The Mayor of Monroe Vs. The Geese

Did Village of Monroe Mayor, Neil Dwyer, Mislead The Public Concerning Recent Geese Mitigation Methods?

I’ve been a Monroe resident, on and off, since 1988. In that time, the Village of Monroe has feuded with the local wildlife like they were the Hatfields and the geese were the McCoys.

I don’t speak for everyone who walks around the Millponds for their exercise, but my Dad and I are out there nearly every day when it’s above fifty-degrees. The people we encounter, usually retirees, don’t mind the geese at all.

They absolutely mind the goose shit that’s left all over the sidewalk, but they don’t mind the geese. In fact, most people walking around the ponds in town will tell you that it’s kind of nice having them.

A lot of the retirees we encounter are transplants from New York City, where you don’t have the geese. Or really much of anything outside of rats, seagulls, pigeons, and an occasional raccoon.

Of course, there are others who don’t feel that way at all in Monroe. To them, the geese are nuisance, and the sooner that they’re removed, the better.

And they don’t care how the geese are r…