- Hagerstown
"I live in Hagerstown and work in Frederick. I travel every day and use about two or three tanks of gas a week and I noticed in the Greencastle, Martinsburg and Frederick areas the gas prices for the past two weeks have been down, but not in Hagerstown. I bought gas in those other areas. I just got gas in Frederick County, it's $1.63 and Hagerstown is still $1.79. What is holding up Hagerstown? Why aren't they lowering their prices?"
- Hagerstown
"I want to know if anyone knows if Leitersburg still has the singles dance on Friday nights. If so, call Mail Call and let me know when it is."
- Washington County
"I just discovered the other night why the city of Hagers-town is against the hospital moving. I visited a friend there and lo and behold there was a police officer with a flashlight checking the meters. For those of you who don't know it, the fine is $10 now instead of $5. Right up the street where the crosswalk is, there were four elderly ladies waiting to cross. There were cars zooming by and never stopping. Maybe the officer should check that out instead of the meters."
- Hagerstown
"I would like to know why the City of Hagerstown is building a parking deck that I personally don't think is needed?"
- Hagerstown
"I want to comment on the insurance mess down in Annapolis. It seems to me what is going to be the outcome is a slush fund for unscrupulous lawyers to dive into at the expense of the taxpayers. This should not be allowed to happen. There should be some kind of curbs put on lawyers' ability to sue everybody and everything."
- Washington County
"I beg to differ with the person who called Mail Call on Dec. 29 and said that Christmas is officially over and to start taking down the decorations. Christmas is not officially over. There are 12 days of Christmas and that runs until Jan. 6."
- Hancock
"To the person who said in Wednesday's paper about the parking in the 900 block of Mulberry Avenue. Thanks to your calling in about my parking cars on the street that I pay taxes for. The driveway was paid for out of my pocket, nobody else's pocket. I will now park everything on the street from now on and I won't even use my driveway at all."
- Hagerstown
"I just wanted to wish Christina a happy New Year."
- Washington County
"To those who are so worried about the people in the 900 block of Mulberry Avenue not parking in their driveways, why don't you personally come to us instead of calling Mail Call?"
- Hagerstown
"I would like to thank Nicholas from New Franklin for helping us to get our Christmas decorations off the garage loft. If it wouldn't have been for him, we probably wouldn't have gotten them down."
- Guilford Township, Pa.
"I agree with the person calling about the parking in the 900 block of Mulberry Avenue. I live in the 800 block and I can't get a parking place either. If you can afford to keep all these cars on the road, then you can afford to make off-street parking."
- Hagerstown
"I am reading Mail Call about someone telling someone to do something about the gas and oil companies. Are you kidding me? You are the ones who voted in an oil tycoon. Bush is an oil man. He gives all your taxes and tax write-offs to the oil companies. Do you really think he is going to do something about it? You all voted him in there. Now you have to live with it. Sorry about your luck."
- Hagerstown
"This is to wish Alesia Parson-McBean a happy New Year! I loved reading your columns and was sorry to hear that due to the policy of the newspaper you would have to give up being a correspondent because you have filed to run for a seat on the Hagerstown City Council. I don't live in Hagerstown, but if I did, you sure would get my vote. You are a wonderful, caring, Christian person. If we had more people like you, this would be a better world to live in. Congratulations on your wedding. I really enjoyed reading your article about it. I wish you and your husband much happiness. God bless you. From a 92-year-old mother, grandmother and great-grandmother."
- Hagerstown
"I want to ask the readers of this column if you think it's OK for a family in a residential neighborhood to allow their dogs to bark, enough to drive a man crazy?"
- Washington County
