To the Editor:
Kudos to the Mattapoisett Highway Department and their contractors for the outstanding job they did constructing new sidewalks and planting grass along North Street in the village. Perhaps the gentleman I see from time to time struggling to roll his wheelchair along the street will now have a flat, smooth, clear, safe handicap-accessible surface to traverse, or not!
It seems that a number of residents continue to park their vehicles on the sidewalk leaving only a small path for walkers and destroying the new grass border with their tires. One resident insists, and has for sometime, on parking on the entire sidewalk forcing walkers to walk in the street. To those people, please consider walkers as well the dollars the town spent to provide an attractive and safe village environment.
Dick Morgado, Mattapoisett
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