posted May 7, 2008
Looks like the Starwatch is once again littering the roads!
Susan Hoff
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I enjoy receiving and reading the local newspaper and ads that are delivered along with the Starwatch and would hate to see it stopped.
Exactly how difficult is it to pick a newspaper up out of your driveway? I have noted that houses that have numerous papers piling up generally have various other items piling up in their yard also along with waste high grass, etc.
I will concede though that the Chattanooga Times Free Press should come up with a way to mark the houses that do not want the mid week local paper/Starwatch (as they mark houses that subscribe to the Sunday paper, etc.) so that we can stop hearing people whine about this.
K. Guinn
Chattanooga
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I don't understand why we can't be given a choice if we would like this paper thrown in our drive way. I have called in the past to stop it from being thrown out. The last time I called, the person I talked to acted confused on why I would want it stopped. I explained to her that I have a horseshoe drive way and whoever is throwing them out gives me two papers. My house is very visible from the road so it is obvious that my driveway goes to one house.
I understand that there people that enjoy reading the Starwatch, but I live on a very busy road and this is just one more piece of trash that I have to pick up with the rest of the trash that people throw out of the cars.
LeAnn Flatt
Ringgold
Olivejuiceme2@aol.com
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K. Gwiunn asks how hard is to pick up a Starwatch from my yard. It is no more difficult than picking up the fast food refuse someone throws from their car. Both are equally unwanted from my perspective.
I especially don't appreciate getting two because I live on the corner of two streets. As far as I am concerned it littering.
Perhaps we should swear out warrants on the offending parties. And then look into racketeering charges for those who pay the littering bums.
R.W. Young
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I have hated the Starwatch for many years. It is a mindless piece of trash produced only to pad the advertising rates of the local podunk newspaper. I do, however, take them out of my driveway and drop them in the middle of the road as I drive to work.
Littering? I suppose so, but I didn't ask for it and am not going to be held responsible for its disposal.
I would never presume to be the landscape police and worry about those that have long grass and littered driveways. Everyone has their own unique solution to this problem.
Wes Ellis
Hixson
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K. Gwiunn must spend a lot of time studying other people's yards and driveways. If she desires that piece of trash to be thrown in her driveway, she is definitely in the minority. This newspaper has published innumerable complaints about the Starwatch in the past and it has also been a topic of widespread scorn on local talk radio.
I found it disturbing to read where the Times Free Press is on the litter attack again and thank Miss Hoff for the warning.
A couple of years ago, my neighbors and I got together and delivered all the Starwatches back to the Times Free Press and piled them on the sidewalk near their front door on East 11th Street. A few weeks later we delivered them inside, to the front desk. Both times, our addresses were written on the plastic sleeves in bold markers with the message 'do not deliver to this address'. The woman behind the desk just sighed and said 'I'll turn them in to circulation, but it won't do you any good. They'll still deliver it.'
She didn't lie.
We had been calling the Times Free Press for months on end, pleading with them to stop throwing the Starwatch on our street. Each time, the girl on the phone seemed surprised that everyone doesn't delight in having trash thrown in their yard, but said she would pass it on and have our addresses removed from the list. The littering continued.
Just because I don't want trash thrown in my driveway doesn't mean I'm slovenly.
The Starwatch 'is' unsolicited trash that litters our driveways and accumulates in ditches, empty lots, and the yards of empty houses…I assume thrown there to be gotten rid of.
We finally stopped the Starwatch by flagging down its delivery guy and threatening him to within an inch of his life if he ever returned to our street. That worked.
The Starwatch should be placed in the 'freebie' stands like the real estate magazines and, if someone wants to take one, they can. The Times Free Press would soon discover just how few they actually need to print.
We haven't even touched on the thousands of unnecessary plastic sleeves and their effect on the environment. And that's for each publication. Think about that.
Sue Miller
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