Dear Editor:

In response to Paul E. McArdle's letter to the editor titled “Things Really Do Change,” I think the categorization of a benefactor to the community as an “a golf magnate intent on changing the way people live and drive ...” and making our Boothbay region “a Myrtle Beach of the north” is bit over the top.

Hey, I don't like the trees he put up fronting the 18th green on Country Club Road. Nor do I like or am able any longer to pay the green fees charged. I do remember the days of nine holes and $8 green fees. But I don't question the motives of someone willing to share in his vision of an improved way of life in his community — and back it with his bucks. We don't have to take his money.

And characterization of our town manager and selectmen as complacent — come on. Express your views privately or at a selectmen's meeting. Then use your vote if you don't like what they do. But character assassination and use of the news media to garner a pat on the back from friends who feel likewise is not the way to go.

Dennis C. Brown
Villa Rica, Ga. and Boothbay