MORRISTOWN (WATE) – One of the first things you see as you approach downtown Morristown is a broken, murky water fountain, but some residents don’t mind.
“It’s part of Morristown,” said Anna White while standing next to her husband Dennis.
Both of them have lived in Morristown their entire lives and they would love to see the fountain working again.
“It’s just a landmark that you watched for and you grow accustomed to, we miss it,” said Dennis White.
There’s talk right now about possibly getting rid of it.
While that possibility wasn’t on Tuesday’s city council agenda, one person did speak up about it during the public comments portion.
“It’s about something we can’t explain,” said Marie Cunningham. “They’ve had a memory there. For whatever reason, it’s a symbol of home if they moved out of town. It means something different to every person and we can’t discount that.”
The city mayor of Morristown said the fountain hasn’t worked in about nine years, and it’ll cost the city a pretty penny to fix it. He said when it was working, they had some other problems.
“Vagrants who were often around it and using it for various reasons that weren’t suitable for city operations and you go through the winter with busted pipes, leaks and things and pranksters and vandals,” said Morristown Mayor Gary Chesney.
At this point, no decision either way has been made as for what to do with the broken fountain, but the thought of losing it has a lot of people taking to Facebook, liking the page “Save Morristown Fountain” while sharing heartfelt stories about when it was working.
This will be talked about again, informally, at the “Farm to Table Dinner” event being held September 13 at the “Morristown Farmer’s Market Pavilion” from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
