Coyote menace a growing problem
      Over the past few years the island's pets have been held hostage by coyotes in Jamestown. I recall a number of years ago the divisiveness on this island when the leash law was passed. Now our dogs can rarely go out in their own backyards without being on a leash or having their owner right next to them because of this unwelcome predator.
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Codington Cove ship building memories
      Your article introducing Commander Bill Kelly was missing some information concerning his U.S. Coast Guard cutter. The Seneca was built right across Narragansett Bay, in Middletown, at the Robert E. Derecktor Shipyard. In the 1980s, Derecktor's yard in Coddington Cove was the scene of what can fairly be described as the last great shipbuilding effort in Rhode Island.
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Speeding traffic is the Clinton Ave. problem
      I am writing in response to last week's letter titled "Leadership is disappointing." To clarify some of the writer's points, there is no barrier limiting pedestrian traffic between Howland Avenue and Clinton Avenue. People are still free to walk from one road to the other. No fences or gates are keeping people from using "this once appreciated pedestrian path.
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Thanks to JTPPC for all their hard work
      While packing files and making my final notes as outgoing vice chairman of the Jamestown Tree Preservation and Protection Committee (JTPPC), I thought about the loveliness of this island and the great presence of green. I also thought about the fine people in the community who have taken that extra step to procure and secure the health and beauty of our landscape.
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'Yours Anne' was a dream realized
      How do I begin to express my appreciation to all those who contributed to the fulfillment of a dream? For years I have wanted to direct Yours Anne, but it never seemed exactly the right time to confront any audience with such a weighty, disturbingly factual, and potentially upsetting production.
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Tower's microwave level within limits
      I find it hard to believe that yet another Chicken Little "the sky is falling" scenario abounds in Jamestown. I thought the RF radiation controversy was left behind with the microwave oven and cell phone user brain damage scares.
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