To the editor, I’m not really the type of person to get hung up on dates but Jan. 3 is difficult. On Jan. 3, 2008, after already spending 28 years on this planet, I became a very different person. I watched my best friend and battle buddy, Tom Casey, fall down to a sniper bullet.
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Thank you from the Peace Officers Assn
The Greene County Peace Officers Association would like to thank the local stores who helped with Shop with Cop by giving discounts on their products to make items cheaper in price. We would also like to thank Fareway for donating the drinks for the kids.
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Nancy Hanaman
Dear Editor, As a Greene County resident, I am concerned a out the education of our young people and events surrounding the alleged rape and sports eligibility issues connected with that.
Read MoreWhen food is love
~a column by Colleen O’Brien When the food season hits, I think of my mom, the first cook I knew. She was a plain cook, nowhere close to cordon bleu status; and it was the 1950s, a plain-food, Jell-O era in America. But her pork roast gravy . . . mmm . . . delectable. A taste heaven. And I…
Read MoreOhrt – Treat one another as kin
Dr David Ohrt is a member of the Greene County Community Schools board of education and a mental health counselor in local practice. He made extended, heartfelt comments at the Dec. 16 board meeting during the portion of the meeting reserved for board committee reports.
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Adrienne Smith
To the editor, I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who helped me get through the difficult time after a dog attacked me while I was walking a dog as a volunteer for PAWS. If you said a prayer, brought food by, asked me about the ordeal, said a comforting word, sent cards, flowers, phone calls, your kindness…
Read MoreGrassley secures victories in budget and tax package
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Dec. 16 praised the inclusion of a five-year extension of the wind energy production tax credit, his provisions to enhance Section 529 college savings plans, his measures to protect taxpayer rights and more welcome provisions in the newly released bipartisan, bicameral omnibus budget and tax package before Congress.
Read MorePicking and choosing what to be outraged about
~a column by Colleen O’Brien In the past 25 years, a world of hurt and fright has hit our news media with regularity — 50 to 60 mass killings have occurred in the U.S. The phrase “mass killing” is four or more dead and less menacing to us than its synonym “massacre.” A massacre is defined as “killing a number…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – John Thompson
After undercover videos revealed that Planned Parenthood was selling baby parts I attended a rally with my fiancée, MacKenzie Dreeszen. MacKenzie posted a photograph of the protest outside of a Des Moines Planned Parenthood clinic resulting in immediate backlash from her sorority, Delta Phi Delta, at Cornell College.
Read MoreQ & A: New K-12 education law
~with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What is the Every Student Succeeds Act? A: In the first rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) since 2001, the Republican-led Congress restored a much greater degree of local control and decision-making authority to parents, teachers and local school board members in December with bipartisan passage of the Every Student Succeeds…
Read More315 million people and as many guns*
~a column by Colleen O’Brien That there is a link between gun possession and gun assault sounds like a no-brainer of a thought. Without the gun, there would be no gun assault.
Read MoreCandidate Chris Christie speaks in Jefferson
New Jersey Gov Chris Christie, Republican candidate for president, talked with about 50 persons at the Uptown Café in Jefferson Dec. 4. Christie was up close and personal, using a conversational style as he stood in the center of the room surrounded by potential voters. Christie is in his second four-year term as governor of New Jersey. He led his…
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