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Opinion

Taking steps to prevent gun-related tragedies

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: “See something. Say something.” We are encouraged to do so when a crime has been committed and the perpetrator’s whereabouts are unknown. What can be done if words of violence toward others are heard or if the person speaking is suicidal? The school shooting in ...

Trump stirring the pot

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: (President Trump) is again stirring the proverbial pot to deflect from his lack of transparency about anything he’s done for the past thirty years. This time, he has apparently given the OK to an inept Robert Kennedy to pull back the funding for vaccine research. All while ...

Making America backwards again

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: In the last 85 years the United States has encouraged science education and has attracted the best minds in the world, allowing Americans to harness nuclear energy, go to the moon, invent the internet, develop the polio and other vaccines, and produce many more breakthroughs. ...

A major mower malfunction

Community Voices

It was sad to see her go. We’d been together for so long — nearly twenty years — that she had come to seem like a member of the family. Time had clearly taken its toll; she didn’t have nearly the same levels of vim and vigor as in her younger days. But I still very much enjoyed her ...

Dogging it

Community Voices

With the turn of the calendar page into September, the dog days of summer will soon be behind us, and the real dog days of fall can begin. With grouse openers in mid-September, primary waterfowl seasons starting later in the month, and pheasant season kicking off in October, those hunting ...