inspiringmind

As of early January of THIS year, I went to the court house and they had TWO people manning the metal detector.

I was at the Army Navy Store (long story) in December. It was about 6 pm on a Tuesday, and there weren't many signs of life. I drove the entire length of Main Street to check out the downtown as I hadn't been there in a while. I saw a lot of unused buildings and a couple pubs/cafes, but not much else. When I went to parallel park in front of the store, there may have been 1 or 2 other cars in sight parked on the same side of the street. I'm not trying to bash Ashtabula, I wish it all the best, but from what I experienced it felt like a ghost town. You should try coming during the daytime. Downtown Ashtabula at 6 PM is pretty much the same as Downtown Cleveland at 6PM....A ghost town.

When was the last time you were here? I can not find a parking spot in downtown when I go there. (To downtown) A few more store have opened up in the last 6 months.

I really don't like it when reporters don't look up their facts. I live in Ashtabula and the first thing I see wrong is that the City of Ashtabula has NEVER had a population of 30,000. The most we ever had was 24,500 (in the 60's) and even now we have a population of 20,900. Yes, there are business's that are moving out, but there are businesses moving in. Main Street is not dotted with empty shops. And even though there are 3 dollar stores I never see many people in them, I do see a lot of people at the Mall! I have never seen people leave their kids at Walnut Beach while they go to work and if it just started last summer then it is an isolated family doing it, he makes it sound like every parent is doing it. If it is that serious then instead of driving them home he needs to call child protective services.