Meet your neighbors, don’t hide from them

How well do you know your neighbor? Do you even know your neighbor? What’s their name? What do they do?

About 10 days before Halloween, we had a story on our front page about how some people’s house decorations for the holiday had been riling up their neighbors. One woman said she believed her neighbors were going too far with such items as a mannequin hanging off the roof of their house from a noose.

Others brought up the fake “dead” baby dolls in another yard. The concerned parties expressed their frustrations to us and others via social media before they even took the time to talk to their actual neighbors about the problem they had with the decorations.

That’s a bigger problem than someone hanging a mannequin off their roof as a gag.
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