LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
There are some very angry people in Town of Linn and they’re mad as hell about being ‘forced’ to have had to use a technicality to blow back the Geneva Inn and it’s plan to commercialize Lake Geneva. Rumors about emotional rebound bounce about the court of public opinion. Will Town of Linn come back and entertain another, more ‘technically correct’ version of the original proposition shot down in the previous town board meeting? Will 2nd Story Torhorst, lawyer of wealthy renown, be suited up and sent back in following his latest visit up to Eagle River, Wisconsin where there isn’t as much heat?
Will the Linn Board attempt to rewrite the rules currently written about notifications for planned changes to the comprehensive plan so they’ll never be stopped by some technicality again?
The rumor mill grinds away but the Town of Linn remains silent.
Quiet. Too quiet.
Police Chief Michael Rasmussen
The Lake Geneva Police Chief.
Last week a lousy Lake Geneva cop went after the Chief of Police. He filed a petition to have the chief dismissed for cause but he didn’t submit any valid causes. He, through his highly paid attorney in Delavan (who paid that guy, anyway?), submitted a whole raft (99 pages!) of rumor and innuendo all slathered in an overly sweet frosting of hearsay evidence. Often complained about but heartily defended by the police officer’s union, officer Dyon lost his first attempt to fire the chief. The police and fire commission voted to dismiss the complaint at its last meeting “with prejudice,” which means officer Dyon is free to attempt to submit some of more substance as some future date, if he can come up with somebody else to pay thousands to another high priced attorney.It is time for the City of Lake Geneva to decide that it has exhausted its patience with this errant officer? Filing a petition to have your boss fired and having the petition fail should be enough all by itself.
It’s rumored that Lake Geneva is that man’s fourth police department. If there’s truth to that rumor then maybe, just maybe, those other three departments knew something that Lake Geneva has only recently discovered about the man. The Geneva Shore Report did not run the story earlier about Chief Michael Rasmussen simply because there seemed no point unless the police and fire commission moved to act on it in some way. Absolutely everything the Geneva Shore Report has discovered about Chief Rasmussen, over the course of the paper’s existence, the last four years, has conclusively demonstrated that the man is about the best police chief Lake Geneva, Walworth County and the entire State of Wisconsin has ever had. The community needs to work to keep such a man on the job protecting everyone and making sure that protection is provided fairly, quietly, without violence and with intellectual intent.
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I love this publication! Could I be your proofer, please? Every paper I read has spelling/tense errors in it (no offense, really.) Example from this article….. “The police and fire commission voted to dismiss the complaint at its last meeting “with prejudice,” which means officer Dyon is free to attempt to submit some of more substance as some future date, if he can come up with somebody else to pay thousands to another high priced attorney. It is not time for the City of Lake Geneva to decide that its exhausted its patience with this errant officer?”
This is the sentence that I believe has trouble, in my opinion. “It is not time for the City of Lake Geneva to decide that it has exhausted its patience with this errant officer?”
Should it not be, “It is time for the City of Lake Geneva to decide that it’s (it has) exhausted its patience with this errant officer?”
Please, I am not trying to be critical, but someone who may glide through this article may hear the wrong message due to grammar.
Please know that I do not consider myself perfect in any way shape or form. However, I do expect good grammar/spelling and good journalism from our paper. Please keep up the great reporting, no matter the grammar!
Very sincerely,
Cathy
Cathy,
We really appreciate your support and interest in The Geneva Shore Report.
First of all, your suggestions have been corrected. ~~smile
And we agree, improper grammar and structure can easily change the direction of an article.
No excuses, but one problem in Newspaper production is always time constraints.
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Why would your paper start out describing the officer as being lousy? And you are speculating that he worked at 3 other police departments? Maybe you should get your facts right before you print something.
The officer in question was indicated to be “lousy” because that is the personal experience that members of the GSR staff and friends have had with this officer! Those experiences were omitted from the article because they were considered to be anecdotal although they did allow for the forming and expression of an opinion. Incidentally, that officer filed charges against his Chief and those charges were found to be wanting. That officer needs to move on into a career not so taxing of a humanitarian judgment systems it seems very obvious that officer is lacking!