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 The Chronicle welcomes you online! Please feel free to respond to these editorials or letters to the editor by sending your letters to the editor.

We condense letters; most, as published, won't exceed 300 words. A letter must include the writer's name and city, which will be published, and an address and telephone number for verification, which will not be published. Writers may be limited to one letter every 30 days. Open letters, letters to third parties and poetry are not considered. Letters from people living outside the Chronicle's circulation area usually are not considered.

Laments loss of Civic Center manager

Web posted March 17, 1999

Editor, The Chronicle:

I am writing in regard to Augusta's loss of the best general manager the Civic Center has ever had. This is a needless and foolish loss.

Augusta keeps shooting itself in the foot so often that we are starting to make Barney Fife look like a super gunslinger.

The contributions that Pat Cumiskey made to Augusta are many, and he was just getting started! To mention a few, we have professional hockey, a great ice skating rink and have had many beautiful shows at the center.

Mr. Cumiskey was not hired as a certified public accountant ... so LMI should have provided him with that support and let him work on improving Augusta. His contributions far outweigh any deficits, and his dismissal is our loss.

I'm sure Mr. Cumiskey wishes only the best for the new manager, but how many more times is this cycle going to occur before we wake up?

Ernie George, Augusta