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.I just read in the paper that Sweet Home and Amherst are not missing any of their vacation days for spring break. While I don't usually have many complaints about the Williamsville District, I am going to complain now. I think they did the easy thing by cutting off the days of break and not the right thing, by considering the thousands of people who had other things to do that week planned. I think Williamsville needs to reevaluate this, and it had better not happen again. You were wrong with this.

.The Amherst supervisor should look at all the days off employees get: Good Friday, Presidents Day. Come on! Why do they need off? No one else does.

.I have a question for Howard Smith of the Williamsville School District. Both the Amherst and Sweet Home School Districts were able to continue with the spring recess from Friday, April 6, through Friday, April 13. Why is it that they were able to do this, but Williamsville scheduled three school days during the originally scheduled break?

.Now I hear the entrance to the Glen Park off Main Street will be closed all summer, because someone can't agree on who will fix the wall. Come on, someone get their act together.

.In connection with the assessment process, I don't know whether either Dr. Mohan or Mr. Williams is correct, but I do know that in the last five years, this past year was the only year that I was not raised. In five years, I only paid the same amount twice: this year and last year. Also, I know there are places up and down my street where people have larger yards and larger houses, but their assessment is below mine. This is all in the books at the library; anyone can look it up.

.Want to have a really good day? Smile more, laugh more, hug more, be kind, be helpful, be loving. There can never be enough love and caring in this world. Try it, if only for yourself! It will make your day.

.In recent years, my neighborhood has steadily gone downhill. It's known as Hartford Estates. Its main entrance, Hartford Road, from the back of a retail store to an abandoned house, is a disgrace. I wonder if the owner of the duplexes would like to live near them. There are houses without gutters, a corner home with a driveway full of vehicles that have not been moved for years, a messy pile of wood surrounded by mud and a trailer parked under a tree on a lawn. There is a house with air-conditioners falling out of rotting window frames. Can we get this neighborhood cleaned up, or is it already lost? It's too nice to let it go.

.Dr. Smith's statement stating the Williamsville Schools staff was outstanding in changing their vacation plans isn't entirely true. No one anticipated the October storm and that so many snow days would be used. However, I won't be surprised if 50 percent of the student population does not return to school on Wednesday.

.Amherst Supervisor Satish Mohan must genuinely believe that no one is paying any attention to the things he does and says. A recent example of the double standard that Mohan applies to others, as opposed to himself, is that he had tried to prohibit use of the word "foolish" with respect to his proposed official town board actions. And then, in the next week or two, he went on to call his fellow town board members cowards in The Amherst Bee article for refusing to go along with his proposal to switch all town employees and town retirees to a single health care provider without their consent or approval. Mohan seems to apply this double standard a lot.

.Has the mayor of Williamsville considered she is going to need extra insurance on the old mill if she is using it for the farmers market? Also, the railings and steps need re-enforcement and a ramp should be put on for the handicapped. She should allow 5 percent of the full price for yearly maintenance. Where's it coming f ro m ?