Category: Letters to the Editor

I think the protest vote is fixed.  I think the City has it rigged to fail no matter how many signatures are given to them. This is a poor county.  We don’t have the resources or economic base here to support these high utility charges.  Everything is already decided going in and there’s no looking…

Last year I lost my husband and also lost a good portion of my income.  If it weren’t for family helping out, I wouldn’t be able to stay in my home. I won’t bother going to City Council meetings because I don’t think they care what I have to say. If they did care, they…

Another sewer rate just months after increasing the water rates.  What are they thinking? The only one that ever spoke against these increases was former Councilwoman Donna Westfall and she’s the only one that continues to work for the people.  They could have done a fix for half the price, instead the City disregarded the…

Scott Graves (WesCom News Services) wrote for the Del Norte Triplicate news paper on 04-09-2014 in his article >Brookings port cleans up mink carcasses: “More carcasses were expected to surface, so port employees continued to patrol the port last weekend. Mink carcasses are sometimes used by commercial fisherman as crab bait,” Fitzgerald said. “The meat…

On Tuesday evening over 115 members of the community gathered in the Floral Room of the Del Norte county Fairgrounds to hear the candidates running for District Attorney and Superior Court Judge state their respective cases. After the pledge of allegiance and a short prayer Paul McAndrews of the Tea Party Patriots (TPP) read the rules…

I can’t believe the City Council is trying to raise the sewer rates again so soon after they raised the water rates. They are so out of touch with this community it’s sad. It’s almost as if they want to drive us all out of business. When the day comes that the public wins the…

Shoujo is an albino baby dolphin who is held in captivity in Japan to be sold to amusement parks. She is suffering. They injured her when they forcefully separated her from her mother. Not long after they separated them her mother went into a shock state, she stopped breathing and died. Her baby Shoujo is…

One of the items on my bucket list, was to retire on the Coast. I retired last November and here I am. Things happened shortly after I arrived. Less than ten days I started having problems with my vision, so bad that, I had a hard time reading the phone book with my eye glasses on.  On the eleventh…

I am feeling that I am living in a world where nobody cares.  I hear people complaining but when it comes to actually doing something , I don’t know, is it just too much trouble? It has been brought to my attention this month that the Principal and vice principal of Crescent Elk school may…

Dear Editor, Given the gravity of the current situation regarding increasing cancer incidence and the prevalence of chronic disease in the Republic, I wish to respond in some detail to the letter of Dr Susan O’Reilly in IMT (February 14, 2014), in response to Dr Philip Michael’s letter dated January 24, 2014. Dr O’Reilly states…