To the Editor:

Your tax dollars hard at work:  twice-a-shift radar patrols of my dead-end road to count cars and trucks – and monitor the 24 residents who live at the upper end of the road all because one neighbor has a fixation  she just can’t seem to shake about who uses a public road.

Mind you, this is occurring on a road illegally posted at 10 mph (state law indicates rural roads at 35 mph, Wareham always had it posted at an even more reasonable 25 mph) where Mass Highway has already instructed Wareham to take the sign down (this was ignored).

News flash to not-yet-appointed-part-time-one-day-a-week North Andover Police Chief Stanley:  the crime on Maple Springs Rd happens at night in the winter at the cul-de-sac dead end, why don’t you put a stop to the nightly drug deals done down there?  Or better yet, how about a summertime radar presence to slow the ran-out-of-beer-and-smokes campers flying down the road in their haste to get needed supplies?

As it stands, sir, I’m feeling harassed.  But more importantly, I’m disgruntled at your apparent lack of common sense as to where my tax dollars within your already financially limited department should best be spent.

Clearly you are trying to appease one resident.   Why don’t you try respecting 22,000 residents’ tax dollars?

Cindy Parola

Maple Springs Road