Dear Editor, To the voters for the Onaway Area Community Schools Board of Education: THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We look forward to positive years ahead. However, we will remain vigilant in identifying any threat and confronting that threat to our school community. Periodically, take time to come to a school board meeting on the second Tuesday of the month, at 7 p.m. in the school Media Center. In sincere appreciation, LES NIXON, Onaway
I believe that the editorial on Saturday was nothing short of excellent. You described the situation we find ourselves in, painting the picture in stark but accurate colors. We have lost the truth in many areas of our public discourse and somehow, accepted it!! As you stated, “We have to stop it,” and seek the truth by asking for — demanding — sources and facts and calling out statements when sources and facts are missing. The editorial contained the solution, “When they continue to lie, we must vote accordingly.” SONYA TITUS, Alpena
We as a people have a Constitution that has kept our country together. Many lives fought and died. They all had one goal: Protect our people, our country, and our constitution. We were, “All for one and one for all!” We as a whole were not a divided country. We did not have as many divisions as we have now. This division has been enhanced by the media and social media — something that was not around to influence our citizens in the past. Our cemeteries that are full of our soldiers who fought and died for our country were Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Catholics, Baptists, ...
Observations from previous letters: To the person concerned with lies, Donald Trump lied over 35,000 times while in office and has not stopped. Then the story about immigrants possibly being bused to Alpena. If a busload of immigrants showed up in Alpena, it would have been sent by a Republican governor. Finally, the story of concern for a fair and balanced paper that could impact subscriptions, The Alpena News acts like the Alpena chapter of the Enquirer, catch and kill with possible sprinkling of cowardice and silence. Silence like the Washington Post. Not a good look. ...
Well, election day has finally come and gone. Regardless of how you feel about the outcome, we still have work to do. There are wounds to bind up and divisions to be healed. Attorney Russ Rynard is concerned about one such wound (“County should adopt policy to protect our kids,” letter to the editor from Nov. 2). It’s “those” library books. While there has been a compromise over their placement, the books remain. For my part, I am more concerned about yard signs — one in particular. The political yard signs have started to come down, but for weeks they’ve been a ...
That the discussion regarding a certain group of books on the shelf at the library is still continuing, is surprising to me. Your children are not going to turn gay if they were to read any of these books any more than your child would become a murderer if they read a book by James Patterson. Please get over yourselves, find something more important to spend your time on and please stop harassing our library over a non-issue. And for the record, I have read these books. ALIDA BYWATER, Alpena