HOLLYWOOD — The following letters respond to recent reporting in The Times. They have been edited for length and clarity.

Regarding “The Last Film Lab in the Neighborhood Refuses to Quit” (April 10): I shot my thesis film on 16-millimeter at that lab nineteen years ago, and I still bring my birthday rolls there to be developed. When the owner told you he is holding on out of stubbornness as much as economics, believe him, and thank him. Digital is fine. It is also everywhere. A place that will still soup a roll of film by hand is the reason a few of us keep shooting it, and if this town lets that counter go dark, it will not get another one. — Gregor Halloran, Los Feliz

Your item “Fifth Summer Without the Runyon Canyon 10K” (Aug. 28) was fair to the organizers, maybe too fair. I have made my peace with the argument that the trail belongs to the hikers and the dogs. What I want is for someone to stop calling this a pause. Five years is not a pause. My knees were younger the last time we ran that hill, and so were a lot of ours. If the race is coming back, name a year. If it is not, retire it honestly and let us grieve it, instead of refreshing a website every spring. — Paulette Vukovich, Beachwood Canyon

“Library Reading Room to Close This Winter for Seismic Retrofit” (Sept. 12) landed hard at my house. I am seventeen, and I do my homework in that reading room because our apartment has one table and four people who need it. The notice from the city says the work will take “several months.” I have lived here long enough to know what several months tends to become once the city says it. I am not against the retrofit — a building should not fall on the people inside it. I am asking whoever schedules these things to remember that “closed” has an address, and mine is in it. — Daniel Amado, East Hollywood

Thank you for “A Quiet Summer on the Soundstages” (Aug. 19). My husband is a dolly grip, and this is the slowest year we have seen that was not a strike year. The stages near us sat dark through July. People keep assuring us it will bounce back, and maybe it will, but the mortgage is monthly and the bounce is theoretical. Someone in Sacramento should look hard at why the work that built this town keeps getting cheaper to do somewhere else. — Renata Beischel, Franklin Village

Regarding “Neighbors Near the Boulevard Ask the City to Rein In Idling Tour Buses” (July 30): thank you for reporting what those of us above the souvenir shops have been breathing for years. It is not the tourists I mind. It is the diesel, running twenty minutes at the curb so the air conditioning stays cold while nobody is aboard. Shut the engines off between runs. That is the entire request. My window faces the street, and I would like to be able to open it in July. — Sylvia Trask, Whitley Heights