Fredonia Trustee Jon Espersen defended the village this week over a woman’s $4,000 water bill. Ashley DiFrancesco called the OBSERVER to complain about the bill for a three-month period. She alleged that previous bills over the same period of time were for between $400 and $600. Espersen disagreed with that, in his own phone call. He stated that over the last three years, bills for three-month quarterly periods at her property— a Brigham Road apartment building, home to five people — averaged exactly $5,103. “She just purchased that (property), and shame on her for not ...