EDITOR: Your June 1st edition carried a most moving letter by Brianna Ecklid regarding the deterioration of safety of our children now face. I agree with her analogy regarding the possibility of attack from the USSR back in the 1960s. I recall, while living in northern Ohio, we would drive to ...

EDITOR: This latest and horrible school shooting cannot become the ‘new normal’ for life in this country. I’m not one who thinks ‘taking the guns away’ will solve it. I will point out that President Biden said in his grief stricken speech that “nobody needs and assault rifle, the ...

EDITOR: Someone who knows Someone who took those signs. Someone who isn’t returning the signs or isn’t telling who took them is breaking the law. I don’t imagine someone from downstate came up here to get a few signs. And it’s a shame my neighbors would think of performing a hate ...

EDITOR: My father grew up near KI Sawyer when he was a boy. During that time, the threat of nuclear war felt so real — so big — that schools would do drills on how to protect themselves if the airbase was ever hit by a nuclear weapon. He told me that even as a child, he knew he was close ...

EDITOR: Memorial Day 1968 was on Thursday. In 1969, it was on Friday. The date for both was May 30th. It wasn’t until 1971 that the holiday was moved to the last Monday in May. The personal significance was that those two years were spent in Vietnam. A week before the 1968 holiday, I was ...

EDITOR: This morning I was watching, Senator Durbin (D) on TV speaking about gun legislation. He stated that gun legislation is a “ Painful process.” What the hell? What’s a “Painful process?” Painful: Ten year old children and teachers are dead… they were barricaded inside of ...