The board of education has mailed an excellent newsletter to voters on the proposed capital projects. I urge everyone to read it carefully before voting.

Michael Reagan's column in the Saturday Citizen is his best ever and a must read. The free world had better learn quickly to deal with Islam or it will be to late.

Southern Springs is the combination of Southern Cayuga and Union Springs schools. Duh!

More benches need to be set up for the TomatoFest. There are not enough places to sit and this is especially hard for senior citizens.

Ford Motor Co. in trouble? Let's import more cars and then those so-called Americans who purchase them can slap flags (probably also imported) on their cars to let everyone know they are proud citizens.

A political party rends a government into two distinct people and makes greater strangers and more adverse to one another than if they were actually two different nations.

We are well into our third month of dust, mud and rocks ricocheting onto our lawns and our sidewalks. Can anyone give us an explanation as to why Howard Street has been forgotten other than to keep passing the buck?

Thank you to your staff for the wonderful Web site you have set up. Your guestbook is a wonderful tool, and the design and usage was very friendly and warm. Thank you for giving us “Citizens” a useful (and free) outlet.

Why would David Gould want to be sheriff, because of the way the current sheriff is treated by his men? The answer is the current sheriff, Charles Robert Outhouse, treats his men bad and does anything he wants, so his men want a new boss.

The current sheriff is simply being treated by his employees like he treats them: no respect. What he never seems to understand is that you earn your employees' respect, not demand it through fear of some form of retaliation.

Does the city of Auburn really own the house on the corner of Washington and Orchard streets? How about listing all the homes that the city of Auburn owns, for the taxpayers of Auburn.

It pays good attention to watch these political ads by our glorious candidates, especially Ray Meier's ad about Rome Labs, which you can see right in the corner it says dramatization. Why can't these candidates just use the actual images instead of trying to make it seem like they do more than what they've done?

Do you suppose that the persons responsible for sending STAR rebate checks to those who don't even pay taxes to begin with are the same persons that disperse huge ungodly income tax refunds to those who don't work or pay into the system to begin with - unbelievable! As a hard working taxpayer, I think someone better wake up and smell the coffee soon!

To the person it “doesn't make sense” to regarding seniors and larger rebate checks, I'm a senior and don't have kids in school, yet I pay school taxes - “does that make sense?” It does because some seniors paid school taxes when I was in school and when you are a senior, you will get a break too, along with all the aches and pains of the “golden years” and the sky-high prices on a fixed income.

To the person who says that seniors pay very little school tax and receive the advanced STAR exemption: Why then am I senior paying school taxes of $1,100 this year, plus the other taxes with no STAR exemptions - i.e. city tax of over $1,400 and county tax of over $1,000, totaling approximately $3,500 per year and the rebate check received was not that great, especially after taxes and living on a fixed income? Maybe this will make sense to him or her!

Tim Lattimore and the Auburn city council should quit playing games and hire a permanent chief for the fire department. A public safety director is not necessary in a community of our size.

Can't stop smoking? Where there's a will, there's a way.