Yes, the town disabled their contact on their website--that's why only the city manager's email is to be found!! I don't know about the rest of you, but that seems pretty cowardly to me.
I also sent an email yesterday. Polite(though I didn't FEEL like being particularly polite, it is the best approach...)---but firm in my urging them to have a heart and grandfather this horse in.
Until a few short years ago(maybe three or four,now), when I headed for home after visiting Sam's Club in Albuquerque, city of nearly a half million, I drove through a FULLY developed residential area in what is called the 'Northeast Heights' of the city, where a VERY elderly, but well-loved and well-cared-for, mare lived, behind a house that sat on two 'combined' back-to-back corner lots. She had a spacious paddock, nice little shelter, was kept groomed, feet well-cared-for, cleaned up after...she'd been there since the neighborhood developed...since probably the early to mid '70's--and the 'big city' had the heart to allow her to stay until she passed of old age. I used to take that route because of the deep satisfaction I got from seeing her, how she was doing, and how well-loved she clearly was! This was a modest income neighborhood by now, but she was clearly accepted there.
Surely seems like a small Nebraska town(last I heard, most of Nebraska would be considered 'country', in the finest meaning of the word...)could have as much 'heart' as a city such as Albuquerque, doesn't it??
REALLY hoping we will hear that the town's 'city fathers' prove to have heart, also....
Margo