Runaway Canoe
Wrestled to Ground
     My husband and I would like to have Patrick Judge recognized for his quick thinking and foresight. A week ago Saturday we were at Silver Lake State Park swimming when that terrible wind storm hit.
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Dirt Bike Track
Is a Problem
     I am writing to provide your readers with a more balanced picture of the article "Taking Flight" featured on the front page of the B-section of the Aug. 23 edition of The Herald.
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He’ll Vote ‘No’
On Randolph Tax
     I was disappointed to read on the front page of last week's Herald that the Town of Randolph has proposed another 5% property tax increase—roughly double the "core" rate of inflation as reported by the federal government.
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Village Needs
Open Spaces
     After the fires of 1992 which devastated the village business center a spirit of citizen participation in ideas and plans for the future emerged with a set of values and goals for the renewal of the Randolph village center.
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Coyotes Visiting,
Watch Your Pets
     I have lived on Hebard Hill Rd. in Randolph for 14 years. While I realize that many animals inhabit the woods, typically, I see very few of them in my yard, with the exception of birds, deer, squirrels and chipmunks.
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Build Housing
That’s Exemplary
     At $150,000, what house is affordable—in East Randolph or elsewhere?
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Permit Business
Bureaucratic
     Although Vermont’s complex environmental permit requirements and protections are supposed to increase citizen participation in decision making, I have found recently that they are being used to accomplish the opposite.
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Modest Proposal
For a War Tax
     Most of us when making decisions carefully weigh both costs and benefits. Lacking for the discussion on how to proceed in Iraq is the question of cost.
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Home Health
Shouldn’t Be Cut
     The Visiting Nurses Association, Hospice, and other home health providers nationwide are a huge cost-saver to the Medicare system as we help prevent expensive stays in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.
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Needed: Two Philanthropists
     Where are today’s Chandlers and Kimballs? In the intervening century, has society become so avaricious that hometown no longer matters to citizens well qualified to be its benefactors?
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