Congrats to Aldo Ferrario for a well-written letter on Nov. 16. Being a resident of Foxboro for 44 years, I remember many years ago when the townspeople were asked to vote to build a stadium in our town. The majority of hands were witnessed to vote Yes on this project. About a half-dozen hands were witnessed to vote No, of which I was one.

As I looked at the massive number of citizens assembled, I thought, why can't these people see the damage they have just created to the future of this beautiful town?

Now when the complaints start due to the "mess" we are in due to the stadium, I remind them the townspeople have no one to blame but themselves; they voted for this "mess" many years ago and I remember it well.

When recently asked where I resided, I replied Kraftborough. The question that was then put to me, "is that the town that used to be called Foxboro?"

As for using stimulus money to build a footbridge for Mr. Kraft's profit-that is a joke. Mr. Kraft can well afford to build his own footbridge. The stimulus money can be used for the well-needed roof for Kraftborough High School.

Elaine Palmer, Foxboro

Do first things first before North Main job

May I be blunt here? The commonwealth's infrastructure spending priorities are in woefully poor judgment.

The state is contemplating rebuilding Route 152 from the North Attleboro line southward . . . while Attleboro has a minimum of two bridges out of commission and one is grossly overdue to be completed and functional!

The city's chief assessor recently testified at a municipal council meeting that his department lost $175,000 in abatements for property owners near the County Street bridge!

I publicly call upon Rep. Bill Bowles for an immediate explanation!

Gerald F. Chase, Attleboro

THIS WRITER is Ward 5 councilman.

Indians' complaint just a stalling tactic Here we go again. The Indians are now joining the ones who do not want any obstruction to their view of Nantucket Sound in Cape Cod Bay. I will bet if the electricity were shut off to those people who complain about the view and bird, boat, and aeroplane navigation in the Sound that they would change their minds.

I cannot see how they would think the birds would run into these towers after seeing swarms of several hundred birds during migration never bump into each other. Also any person who sets out in a boat that cannot tell where these windmills are should not be out in a boat. If the navigator of an aeroplane cannot tell where the towers are they should not be a navigator.

These are nothing but delaying tactics and nothing more.

Charles W. Jones, Norfolk

School maintenance won Norfolk a $325,000 prize

For the past nearly 16 years, it has been my responsibility within the school district to recommend and implement routine and emergency maintenance procedures and capital projects at our town's two elementary school buildings.

Our record in respect to the above has been thoroughly examined (read scrutinized) by the Massachusetts School Building Authority.

The district is proud of the fact that, in calculating the reimbursement rate for the proposed replacement of the Freeman Centennial School, the authority chose to award us one incentive point in the category of "Best Practices for Routine and Capital Maintenance." Each point is equal to 1 percent of the project cost, and in this case amounts to some $325,000 that the state will be providing due solely to our past maintenance practices.

We feel that this independent reaffirmation of the effectiveness of our maintenance and capital program is at odds with suggestions that the Freeman-Centennial has not been properly maintained in recent years.

Toby Lyons

THIS WRITER is supervisor of buildings for the Norfolk public schools.

More of the burden shifting to responsible US citizens

Hold on to your wallets, Barney Frank is at it again. Now, he is proposing to give away another $2 billion, in addition to the billions they gave to the auto industry, the millions the banks gave in bonuses (due to their oversight), and the many thousands if not more, that went to unions and corrupt organizations that continue to sell their members down the proverbial commode. You know the ones I am referring to, SEIU, ACORN, and AARP. All the usual suspects that garner all the usual favors from our politicians.

How about all those people who managed to pay their mortgages on time, paid for college for their children, did not run up huge credit card debt, and have forgone the lavish vacations? What do we get? The privilege of paying for everyone again and again.

Now comes Obamacare, and cap and trade. I'll soon be looking for a third job to keep myself above water. Yet we are to believe that this administration is serious about the budget, as it states in the article I am responding to. Just today, the government announced that many people that received the tax break Obama gave them may have to return it. Quite a reversal of fortune.

How does Congress intend to pay for these over-bloated programs? I have tried to contact Congressman McGovern; he is missing in action except when there is a photo opportunity. Why do we continue to elect these people? As if all this is not bad enough, Gov. Patrick announced today he is willing to give in-state tuiton and driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Like football, they just keep piling on.

The people are breaking, the economy is broken and they just don't get it. Until then, say no to Barney and McGovern. Spend less, tax less, that is the solution.

Howard S. Levine, Attleboro