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School health center investment vital for Appalachian families

Dear Editor, The COVID-19 pandemic has been disruptive and devastating for too many, including our school-aged children. Time will tell what long-term impacts the pandemic will have on our students, families and communities. This spring, as the Governor and state legislature make decisions around investing additional federal Covid relief dollars, expanding the footprint of Ohio’s School-Based Health Centers would be a smart use of these one-time funds. For more than 30 years, SBHCs in Ohio have improved the health and education outcomes of the students they serve. SBHCs are health ...

God’s Love?

Dear Editor, This past week I saw a man strike another man in the face and then get up on stage and say he wants to demonstrate “God’s love.” This also a man who brags about his “open” marriage. I hear this hypocrisy all the time. God is love. I hear the pastor, the priest, the celebrity, the politician, the transgender, the homosexual, the abortionist all say “God is love.” But what I rarely hear from any is that God is Holy, God is Righteous, and God is Just. We make an idol if we close Him within the “God is Love” parameter. Can God hate? Most ...

Is NATO Cause for Ukraine War?

Dear Editor, The war on Ukraine is a sad situation. We should be so thankful here in the U.S. that we have never had to endure this kind of persecution and displacement in our lifetimes. And even sadder is that this might never have had to happen. Unfortunately, many people in the U.S. seem to have the attitude that we can go about and do to the rest of the world as we please and they all should humbly bow to us as if we are God and master. The Russia/Ukraine situation is a prime example. Our current illustrious leader seems to have this lord-over-all mentality. Rather than try to ...

Viva Republicans

Dear Editor, How wonderful the Republicans are? Oh, how they acclaim accolades for their party as they piously preen about full of themselves. Enough sarcasm, though. Let’s take a hard look at the Republicans: ∫ Republicans committed a treasonous insurrection assault on the U.S. Capital — our alter of democracy — where six people died and 140 more were injured. ∫ They deny Joe Biden trounced Trump in the 2020 election by over 7 million votes. ∫ They brought over 60 bogus lawsuits trying to overturn the fair election and had their heads handed to them by a fair, ...

OUE reaches 65-year milestone

Dear Editor, It is with much respect and gratitude that I would like to congratulate a true Belmont County treasure, the eastern campus of Ohio University, which is located approximately five miles west of St. Clairsville off Exit 213 of Interstate 70 and U.S. 40 (National Road) for 65 outstanding years of service. Ohio University Eastern, which was established in 1957, sits on a 358-acre campus that has been its location for over the previous five decades, is one of five branch campuses of Ohio Universtiy, with its main campus in Athens, Ohio, founded in 1803, the year the state of ...

Courage

Dear Editor, I don’t know how long the citizens of the Ukraine can hold out but there is so much our country can learn from their people. Did you notice the number of elderly people who are bold and fierce in their protection of their country. One elderly woman went up to a Russian soldier and handed him some sunflowers and told him to keep them on his body because his dead body will be used as fertilizer to grow sunflowers in the free state of Ukraine….wow!!! An old man pulled aside a news reporter and told him that when he runs out of bullets he will grab his kitchen knife and ...