Comments from our readers:

BEN HARBIN DOESN'T necessarily "deserve our support." He's been in office 14 years, way too long to hold a public office.

ONCE AGAIN I would like to thank the self-appointed Holiday Park yard police. Your kindness and consideration ... is without equal. I have a herniated disc, along with scoliosis, bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. If you have been paying so much attention to my yard you will see that I have only recently gone back to work. Columbia County has one of your illegally placed letters you put in my mailbox. And, for the record, if I see anyone watering against the restricted schedule, I will report it every chance I get. Thanks for all the aggravation you have provided my family. We are responsible, tax-paying citizens, and we work hard to make ends meet.

I'D LIKE TO SEE the menaces who think their graffiti is so awesome take it off with a small toothbrush ... and that's just for starters.

I WANT TO SEND a rave to the firefighters on Richmond Hill Road. They helped make my son's second birthday extra special. Thanks, guys!

THERE'S ONLY ONE solution to the Coliseum Authority problem. Tear down the building and let private interests build another one, if they want to. Do away with government interference in what should be private enterprise. Government has proven, once again, to be completely incompetent.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK all the wonderful people, especially a nurse named Bree who helped me after my wreck on Stevens Creek Road. I really don't know what I would have done without you there!

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D bump a good cartoon like Cathy from the Monday-Saturday paper and replace it with a loser like Cul du Sac . Why not bump one of the other sorry cartoons, namely Brewster Rocket or Candorville, instead? Cul du Sac needs to go completely.