Thanks for the article you wrote about the trash at Skinners Falls. You did a great job and I really liked your survey. FYI, conditions have improved. The park service and volunteers cleared all the trash from the rocks. I took photos and put them on Skinners Falls River Pix on Facebook.

Last year we contacted The River Reporter and informed one of your reporters about our fears for the safety of Hasidic girls renting tubes from Landers. Today, over 150 young women were tubing and there was a kayak (presumably from Landers) steering girls to the rocks on the New York side. There was also someone standing on a rock by the falls directing the tubers to the New York side, so they don’t float all the way down the river on their own. I felt very comfortable watching all the activities.

Thanks, River Reporter, for publishing these stories. I believe your caring and concern for our community resulted in the above actions being taken.

Helen Schlaefer

Milanville, PA