I would like to add my voice to William Riedel’s letter to the editor (June 18, “Taking issue with all the buzz”) about the helicopter school.

Day and night, our house

shudders under the percussion and extreme noise of the low-flying helicopters, which seem to hover over our neighborhood.

I, too, have filed complaints about this, beginning several years ago. However, this noise is becoming more frequent, more obnoxious, and the crafts are flying lower than ever before.

It has begun to be a problem even late into the night hours, sometimes approaching 2 a.m. There are some days when it feels like a military zone here in the old Main Street neighborhood.

The peace and quiet that attracted us to this area seem to have been a temporary benefit of buying a home in this century-old neighborhood. However, recognizing excessive noise pollution as a contributing factor to stress, insomnia, illness and peace, I am prepared to do whatever can be done to restore the “quiet” back into our quiet little neighborhood.

Living here has proven to be “more stressful than I ever imagined,” to borrow the City motto. I am hoping we can change that.

– Debra Rexroat