On the school budget. Your report on the district’s proposed cuts left out the part that matters most to parents: the elementary art program is listed under “enrichment,” which the board has already said it will cut first. Art is not enrichment. It is the reason my daughter goes to school without complaint. Please ask the board to say the words out loud before the vote. Teresa Lam, Eastside
On the bike lanes. I have driven Front Street every weekday for twenty years. I did not want the protected lane. I was wrong. Traffic moves better now, not worse, because nobody is double parked in the travel lane. The merchants who are complaining should count the bikes locked up outside their stores. Harold Jensen, North Harbor
On Captain. Two weeks ago you ran a short item about a dog named Captain who went missing from the ferry terminal. He turned up on Tuesday, in the cargo hold, having apparently ridden back and forth for nine days on the kindness of deckhands. He is home. He is fine. He has gained weight. The Alvarez family, Pier Road
