Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor:

Has Hobo Pool been sold?

If the “Private Property, KEEP OUT” and “No Trespassing” signs posted on the four hog wire fence barricades blocking access to the free flowing mineral hot springs are official and accurate, the “publicly-owned, open and free forever”, Hobo Pool has either been sold, given away or somehow ended up in private hands. None of the signs indicate by whose authority the barriers were erected. (See photos).

The barriers and signs have been up for a couple of weeks, with no effort by the town to open the healing water to the public, thus reinforcing rumors of a pr...