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25-Year Club thanks sponsors

To the Editor, This is a special thank-you to all the sponsor of the Weirton Steel 25-Year Club. The picnic was held on July 13 at the Serbian Picnic grounds and was very well attended. This was the 73rd picnic, and the members look forward each year to gathering with their co-worker and friends to reminisce about the good old days and talk about how things are today. Between 400 and 450 attended. Without the generous support of our sponsors we would not be able to have it. On behalf of the 25-Year Cub executive committee, we want to thank the following sponsor who make this picnic ...

Pathetically desperate

To the Editor, The mass shootings recently in Gilroy, Calif., El Paso, Texas, and Dayton have elicited the predictable cries for ever more gun regulations. Once again, a few crazies go off the deep end and incite a senseless tragedy, and the typical knee-jerk reaction of the American left is to further restrict and regulate. To punish the other 90 million innocent gun-owning Americans for the actions of a comparative handful of maladjusted wackos. I’m seeing online the usual references to the apparent tendency of mass shooters to be white males. This isn’t always true, of course, ...

Background checks for all

To the Editor, America fought the Civil War with muskets and tamed the Old West with six shooters. There is something wrong with the system when one person can walk into a Wal-Mart in Dallas, Texas, and kill at will 22 people, injure 30 more and nine hours later the same thin happen in Dayton, Ohio. Maybe we should go back to selling six shooters and muskets for hunting and target practice and quit selling guns with multiple rounds of ammo up to 100 in a magazine. Instead of talking about what to do about these guns today, the issue is sidestepped with we must address mental ...

The wrong roads are getting attention

To the Editor, Every road paved but the right ones! Well, I see city officials throwing our money away like candy again! Paved from downtown Pennsylvania Avenue to the state line and the all the money invested and our road in front of city building looks like a diasater! Mind you in front of the city building where everone travels to get someplace. All the cash invested in paving the roads could have opened the Lee Avenue bridge or build a new one that could have been fantastic! Now when there is an event in front of the Strip Steel building, it’s congested and looks like a ...

Food Truck Festival a success

To the Editor, What a great day we had last Saturday at the Weirton Food Truck Festival! Despite the hot temperatures, our community came out and supported the class of 2020 at Weir High School and it’s very much appreciated. There are so many people that had a part in the success of this event. We had over 70 volunteers at the event including students and parents that worked hard all day! Thank you to all of our sponsors, Brandon Palmeri and the Weirton Police Department, firefighters and EMT’s, all of the entertainers who volunteered their time, the guys we had in our dunk ...

Thankful for community support

To the Editor, On behalf of All Saints Greek Orthodox Church, the Rev. Frank Milanese, our faithful volunteers, parishioners and parish council, we wish to extend our sincerest and most heartfelt thanks to the entire Weirton and surrounding communities for their patronage at our 32nd-annual Weirton Greek Festival. The Greek Festival has become an annual destination event for our community and All Saints is extremely grateful and honored for the tremendous community support. We truly are blessed! Despite heavy rains on opening day and high heat, our faithful patrons once again ...