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.To the caller who wants to know about paving Maple Road between Hopkins and North Forest, I have done some intensive research on that, and I’d like to share that information with whomever that person is, but I don’t know how to get a hold of you.

.I want to wish Ms. Rineholt, the new principal at Sweet Home, good luck on her job. I heard a talk show on which one of the 15-year-old students and her mother were supporters of Ralph Phillips, who is a reported killer of New York State troopers. I wish you all the luck, and I hope that this is not an example of the other students from Sweet Home.

.I’ve noticed that this column has basically turned into a weekly Satish Mohan support or bash column, depending on your viewpoints. Isn’t there anything else to talk about in Amherst?

.I want to comment on Channel 17’s fund-raising. The other night they broadcast “South Pacific,” but they gave no information at all. They could have provided a lot about the cast, especially Amherst’s own John Chuck was in it. They never gave the background on the stars, just kept telling how moved they are by the singing. Let’s have some information like other networks do when they present something, like the background of the performers.

.I think Dr. Mohan is trying to save money in the wrong departments, like cutting money from the Highway Department. He should look at the double salary payment to the Recreation Department. You don’t need two directors making the same amount of money. One of them should go and the money given to other departments so they can get equipment and personnel to get everything done p ro p e r l y.

.I couldn’t belive the ignorant, misguided opinion that hospitals should stay open and why in a letter to the editor until I turned the page and realized it had been written by a union leader. Typical. Unions are one of the main reasons this area is in the mess it is in. Wake up, people; the status quo isn’t working and will just make things worse, if that is possible.

.I read in the paper about the fight between youths who live on Allenhurst and attend Amherst Central High School. These kids are starting in Windermere. Windermere School is doing everything in their power to get parents involved with these kids and to help these kids have a better home life and better education than what they had when they lived in the city. If the parents don’t want it, there’s nothing we can do. Now we are having gang fights in the senior high. Something has got to be done! Making parents do homework with the children every night is not helping the kids in how they think; something else has got to be done.

.The pro and con comments on our Amherst supervisor are becoming tedious and boring to read week after week. Aren’t there any more important local issues for discussion besides public personalities? Gripes about taxes produce another big yawn; we already know that they are, like death, inevitable.

.I notice that the sequence of lights has been changed on Main Street. I live on Linwood Avenue, and I can barely get out of my street onto Main Street in either direction. I think this causes more of a problem than the sequence previously. It seems like the cars back up all the way. Previously, I was able to wait for the lights to

turn red and was able to turn in either direction. Now, I can barely get out of my street. I would appreciate someone looking into this and checking all the side streets coming onto Main Street. You’ll see that the backup is unbelievable.