I have followed the case of Lee's Mill Road property and the county's work in taking it from Dave Williams and his family. I live in the south end of the county and I don't believe we have the type of people around here who want the county taking property in these circumstances.

The reason I know so much about this situation is my grandfather, Arby Turner, is the man who bought the property in 1936. My dad has a picture of my grandfather plowing the exact property, with his mule named "Pet" and a turning plow, that the county now claims.

The picture was taken by one of my uncles in the early 1940s. The old schoolhouse that stood where the existing tower now sits, only a few feet away from the row, he was plowing.

The Water Department and the county attorney apparently will go to any lengths to build its system. If Commission Chairman [Harold] Bost wants to run the county as a business, why not start by looking into saving money, and trying to restore the trust of the county's "customers." The county attorney should be replaced with an in-house attorney to try and renew a little more ethics in county government.

P.S. Mr. Williams, the politicians couldn't let you have a jury trail because that would have made county officials a bigger laughing stock.