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Letters to the Editor

Responding to online comments

This letter is in response to a comment made on a local webpage about the First Global Methodist Church of Iron Mountain, formerly the Iron Mountain First United Methodist Church, being ignorant and bigoted concerning the gay community. First, members and attendees at the former First United ...

Democracy at risk in country

Does democracy survive in this country? The bases of a democracy in a country that is multilingual, has a wide variety of religious beliefs, has a multiracial population, and has a broad range of political/cultural viewpoints creates in my mind a necessity for safeguards in the governing ...

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 ...