" To-To Bushrat Oviously your education was not to good because you cant read. My second sentence stated I live rurally to avoid all the city irritations and crap. Maybe "rurally is too big a word for your understanding-it means not in a city. No I would not want to pay. I believe all govenment should operate to provide bare necessities at minimum cost to the people and we should take responsibility for ourselves.Rugged individualism is what made this country not socialistic dependence on governmemt. To quote Thomas Jefferson- "He who is governed least is governed best" "

" Why don't you tell the truth you don't want to have to pay. Truth be known you probably do not even live in the city. Your story is an old one that all of us has heard, up hill both ways, against the wind, blah, blah. "

" I sympathize with sidewalk woes. One of the many reasons I choose to live rurally was to avoid all this city/town nanny style crap and government intrusion in my life. Growing up in Michigan in the 50s winters and snow as I remember them were much worse than here. We walked about two miles to our 4 room school with our brown bag lunches. No school busses, no cafeteria and free meals. Half of our journey was along a state highway. No sidewalks, probably less traffic but a 50 mile/hr speed limit.In fact no sidewalks anywhere along our route. Our parents taught us to walk against traffic as far off the roads as we could and to watch out for big trucks and packed our lunches for us. Once in a while we would get a ride from one of them when it was 0 to 20 below. To the best of my knowledge the 6 kids in my group all made it not only thru school but also in life as well based on a good basic education in the 3 Rs. and good parental coaching ,responsibility and example Vietnam did get one of us however. But as the song goes it was a different life and a different world when we were boys and girls, I think ours was better! "

" It seems like a great idea, but everyone who has to pay for it feels it in their pocketbooks. I agree with making Sandpoint a more friendly walking town, but did you know that if homeowners pay off their LID's early, that they still have to pay the 4 percent tax that would be added for the duration of the loan? Also, we can pay to have our sidewalks done the summer prior to the city doing it, but the costs are enormous. The city makes it more of a convenience by using the loan process, but the costs are 2x's higher than if you had them done yourself. Either way, for a working family, on Sandpoint's local wages, with a family of four, we are loosing our footing within the community, and soon may have to depart in order to find a more reasonable place to raise our children. It's a sad situation that Sandpoint has now caught up with the rest of the world, making our image on the outside look good, but the inside is dying a slow painful death. "

" As a parent of former students at Farmin-Stidwell.... I say it is about time something was done. "