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Ashamed of Highland community, leaders
Editor, The Recorder,
I am a member of the Highland community and have proudly been so for the last three years until this past week or so. I have listened to this town try to choose how other community members live. It sickens me to think that someone with a title can tell the average Joe how to live and what they can do on or in their property. If no laws are broken and no one is hurt then what difference does it make if you listen to music or burn a log or two in your backyard as long as it is watched and doesn't get out of control?
We complain that the youth in this town have nothing to do. So we want to take that away from them as well. We have a community of good kids for the most part and they are hurting no one.
I have also had the pleasure of listening to this town's government officials bad-mouth members of this community who are really trying to help make this town better. But because they decide that they don't like someone let's make them so wish they had made other choices. Let's run them out of town on a rail, so to speak, just because we don't like them. Let's make them suffer for moving into our little community.
My roots are buried in this town and I love it here but the hate for our fellow neighbors makes me ashamed. What happened to love thy neighbor, barn-raising parties and helping one another? That's what I remember about this town years ago.
Alice Huff Monterey, Va.
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