Has it ever occurred to anyone that schools used to open a day or so after Labor Day instead of late August? If school openings could be delayed until after Sept. 6 or so, chances of a 90-plus degree heat wave would be greatly reduced, and a combination of later opening with some judicious addition of air conditioning could probably save the state millions of dollars.

That, combined with the likelihood of people being able to stay at camp until Labor Day or so, instead of having to go home and wanting to come back for that weekend, would also save a lot of gasoline.

Why not?

Harriet S. Blake, Kingfield