To the Editor:

I was born on a farm and am absolutely saddened as our precious farmland is being taken over by warehouses.

The amount of tax relief will never compare with the amount of devastation being done to our precious communities. I keep bringing up traffic, but the amount of tractor-trailers these warehouses will produce is overwhelming, plus the pollution, the noise, the retreads and the road damage - but the traffic most of all. It will be bumper to bumper on most roads surrounding us.

And then explain to me the reasoning behind the Northampton Area School District Board of Education members consciously approving the building of an elementary school in the middle of all this chaos. The proposed location for this new elementary school is at the corner of Route 329 and the new Seemsville Road. A safe location, I think not.

We need to keep our elementary school-aged children safe. I really do not believe that this is a safe location for any school, especially an elementary school - and then close/eliminate/tear down Moore Elementary School where Moore pride is evident.

Last, how can this same school board justify building another new elementary school when the total amount spent for the new Lehigh Elementary School has still not been determined?

Do they think money grows on trees? Most of us did not get a raise this year, and some of us are still not back to working full time. How do they expect us to pay for the higher gas prices, higher food prices, higher medication costs and higher taxes?

We need help paying our taxes now, not looking to an increase by taking out another bond for another new elementary school. We need to take a break.

Remember, buildings do not educate - good teachers do.

Madelyn “Maggie” Kemp

East Allen Township