Gazette Readers Write

I am concerned about the price of gas. I work for a volunteer organization and one of the main tasks is to help provide rides to people who cannot drive for themselves due to age or medical conditions. If the price of gas keeps rising, how on earth can these volunteers pay for the gas to drive others?

Lately, I have noticed that our volunteers are not responding to our requests to drive as much.

When the price of gas is driven upward everything and everyone else is affected by that. Where are the incentives for our volunteers to keep driving their cars?

Each year the county and the state make new laws, amend old ones, but for some reason they just can't seem to enforce the new or old. In October 2010, the state amended Code 12 of the annotated code of Maryland to stop second-hand precious metal dealers from purchasing precious metal from the public at places other than the fixed business address connected with the license.

I have not read all of “Crime and Punishment” but I have hopes that each crime is followed by a richly deserved punishment. Usually it is, but when I read the story about a drug dealer’s “punishment” I was surprised (Maryland Gazette, Jan. 28).

The story detailed that a Pasadena man had $239,000 of pot sent to his home address and he only has to serve 30 days of his five-year sentence. These days it can be served on weekends.

As a boater, a Magothy River waterfront owner, an environmentalist, and an engineer, I would like to express my full support for the proposed erosion control project for Dobbins Island.

In my opinion David and Dianna Clickner should be given an environmentalist award for their efforts to save Dobbins Island from both the whims of nature and the wounds of man.