EAST AURORA, N.Y. (WKBW) — One by one and limb by limb trees are being trimmed in the Village of East Aurora, altering the landscape of this quaint community.
That's because a fiber-optic internet company, GoNetspeed, is putting lines throughout the village adding them to each pole and trimming trees in the process. The village must allow this to happen because the work is permitted by state and federal law. But it's not sitting right with residents.
"This is our front door. Yesterday, our front door was chopped down, basically, and we're known as a tree-lined beautiful village, and they're taking that away from us when they don't even have to," Holly Maciejewski said. "I want our village saved from this.
" "It seems like the majority of the village residents would oppose any of this new service coming in. And it's incredibly frustrating that not even the village admin, or, you know, any of the village residents have any say in any of this project whatsoever," Joseph White said. "There must be a gentler way to do this.
There's got to be a gentler way. And maybe it means you turn more often, because you take a little bit at a time instead of doing this drastic thing," Rick Ohler said. "I think what we need to do is what we're doing today, we need to make a little noise.
It's okay. It's okay to make a little noise." "That's hazardous for people walking, and then people in cars," Zach said.
Village Administrator Shane Krieger told me despite the trimming the village budgets yea.
