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Letters to the Editor

Praise for Hancock School Public Library

Thank you for recent articles highlighting the Hancock School Public Library. It is a true treasure, in no small part thanks for the creativity and dedication of director Boni Ashburn. She goes way above and beyond in writing the grants that have brought so much to the facility. She is ...

Childhood games and lessons learned

Many of us prior to the advent of cellphones had the experience and fun of joining in on neighborhood games as children. Games like hide and seek, tag, kick the can and hop scotch to name but a few. These games were played after school, on weekends, and lasted until the street lights came on or ...

Kudos to our local firefighters

I am writing to express my heartfelt gratitude to the volunteer fire departments in our community for their heroic efforts in saving my home from a devastating fire. Their selfless dedication and swift action undoubtedly prevented what could have been a catastrophic loss. On Friday, March 1, ...

In protection of the Porkies, Lake Superior

On Feb. 27, over 30 individuals delivered spoken comments to the Michigan Strategic Fund, voicing opposition to a proposed $50 million grant to Copperwood, a foreign company’s plan to open a metallic sulfide mine at the juncture of Lake Superior, Porcupine Mountains State Park and the North ...

Facts and faith

Keith Raffel’s recent opinion column (“Did too many of them play hooky during history class?”) makes an important point - facts are essential to democracy. Knowledge of history can deepen our patriotism, especially when we learn from the mistakes we have made. We were given a ...

Self-immolation is never the answer

It should go without saying – “Nobody should intentionally set themselves on fire”. The death of an active-duty airman who immolated himself on Sunday outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington to protest the civilian deaths in Gaza was a tragedy. One that was repeated many times during ...