I love spring .. the time of year when the snow begins to melt, the flowers begin to grow and all the garbage that people have tossed out their car windows during the winter months begins to peek out of the snow and really show just how lazy some people can be.

Every day, I drive over the back country roads and into Norwich, and what a lovely drive it is. If you ignore the fast food bags, water bottles, old tires, and bags of trash that seem to have been deposited in the streets, sidewalks, streams and ditches of Chenango County, you can see the beautiful landscape, the peaceful creeks, and the budding flowers. Unfortunately, it’s hard to ignore the growing garbage mess, and ignoring it only allows it to get worse and worse year after year.