Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Keeping with the theme for this year’s National Friends of the Library Week, I would like to extend a heartfelt greeting to the entire Berryville community by saying, “Welcome To Your Library.” This greeting carries even more weight given the recent issues we have all faced on a national scale. In a time when one could inadvertently get lost in the noise, it’s good to have a semblance of home. That is what the Berryville Public Library is to our community, past, present and future...

Nearly 20 years ago while on a plane from Paris to Detroit I started writing the commentary “Two Americans in Paris on 9/11.” It was published in the Carroll County News on the 10th anniversary of the attack. Today seems an appropriate time to reflect back and consider what has changed since that awful day — both for better and worse...

Editor’s Note: This letter is a response to a Letter to the Editor written by Andrew Dziedzic  of Berryville and published in the Aug. 24 issue. Dear Andrew, I read your article in the paper entitled “Do better Carrol County.” In that article it was explained that a friend reached out to a church to ask for transportation help. They were not asking for a free handout and the results were that they were declined due to they were not members...

Recently, a friend reached out to several churches in the community to try to get a ride to Walmart. He lives down a farm road in Berryville and has no transportation. He had gas money and money for groceries and was not looking for a handout. Several churches would not help him because he was “not a member.” Did Jesus refuse to help those who were not members of his congregation? I am tired of churches that preach God’s mercy and grace only to thrust membership applications in the faces of any who dare to ask for the slightest bit of assistance. ...

Open letter to the NFL and Commissioner Roger S. Goodell: First you allow players to kneel when the National Anthem is played, which was a hard thing for many to watch. Now, I have just read the NFL will be playing the Black anthem at the start of football games tears it for me...

I’m writing this note as a concerned father and citizen to correct the message that was sent by the vandals at the Christ of the Ozarks statue last week.  We all know that the message should have been “God Bless Life” or “Thank You God For Our Lives!” ...