Category: Editorials

Another Sign of Climate Change

“Historically catastrophic” flooding is the description of what has been happening across our nation’s Midwestern Plains states this past week, thanks to a combination of heavy snows and unseasonably cold weather followed by unusually heavy rains. When most of us…

Townie Tidbits

MOXIE AND A GOOD SENSE OF BALANCE The Friends of the Charlestown Branch Library will be hosting a presentation by author Lynne Byall Benson on her new book “Moxie and a Good Sense of Balance: Nancy Drew and the Power…

Letter to the Editor

Close the loopholes Dear Editor, Thank you for your highly commendable editorial “Let’s close the loophole in State Law to end Human Trafficking.” Like all your other editorials, you always provide a solution to a problem. Your solution of closing…

Hands-Free Driving Makes Sense

Recent statistics indicate that the single-biggest cause of motor vehicle accidents these days can be attributed generally to what is known as “distracted driving.” According to some reports, more Americans now are killed on our roads because of distracted driving…