News Stories for May 2011
Stories for Tuesday, May 31
Let's hear the other side
Regarding a small article in the Middletown Journal about the state promoting and enforcing seat belt use: I understand that it is a law and you have to wear your seat belt. Many times, people don’t. I don’t see a big deal about that. I mean, motorcyclists don’t wear helmets ...
Stories for Friday, May 27
No gun, no service
I have a great idea for (May 26 letter writer) Tom Choate from Franklin. How about if he starts a restaurant where everyone who comes in is required to carry a gun? That way everyone there can feel really safe, unless perhaps a car backfires outside the restaurant and everyone ...
The old library
I want to give a huge shout-out to Frank Frisch’s commentary in the May 19 Journal about the Middletown library. I actually worked in that building, starting at about 1969, and every time I go by it, I want to just sit on the steps and cry — the way ...
Quit trying to be a country club
If John Stugmyer is suffering from burnout, he should get completely out of the senior center and make room for a younger person with new ideas who needs a job. The reason the place is in such dire financial straits is because they overextended themselves when they chose to build ...
<b>‘Research this matter yourself’</b>
In response to T. Duane Gordon’s piece on the opinion page in the May 8 Journal (“July event bringing vitriol, hatred to our town”), here are several things that concern me:• I did not see within Mr. Gordon’s article where he contacted, or even attempted to contact, the pastor of ...
Too many trucks
I would like to know why, this year and last year, semi trucks and flammable-fluid trucks are turning onto Franklin-Trenton Road. We are right off Ohio 122. They turn off Ohio 122 onto our road. This is a residential road. This is not a business road. This started last year ...
Stories for Thursday, May 26
Man struck by semi, killed at truck stop
A 59-year-old truck driver from Michigan was killed at the Travel Center's of America truck stop on Ohio 127 just north of I-70 on Thursday night. Preble County Sheriff Mike Simpson said that dispatchers recieved a call about 9 p.m. of a pedestrian struck by a semi tractor-trailer in the ...
In defense of The Oasis
I am upset about the way The Oasis Church was spoken about (in a recent guest column). I am very thankful for them. I am very thankful for the other food pantries because I am a senior citizen who lives on a very low fixed income. I have to go ...
<b>‘One man’s opinion ...’</b>
This is a reply to the May 8 article “July event bringing vitriol, hatred to our town” by T. Duane Gordon. His slightly rigid article targeted The Oasis Church of Middletown regarding a speaker at the Ephesians4 Network conference. ...As a previous member of the church, there are only excellent ...
In defense of the ER
To people who bash Atrium because they have to wait in the emergency room: ERs are for life-threatening emergencies. If your emergency is life-threatening, you will be seen immediately. I know. I have congestive heart failure. Every time I go out there, they take me right back. If you are ...
<b>A ‘criminal protection zone’</b>
I would like to know those who consider the proposed changes to Ohio’s concealed handgun law “unsafe.”For those business owners that wish to keep law-abiding, qualified and tested citizens — who have had background check completed on them by the sheriff’s office — out of their businesses and have them ...
Stories for Tuesday, May 24
More right turns on red
Regarding the caller making a right turn on red from Central to Breiel and getting a red-light ticket: I, too, got one of those tickets. Somebody else in my family also got a ticket for making a right turn on red. Now I do not shop in Middletown. I take ...
<b>‘A great place to live, work and play’</b>
I would like to extend a sincere “thank you” to the residents of Madison Twp. for the events that have taken place over the last several weekends.On April 30, a small but hard-working group of volunteers, know as the Madison Gardening Group, gathered at the administration building to completely redesign ...
Stories for Friday, May 20
Arnold to spend rest of her life in prison
DAYTON — The jury that convicted China Arnold of killing her baby in a microwave oven recommended life without the possibility of parole Friday, sparing the Dayton mother of a possible death sentence. The 12-member jury made the recommendation to Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman. Wiseman immediately sentenced ...
<b>‘A civility line that was crossed’</b>
I read the opinion column from T. Duane Gordon on May 8 (“July event bringing vitriol, hatred to our town”). It struck a nerve.In response, I sought out the teaching from Damon Thompson mentioned in Gordon’s guest column. I watched it all. Thompson’s style of teaching may not be my ...
High-speed chases
To the caller who said that the high-speed chasers are killing people: If they would just pull over to start with, there would be no high-speed chases.I was driving home May 17 and stopped to make a right-hand turn on red at the Central/Breiel intersection. To my dismay, I saw ...
Answers please
I fail to see how experience in the field of journalism or chamber of commerce management qualifies someone to be an executive director of PAWS. The article in The Journal did not mention any animal shelter experience nor did it mention the salary. As a lifetime member of PAWS, I ...
Stories for Thursday, May 19
Counting calories
I don’t know why we need a regulation on calories in restaurants and stores. You know if you overeat, you’re going to get fat. Why does the government have to tell us this?I would like to compliment three young men who helped me when I fell down May 11. Thank ...
<b>‘One man’s slanted article’</b>
Amazing — those who quote the Bible when it says what they want to say, but turn a deaf ear to Scripture that reveals truth they don’t want to hear. My reference is to Duane Gordon’s guest column May 8 (“July event bringing vitriol, hatred to our town”).Gordon spoke against ...
Stories for Wednesday, May 18
<b>‘Lead the nation’</b>
We all agree that our nation faces a serious problem with our deficit. We hear all kinds of reasons for who or what has caused this problem. But I hear no one saying that, to solve this serious problem, it is going to take some sacrifice for each one of ...
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