As we go to press we are thinking about the meeting tonight at Lutheran High School, Monday, March 22. The Muttontown Village Board has tried to keep the audience focused on the one issue involved, dividing the Stoothoff farm into two tax units - one taxable and one tax exempt.

Trustee Tom Treacy asked that people only talk about that one part of the issue. The next meeting of the Zoning Board will allow residents to speak about making playing fields where the village code says no to them.

At the last Muttontown board meeting a resident spoke about Mill River Road. Traffic on that road has been brought up in several venues.

It was brought up in relationship to the possible over development of Oyster Bay Harbor; crowds of cars filled with people leaving Planting Fields after an event; what will happen when East Norwich Commons opens as well as in relation to the proposed St. Dominic playing fields.

Driving down Mill River Road recently, we have twice seen a large SUV cross the yellow line into the lane as we are approaching. It is scary, and a fact of life on small country lanes. It is also a beautiful road and part of what will be the Route 25A Historic Trail.

The Historic Trail is supposed to be highlighted with signs of a horse and carriage. It is a good graphic for some of the lovely roads here. People should be reminded to go slow and enjoy the beauty of the old trails.

Maybe that means plantings of more flowering bushes and trees along the road to make it clear to people that is it worthwhile to go slow.

We would also like those reflecting lights (cat's eyes someone called them) put on the road to delineate just where the lines are so that the next SUV we meet stays on their side of the road.

That goes for bike riders too, who are supposed to ride single file!

We see the St. Dominic playing fields as being kinder to the roads than the proposed 14 or 18 houses that could be on the Stoothoff lot. We hope the majority of the people attending the meeting agree.

- DFK