Hermon center vote

If the residents of the town of Hermon needed another reason to go to the polls in November, Sharon Nickerson and the recreation committee have just given them one.

It is unimaginable that in this time of financial uncertainty, high gas and fuel prices, declining excise tax revenues and declining home prices, that we should now be considering a proposal to build a $6.5 million community center. According to the town manager, this could increase our tax bills by 5 percent to 12 percent. What he did not say, however, was what it would cost annually to heat, staff, pay utilities, and maintain this center.

Councilor Nickerson said she was not concerned with the high cost. This attitude demonstrates an unforgivable lack of concern for Hermon taxpayers and suggests she became a town councilor to represent a very narrow constituency and has no regard for the rest of the community.

Robert O’Halloran

Hermon