Your Turn: feedback on water main break, football fight & obituary writing

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - Most of your feedback is about Watertown’s water situation. A pipe from the 1930s broke last Thursday, draining the entire system:

Now that we all know how decrepitly old the pipes are...it’d be a no-brainer to start focusing on...replacing them before another cent is spent on future tourism-type things.

Jeanine Cornaire Cantrell

Watertown should have been a little more worried about their aging water pipes than golf courses.

Joshua Blair

I think Watertown residents paid enough in taxes to have replaced that 100-year-old pipe a few times.

Richard George

A fight erupted during a football game at Watertown High School recently. A Syracuse school official said racist taunts were directed at Fowler football players, leading to a brawl:

That’s pathetic. It’s 2023 and people still can’t handle that other people have different skin colors.

Jesi Lea

Aren’t half the kids who play for Watertown Black?

Monica Leigh Beauchamp

A workshop was held last week in St. Lawrence County to teach people to write their own obituaries:

Why not have the last say?

Renee Chase

Oh, no. My family isn’t getting out of this duty.

Justin Squiggy White

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