Comments from our readers:

CROSS CREEK HIGH, you need to check the people out there who are out of zone. You should not have nearly 1,400 people in that school. It's a fire hazard.

THANK YOU for having this very nice and informative column.

THIS IS A RANT about this country losing favor with God. We have fires, floods, tornadoes and droughts. People of America, wake up.

IF YOU DON'T WANT a flu shot, fine, don't get one. That leaves plenty of medicine for the rest of us. Fine, settled. But please don't cough or sneeze in my direction.

WOULDN'T IT BE NICE if just one community started a Spooky to Be Hungry, which originated in the one where I lived? Instead of having the children trick or treat, fathers and mothers could have them donate to the poor and the homeless.

I THINK THE AUGUSTA fire department should go in and use the house at 3332 Karen Drive, where that poor young woman died. They should go in there and use it as a controlled fire to practice burning the house.

STOP AND THINK when you say illegal immigrants. They are not just Mexican. We have illegal immigrants from Europe and Germany, who marry soldiers just to come to the United States and then dump the soldier and they are here.

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