To the Editor:

It is funny when you think about it.

For years and years, the paper mill produced horrible odors that could be smelled for miles. When I lived in Carrollton, and definitely when I lived in Franklin, I could smell that mill.

For years and years, the paper mill required dozens of tractor-trailers coming and going at all hours of the day and night. That’s a lot of noise.

Especially when you think of all the times when those trucks overturned, spilling logs all over the highway.

For years and years, the paper mill required hundreds of trains coming and going from the mill at all hours of the day and night. Trains that shook the ground and whistles that could be heard for miles.

Yet, nobody complained. Nobody spoke out at City Council meetings. Nobody complained to county supervisors. Isle of Wight County didn’t care.

Suddenly, planes landing at an airport for three hours a day is going to cause a catastrophic cataclysmic disaster upon Franklin (“No to Navy planes; Council votes 5-2 against pilot training,” Feb. 16).

What’s an airport for if not for aircraft to land and take off? Is it really supposed to just be a decoration?

Franklin City Council, I just don’t get it.

Dave Lyons
Carrollton