Editor:

   There seems to be a spirit in the air in America — a spirit that advocates the means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. This is the mindset of the proponents of the Shore Road Path.

    As a resident of Shore Road whose home is a scant 16 feet from my front door to the road’s edge - taking four feet - and four old time Cape trees from my front yard and putting in a path for the potential recreational use of a few is, at best, an arbitrary misuse of municipal authority.

    An early argument from the Shore Road Path Committee was that this project would create a sense of community - as you can clearly see by all the rhetoric on both sides, this has not and will not come to pass.

    Bring back the days when America’s culture was “to love thy neighbor as thyself” and to “look unto the good of the other” - if my neighbor was opposed to the town tearing apart their property, I would support them.

Anne Kinley

Cape Elizabeth