This is not Deadwood!

by Contributor | March 8, 2023 10:55 am

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To the editor: Frank Castigilia

 

This is not Deadwood!

Referencing the infamous lawless city in South Dakota. You know where Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back holding Aces and Eights.

Welcome to Fulton, New York where the citizens are attempting to take back their city of a bygone era.

Welcome to Fulton, the city where the citizens fight as a group.

You know the old saying “You can’t tell a book by it’s cover” well that is Fulton.

Recently a group thought they could come into our city and set up an illegal distribution center for marijuana products in a residential neighborhood. Under the façade of a club where the products weren’t sold but were given out after a donation was made.

They thought they could get away with it because it was a quiet neighborhood, and nobody would notice or say anything.

Well thanks to a very upstanding citizen by the name of Linda, it didn’t go unnoticed for long.

There are rules and laws that weren’t being followed and they lost their clubhouse.

When I went to the location and made inquiries as to what the store was open for. I was confronted by a few of the members and asked who and what I wanted. I told them who I was, and I then told them that this activity wasn’t going to happen in My neighborhood.

They told me the “New Wave is here” I informed them that I would fight it at the CC meeting on Tuesday March 7^th. I said the people will be heard.

One of the posts on my fb page from one of the members said “not happening, you don’t have the power, plus on one is selling anything it’s all donations and nothing illegal Frank go complain about something else.” The whole operation was illegal, right from the use of the building to the actions of giving a legal product away for donations.

They were right I didn’t have the power to stop them.

The people had the power.  They used it Tuesday night.

Fulton is fighting to take back and hold on to our neighborhoods.

Remember:

This isn’t Deadwood, this is Fulton, NY

Frank Castiglia jr.

Source URL: https://oswegocountytoday.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/this-is-not-deadwood/

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