Dear Editor:

I left the Select Board meeting at Westport Island last night as I no longer wanted to participate in the “Blame Game” with the term “his estimate” being repeated by the Second Selectman and a handout pointing out overruns in the Maintenance budget happening the last five years.

The town roads on Westport Island are in a large part cow paths that became roads many years ago. Unfortunately, they became roads without any upgrades to support the 4 axle trucks that deliver materials and 3 axle garbage trucks and fuel trucks that mostly ignore the load limit signs posted every year.

A long-range plan needs to be developed to upgrade all the town roads to support today’s heavy loads by the Road Committee that can be accomplished without over burdening taxpayers.

Richard DeVries

Westport Island