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Letters to the Editor

US House majority threatening standards

To the editor: I worked for 48 years paying into Social Security and Medicare, earning these essential benefits for retirement and aging well in the community I helped build. This is Older Americans month that highlights the programming and systems we as a people created to support aging well. ...

Applauds process used by trustees, commissioners

To the editor: I firmly believe in a landowner’s right to make decisions for their own property until those decisions lower their neighbor’s property values, destroy their neighbor’s quality of life and ability to sell their property if desired. The current process that the township ...

Not a big fan of the Republican Party

To the editor: Here we go again. Dave Johnson and his minions singing the greatness of a loser like Donald Trump Jr. His daddy was the worst president this country had ever seen and that includes George W. Bush. Yes, this county is red but that will change if the Republican keeps on the same ...

Norfolk Southern should be buying residential properties

To the editor: It is a common understanding in the retail industry that “if you break it, you buy it.” That same principle applies to a community destroyed by a reckless corporation as well as a community broken by a careless customer. The overdue bill owed by Norfolk Southern for its ...

‘Pennies for Paws’ helps Humane Society

To the editor: A million. Pretty big number. Even a half-million! But that is how many pennies our wonderful elementary students of Columbiana County collected for the Humane Society in the first annual ‘Pennies for Paws” last year. By the way, $5,000, if you’re still moving the decimal ...

A big ‘thank you’ from an East Palestine resident

To the editor: This letter again is about the February 3rd train accident in East Palestine although it might be slightly different than some others. My family has lived in East Palestine for a long time and I chose to raise my children here after living away during their early years because ...