The following Letter to the Editor, written by "Aunt Bea," is reprinted from The Saugerties Times, 02-29-08 A Buckeye's View of the BOE   During the summer I came to your village of Saugerties to visit my sister. I stayed for about three weeks and loved every minute of it! What a beautiful and friendly place.   When I came back to Ohio I bragged about your village to my daughter for quite a while and hinted we should move up there. We are both Registered Nurses so getting a job would not be too difficult. Shirley's four kids, 6-12 years old, would not have very far to go to school, and the taxes there are less than what we pay here. Finally, my daughter relented so I called my sister with what I thought would be the good news that we had decided to move up there near her. Much to my surprise, she said, "please do not bring my nieces and nephews up here until you have had a chance to go to a board of education meeting." She said she attends almost all of them and they are the best entertainment in town. I had no idea what she was talking about, so I did come up for another visit. Before the meeting I heard a rather large man saying to another man that, "No matter what they want, we vote against it. You know they are my enemies." I asked Sis who that was and she said it was Mr. [George] Heidcamp. She said he is on the board and he and several other members are cops there. I hope they are less biased in being cops than they are representing the people, if what I saw at the meeting is any indication of how they work. During the meeting they talked about a job that would save the taxpayers thousands of dollars and this was met with disdain by Mr. Heidcamp and those I could assume where his minions, as when he spoke, their heads bobbed up and down, a principal leaving the district for another district (I wonder why). This was more fun than watching monkeys at the Toledo Zoo! What a hoot! Mercy, we do not act like that at public meetings here. Gracious me, I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing. Sis told me that this board is not the same since the three new members came on board. It seems they their agenda and the district has an agenda and the teacher's staff and students will suffer. She is worried about her grandkids schooling there. When I came back home I called my cousin who was a board member for six years. He told me that the board is supposed to work with the administrators for the benefit of the students and community, not against them. If they can't work together the community should get a new board. I called Sis with our decision and she said wait till I send you a copy of what was in the local paper. She sent me a copy of a column by Mr. [Klaus] Gaebel [of the Saugerties Post Star, whose article is called "Eagle's View"]. From the venom in the column, I think the column should have another part of the eagle's anatomy as the name of it. I would guess that the Mrs. Peters he makes reference to go smart and skedaddled. These types of actions are not what I want my grandchildren exposed to. Maybe Sis and her family will move back to Ohio near us. Since I do not want my nephews and nieces nor my sister harassed by the cops or community, I can only sign this with the name everyone hear calls me.   Aunt Bea Vandalia, Ohio