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Letters to the Editor

Houghton Soccer offers thanks

To the editor: The Houghton High School Club Soccer team would like to publicly thank the Portage Health Foundation for their generous support of our team.   This fall, our team received a grant of $2358 from the Small Grants Fund from the Portage Health Foundation, which has helped the team ...

Blood drives remain a success

To the editor: On behalf of the U.P. Regional Blood Center, I would like to thank, the Houghton Township Hall in Eagle River, The Pines Convenience Center in Baraga, GS Engineering and the Chassell Township Fire Hall, for hosting a blood drive in the month of September. As a result of their ...

Kasieta too immature to serve

To the editor: On March 6 at 1 a.m., Justin Kasieta participated in a harassing and obscene phone call to Jennifer Kelly. Kasieta didn’t initiate the call, but he sat in on it. He initially denied his involvement but later admitted that he was on the call and that foul language was used. ...

Vote against Kelly

To the editor: The Democrat County Clerk, Jennifer Kelly, has had a very questionable tenure in office, to say the least. The Gazette reported In March that she faced censure by the County Board for allegedly harassing her employees by publishing restricted documents and biased allegations ...

Vote for Peters

To the editor: Our hardworking junior senator is under attack by misleading ads funded by Mitch McConnell’s warchest. Don’t believe them. Gary Peters gets things done. The Detroit Free Press calls Peters “one of the more productive and bipartisan senators in a Senate riven by ...

Caveat emptor

To the editor: The 18th Amendment was ratified on 1/16/1919 and after nearly 15 years of crime, murder, havoc and a tremendous government expense of enforcement; the prohibition of alcohol was repealed on 12/5/1933. The prohibition movement was started by people that felt alcohol was ruining ...