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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 — have quietly created and maintained the beautiful flower boxes that greet residents and visitors crossing our bridges. A few days later, I met Hugh Braham while he was walking across the same bridge. We began discussing ways to enhance the beauty of Poland Village in preparation for ...

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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 understanding this goal are considered “useful idiots” by the world communist movement. Cradle to grave, womb to tomb government control of your lives. Classic Marxism, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” — Boardman If Graham Platner’s tattoos ...

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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 scientist or dietitian (so they tell me) but my reliable instincts told me the average American overconsumes protein and this was demonstrably true per studies by Harvard and Johns Hopkins by 20-50 percent; so now, in case my unimpeachable instincts were not sufficient evidence for my argument, there ...

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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 media. All we have to do is listen to his hateful words and actions to know that his concern is not for this country but for himself! — Canfield Iran war = higher fuel costs = higher shipping costs = higher fertilizer costs = higher food costs = higher travel costs = higher anxiety for common ...

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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 representation in the state of Tennessee, the Confederate states will rise again with white, black, Latino and Asian slaves — “America in reverse.” The Republican multibillionaire Trump administration is a divider, not an American unifier. Remember this when you vote in the 2026 midterms and the ...

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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 kept in a perpetual news blackout. People are scooped on any pretext and just hung from a crane — or worse. The big difference from World War II Germany is the enabling power of the Internet to continually pipe out rhetoric and threats to every media outlet in the world. I have to wonder what ...