Dear editor:

Your article so entirely expresses the sentiments of our resident taxpayers and has been addressed for years in your newspaper and at town council meetings (The Lake Report, “Speak out against short-term rentals,” July 24).

All their frustrations have been ignored. Nothing will change — the residents have thrown in the towel and given up pissing into the wind.

They are leaving town — getting out of Dodge. Witness the record number of homes for sale; they are not downsizing or relocating within NOTL. Why?

You should survey the sellers, as I have done. They will give you the answer — and often an earful — on how NOTL has already gone to the dogs.

I recall several articles in your newspaper during Betty Disero’s tenure, where David Leveque was a very vocal advocate for the B&B crowd and short-term rentals. He once threatened to sue the town.

Finally, Garth Turner’s article of July 10 says it all: “The NOTL dream died. So they left.”

We all know the cabal who controls NOTL, and it’s not the voice of the taxpayer.

Sam Young
NOTL