I am compelled to write after reading your coverage of Livermore Falls town affairs. Your reporting has been biased at best and approaching inflammatory.

The town selectmen recommended a budget that made sense. State mandates will require regional dispatch soon. The transfer station has been a duplication of services for years; it was brought up as a wasteful expense (pardon the pun) at budget time for years.

Planning went into the selectmen’s proposed budget. Anyone who reads the paper was aware of their intent as it was published more than once prior to town meeting.

About 50 residents led by a few disgruntled employees chose to practice vigilante politics at the town meeting instead of participating in the planning stages. Unfortunately the complacent majority who, like myself, are in agreement with the town officials allowed the unhappy few to hijack the town. We were not in attendance to stand up for the sensible solution to serious financial problems.

The quotes attributed to transfer station attendant Fred Nadeau sound like projection to me. He is among those who got their wish to “shut down the town” (called out at town meeting). Deal with it.

I offer my apologies to our board of selectmen, town manager and town clerk and my sincere promise to be there next time.

Margaret Riordan, Livermore Falls