Editor,
Here we are once again with the never-ending legal assault on John and Peggy Christison, owners of Yesterdays restaurant. This is a family-oriented place that has a following of many older people like us, and the patronage age range is mostly 35 and up. They have outgrown the space they are currently in and agreed to buy the property that is zoned commercial.
John and Peggy went to the Village of Warwick Planning Board and ultimately got approval from the Village to build. That is where it all fell apart. Local neighbors have delayed, delayed, delayed keeping John and Peggy in court fighting case after case for over four years. They finally get the ruling once again in their favor from the NY Appellate Court along with some compensation due them.
Now the neighbors are once again at the final hour filing another lawsuit which John and Peggy once again have to pay a lawyer to represent them. There is something wrong with the legal system that allows this to go on without limitation.
It is time for John and Peggy to turn the table and sue the named people on the suit for all court and lawyer fees for their loss of time and money. This is a case of sour grapes, you buy or rent a house abutted to commercial property and there is always a chance that someday the property owners may want to sell and four yrs. ago was the day.
Why should the property owners be denied the right to sell their property and if the neighbors wanted it to stay empty forever they should have put up the money and bought it? This is typical of what is happening around Warwick.
John and Peggy are some of the most generous people in the Village, always there to hand out food when needed, like when they fed the workers who were volunteering their time to build the new playground or all the meals sent to the hospital for the workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, or all the meals they served the people who volunteered to issue COVID vaccinations this winter at the Orange County run pod in Goshen. These are just a few of the many ways they support our local community.
We appreciate the way they run their establishment putting forth great meals and reasonable prices. They do not put up with anyone being unruly. It is a great place to have a great meal and have some conversation with other people. It is time to end this nightmare and allow them to build a larger restaurant to accommodate all their patrons.
ROBERT AND SALLY SCHEUERMANN
