One final question.

The day after my infamous interview with Mr. Snyder, he dropped off a rather bulky looking packet of information on the wet lands. It took me the whole week, but I finally managed to shift through it, and highlight key terms and people from the copied documents. Mainly, the papers were about the legal side of the story, which I, from the beginning hadn't planned on writing about. I simply wanted to tell people about the existence of this filtration system and how it worked. But now with the information that has presented itself, that isn't the case. Now I'm not really sure which way I'm going to take the story. It will be written by Tuesday, that's for sure.

If anything, the best part of this story was how I unknowingly began sticking my nose in places where it shouldn't be. But if most of the people I interviewed were like the few who actually gave me information instead of answering my questions with cold one word statements, than maybe I wouldn't be left thinking that there is some sort of piece I'm missing to this story.

These unanswered questions and open ended remarks I got from several people are making me very curious as to what lies behind these wet lands, and what exactly caused the town to split down the middle, so many years ago. I mean, could it really be so bad that it causes people's eyebrows to raise at the name "wet lands" and frown upon my story line?

Based on the information I have gathered, I have a very broad spectrum of this answer, but the fact that people won't tell me anything more other than the word "controversy" is only adding fuel to my brightening curiosity.

Maybe it was just the production of the wet lands that caused this divide, or maybe it was something else, something that pertains to common human nature, like greed or the placing of one's self too high on a throne. Perhaps there isn't more to this, which could be very likely due to me being overworked and incredibly tired. Maybe I am reading this whole story wrong. I really don't know. I hope that by the next issue, or even this upcoming issue of our lovely gazette, I will have found the answer to my last question; what was it about the production of the wet lands that caused such a hushed divide of the town?

Huh, I should have went with one of my other ideas: something on advisory class or how plaid is back in style. I probably wouldn't be driving myself nuts with possible leads or secrets with one of those stories. Oh well, this idea was definitely more interesting and more than I bargained for.

Shayna Innocenti
WHS
Wickenburg, Ariz.