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

Regarding your account of the March hearing on the skate park under the 101: I skated that lot’s fence line as a kid, waiting for a park that a councilmember promised before I could drive. I am twenty-six now. The staff said the ramps would be poured this year, and now the word is next summer, and I have learned to hear “next summer” the way other people hear a weather forecast. I am not angry anymore, which is worse than angry. I just assume the fence is permanent and plan my weekends around a lot in the Valley. Prove me wrong and I will apologize in this space. — Colm Deverell, East Hollywood

Seven months. That is how long the reading room at our branch has been roped off, and I have counted every one of them. Your December coverage and your editorial in January both said the neighborhood needed an interim plan for the computers and the quiet seats, and here we are in July with neither. My grandson does his summer assignments at the kitchen table with the television going because there is nowhere else within walking distance that is cool, free, and quiet. The retrofit may be necessary. The silence about what we do in the meantime is not. — Frances Ibarra, Little Armenia

I read “A Thin Year on the Call Sheets” last fall and thought, at least someone is saying it out loud. I have pulled cable on this town’s productions for nineteen years. This spring I took my first out-of-state job, six weeks in Atlanta, and I have another lined up for the fall. My wife and I are doing the arithmetic every family on my crew is doing. Nobody is filming us for a documentary about hard times; we are just quietly leaving, a household at a time, and the neighborhood gets a little emptier each month without anyone deciding it should. — Wade Sundberg, Hollywood Dell

Your March story about the Little League with more players than field said everything, and I want to add one number to it. My son’s team practices in a parking lot with traffic cones because the diamond is booked from three o’clock until dark. We are not asking for a stadium. We are asking the city to open one more public field to kids in the afternoon, which it could do this month if it wanted to. Two hundred children signed up to play a game that needs grass, and Hollywood cannot find them the grass. That is not a scheduling problem. It is a choice, made quietly, every spring. — Bianca Toussaint, Franklin Village