight of the homeless, but the city never learns from it's mistakes. Every year, they let the trash pile up, and then spend countless taxpayer dollars to haul out tens of TONS worth of waste at a ridiculous cost just before winter, and make a big political show out of it.
The state of our public parks is sad, but a lot of that blame falls on our fellow locals. I can't imagine how many full-time trash pickers/babysitters would be needed to walk around the parks picking up bits of trash. There's no money for that, and it shouldn't be necessary.
Rob Rocke (Registrierter Benutzer)
XYZ (Registrierter Benutzer)
N (Registrierter Benutzer)
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