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12:50 PM Tuesday, February 9, 2010

First, let me say how pleased we are with Janet Baker, superintendent of Hamilton City Schools. Our family has known her from the 1970s ... when she was a teacher. She, along with school board members, are doing a wonderful job. ...

I would like to see a change in the transportation for middle and high school students (who) are walking to school in the dark. Many neighborhoods are not well lit.

Example: our granddaughter lives on Webster Avenue and her closest route to the middle school is to go over to Gordon Avenue to B Street, take B Street north to NW Washington Boulevard to the middle school, about 1.1 miles. About a block past Starr Avenue, there are no sidewalks or street lights. There is a wooded area by the river, where the city dumps tree limbs and leaves.

While (I was) working for the city, we would find homeless people living there, building shelters from tree limbs. ... This makes for a dangerous situation for our granddaughter and other students. ...

Students who live up around Gordon Smith Avenue have to use Eaton Avenue hill to get to school. There again, no sidewalks or street lights, and a wooded area. Some students are using a path through the wooded area, which is dangerous. With these situations, we are just asking for trouble.

After checking the sheriff’s Web site, I found 11 known sexual offenders within a half-mile of Webster Avenue and 42 sexual offenders within a one-mile radius. And the school board (allows) teenage girls to walk to school in the mornings, in the dark.

Why can’t we supply transportation for our students, like Fairfield, our neighbor to the south, is doing?

Walter Seward

Hamilton

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The problem Walter mentioned has nothing to do with race or illegals. It's about the children (all of them belong to us), and their safety.

Walter did a wonderful thing by taking time to write the letter. Not only should there be police stationed on the streets in and times in question, there should be lights, sidewalks, and places for the growing number of homeless people to get shelter.

School bus route improvement, and public transportation would be a bonus too.

Donna Mollaun
9:58 AM, 2/11/2010

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But Hamiltucky has all those sculptures! You mean all the stupid statues aren't as useful as street lamps?

Uncle Andy
8:43 AM, 2/10/2010

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Were the sex offenders there before you moved in? Maybe you should have done some research before you moved there - a primary concern for us is who our neighbors are. We also considered how our kids would get to school (I am fortunate enough to be able to get them there by car).

Unfortunately it probably will take a child getting seriously hurt or killed before they will install a sidewalk - the light at Main in front of Fillmore came about that way.

question
8:29 AM, 2/10/2010

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I had 2 teenagers attend High School from Gordon Smith Blvd. wrote 2 letters to the editor published saying exactly the same thing and nobody cared and this was years ago. My same concerns were the sex offenders in the area, the path through the woods. Either change the school times so they are walking in daylight o or improve conditions with lighting and sidewalks. It will take a child being killed on that hill by a car or someones daughter being raped by a sick sex offender.

Sandra Bowers
11:07 PM, 2/9/2010

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it doesant bennifit any illegal mexicans.if you could prove that just one little illegal mexican walked up the hill on eaton rd.they would put a sidewalk in so fast it would make your head spin.or if an illegal gets run over and is killed on eaton rd.they will send the driver to prison for ten years.then give his illegal family fifty million dollars and send them to governers hill to live in an (illegal mexican built home) for free.

stix
3:16 PM, 2/9/2010

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