Please abide by our guidelines and limit your "letters to the editor" to a maximum of 500 words. We do believe that any issue you wish to discuss can be quite adequately covered in 500 words or less. And with so many of our readers anxious to share their views with the community, we must have enough space for everyone.

We very much appreciate all submissions and letters from our readers and it is extremely important to us that each appropriate letter is published in a timely manner. If your letter is too long, it simply will not be published.

So, please, do not submit very long letters. Please follow this simple guideline and let us all read your letters.

Thank you.

- Wendy Karpel Kreitzman