News Stories for January 2010
Stories for Friday, January 29
<b>‘I provided jobs that night’</b>
Enough is enough. I am sick and tired of being put down for having “Girls Gone Wild” in my nightclub (Reflections).I am a business that provides jobs. Do you people not have anything better to do than sit — over a week after the event — and post negative remarks ...
<b>‘How nice it is to be appreciated ...’</b>
I am a member of the Middletown Combined Honor Guard. We do veteran funerals on a volunteer basis.On Jan. 23, the Guard had two funerals, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Between two funerals, we sometimes go to lunch, and went to Frisch’s on Germantown Road on ...
Offensive letter
Regarding Mr. (William) Klosterman’s Jan. 27 letter to the editor (“That was a fairy tale, folks ...”): I wanted to say I am a Middletonian and have been for many years. I was raised in Wichita, Kan., and he did not state one fact in his rambling article about anything. ...
Are you better off now?
I am surprised that the Republicans haven’t dragged out the old battlecry of “Are you better off today than you were a year ago?” For a lot of people — and a lot of people in Middletown — we are a lot worse off today than we were a year ...
Another vote for wood sheds
Regarding the Jan. 25 Sound Off (that said) every American family should have a wood shed: I couldn’t agree more. Maybe the prison population might diminish. Today’s people say that if you whip your child, it’s child abuse. Maybe we ought to take another good, long, hard look and go ...
Longtime Middletown businessman, humanitarian Thatcher dies
MIDDLETOWN - Longtime businessman, entreprenuer and humanitarian Perry Thatcher died Thursday, Jan. 28, at his home in Middletown after a short battle with pancreatic cancer, according to his assistant Judy Bober. He was 79. Bober said Thatcher "died peacefully" surrounded by his family at about 9:45 p.m. "They wanted to ...
Stories for Thursday, January 28
Outdated signs
Are they ever going to take down the signs that say “road work,” between Old 25 and Union Road? There hasn’t been any work going on there since last September.Thank you, Rush Limbaugh, for watching (President Barack) Obama’s State of the Union Address — so we didn’t have to watch ...
<b>‘A space for healing and restoration’</b>
It seems that tragedy and crisis always bring out the extremes in human beings. I am not sure if this is caused by human nature or the human paradox.As the tragedy of our family in Haiti continues to become more understood, there are those who would either blame God, external ...
Stories for Wednesday, January 27
How about a library fee?
I am a user of the Middletown Public Library. I frequently go there and check out books. Rather than put a tax on property owners, I would be willing to pay a fee to check the books out. I think it would be fair to everyone.
<b>‘Keep it a community worth returning to’</b>
As a parent of a seventh-grader, third-grader and kindergartner in the Madison Local School District, I would like to express my support of the upcoming renewal levy.After attending Madison from kindergarten to 12th grade, I graduated from Madison schools in 1994. I went on to graduate from Xavier University with ...
<b>‘No new money’ in Madison levy</b>
Madison Local Schools are excellent! That is what the Ohio Department of Education has determined for 2009-2010. This distinction comes as no surprise to the Madison community and everyone else who has watched the Madison Schools. We all have known of the excellent education Madison kids receive for a long ...
<b>‘When will the president man up?’</b>
In the 1970s, during the infamous Watergate era, then-White House presidential adviser John Dean warned Richard Nixon of a “cancer on the administration.” Indeed there was, and it eventually led to the resignation of the president.Our world today is also plagued by an insidious, largely invisible, killing “disease,” known as ...
<b>‘A vote for maintaining excellent rating’</b>
I am writing this letter on behalf of the Madison School District and the upcoming renewal levy.I have lived in Madison for eight years and been teaching at Madison for the past two years. The reason we moved to the Madison School District is due the excellent educational opportunities that ...
Stories for Tuesday, January 26
More thoughts on school buses and seat belts
Regarding the Jan. 17 call from the school bus driver talking about the disadvantages of seat belts: This is why we have new, young City Council members. Things have to be changed. I don’t know the age of this driver but I would say you have to regroup all ages ...
<b>‘That was a fairy tale, folks ...’</b>
Jeff Jena’s guest column Jan. 14 (“Mission not accomplished”) outlines well the fiasco of Middletown’s quest for a new school leader.Our school board’s costly, clandestine, “behind-closed-doors” superintendent search has led to the highly questionable selection of a nice jolly man from Kansas, with apparent magic-like qualities. He is Greg Rasmussen, ...
<b>‘Our responsibility’</b>
On Feb. 2, the Madison Local School District will be asking Madison Twp. residents to renew an existing tax levy. This will not be an additional tax, but simply continues what we are already paying.In these economic times, many of us will weigh the benefit of paying less taxes or ...
Stories for Monday, January 25
Sin and nastiness
Regarding the lady who called in, thanking Lisa Hammer for bringing “Girls Gone Wild” to Reflections: I would like to thank her, too — for bringing more sin and nastiness into Middletown. That’s exactly what we need. This town has got enough sin and stuff in it already, but let’s ...
<b>Madison levy ‘an important step’</b>
Students are much more likely to value education in a community where they often hear voices that value schools.I am here to be one of those voices, to say unequivocally how much I value Madison Local Schools. As a community member and former teacher in Madison for 21 years, I ...
<b>‘Reach for the stars’</b>
To Pastor (Mitchell) Foster and our Tried Stone Church family, a special thanks goes out to everyone for our tribute to the 2009 Middletown Middies football team on Jan. 16. ...To the mighty, mighty Middies: You young men made my heart proud. You were so polite and appreciative of everything ...
Stories for Friday, January 22
Trip to the woodshed
I think every American family should have a good old-fashioned woodshed behind their house and use it every day for a good old-fashioned spanking. Sometimes more than once. That’s what is wrong with today’s youth. If we only had enough parents with any backbone at all, maybe they would use ...
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