Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: I don’t think that any reasonable person expects policework to proceed as it does on TV, as Deputy Hartford Police Chief Brad Vail asserted in the Valley News recent story about the 2012 shooting in White River Junction. However, it is frankly astonishing that an …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: The Hanover Finance Committee voted 5-2 against the proposed Hanover town budget. The majority concluded that the budget represented an unreasonably steep increase, beyond what is justified by inflation or the downshifting of costs from the state. In the fall of 2012, the Finance Committee …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: The unpleasant editorial of May 7, “Silence Isn’t Golden,” eviscerating Lebanon Mayor Georgia Tuttle was both unfair and misguided. In Lebanon, the mayor is constrained by our charter and by the rules adopted by the City Council. Every mayor must interpret those constraints and apply …
Monday, May 13, 2013
To the Editor: Baseball. Barbecues. Birthday celebrations. Wouldn’t you love to share Vermont with a high school exchange student from one of 70 countries? These young people have a sincere desire to experience and understand America by participating in the everyday activities your family takes for granted. The …
Monday, May 13, 2013
To the Editor: In partnership with the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, WinCycle recently provided electronic waste recycling services at the White River Junction Co-op Food Store. We collected many unwanted devices during the event. We were so fortunate to have so many volunteers and staff from the Co-op …
Monday, May 13, 2013
To the Editor: I want to thank everyone who has had a part in making Rogers House (57 studio and one-bedroom apartments) of Lebanon a beautiful place to live: the Lebanon Housing Authority, remodelers, maintenance people, nurses (free blood pressure checks), senior center staff and ServiceLink (flowers, potlucks, …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: Political correctness is a form of fundamentalism. Just like its relative, religious fundamentalism, political correctness believes it has the correct (and rigid) interpretation of reality and tries to impose it on everyone. With political correctness, politics and censorship are more important than truth. John Alexander …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: With all due respect to our friend Roger McWilliams (“Keep the Pressure on Ayotte,” May 4), we strongly disagree with his comments. The senator’s main focus has been on voting to improve our current background system. She has made her position very clear. The senator …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: Once again, we were treated to exquisite beauty in the dancing, costuming and staging of a ballet by City Center Ballet Company. Its recent performance of Giselle at the Lebanon Opera House on May 4 and 5 was a gift to us all. It is …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: Charlie Buttrey’s letter of May 3 (“Firearms Don’t Save Lives”) was only one of many recent examples citing specious statistics derived from wildly unscientific and dishonest studies. Only a very small percentage of the defensive use of firearms results in shots being fired, and the …
Maggie Cassidy
By Don's Early Light
