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Let’s recommit to community

To the Editor, Every Fourth of July, we gather to celebrate what makes America strong: freedom, hard work and a sense of shared purpose. Here in Weirton, that celebration always feels a little more personal. From the parade to the fireworks, it’s a reminder of just how proud — and how connected — we are as a community. This past weekend, I was proud to see so many local organizations, businesses (including my own, Howard Hanna Mortimer Realty) and families come together for the Weirton Independence Day Parade, and later, to enjoy the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra’s performance ...

We can’t be weak

To the Editor, An unpopular opinion, which I posted as a comment on social media. The person was complaining, rather bitterly, about Fourth of July fireworks causing issues for people with PTSD and other emotional problems: “I’m sorry you have this issue, and it’s not that I’m unsympathetic, but there have been many, many people with PTSD and other problems for many, many years. They just courageously dealt with July 4th, because they realized they were in the minority, and didn’t expect everyone else to kowtow to their own, personal issues. “So, they — considerately, ...

Thanking Weirton’s first responders

To the Editor, I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Weirton’s first responders for their professionalism when responding to an emergency. I witnessed this first-hand when I experienced a medical emergency, on Saturday, June 21, at the Lauttamus Event Center. When I worked for the Hancock County Commission, I had responsibility for the Hancock County 911 Center and worked closely with dispatchers. I watched as dispatchers took incoming calls and processed those calls with speed and accuracy to the proper agency; fire, police, or ambulance, to get emergency personnel to a ...

Against carbon capture

To the Editor, I am speaking on behalf of myself as a resident and commissioner of Hancock County, and not on behalf of the county commission as a whole. The views expressed here are my own. Personally, I want to ensure Hancock County landowners are aware of the risks associated with signing carbon capture leases with Tenaska and their CO2 sequestration ‘plans.’ If the process of capturing carbon and putting it back into storage cavities in our earth sounds like a really bad idea, that’s because it is. Please research the proven and documented environmental issues associated with ...

Enough is enough

To the Editor, I’m sure a lot of people saw the blatant and disrespectful behavior of the Weirton Water Board on June 12 on local television news. The insulting behavior of the board toward Karen Mentzer was appalling. Not one person had the decency to answer her question about accountability over the city’s water problems. However, I know personally what that treatment feels like. For me my treatment was with the previous council administration, when I asked, not once, but on three separate occasions, why the city had to double the water and sewer system with a declining ...

Every day is the 4th of July

To the Editor, The Upper Ohio Valley is a special place to me, filled with boyhood memories. The band Chicago sang “Old days ...Take me back To a world gone away,” with the 4th of July celebrations eagerly awaited, where the beginning of an early morning raising of Old Glory, a day filled with laughter and stories burgers, dogs on the grill, warm buns bursting with flavor, with ketchup, mustard, and onions, relish piled high, so much laughter and good times you would think every day is the 4th of July. As the sun makes its way into the western sky, then comes the parade, followed by ...