I’m responding to last week’s letter to the editor, “Get the Bypass Built,” written by Dick Chutter from Round Pond.

As a downtown business and resident of Wiscasset, I am in total agreement with his letter and concerns except the part about boycotting the local businesses. As far as I know, most of the local business owners here are and have been in favor of this long over due bypass. If we had it our way, the bypass would have been built yesterday.

I was really interested to note that there were three submissions of Letters to The Editor in the August 20, 2009 edition of `The Lincoln County News. I suspect, the recent heat wave coupled with long drive times due to traffic backups in Wiscasset heightened the level of frustration for many people trying to get somewhere that required passing through Wiscasset.

Hardly a week goes by without some sort of a car accident to report.

In particular, as of late, there seems to be a rash of accidents involving motorcycles in Lincoln County.

The children’s summer reading program at the Wiscasset Public Library came to an end on Aug. 6 with a pizza party held on the lawn outside the Children’s Room. Over 60 children and adults attended the party.

We recently spent some time visiting a dear friend, Faye Hauck, in Waldoboro. We were looking for a good restaurant in your area and Faye highly recommended 995 Main.

Healthcare seems to be the topic of the day.

In the news, in Internet chat rooms and local coffee shops, it seems everybody is talking about it, worrying about it, or fighting over it. Well, not so much fighting over it. Fighting about fighting about it is more like it.

To the Editor:

I have read with some interest the several letters in this and the other local weekly that lash out at Wiscasset because of traffic backups in that village.

Last week, we said goodbye to one of our most enduring and entertaining columnists, Chris Cooper and his beloved column, “In the Garden Wet With Rain. We can safely say beloved because we have had no end of responses from fans in house and out all expressing some sort of regret about Mr. Cooper’s farewell.

I would like to report a random act of kindness.

Many years ago my husband and I placed a stone bench at the end of our driveway as a way of preventing those leaving our house from “cutting the corner.”

I feel so sorry for our veterans who gave their lives for people like Michael Jackson. He received so much glory when he died. I guess being a drug addict and some of the other things he was accused of doing made him more important than the brave men and women who have given their lives in the defense of our country.

As a member of the Edgecomb Fire Department and current Asst. Chief I am the one used to responding to people in need of help but in the early hours of Fri., July 3, I found myself in need of help.

If we were in a boxing match, it would have been stopped by now.

If the State of Maine were in the ring with all-time champ Mother Nature, by now the ref would have pulled her off of us as we hang helpless on the ropes; wrapping his arms around us to keep us from falling and muttering into our ear, “It’s not your night, kid. It’s not your night.”

This is written in response to last week’s letter by Gearry Ranger which called Carl Scheiman to task for his earlier letter on these pages.

Things are pretty quiet down on Rutherford Island on a holiday. So it was as my other half was at work on July 4. I was home alone, in the garden and wishing I had gone to the parade.