Opinion

To the editor:I just got back from the public meeting about the effort to provide Fairfield with a new pool and gym, and at the risk of sounding like Dan Breen, I?ve got to reiterate what he said ? the time is now.My family and I moved to Fairfield from Denver four years ago. We have one child left in the school system and by the time this is built, he?ll be in college.Yet, for the less than $100 a year that ...

January 6, 2017Washington, Iowa To the Editor:Cards, flowers, friends, family, and dinner ?out.? Yesterday I had everything to make my 92nd birthday happy.But the surprise of the day came later at the grocery store. As I took out my debit card to pay the bill, the clerk smiled and said, ?Your food was paid for by the person ahead of you in line.?Shocked, I quickly looked around, but no one was in sight. ...

Nov. 4, 2016Washington, Iowa To the Editor:To all the Cubs fans ? living, and the memories of the departed ? congratulations to your team on an excellent 2016 season.With your support they won 103 regular-season games, the Central Division, the NLCS; and the final coup de grace blow to the Indians, your team won the World Series.What will be the yell now? ?Wait till next year? Next decade? Next century?? ...

There are many funding streams that the Washington Community School District utilizes to fund education. Although our certified enrollment was up 40 students over the last three years we are still down by 38 students. The total budget for the District is nearly $20 million, but that includes all funds available to us. I think it is important to communicate to our staff and patrons the different funds and their ...

Nov. 4, 2016Washington, Iowa To the Editor:Re: A comparison of the 2016 Republican and Democratic platforms. Journal of 3 Nov. The Ninth Amendment and the 10th Amendment scissored by both parties! The result of State Sovereignty surrendered by the 17th Amendment! L.D. Oliver

October 28, 2016Riverside, Iowa To the Editor:Vote enlightened, vote knowledgeably.Vote pro-life, pro-faith, pro-marriage, pro-religious freedom, pro-freedom.Save our country.Pray for the end of abortion! Sincerely,Marjorie J. Hora

November 1, 2016Washington, Iowa To the Editor:I read in the Friday, Oct. 28, edition of The Washington Evening Journal that one of the candidates for U.S. Representative was in favor of what is known as assisted suicide. I can?t express how disappointed I was to read this. How have we come so far as a society to devalue life so much that we kill millions of our children in the womb and now a candidate here ...

October 21, 2016West Chester, Iowa To the Editor:Throngs of Haitians, Africans, Russians, Armenians and Guatemalans are being admitted into the United States via the Mexican border with virtually no vetting for security or health risks. Overwhelmed and understaffed border agents are bombarded daily with an onslaught of immigrants from these countries and have been ordered by the Department of Homeland ...

I once read a ?stupid human? story discussing why a man had gotten into a crash. Apparently, he thought the cruise control feature of his car was more all-inclusive than in fact it was. He set the cruise control and climbed into the back seat to catch a nap.Of course, this is the future. Well, growing up in the 1980s tends to make you think of this as the far future. The other day Washington City Administrator ...

Last weekend I was a little bit sad because I was saying goodbye to two people who introduced me to dancing.Louise and Abdou hail from the United Kingdom and Morrocco. In December they will return to the United Kingdom for Louise to begin her yearlong experience as a guest lecturer in physics.If it weren?t for these two I probably would have never known I have a few Latin dance moves in me.About a year ago ...

I opened Facebook and the first picture I saw was the house I grew up in at Monroe. I did a double take. My childhood flashed before my eyes: fishing in ponds, baling hay, idyllic days of hunting rabbit, squirrel, and pheasant. I've written about Maple Hill before, as it is sort of famous, or has a reputation anyway, of being haunted, thus the reason for it being on Facebook: Halloween is just around the corner. ...

?Spider Catches Pig!? was the caption under the picture on the front page of the Mt. Pleasant News. Karl Schaefer (the pig) had proposed to Amy Johnson (the spider) in Mt. Pleasant Community Theater's production of ?Charlotte?s Web.? Both ?Mt. Pleasant News? and ?The Hawkeye? newspapers were there to record the event. The year was 2004.Karl likes to say they met in ?Oklahoma,? fell in love in ?The Music Man,? ...