The following letter to the editor was submitted by Jane, an Arlington resident who works in Cherrydale.
It is in response to our article on the opening of a pop-up vintage gift shop in the Cherrydale storefront that was once slated to become a gun store.
My coworkers and myself are very disappointed by your coverage of the Pop Vintage store in Cherrydale.
Was it really necessary to drag up all the gun store dirt? All that did was get your regulars stirred up and writing their usual insane comments.
I was there when Olympia, the owner of the store, was reading their responses.
If you could have seen the look on her face when she read what passes for witticisms among the commenters, it would have broken your collective hearts.
Today there is another mass shooting in California.
The world is getting scarier day by day.
Responsible journalism has a responsibility to report the news as it is happening good and bad, I realize this.
And if it hadn’t been for your breaking news on the gun store it might be our neighbor today.
But to to unnecessarily dig up the dirt on days gone by? Did you think Arlington residents wouldn’t be happy to hear of a new fun business without a splash of controversy?
Maybe in the spirit of the season and humanity you could focus on the positive things that are happening around us.
Jane
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