Poland residents work to beautify the village DEAR EDITOR: In June 2025, I stopped to talk with a woman tending the flowers on the bridge over Yellow Creek along South Main Street in Poland. During our conversation, I learned that for many years two dedicated volunteers — both named Laura ...

Attention Canfield Cornball: After WWII America was deemed “ripe” for communism. The Democrat Party began turning more and more left. Progressives, socialists, Democrats are all considered “fellow travelers” on the road to full communism. Those who support these ideologies without fully ...

Protein, protein, protein … just stop DEAR EDITOR: Most fads are stupid, not the least of which is the excess consumption of unnecessary protein, and this fad has gone on long enough. Everywhere I turn protein this protein that, stop stop stop with this ridiculous protein craze. I am no ...

I want to set the record straight. It is a lie that Democrats who dislike Trump hate our country. It is precisely because we love the USA that we detest Trump. We see him as destroying our democracy and our nation’s standing in the world. Another lie is that our beliefs are influenced by the ...

The South will rise again thanks to gerrymandering DEAR EDITOR: With the help of the Jim Crow cancers, racist Ku Klux Klan and a Republican Bush-Trump Supreme Court decision that gutted the American Voting Rights Act, mass gerrymandering across the Southern states and no Democratic ...

I’m struck by the similarities of the last days of the Nazi regime in April 1945 to the faltering Iranian government. Like Germany, Iran is controlled by a small, deadly group of fanatics, preserving their grip on power at any cost. Civilian dissent is ruthlessly crushed, and the country is ...