To the Editor:
LBI is dying, and little is being done to save it. There are economic and climatic forces at work that are forcing inevitable change, yet large numbers of residents and visitors are in denial. Emotion rather than fact seems to be the prevailing way to deal with change.
First a couple of essential facts. The full-time population is declining and will continue to do so. The number of school-age children residing on the Island is declining.
October 30, 2019
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