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Letters to the Editor

Tractor ride to VA on Wednesday

On Wednesday, July 19, the Northwoods Antique Tractor Club from Aurora, Wis., will make their ninth-annual tractor ride to the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain. We will meet in East Kingsford off of Breen Avenue near the railroad tracks and travel on Breen Avenue to ...

Report from Light at the Inn

EDITOR: The Light at the Inn operates as the Emergency Shelter Service for any individual or family that finds themselves in an emergency homeless situation for a short time. Emergency Shelter Services is the Dickinson/Iron County part of a social service agency Community Action ...

What the month of June means to me

The month of June probably means different things to different people. Watching the local and national news I was quickly reminded of what someone else wants it to mean to all of us. A rainbow-colored flag flying at the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison, just below the state flag, which is ...

Can immigrants be the solution?

I have been watching the news about the “immigration problem.” If you chose to look at statistics, we have a falling population growth over the last couple of generations. People are not having children at the rate they used to for many reasons, which I will not go into here, today. I want ...

Mother’s health needs protecting, too

Are women valued by the Republican and evangelical religious anti-abortionists? The religious right and many Republicans seem to believe that life of the fetus begins at conception and should be preserved without any or very few exceptions. On the other hand, the mother is a secondary ...

The Tab Man sets a goal of 2 million for Ronald McDonald House

Let’s kick it in gear and start tabbing. We want to go for 2 million. We need to get more people involved — family, friends, relatives and businesses. Remember, I’m the gopher. You have to feed me. You drop the tabs off I have to gopher them. Please make sure the tabs you drop off are ...