On Valentine's Day, the Syosset-Jericho Tribune ran an article headed "Jacobs and Syosset Chamber of Commerce Work to Improve Downtown." The piece covered a Chamber Village Planning Committee that discussed ways to improve traffic safety in the area and making the Syosset downtown more pedestrian friendly. Indeed there is much that should be done to make Syosset more accommodating to people who want or need to walk. How about starting with getting the shopkeepers to shovel their sidewalks.

My walk between Convent and Ira Roads along Jackson Avenue a week after one of the smaller snowfalls was treacherous. The sidewalks on both sides of Jackson were not cleared. After one of the larger snowfalls, the sidewalk in front of several of the stores in the strip north of the railroad station was not shoveled.

A most welcome belated Valentine from the merchants of Syosset to the residents of Syosset would be to keep their sidewalks clear, beginning right now.

Barbara Josepher

Syosset resident