The sign in front of the Town Hall was given to the Town by the Andover Lions Club for the purpose of notices concerning budget hearings, school notices, town meetings, voting, and other not-for-profit organizations’ events.

The letters are printed on plastic squares which slide in between plastic grooved tracks screwed onto the background. The sign itself is old now, has been repainted several times, and each time we replaced broken pieces and remounted them.

Along the way, with different people doing this job, the tracks have become misaligned. They need to be precisely lined up to slide the letters in. This has not happened, and consequently it is difficult to put up a sign in the winter; freezing takes place, as well as contraction and expansion.

I have put up numbers of signs there over the years for the Town and for non-profit organizations. I am getting too old to be doing this in the winter, especially when snow and ice are always plowed around it. And you have to plead with every new Town Administrator to have the snow removed.

This is the reason for my closing the sign for the winter … too cold, letters freeze, hard to slide in or remove.

The sign needs repair work. I am sorry. I liked doing sign work. I did not intend to offend anyone.

George Kidder