Letters

HELTER SHELTER

Dear Dan,

Apropos your article two weeks ago on Patricia Lynch being awarded $251,000 by a jury because the town of Southampton allegedly violated her first amendment rights after she criticized management of the town animal shelter.

The new shelter in Hampton Bays was neither built, as your article suggested, after she left in 2004, nor was it located in a site where a closer eye could be kept on it. Who was to keep closer tabs on it?

Plans for the new shelter were in play before the new millennium. I know because I interviewed shelter supervisor Don Bambrick for an article. Shelter construction began in 2000 and it opened in 2001.

An article printed last week said that Ms. Lynch volunteered at the shelter from 2000 to February 2004 when Town Public Safety Administrator Cheryl Kraft terminated her volunteer time.

Cordially.
Nancy Hyden Woodward
East Hampton
Via e-mail

Thanks for these corrections. –DR

ABANDON SHIP!

Dear Dan,

Republicans — grab your lifeboats! Captain George W. Bush’s Ship of State is foundering on the rocks and is headed for Davey Jones’ locker. Even bilge rats have the instinct for self-preservation and will abandon a doomed vessel. Those who keep trying to bail Bush out do so at their own peril, they’ll go down with that sinking ship.

Paul G. Jaehnert

Vadnais Heights, MN

Via e-mail

Isn’t he not just the captain, but the commander in chief? –DR

DAN ADDICT

Dear Dan,

First, thanks for so many years of Dan’s Papers! I moved here in 1992 and have read it ever since. I came form Rochester and, at the time I left, there wasn’t anything like Dan’s. I’ve been hooked ever since!

Enjoy your spring and summer and I look forward to every issue.

Christine Laureano
Via e-mail

Here’s another. –DR