10-05-2025
Sheboygan letter-writers on mountain biking at Evergreen Park, ‘judge shopping spree'
Here are this week's letters to the editor of the Sheboygan Press. See our letters policy below for details about how to share your views.
Please join me in opposing the expansion of mountain biking in Evergreen Park by the Sheboygan Cycling Club.
This park is like no other in our city, full of natural beauty and wildlife. The park has already been stressed and damaged by the Making Spirits Bright display, but at least that damage was done for a good cause.
The proposed changes to the park by the Cycling Club would only benefit the bikers themselves and further stress the wildlife and plants.
I have already noticed large ruts on many of the trails that are caused by the bikers. The cycling events will cause increased car traffic, and utilization of the picnic areas and trails by hikers will be limited during those times.
I often see families enjoying a day in the park at one of the picnic areas, and this ability to reserve a park area would be restricted with the increased bike events.
This could also be potentially dangerous, especially for families with children, as the bikers often whiz by at high speeds.
These questions and issues need to be addressed. Other questions to consider include:
Have foresters been brought in to evaluate the potential impact on old-growth trees, wildlife, ground cover, drainage?
Is the original Piney Woods charter being honored with this plan?
Our city and county already have many beautiful bike trails and bike lanes, constructed at great cost. Why do they need this unique park as well?
Ask your alderperson to vote 'No' on Resolution 156-24-25.
Carol Dussault
Sheboygan
We didn't have to wait long to see the results of our state's $100 million judge shopping spree — a farcical decision empowering an imperial governor to unilaterally fund a public institution for 400 years — impressive for a 250-year-old country.
In Wisconsin, we hire more than 100 legislators to hammer out somewhat sensible agreements acceptable to the majority about hard subjects like abortion, redistricting, union contracts and school funding. The results are laws.
The fact that a major political party spent well more than $60 million to elect a judge to override those laws reminds me of the ironic motto once painted on the side of Sheboygan's late Honest Bob's Motorcycle Shop: 'We screw the other guy and pass the savings on to you.'
We citizens are all the 'other guy,' and it doesn't look good for us. Our laws, like our borders and our locked front doors, protect us all. We all depend on honest cops, DAs and judges to enforce law. When any one of them starts making law, they become a predator, and we the prey.
Another honest Bob, also late from Sheboygan, when asked by his boss to lie to a customer about a mistake that his builders made, responded, 'If I lie for you, I'll lie to you.' His boss, after a pause, answered … 'OK, just admit it and fix it.'
It's time for all of us, Democrats and Republicans alike, to admit that we all shelter in the same country and fix it.
Art DeJong
Sheboygan
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This article originally appeared on Sheboygan Press: Sheboygan letters: Oppose expanding mountain biking at Evergreen Park
