News Stories for December 2009
Stories for Thursday, December 31
You can't mail that here
Just before Christmas, I stopped by the Monroe post office to ship a package and was told that, with a Middletown return address, I could only ship it at the Middletown post office. I thought the U.S. Postal Service is for all the people. And now the Monroe postmaster says ...
Tired of the humiliation
I see that we’ve had another terrorist. I have flown via Delta twice this year, but the last time was just in the second week of December. Both trips, going and coming home, I was privately searched. I was then scanned with the wand and I had cosmetics, lipstick and ...
Will our bills go down?
We’ve seen the full-page ads that Time Warner has run recently in the Middletown Journal, asking their customers to stand up to Fox on the price increases and the threats that Fox is going to pull its programming from Time Warner. My question to Time Warner is: If you don’t ...
They may have been angels
I was taking a walk on Milton Road by Sunset Park on Christmas Eve day. I encountered a family — a mom, a dad and three little boys. They asked me if I would like a song and when I said “yes,” they sang the most wonderful rendition of “Silent ...
<b>‘Jesus was a non-political community organizer ...’</b>
I am not a theologian, Bible scholar or seminarian but, from what I’ve learned over the years about Jesus, I believe he smiles favorably on socialism.In the Dec. 27 column “Jesus is not a socialist symbol” by Cal Thomas, Thomas says Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Jesus ...
Stories for Wednesday, December 30
Preble pollution
Why can’t the EPA and everyone else higher up figure out where all this air pollution — and especially the noise pollution — is coming from? I have two words for them: Preble County. It’s coming from all these Preble County clowns who take off their catalytic converters and their ...
Stories for Tuesday, December 29
<b>‘We must find some common ground’</b>
Dec. 23, 2009, was the one-year anniversary of the closing of the GM truck plant and a sad day for southwest Ohio.This past year has seen a lot of changes for GM, and for the approximately 40,000 people who were affected by this plant closing.As I listened to people in ...
Your kind spirit
Thank you to the person or persons who found my checkbook on Todhunter Road and turned it into my bank. The teller wouldn’t identify you to enable me to personally thank you, but may God bless your kind spirit. ...Am I the only one who knows or reads that there ...
<b>‘Do we quit giving?’</b>
A senior in high school, my daughter belongs to several societies and associations. As a member, she is required to do a certain amount of volunteer hours for each group.Over her winter break, she chose to volunteer her time with a local charity that helps low-income families. Her task was ...
Stories for Monday, December 28
Where is the discipline?
Regarding discipline in the Middletown City Schools, there was a recent caller who was so worried about what Mr. (Jason) Krause does up at the high school, but my question for the schools is — where is the discipline? We have none. I have one child in school and one ...
<b>‘To the Grinch who ruined my Christmas’</b>
To the Grinch who ruined my Christmas:For many, many years, we have “sent” our Christmas card to the Oxford community by sharing our lighted Christmas decorations around our home.Many have commented that they and their children/grandchildren have made a special trip by our place just to see the decorations as ...
Stories for Thursday, December 24
Another money-making idea
If the city of Middletown needs money, why not have the police give out the $105 tickets to the 10,000 cars in Middletown that don’t have front license plates?We attended Light Up Middletown, made our donation at the gate and started our drive through the park. It really was nice ...
Someone's at the door
I wanted to give a big “thank you” to the Edgewood Board of Education, including the basketball team and cheerleaders, for their “Blue Christmas.” My husband and I, like a lot of other people, have gone through a hard financial year this year, losing our home. ... We woke up ...
<b>‘Something other than violence’</b>
I live here in Middletown and decided to go with my best friend to see Middletown High School’s play Dec. 18. Most of the skits that were done were very well done.I have some concerns with Middletown High being a zero-tolerance school in the way of guns and knives. The ...
<b>‘Service was great’</b>
My wife spent two weeks on the fourth floor south at Atrium Medical Center and the service was great. We can’t thank them enough.Gary KnappMiddletown
A true message
Thank you, Frank Frisch, for your guest column in the Dec. 18 Journal (“Road signs were intriguing”). What a true message to Middletown and all of its residents. Yes, Jesus does save.Regarding the Dec. 19 caller who wants to know where to buy crinkle fries: Come out to beautiful downtown ...
Stories for Wednesday, December 23
<b>‘We’ve been paying twice as much ...’</b>
I am a resident of the city of Trenton and I am writing to find out if anyone else has been getting hosed on their water bill. We’ve been getting shafted for months. Our bills have been outrageous.We finally found out that our water bill has been so high because ...
Bigger and better
I went through Light Up Middletown Dec. 17 with my 3-year-old daughter and it was great. It is bigger and better. We went through a similar one in Hamilton, and Middletown beat it. It was really great.I am calling at 4:27 a.m. Dec. 19, having my coffee with my wife ...
<b>‘How can arson be ruled out?’</b>
Concerning the recent fire at the Lebanon Raceway, the state fire marshal stated that fire was not the result of arson. (He) Then went on to say that the cause of the fire was undetermined.How can arson be ruled out when arson (can be) the cause of a fire? If ...
<b>‘Plan of attack’</b>
Why can’t there be peace? I cannot figure out the Iranian government. The country is just about landlocked. ... If they think that they can defend their nation with only long-range and short-range missiles, they are committing suicide. They could also be invaded from three sides and their only retreat ...
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