Letters to the editor
Letter to the Editor 2/7/2012
Saving the family farm EDITOR: It has been a little over three years since Bradford County started hosting the natural gas industries every want and needs. Taking a ride through our rural country side and you will find signs sprinkled in front of family (read more)
Letter to the Editor, Feb. 4, 2012
Stinks EDITOR: Regarding the threat of eminent domain in Sullivan County, I think that it stinks - enough to gag a maggot. I can't help but wonder how soon we will see ads on local TV stations or special programs on PBS TV, sponsored by the Marcellus Sha (read more)
Letter to the Editor, Feb. 3, 2012
Lies and innuendo EDITOR: Congressman Marino's attack against the President and his ruling on the Keystone Pipeline would be devastating if it was based on truth. Unfortunately, for Mr. Marino - the facts are on the President's side. Mr. Marino's guest (read more)
Letter to the Editor, Jan. 31, 2012
A naively shaped sensibility EDITOR: A recent article making a somewhat absurd connection between Martin Luther King, the Geneva Conventions and Accords, and the trapping of coyotes was brought to my attention this week. Since th (read more)
Letters to the Editor, Jan. 27, 2012
Connecting more dots EDITOR: This letter is in response to the letter that was printed on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, "Connecting the Dots." First of all, the land that he is referring to belongs to me and my family. We have let many people hunt and trap o (read more)
Letter to the Editor, Jan. 26, 2012
Suicide by cereal EDITOR: I would like to take issue with a famous cereal makers claim. Namely that if you eat this particular product you could loose 6 pounds in two weeks. If you were the compulsive type and weighed 180 pounds, and kept the regimen for (read more)
Letter to the Editor 1/25/2012
Connecting the dots EDITOR: How do the memory of Martin Luther King, the Geneva Conventions and Accords and the local trapping of coyotes connect? Or do they? Monday morning, I was watching a streamed Democracy Now (democracynow.org) special on MLK wher (read more)
Letter to the Editor, Jan. 20, 2012
Thanks, folks EDITOR: During this past Christmas Season when the holiday seemed so bleak for so many, support from our faithful donors made a difference in bringing joy and hope to those in need. On behalf of the 45 Salvation Army Corps and volunteer Se (read more)
Letter to the editor, Jan. 19, 2012
Good job EDITOR: Credit where it's due! The owners of the Bradford County Shopping Center in Wysox have filled in most of the craters in their parking lot. No, the traffic pattern has not been corrected, nor has the huge lot been repaved or landscaped, (read more)
Letter to the Editor 1/18/2012
A veterans plea to: Senator Patrick Toomey (R-PA) EDITOR: During the Vietnam War era, hundreds of thousands of Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard joined forces to fight in this war. After 30 plus years, I ask Senator Toomey (R-PA) to now joi (read more)
Letter to the Editor, Jan. 12, 2012
Flags on the bridge EDITOR: Some mornings, as I drive cross Memorial Bridge to Wysox, I often steal a glance at the flags as they float freely in winds of change. Irving Berlin's "You're a Grand Old Flag…" reverberates as I struggle to find words to h (read more)
Letters to the Editor, Jan. 12, 2012
A typical shopping trip EDITOR: On Saturday, Jan. 7, my wife and I decided to do some shopping, and armed with $23.50 in coupons, we started with lunch, where we used the first coupon, a $4 one. After lunch we went to recycle two ink cartridges, and pur (read more)
Letter to the Editor 1/11/2012
A huge thank you EDITOR: Sending out a huge, huge thank you to the almost 50 generous folks who took time out of their Saturday to help us move Goodies For Our Troops to our new home at the Free Methodist Church, 69 Central Ave. Wellsboro; to all our me (read more)