~a column by Colleen O’Brien I’m spending a couple of weeks in Pittsburgh, PA, an absolutely beautiful, heavily treed old river city – in fact, a three-river city: the rivers Allegheny and Monongahela meet and make the Ohio River, a good place for a French fort to be built in 1754 and then the British Fort Pitt, built in 1761…
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The view from my window – Public health and vaccines
~by Mary Weaver I was never able to sit on my grandpa’s lap as Thaddus Voshel Dorris died at age 36 from tuberculosis. I had an Aunt Alpharetta who died of scarlet fever, and Uncle Raymond and Uncle Thaddeus died from diphtheria, ll three as infants or below the age of 4. Granted this was back in 1911-1918, but I…
Read MoreMore details of questioned abatement in Churdan
November 12, 2024 To the editor, Let us unpack together this sheriffs’ response to my letter of the past week. First, Mr Williams begins upholding his action against me by stating that I failed to mention a court order. This is most certainly untrue as I state clearly that all items in that order had previously been removed from my site. On…
Read MorePress at fault for truthlessness in public discourse
~a column by Colleen O’Brien “A hero is someone who tries always to do the right thing, even as the walls are closing in.” ~American historian Heather Cox Richardson, 11/10/2024 Trump has yet to “do the right thing.” What we need is a press that writes about decency as if it is necessary, not repeat lies as if they were of…
Read MoreThe day before
~a column by Colleen O’Brien I wrote a column to be published here the day before the election, but there is a rule among news outlets that one cannot write a political piece too close to an election because the other side does not have a chance to respond. So, I will send it now…and add a thing…
Read MoreView from my window: Calendar and seasons
November 6, 2024 I usually share something political with you in “VIEW,” but not today. I will share, ‘I voted,” and I hope that you did also. Voting is not a passive act. Many have sacrificed and some given their lives to maintain our Democracy. While we may not know the election outcome for several days, let us begin to…
Read MoreNotice re: letters to the editor
Because of limited time to respond to or refute any claims made, no further letters to the editor or commentary regarding candidates or issues related to the Nov. 5 general election will be posted on GreeneCountyNewsOnline. Readers are encouraged to let their ballots speak for them. Early voting continues in the east lobby of the courthouse Monday from 8 am…
Read MoreWilliams responds to Hoskins’ letter
To the editor Today I read a letter to the editor from Dean Hoskins. The letter fails to mention that this action was done by court order. Dean and/or his brother had fought the court order through the appeals process, and the judge still ordered that the property be abated. I am sure that you can ask any citizen in…
Read MoreLetter to the editor, re: sheriff’s actions
October 2024 Greene county has a choice. On November 5th, you can vote your choice between an honest man, Shane Monthei, and our current sheriff, Jack Williams. On July 25th, 2022, Mr Williams facilitated the criminal removal of three tidy steel racks containing $20,000 of new steel, from my property in Churdan, under the guise of town abatement. I had…
Read MoreWhat comes next?
~a column by Colleen O’Brien The thing about Trump that offends me most is not Trump himself – difficult to tell myself because of his childish obnoxiousness, his physical rudeness, his quick oral nastiness, his illiteracy about the country he lives in and especially the Constitution it lives by, his braggadocio, his petty cheating, his vicious lack of heart –…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Darren Jackson
To the editor, This November 5, 2024…Please reflect on January 6, 2021. Darren Jackson, Jefferson
Read MoreWho would you channel from the place beyond?
What would two Republicans I’ve loved say about their party’s candidate? ~by Victoria Riley, GCNO publisher Halloween, a holiday on which people make light of death and what follows, is later this week. It became my least favorite holiday when my older sister died Oct. 30, 1973, my junior year in high school. At school the next day – yes,…
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