Sir, – Can we come to some agreement about the nature of unidentified lights in the sky? I feel embarrassed about calling them UFOs, unless we mean Upwardly Floating Oranges.

Sir, – What outrageous effrontery from Danny Alexander (View from Westminster) in last week's 'Strathy'!

Sir, - Your correspondent Iain Thomson (Strathspey and Badenoch Herald, June 16) criticises what he regards as excessive use of manpower, including police manpower, to investigate what he terms the killing of "a few dead birds".

Sir, - The annual hanging baskets have now been installed in The Square, and as usual the community has to pay for them and keep them watered.

Sir, - The following two paragraphs are taken from Wikipedia.

Sir, - I would like to say how impressed I was with a recent funding raiser in the strath.

Sir, – It is with utter disgust I read the front page story about the young football team who could not get somewhere to play their games.

Sir, – I am a native of Badenoch, now resident in the south of England. I returned for a short visit last week and, as most returning natives do, picked up a copy of the "Strathy".

Sir, – On the 24th of this month, the Highland Council will decide the fate of the Grant House Care Home in Grantown.

Sir, – Everyone who reads my letters knows that I'm not a fan of national parks. My reason is simple.

Sir, - Reference Section 75 planning impositions by the Cairngorms National Park Authority. The article "Anguish as Crofter faces losing home" in this paper last week is not, by a long way, the first time the imposition of a Section 75 by the Cairngorms National Park Authority has reared its head.

Sir, - In the aftermath of the General Election, I'd like to take the opportunity to speak directly to your readers through your letters column.

Sir, - The future of Grant House care home was discussed at a meeting arranged by the four Ward 21 councillors in Grantown Townhouse on May 10.

Sir, - Having read the recent correspondence regarding the 300-house development planned for Kingussie, I felt compelled to write with my thoughts regarding this.

Sir, – The statement issued by Davall Developments in last week's Strathy and attributed to Mr Munro and Mr Cameron exposes them in a way they probably did not intend and should act as a warning to the Cairngorms National Park Board.

Sir, – I was extremely saddened to read the completely erroneous, if not libellous comments about myself, attributed to Mr Allan Munro and Mr David Cameron on the front page of this week's Strathy.

Sir, – Where would we be without the people that 'live outside the box'. They give us a jolt and maybe encourage some of us to get off the sofa and away from the television.

Sir, – With reference to last week's lead article in "The Strathy" concerning the proposal to build 300 new homes in Kingussie, you referred to the Kingussie Community Council as a 'watchdog'.

Sir, – I visit your area three or four times per year and on these occasions I buy your newspaper and have a good browse through it.

Sir, – I am writing further to the front-page article headed 'Cloud hangs over folk museum' ('Strathy', April 14).

Sir, – Following the latest findings of the Scottish Government Reporter on the housing proposals for Dalfaber by Reidhaven Estates, I thought I would express my thoughts on the subject through the courtesy of your newspaper.

Sir, – Kingussie's Y. Blackstock can justifiably feel aggrieved ("Strathy", March 24) that Newtonmore is the only village to have an alcohol by-law survey.

Sir, - I was pleased to read your lead story last week and to hear that I am not the only business suffering severe hardship because of revaluations of rates.

Sir, - J. M. Fraser (letters, March 31), assumes that because she hears nothing on St Vincent's Hospital in Kingussie from SNP supporters, nothing is being done.

Sir, - Since December 15 when the first snow arrived until spring the roads and pavements were atrocious. It happened again this past week, and three days after the storm there wasn't a pavement to walk on apart from part of the High Street.

Sir, – The Strathy (24 March) reported that calls to re-open the Coire na Ciste chairlifts were supported by an "unlikely" source, me.

Sir, – Might I suggest that some of the £3.6 million money from the unclaimed Lottery ticket bought in the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey area goes to good causes in the Highlands.

Sir, – Regarding the article in the "Strathspey and Badenoch Herald" on March 10 - "Newtonmore snubs bid to ban alfresco drinks" - which in my view is a vote for common sense and democracy.

Sir, – I am most concerned to see that the Aviemore and Vicinity Community Council are pressing to see access to the Cairn Gorm plateau opened up via the funicular railway.

Sir, – It is disappointing that you did not seek a ScotRail comment in connection with your article of March 10 headed "On track to support sleeper service."

Sir, – Friday's lamentable fire will I'm sure be the subject of a substantial report in this week's 'Herald'.

Sir, – Regarding the article on the front page of the "Strathy" highlighting the danger of the hole in the ice at Loch Morlich, prompted me to write to a newspaper for the first time in my life.

Sir, – I refer to the letter published in your issue dated February 24 from Mrs Halliday, suggesting that "the age of chivalry has gone in Aviemore", but beg to differ.

Sir, – I attended a meeting last year in Carrbridge concerning the Tam nan Clach wind farm which was referred to in the 'Strathy'last week along with other proposed developments.

Sir, – Well done, I say, to the children who wrote to the 'Strathy' recently to protest about the social menace that is dog-fouling.

Sir, – Prospective Westminster Labour candidate, Mike Robb, embraced the merits of wind energy generation in his letter of February 10 in your newspaper.

Sir, – What would we do without the Lecht? CairnGorm Mountain, if they can be bothered to get the roads open, can't get the funicular running.

Sir, – Firstly, I fully agree with recent complaints on dog fouling. There is no excuse for owners not 'picking up'.

Sir, – Who decides on our safety? Over the last month or so we have all encouraged the worst winter conditions for many years in Badenoch and Strathspey.

Sir, – As a regular enthusiastic visitor to Aviemore I am so very sad that the Aviemore Walking Festival has been cancelled.

Sir, – We are disgusted at the amount of dog dirt in and around Nethy Bridge.

Sir, – I am writing to complain about Highland Council wasting taxpayers' money. They say they are strapped for cash but yet they are wasting it right, left and centre.

Sir, – Wind power? It's a dud! We have just experienced a month of Arctic weather conditions, and in our efforts to keep ourselves warm our fuel bills will have soared.

Sir, – Further to a previous letter regarding the state of the roads and the need of an ambulance.

Sir, – My son leaves Inverness every morning to deliver coal to the Badenoch and Strathspey area, including the likes of Tomintoul, Glenlivet and Ballindalloch.

Sir, – I am dismayed at this week's announcement that the Beauly-Denny power line has the go-ahead.

Sir, – I feel I have to write in response to Mr R. Clark and Ms K. Ligertwood's letter of January 6 about the council's lack of action carried out during these adverse weather conditions.

Sir, – I should like to bring to your readers attention the current plight of the Kingussie ducks at the Glebe Pond.

Sir, – This a joint letter to you from two friends who wish to raise the same concern and points of order within your publication.

Sir, – I read, with interest, about the new rescue plan for the funicular railway ('Strathy', December 9, 2009).

Sir, - Reading articles regarding SRDP payments and National Park initiatives, towards helping the decline in wading and other bird numbers, I do not think any or very little of it will work.

Sir, - In reference to "Strategic Review" in Issue 13 of the CNPA's "Parklife", your concerned readers should know that the public have not been consulted properly.

Sir, - It is now clear that Highland Council is to push for a pay freeze for much of it lower paid workers next year. At the same time, part-privatisation and cuts to essential and much-needed services are also under active consideration from the Indy/Labour/Liberal council.

Sir, - Three weeks ago in this newspaper, our local councillors promised to meet with us. Since then we have heard nothing from them.

Sir, – I refer to the report on the Cairngorm Farmers' Market in the Strathy recently, and would like to correct misapprehensions in various quarters regarding the concerns of the Grantown Community Council.

Sir, – It's probably true bringing the steam railway line into Grantown won't increase tourist trade by a great deal but I still think it should still go ahead regardless.

Sir, – Like Christmas, there was euphoria in the air and apparent 100% unanimity amid the crowd at the Grant Arms meeting of the 'Rails to Grantown' project.

Sir, – Following shocking financial miscalculation and misrepresentation, attempts are apparently still being made to exaggerate the benefits of the funicular, which has to date cost the taxpayer over £23 million.

Sir, – The wind farm firm Nanclach responded a few weeks ago in the 'Strathy' to remarks that I and others made about the effects of wind farms on tourism.

Sir, – It has come to our attention that colonies of feral cats have become rampant in and around Nethy Bridge and Grantown.

Sir, – For many years the euphemistically named "street furniture" has been an absolute hazard for disabled and less mobile members of our communities.

Sir, – I would like to respond to Elizabeth Main's letter which appeared in last week's "Strathy".

Sir, – What exactly is the column 'Whelan's World' for?

Sir, – I am writing following on from the Strathy's editorial on the blanket ban of signs on trunk roads.

Sir, – Re Angus McKain's letter of October 21 in the Strathspey Herald, complaining about the shopping disappointment when he visited Grantown.

Sir, – Reference the article on the Cairngorm Funicular Railway (Strathy, October 14). I also read the full Audit Scotland report, which made interesting reading.

Sir, – I have just returned from a very nice weekend in Carrbridge. However, on a visit to Grantown on Saturday afternoon I was very disappointed with the general run-down appearance of the place.

Sir, – Please can I ask for your assistance with the problem of dog fouling on the pavements in Grantown?

Sir, – I write in response to a letter posted by Gordon Young of the Pentland Golf Association who had such a disastrous annual weekend break in Aviemore (last week's Letters to the Editor).

Sir, – Inverness and District Trades Union Council warmly welcomed the prominence given by the "Strathy", to the essentially moral, legal and political issue of the National Minimum Wage and the associated illegality of misappropriation of customers' tips to "top it up" to that level rather than to supplement it.

Sir, – I just wanted to write and tell you that I think a huge pat on the back should be given to the person or people who tend all of the hanging baskets and flower displays in Aviemore.

Sir, – As a north of Scotland Golf Association, we have enjoyed our annual weekend breaks over nearly 40 years – many of them in Speyside.

Sir, – I wonder how many people are like me when they go to the library and whilst browsing the shelves of books looking for inspiration often pick up and take out one of the new titles which sit on top of the bookcases begging to be read.

Sir, – Your readers know that swathes of the population are conflicted by the potential industrialisation of Scotland's wild open spaces – the impact of wind farms on tourism, fisheries and wildlife – and the accepted need to reduce carbon emissions.

Sir, – I write in response to the letter in last week's Strathy headlined "Burial anger" regarding the "cremated burials" by Loch Garten.

Sir, – In response to the statement from Mr Donald Somerville, the clerk to Highland Council's licensing board, which was printed in last week's "Strathy", I wish to point out that they were not only inaccurate but knowingly false and need to be corrected.

Sir, – I am writing regarding the recent letter in the "Strathy" from Mark Allan about there being no where in Aviemore for children to play.

Sir, – I cannot believe the hypocrisy of local MP Danny Alexander in last week's Strathy – 'MP hits at delays in road upgrades'.

Sir, – I was horrified to discover no fewer than three cremated burials in a local beauty spot, on the shores of Loch Garten near the entrance to the RSPB reserve.

Sir, – It is sad to feel compelled to write to complain about students from Grantown Grammar School. No doubt the offenders that have caused this missive are in the minority.

Sir, – It was good that MP Danny Alexander and Highland Councillor Dave Fallows highlighted the peculiarities of the prices for rail tickets.

Sir, – I'm writing after reading Mrs Minto's letter in last week's 'Strathy'. I have had the same problem as Mrs Minto, and have found myself having to drive my kids through to Kingussie just to have a game of tennis.

Sir, – With regard to the proposed Allt Duine (and other) wind farms, it is apparent that the Kincraig beneficiaries have swallowed the developer's greenwash on the need for such monstrosities.

Sir, – Aviemore is a wonderful place and tourists are well catered for but what about sports facilities for the residents?

Sir, – The Convener of the Cairngorms National Park Authority's planning committee, Duncan Bryden, reminds us that full details of Jonny Freshwater's planning application are a matter of public record. Indeed they are.

Sir, – Thank you, Danny Alexander and the 'Strathy', for raising the issue of unfair fares for passengers using Carrbridge and other stations in the strath.

Sir, – While Cameron McNeish's opposition to wind farms has been frequently well aired in his column in the 'Strathy', his remarks in last week's column (August 5, 2009) on the proposed Allt Duine wind farm require some clarification and correction.

Sir, – Much has been made in recent weeks of the eyesore derelict buildings on the south entry to Aviemore, and quite right too, as it has been a disgrace for a number of years.

Sir, – Our LibDem Westminster MP and leader of Alexander's Ragtime Band continues to produce bum notes in his increasingly frantic attempts to fend off the challenge of SNP councillor John Finnie, come next year's elections.

Sir, – I have been following the correspondences in your columns about recent planning applications, and I attended the most recent CNPA planning meeting.

Sir, – Aviemore and Vicinity Community Council is disappointed at the decision made by the CNPA planning committee on the proposed development at North Dalfaber.

Sir, – Over the last 40 years I have been a frequent visitor to Strathspey and I have family and local links to the area.