To the editor:

With school rapidly approaching, we need to start looking for children walking around town and waiting on school buses. Some of our local kids walk to school and cross the streets to enter the school properties. Please, take extra time and look for children darting across the roads.

We also need to be ready for a new group of young drivers on the roadway. They are inexperienced and will possibly have poor judgment, so please be patient, and call in reckless or poor drivers.

Have a great year, Eagles. Be safe and arrive alive.

Ben Seastrom, Nashville chief of police

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