Politicians and committees get together for an evening of discussion on the issues at hand and all they do is position themselves for better jobs and a step up in the system.

The issues fall to the side and the public be damned. We in Hicksville can see the problems. We don't need a firm from Chicago to charge the town or the county a large sum of money to tell us to plant trees and make the streets safer. We know that our main and side streets are unkempt, not repaved in years; sidewalks with litter and overgrowth; medians are bare and littered.

I read about historical areas being sought. There are many places that date to the early 1900s and later. I was born in Hicksville in 1945. My grandfather's house was a one room home for the potato farm workers. This is the house my grandfather later bought and expanded a little. To this day, I live in it. I remember a large farm running from his house to Hempstead Turnpike. Growing up, I played on a farm from Division Avenue to Newbridge Road.

The Old Jolly Swagman restaurant on Division Avenue was built in the early 1900s by a dentist in Hicksville, but the place has been sold a few months ago and who knows what it's going to look like or be again?

Yes, we the people know what's wrong with our hamlet but until we get doers in office and not talkers there will be litter on our streets and holes in the roads where no trees or shrubs grow and no green grass on our lawns.

Steve Dziegelewski