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Christmas season isn’t about lists and gifts

After my younger daughter came home from school with a Christmas wish list, I was fairly quick to tell her this wasn’t what Christmas was about. I was so moved by our conversation that I wrote “My Dear Child.” Some people saw this letter and were quite moved by this. These people believed it should be published. Here is the letter: My dear child, I’ll bet by now, you are really beginning to wonder what you will be getting for Christmas. Well, I am beginning to wonder also. I am glad you have a Christmas list. Everybody should have a dream! However, Christmas is about the ...

Candidates thanked for running for office

On behalf of the Randolph County Democratic Executive Committee and the Randolph County Democratic Women, I’d like to express sincere appreciation to our candidates who ran in the Nov. 8 election. Barry Wendell, Robert Sheets, Delegate Cody Thompson and Bob Jones conducted themselves with the upmost decorum and grace. Running for office is especially daunting in these polarized political times, but their courage and fortitude are a testament to their character. It is my hope that our recently elected representatives remember that their responsibility is to listen to all their ...

Respect for Marriage Act is questioned

The “Respect for Marriage Act” threatens America’s most basic freedom and disrespects marriage by changing its meaning with the full force of the Democrats in Congress. The Respect for Marriage Act completely destroys the understanding of marriage while sparking increased legal battles for Christians. Nowhere in the bill do the terms conjugal marriage, traditional marriage, biological marriage, biblical marriage, natural marriage, historical marriage, husband-wife marriage, man-woman marriage, or any other possible variation appear. Yet the bill does say some things quite ...

Forest Service project a subject of debate

Your Nov. 15 headline “Timber Controversy: Protesters met by counter-protesters in Elkins” would have been more accurately written “Timber Travesty.”   The protest organized by rural citizens and groups to fight the U.S. Forest Service’s ridiculous plan to clear-cut 3,500 acres in the Lead Mine area of Tucker County is about safeguarding the area from flooding and from the destruction of water supplies. The protest was about preserving old-growth forest. The USFS Upper Cheat River Project currently involves a plan to clear-cut 3,500 acres. I would ask your readers to ...

Assessing damage post-midterms

I now know what the folks of Florida feel like after the Hurricane.  You step outside of your house and you see nothing but devastation.  You wonder where to start to get it all cleaned up.  That’s the way the American people feel like after this past election.  They see the damage from the first two years of the Biden administration and they see the damage from the elections.  No matter your party, an election is always bloody.  The ones that survived it are usually the ones that created the mess.  One of those is Joe Manchin.  Manchin is a lot like the President, he ...

Senior site closing causing controversy

Dear Gov. Justice, It has come to our attention that Pendleton Senior and Family Services has been the topic of discussion over the last several months. Apparently, the closing of our North Fork satellite nutrition site has caused some stir among individuals in a bordering county. It seems that there is confusion as to how our closure will affect other nutrition sites around the state. When I became executive director of Pendleton Senior and Family Services, Inc., four years ago, our centers were in a troubled place. We had a large amount of debt and both buildings needed ...