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Letter to the Editor: ‘Cardboard Rockstar’

Many of you know me as the guitar man who performs the marketing for a local pizza company on Division Street, on the south side of Parkersburg. In the recent past, during the holiday season; I learned that a local musician had written a song celebrating my work as a street marketer for our ...

Letter to the Editor: No ballroom

Instead of a ballroom for an elderly baby, we need clean water and air for all the people in this country. We need gun laws to protect our future voting and working citizens as they attend private and public schools. Instead of a ballroom for a felon, we need healthcare and housing for our ...

Letter to the Editor: Electing public servants with integrity

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Though we are past the deadline for publishing election-related letters to the editor, we are publishing this one because our delay in receiving it was a technical problem here in the newsroom, rather than the author missing the deadline.) *** While I watched someone ...

Letter to the Editor: Trump did right thing

On the TV news, we hear the Democrats ever criticizing President Trump. We never hear of any plans they have to make lives better for average Americans. They clearly have no plans to help Americans cope with affordability. They do allege if they retake Congress in 2026 (Heaven forbid), they ...

Letter to the Editor: Trump and his criminal minions must be prosecuted

Trump and the Attorney General should be indicted for malicious prosecution, violating their oaths of office, and wasting taxpayer money on what are, in my view, obviously vindictive prosecutions. What won’t a person do for power? It seems that some now serving in Donald Trump’s ...

Letter to the Editor: Renew library levy

Anyone who knows me can tell you one thing: I love the Parkersburg and Wood County Public Library. From the joy of getting my hands on a new novel from a favorite author to the peace and quiet of having a workspace that isn’t my home, I have gotten a lot out of our library system over the ...