"Cellphone" tower coming to Reidsville

The Reidsville Review is reporting the town is on the verge of getting a cell phone tower.

To be located somewhere along Freeway Drive, Atlantic Technology Consultant George Condyles assured the City Council that the tower will serve people who use iphones and ipads.

American Towers attorney Tom Johnson said the tower would be barely visible to most Reidsville residents.

City Councilman Donald expressed concern about the health effects of the tower.  Johnson said the city has no authority over such concerns and besides that the tower won't emit any "ionizing radiation" and is perfectly healthy for everyone.

Mayor Jay Donecker worried about the tower interfering with Wharf's Airport on Highway 158.  Johnson said there will be no worries about the airport.

No one who works at the Review was around when the City Council was successfully sued for denying a construction permit for a cell phone tower a few years ago.  Most of the Review staff was in elementary school at the time.  The judge in the case referred to the City Council as "capricious and arbitrary" when making a decision. Councilman Joan Zdanski was concerned the tower would attract lightning and set the town on fire.  Councilman Clark Turner was also mighty worried about negative consequences.

Worst jobs of 2014 - Review reporter

CareerCast is reporting newspaper reporter as one of the worst jobs to have in 2014.  It should be noted that the $37,000 annual salary is overstated by about $12,000 for a Reidsville Review reporter.

Reidsville too big to qualify?

This news is going to be hard to believe with the Reidsville Review being the town's newspaper and Chinqua-Penn mansion on the outkirts of the city and Market Square and the big R in the middle of the street, but Reidsville was not named one of finest small towns in North Carolina.  You can see which towns made the list by clicking here.  Reidsville must be too big to qualify.

It's nearly worthless

I just ran www.rockinghamnow.com through the Worth of Web Calculator. The utility reports rockinghamnow.com has 10 visitors per day and is worth $146.  I also tried checking www.reidsvillereview.com.  Worth of Web calculates no value for reidsvillereview.com.  Sad.

Former Councilman? Not!

The Reidsville Review refers to Clarence Tucker as a former councilman, but as far as we know Mr. Tucker never served as a councilman.  Clarence Tucker was a long-time Rockingham County Commissioner.  Someone may need to explain to the Review the difference between councilman and commissioner.

Note: The Review read this post and ran and changed its stupid headline.

Enough said

From the Reidsville Review: "Though the Loyal White Knights stayed fairly quite over the past year, it looks as though the group may be resurfacing."

Big Book Sale taking place this weekend

We hope you weren't planning to spend your weekend at the Big Book Sale.  The Review has been telling you about it for two weeks, but unfortunately the Big Book Sale was held more than a week ago.  Nevertheless, the Review continues to announce the event on its web site...timely as always.