Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Berryville Public Library gets by with a little help from our Friends … actually, we get by with a lot of help from our Friends! Re-established three years ago, our Friends of the Library group has raised nearly $30,000 to fund children’s programming, provide new furniture, purchase new and emerging technology and help support the building of a new library...

I enjoy and often agree with editorials by Scott Loftis, but I must offer an alternative view to his “Fall Fantasies,” (Carroll County News, 9-17-2019).  I believe the condition of “sweating … through spring and summer …waiting for the respite of fall” is a condition perpetuated by the relatively recent proliferation of air conditioning. ...

Will you vote in the 2020 election? Our democracy is struggling right now. We are a divided country. Many people don’t care about their voice in our democracy — they don’t vote. Our freedoms come with a price — it is a duty to vote! A democracy works only if its people participate...

At the end of the school year, Karen Johnson resigned as librarian at Eureka Springs Elementary. She’ll leave some very big shoes to fill. When I worked for Carroll County Newspapers in the late 1990s, we had the luxury of spending more time covering school news. That gave me a chance to see teachers in action, especially in the elementary school. My kids went to Berryville schools, so I also knew something about teachers from my kids and their friends...

Kudos to Superintendent Matt Summers and the Green Forest Public School System for fully honoring the “free” in Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). While Public Law 94-142, passed in 1975, established FAPE to ensure that children with disabilities would have the same access to a free education as their non-disabled peers, the implication is that a public education for any child is, in fact, free. ...