To the Editor:

McKenzie Golden’s letter in the Nov. 20 Enterprise [“Digital sign might better be used for community messaging”] regarding the town welcome sign in the roundabout at Carman Road and Lydius Street was well written. I agree that the digital sign serves no purpose as it is presently used to display a static image of a portion of the American flag.

But I can’t agree with her suggestion that the digital sign be used to display community messaging or any other text. Driving through that roundabout requires (or should require) all of a driver’s attention to traffic from four points of entry on a good day.

Add commuting traffic and/or bad weather and it becomes even more demanding. Nobody should be diverting their gaze to try and read a message on the sign.

I grew up on that corner from 1954 until I graduated from college — before there was a stop light, before the Terry Avenue neighborhood was built. When Lydius Street became a two track dirt road into the Pine Bush about a half mile in. Back when almost all you heard at night were crickets. And we managed just fine without a community sign.

Phil Arony

Charlton, New York