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Letters

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Vermont Needs Foster Parents To the Editor: May is Foster Care Month. Are you able to help Vermont’s foster children? We need foster parents who are able to care for Vermont’s children in custody. We have need for emergency, short-term, long-term and respite-care providers. I have information I can send out to explain the program’s needs. You must reside in Vermont and be over 21, and all adults need to …

Letter: Ayotte’s Town Meeting in Warren

Saturday, May 18, 2013

To the Editor: On April 30, I attended Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s town hall meeting in Warren and would like to point out a few observations that were left out of the media’s coverage. To begin with, Ayotte’s supporters outnumbered the out-of-state protesters by five to one. Secondly, the senator has been doing these town hall meetings since she took office, and this was …

Letter: What Benghazi Revealed

Saturday, May 18, 2013

What Benghazi Revealed To the Editor: In his May 11 op-ed on Benghazi, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank seemed downright happy there hasn’t yet been any evidence directly linking President Obama or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the fiasco. As Clinton once famously said, “What difference does it make?” The whole episode revealed startling incompetence, and perhaps cover-up, within an administration …

Letter: A Landowner’s Right to Sell

Saturday, May 18, 2013

A Landowner’s Right to Sell To the Editor: The interstate went through the family farm, taking with it my parents’ way of making a living the way they wished. A token payment was made to them. They were told it was a good deal, for the remaining land …

Letter: The Score on Wagner

Saturday, May 18, 2013

To the Editor: Apropos of the Great Gatsby controversy on your pages, I don’t think my students should listen to the music of Richard Wagner, not because he was an anti-Semite, but because his music is so much better than mine. Jon Appleton White River Junction …

Letter: Poorly Timed Oral Hygiene

Saturday, May 18, 2013

To the Editor: I was just driving on Beaver Meadow Road in Norwich and had to swerve to avoid a lady who was flossing her teeth while driving her SUV. Come on, really? Allen Albrecht Wilder …

Letter: Some of My Best Tax Attorneys ...

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Some of My Best Tax Attorneys ... To the Editor: I, too, was rather surprised at Ernest Hebert’s simplistic summation of The Great Gatsby and was gratified to see so many letters to the editor about it. But I was dumbfounded by Jeffrey Hart’s. He devoted an entire …

Letter: Obvious Problem on Route 4

Saturday, May 18, 2013

To the Editor: With all of the recent crashes on Route 4 between Hartford and Woodstock, one has to wonder if the investigators happened to have noticed that in many places the center yellow lines are almost nonexistent, forcing drivers to guess where to drive on this already …

Letter: Adjusting to Change at Church

Saturday, May 18, 2013

To the Editor: This letter is in response to Kelli Pippin’s May 11 letter, “Why I Left St. Anthony’s.” St. Anthony’s, St. Francis of Assisi in Windsor and Our Lady of the Snows in Woodstock have merged to form one parish under the direction of two priests. The …

Letter: Proposed Class About Sexual Assault

Friday, May 17, 2013

To the Editor: James T. Shea’s well-written letter (“A Failed Strategy at Dartmouth,” May 7) suggests ways he hopes can finally move Dartmouth College off its history of status quo responses to campus sexual assaults. Some of us are planning an application to teach an ILEAD study class …

Letter: Appreciation for Ayotte’s Efforts

Friday, May 17, 2013

To the Editor: U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., a longtime prosecutor who served as our state’s attorney general, is someone who is widely respected by law enforcement at all levels from across New Hampshire. During her time as attorney general, she earned a reputation for working hard to …

Letter: Ayotte Out-Romneys Her Mentor

Friday, May 17, 2013

To the Editor: The uproar caused by Mitt Romney and his remark that 47 percent of Americans will not take personal responsibility for their lives seems mild at the moment. Romney’s statement that he couldn’t be concerned about the 47 percent because they would never vote for him …

Letter: Failing at Educational Opportunity

Friday, May 17, 2013

To the Editor: In his May 8 letter headlined “A Particularly Malicious Column,” Justin Campbell of Norwich took exception to Jim Kenyon’s May 5 column, “Community Reflections.” In that column, Kenyon noted that the “Upper Valley is increasingly becoming a land of haves and have-nots.” Campbell does not …