To the editor:

Instead of the town spending money buying the gas station downtown (I can hear the moans and groans of the anti-downtown-improvement-don’t-use-the-TIF-funds-people any way) they should instead use that money to buy the property that contains the Larabee Garrison and monument so it is saved from future development (“Historian urges protection for early settlement,” Feb. 5, page 4).
It would allow public access and people would be able to see William Barry’s fine marker as well. It would be a far more productive use of money that would benefit the whole town. We have already lost many acres of land that contained important archaeological sites that we will never get back. Let’s not lose one more.

Stephen Burr
Kennebunk