The RSU is going to try to get their way in the November election. What is it that they didn’t understand by the votes that were cast in June? The addition and fields were voted down, and they don’t like it. We are told that a phone poll was taken of residents, but how many were from Freeport, how many from Pownal, and how many from Durham?

It is hard for some residents from Durham and Pownal to make the meetings that are almost always held in Freeport. Those of us in Durham had a 12 percent increase in taxes this year. Please let us catch our breaths. Two years ago the committee failed to get a $3 million sports complex. This year they failed to get $1.5 million for new fields. Now they are going to try to get it in a separate article. Let’s play fair and bring it back next June so we have more time to study it. That is not what the committee and RSU board want to do is give us time to study and make our own decision as to what is best for the students.

It upsets me when I think about the meeting before the RSU was formed, when I asked if the high school was large enough to support the influx of students that would come from Durham and Pownal. We were told there should be no problem for eight to 10 years. This has been a short eight or 10 years!

Those of us that understand town business realize that people will be called and the articles will probably be passed. I ask the voters of Freeport, Durham and Pownal, and I appeal to the committee and the board members of RSU 5, to back off and let’s study to see if there are better ideas to do the job we want to do. We must remember that there will be no money from the state to help us with the finances. Let’s play fair.

Kenneth Scribner

Durham