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School swim teams in need of pools

Mention West Virginia to someone that lives outside of our state, and those individuals may respond with comments such as: hillbillies, moonshine, John Denver’s “Country Roads,” or the beautiful mountain landscape that drapes a good portion of our state. Take a moment and reflect back to the late 1980s and early 1990s. A vast majority of the U.S. population did not want to give soccer a fighting chance when it was being introduced back then. Many thanks to those brave individuals that believed, pushed, and persevered to push that vision to fruition back then. If it were not for ...

Confusion over funding allotments

Citizens and taxpayers of Randolph County, Commissioners Chris See, David Kesling and appointed Commissioner Cris Siler, they are supposed to be working for we the taxpayers, looks like they are working against us, and we pay their salary! D&E College $50,000? Mike House $5,000? And the list goes on! New pool and splash pad for a favorite few? Are we hocking the Elks Lodge out? Our tax dollars? Wake up, taxpayers! We are being had, if there is extra money in the treasury, why don’t they reduce our taxes? They have the commission meetings in the afternoon. The working-class ...

Importance of a daily newspaper

To subscribers and future subscribers of The Inter-Mountain, I have contemplated this letter for months before writing it. In thinking of the future of our wonderful small city and what the future may hold, our daily newspaper comes to mind. I am concerned whether The Inter-Mountain can remain a daily newspaper. Watching a telecast of 60 Minutes recently, they spoke of the dwindling small town newspapers and, frankly, the loss of so many papers because of the internet and the large investment companies purchasing their assets and the papers going under. Again, despite your ...

Reader offers suggestion

Today we have the governor of Texas bussing illegal migrants to New York City and Washington, D.C. in order to draw attention to the plight of his state. The New York governor has suggested putting them in luxury hotel rooms that are not being used and not reimbursing the hotels. My suggestion is if they want to allow immigrants to cross our borders with no health checks or background checks, and not checking to see if they have the means to support themselves, then let the governors, mayors, senators, representatives and other elected officials give them a room in their mansions, ...

Are Dem leaders trying to bankrupt the nation?

You can’t make fundamental changes to a prosperous nation. That’s why Democrats are purposefully trying to destroy our country as we know it. From the open border disaster, the defund police violent crime spike, critical race theory, choking off domestic energy production, to trillions upon trillions in wasteful spending. None of it’s a mistake; in fact, it’s all part of the left’s grand plan. Consider the Trump administration’s record. It is a list of campaign promises made and kept, a hard-nosed and practical foreign policy with a resolute stand against Chinese ...

Is new bill really just a fairy tale?

With this most recent bill passed by Congress, the government continues to take, take and take from the American people. This is all thanks in part to the two Joes, Joe Biden and Joe Manchin. Two men that played keys roles in how this Congress has voted on key bills these past two years. This most recent bill that has passed is supposed to better the economy and the environment, but will negatively affect this country that is still reeling from two and half years of the pandemic. This is equivalent to pouring rubbing alcohol into a wound. Prices are up from gas to food, clothing ...