To the editor: It was so encouraging to hear that proud patriots in Jefferson County were holding a protest rally in front of the county courthouse to speak out against the potential privatization of the U.S. Postal Service. However, it was also discouraging to be told that it was “not ...
To the editor: Some time ago, I met a woman whose son had died in the Vietnam War. I met her at a Gold Star Family Weekend, an annual event at Camp Dawson in West Virginia. I am a Gold Star father and a Vietnam veteran. Her son was a member of a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol when he was ...
As our elected lawmakers work out Ohio’s next two-year budget, they are considering cutting funding to pantries and food banks helping our hungry neighbors. Real Ohioans are struggling and now is not the time to cut state support for food banks and take meals off people’s tables. The ...
To the editor: I was glad to see that a meeting about proposed water projects for Amsterdam and Bergholz was reported on by the Herald-Star. As was mentioned by the meeting’s participants, water line breaks are frequent in this part of the county. I noticed that while state funding, ...
To the editor: Things are moving fast on this one. By the time this is published heads may have rolled. If not, the system’s more broken than we’d feared. Let’s look at what happened. On March 11, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, received a connection request from ...
I was born in the early years of the formation of the Diocese of Steubenville and lived my entire Catholic life in this Diocese. Like many others, I am having a difficult time understanding the facts vs. the lies of the proposed merger. Bishop Jeffrey Monforton announced the merger in ...