A sample from our e-mailbag

2001-09-06 / Opinion

A sample from our e-mailbag

We get the most interesting e-mail from our web readers and others every week. Thought we’d share some of them with you.

One reader wrote that she grew up in Babylon and moved to Colorado more than 30 years ago. She is taking a trip back to her hometown with her teenaged daughter and wanted to show her around. Most of all, however she wanted her to have the opportunity to taste what she remembers as being the best pizza ever. The former resident wanted us to recommend some good pizza parlors and hoped that the pizza they made in Babylon was still as good as she remembered it.

Another reader said he was flying in from Europe and wanted to visit our town. He asked if we could recommend a limousine service. We did. One of our advertisers, of course, who provided great service we heard later.

Finally, a young man sent us an e-note asking if we could research some old newspapers for him. He wanted copies of the stories that were written when he was a high school star basketball player.

Queries about old stories and obituary notices make regular appearances in our electronic mail box, and while we make every effort to help out a former resident or someone just interested in our community or its residents, the task, thanks to the telecommunications age we are living in, has become burdensome. So, we ask that they check out our website or suggest they contact the local high school and hire a student to do the research for them at the library or historical society.

In any case, this wonderful internet has opened up the lines of communication between our town and the world, and we’re so very proud to be able to tout the wonderful faces and places every week as the Amityville Record, Massapequa Post and Babylon Beacon circle the globe on the world wide web.

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