CHEERS: to Plattsburgh Mayor Donald Kasprzak and Police Chief Desmond Racicot for going door to door to urge college students to behave respectfully during the last days of the semester in Center City off-campus housing units. For the most part, it worked, as Press-Republican photographers were sent out specifically to find evidence of poor citizenship last weekend and found virtually none.

CHEERS, in fact: to students who not only didn't create any havoc but, according to one enthusiastic onlooker, were picking up after themselves and others one of the weekend afternoons. Students were seen collecting litter and depositing it into garbage bags. Our photographers, prepared to record a Center City mess, were pleasantly surprised to find the neighborhood practically free of debris. Not all of the student residents in that area are oblivious to the pleas of permanent neighbors, obviously. They were not to be indicted along with their peers who have done plenty to soil the relationship between students and townspeople.

And speaking of those peers:

JEERS: to the people -- presumed to be students, though we've seen no proof of it -- who went on a sign-damaging spree in the Center City last weekend. Nine street and traffic signs were knocked over, bent or stolen, the cost of repair for which ranged from $84.78 to $148.53. The total tally of damage was $1,043.78. Mr. Hyde was apparently on the prowl, along with Dr. Jekyll.

JEERS: to post offices that make it difficult to contact them by not having phone numbers listed in telephone books, at least that we could find. We've had readers complain about this from time to time, and we have to agree. There are legitimate reasons to want to contact a post office, such as finding out hours of operation, questions about stamps, delivery times for specific neighborhoods, etc. But finding post-office numbers is not easy. In the Verizon book for the Clinton County area, white-pages listings include numbers for the Westport, Chazy and West Chazy offices. We found none in the bigger, North Country book. There, in the white pages, the post-office listings direct us to "See U.S. government offices at the beginning of the blue pages." The blue pages, however, give only 800 numbers. That's not very good service from an organization that prides itself on serving the public.

On a related topic, however:

CHEERS: to the Plattsburgh Post Office for placing blue containers for mixed-paper recycling in the lobby. They are clearly labeled and convenient, ready receptacles for junk mail. Some people, of course, continue to put their unwanted mail into the trash can instead, which obviously undoes the noble effect of having recycling available.