To the editor:

I hope you’re proud of yourselves and that your parents are proud of you too — leaving a 68-year-old disabled woman (my sister) trying to defend the items you were stealing from her yard as she was chasing you down her street in East Lawrence at 11 at night in her bathrobe and asking you to bring her yard ornaments back. She has worked and saved to get them. She enjoys her yard so much and is very proud of it. You come in on her property that she pays taxes on and steal her pride and joys.

This is not the town I grew up in. I remember the day we could leave the car unlocked and a bag of change on the cigarette lighter to feed the parking meter for whoever came back to the car first when we shopped on Massachusetts Street. That’s the town I love to remember. But no more — I am saddened by such behavior as today.

Betty Howe,

Lawrence