Letters

Aug. 2 is Election Day.

Candidates for road superintendent are urged to make public a detailed list of their past six years of experience relevant to work generally performed by the highway department. Such information would be helpful to voters who do not have access to information posted on websites by candidates.

Elected county department heads are paid substantially high salaries; the public has a right and deserves to know details about a candidate’s up-to-date experience.

I get that dot.com on all my bills.

I, for one, don’t have any of those contraptions.

You can’t find anybody in the phone book any more; it’s all on cellphone etc.

Have you noticed how small the phone books are? I looked in three last night hunting a young man that graduated from Roane State with a 4.0 grade average. I used to clean house for his mom.

I wanted to wish him good luck.

I saw his name in the paper but I just gave up.

On May 31, I was at Roane Medical Center to be with my husband, Doug, who was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer.

I saw Bina Kirby, sister of J.T. Woods, standing outside the elevators from the emergency room. There were several family members with her as she was crying for the loss of her brother.

I hugged her and told her that I would be praying for her and her family in this, a family’s most horrific time, a suicidal death.

My sincere thanks to the highway department for striping Winton Chapel Road.

This winding secondary road carries lots of summertime traffic, especially construction vehicles, cars towing boat trailers, campers, supply trucks and visitors to the Boy Scout camp.

The previous markings were either very light or nonexistent, causing some who were unfamiliar with the road to take a middle-of-road route.

I appreciate the obvious lane markings as a safety measure for those who live along this road.

Mrs. Pat Wright
Rockwood