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Letter to the Editor: Cat-feeding ban is cruel

Several months ago you had an article in the Parkersburg newspaper about prohibiting the feeding of abandoned and homeless animals. This upset me. Many feral animals have been abandoned by their owners, just dropped off somewhere to try to survive on their own. What is a person to do if they ...

Letter to the Editor: We don’t need another place to party

“Be prepared,” is the motto for Scouting America. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the multi-million dollar Wood County Resiliency Center remotely located on the floodplain of Third Street. After checking their website touting its, “multi-purpose use, as a hub for various ...

Letter to the Editor: BearCat not the answer

[Recently] at the Parkersburg City Council several persons stood and spoke against approving the additional expenses related to the purchase of a Lenco BearCat Armored Personnel Carrier. I respect all of those who had the courage to stand and speak. Personally, I pointed out that the long ...

Letter to the Editor: Thank you, to veterans

I would like to wish all the veterans a happy Veterans Day. Thank you all for your service. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” John 15:13. Many of you either know me or know of me as the shaker boarder or guitar man for a local pizza store ...

Letter to the Editor: Show up, shout out

In our numbers there is power and people have you heard? Lately there’s been a little mouse that roared! (Seven million strong!) Everyday people, just like you and me, showed up and shouted out — “No Kings! We the people ... The whole world sees our numbers. The whole world hears our ...

Letter to the Editor: Unsign UNSATT

This letter is a follow-up to my previous letter, in the Sunday, Oct. 26 newspaper titled “Don’t fund NGOs that support UNSATT.” My source of information for both letters is the National Association for Gun Rights. Many Americans believe, were the United Nations Small Arms Trade Treaty ...