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Look needed at lifeguard and goose control at Lake Antoine

On Monday, I asked the Dickinson County Board of Commissioners to consider a practical next step for Lake Antoine Park: Authorizing exploration of a limited 2027 lifeguard pilot for the public beach. This is not a request for full-time lifeguards, whole-beach coverage or an open-ended funding commitment. It is a request to gather real information from a qualified aquatics provider about whether weekend and holiday lifeguard coverage could be offered safely, professionally and feasibly during the 2027 summer season. Lake Antoine is one of Dickinson County’s most valuable public ...

Logging plan at Cooks Run destined to fail

I want to be clear right up front: I am pro-logging. I used to work as a logger, and I understand the value of timber management to our local economy. But anyone who has run equipment in the woods knows a basic truth — some ground simply needs to be left alone. The proposed clear-cut at Cooks Run (Unit 4), which has a June 3 bidding deadline, is exactly that kind of ground. Just because we can log a piece of land doesn’t mean we should. Why is Iron County risking a 122-acre public asset for a marginal return on low-grade pulpwood? The harvest zone is a 5-acre island of saturated, ...

Case for driving an electric car

As communities across the country grapple with rising fuel costs, air pollution and the growing impacts of global warming, one solution is becoming increasingly clear — the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Electric cars offer a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles. By producing zero tailpipe emissions, they reduce air pollution and improve public health, especially in urban areas where smog and poor air quality disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. When you factor in that EVs cost roughly 50% less to fuel, and with fewer moving ...

Examples of the love of Christ

I wonder if individually we see Christ and heaven as a limited presence and space or an infinite responsibility. I believe Christ is not a person but the omnipresence of love and caring of all mankind and life in general. I believe one of our individual purposes is to help forward that presence of universal love and caring to the best of our ability despite the human roadblocks. The roadblocks clearly include human fear of the another coming in the form of race, religion and differences in multiple other forms. They also come in the form of egos that feel superior or threatened as we ...

How many live in a nutshell?

This is in response to the April 7 Letter to the Editor, “What I see in our President.” “That’s it in a nutshell” comes to mind because it makes me wonder how many people live in a nutshell. I honestly thought the letter was talking about former President Joe Biden until the writer entered the name of our actual president — you know, the one that was elected honestly by the people in 2024. Many Americans believe former President Barack Obama directed the Biden Administration when they actually did all the evil things the writer said Trump is doing. Obama and Biden both ...

More incompetence at the top in Iran attacks

Just a clarification on this latest war with Iran. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated a few weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contacted President Donald Trump and told him Israel is attacking Iran and Trump decided to go along and be part of it. Just as with the incompetence the Iraq War was thought out, we now have a duplication, as the disruption to the world's oil distribution is causing major economic problems around the world. Trump, of course, thought it would be a Venezuelan operation as he called for Iran's unconditional surrender after some of the ...