When I was driving by the old senior center, built in 1888, which was condemned by the way due to mold and asbestos, I noticed an addition being put on the side of the building, the new town hall. How is this possible? Where are the funds coming from? I hope it was a grant? Then why can’t the seniors use the main building as their center? I assume they got rid of all the harmful chemicals.

Then we go down the street to the new $12.3 million library which still isn’t fully open due to elevator problems which have gone on for months. Are we going to rely on this one elevator to get to the second floor rooms?

Then I got my tax bill, another $400 a year and the mill rate isn’t too bad but assessment had gone up about $16,000. Where does it end? My neighbor’s bill went up $800 and yes they are seniors.

Don’t let me talk about the dump, no stickers on some very expensive cars and trucks and now they are going to use the capped dump to have solar power which we sell, not use for our purposes. Why?

One of my last complaints is still the lack of RR bridge on North Main Street. Not just the volume of cars that go by our neighbor, I see Pleasant Street is getting all torn up with I bet some water main breaks in the near future and we are talking two BIG SCHOOLS. I hear now Graves Street had a water main break in town, are our water mains worn out?

I did get a water pipe notice about inspecting our pipes in and outside for lead. Dan was very nice but since we had our water main replaced about 10 years ago I never signed up for additional insurance, figured our pipes were inspected when we bought the property. Would we have to pay for replacement? I know it would be expensive and we went through the issue when we had to pull out the drain in our floor of our cellar.

I am sorry to ramble about these issues but we can’t take much more noise from the trains and the pollution from the traffic and town expenses. What is the solution?

I have done a lot for this town, cleaned the old center vault, researched the veterans sign project, fixed children’s books at the library for resale, volunteered for the Historic Commission with two research projects, volunteered for PVMA and their craft fairs for years, helped do events with seniors at First Church. And I am tired.

Shirley Majewski lives in South Deerfield.