Opinion
Off the Publisher’s Desk – 10-20-2021
No violence against anyone! Over the last couple of months, tension has been rising over what is being taught in our public schools, masks and vaccinations also are hot topics at board meetings. It is on the evening news almost every day. I have been scanning the Internet for information from several national news outlets.…
Read MoreLTE – Rodney Berg – 10-20-2021
Dear Americans, At the sake of being repetitive it is so frustrating to me to see all the terrible decisions and constitutional laws being broken in Washington, DC by our leader. I feel so helpless that no one in power is doing anything about it. Just how long will it take before this unelected Chinese…
Read MoreLTE – Deanne Sczepanski – 10-20-2021
Where have all the Children Gone? As some public school districts struggle to maintain enrollment numbers, we must look for answers to this situation. Some families are opting to homeschool, while others are sending their children to private schools. Some kids are not going to school at all. We are aborting nearly 3,000 children every…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 10-20-2021
Not one of the Boyceville School Board members has replied to my questions that I sent to them a week ago. I asked if the following questions could be reported each month: How many students and school workers tested positive to Covid in the previous month? How many students were sent home because they were…
Read MoreLTE – Pat Eggert – 10-20-2021
Who knew that parsley was such a nice flowerbed plant? Not me, and not my gardening partners in the Colfax Women’s Club. We actually decided on the parsley, and the sage, rosemary and thyme – when Mary Packer and I wandered down the aisle of herb plants at Klinger’s nursery last April. We chose that…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 10-13-2021
The Boyceville School District Annual meeting is tonight (Wed. Oct. 13th). The following is what I was prepared to read at the Boyceville School Annual meeting tonight during Public Input: Some weeks ago, my grandson was sent home for 8 days from school because he had been around a student who tested positive for Covid…
Read MoreLTE – Tony Govin – 10-13-2021
To The Editor: Here’s how it went down in the early morning of Sept. 12: The phone rings…”Hey Dad, do you remember that little sweetie that I flew from Arizona to take to the movies and dancing? Well we were out with a few of her friends, laughing and having a good time, when out…
Read MoreOff The Publisher’s Desk – 10-13-2021
What happened on Oct. 4, 1957? I thought it would be a change of pace to look back on several dates in our history, that I will test your memory as to what happened on those dates. October 4, 1957 is the start of the space race as the Soviet Union launches Sputnik I. In…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 10-5-2021
Just to get an idea of how big a trillion is: 1 day = 86,400 seconds; 1 year = 31,557,600 seconds; 1 million seconds = 11.6 days; 1 billion seconds is 31.5 years; and 1 trillion seconds is 31,688 years. According to Congress representative Kat Cammack says that only 6% of the $1.2 trillion Senate…
Read MoreOff the Editor’s Desk – 10-6-2021
Biden didn’t take their advice! Last week I blamed President Joe Biden’s advisors for the failed Afghanistan pull out that left 13 American Service personnel dead and how many people outside of the military that are in danger and are stuck in that desolate country. But, as of last Tuesday I found out that the…
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