Letter to the Editor: Energy - now what?

VINTON TODAY
August 19, 2022 6:58 pm

Der Editor: Here I go again: We are in a crossroads as to what we will use for our energy.  Energy utilized by all brought people from poverty to the middle class.

The eyes have it

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 19, 2022 11:52 am

I don't know why, but it seems like I put off going to those annual checkups. Well, I guess I know why for some of them, but for others like the eye doctor, what's the big deal? I mean really.

Letter to the Editor: How many sexes are there?

VINTON TODAY
August 17, 2022 1:21 pm

Dear Editor: I grew up on a farm and from my earliest years, I witnessed the mating rituals of cattle and hogs and other animal species.  I never saw a transgender bull, boar, ram, cow, sow, ewe, or any other species.

Reading my mind: Time

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 16, 2022 11:50 am

I suppose it's an age thing. But I lately I've been pondering the number of days a person has on this earth and how best to spend them. Working full time, being a mom and grandma and wishing for more hours in a day, days in a week and more years is hard.

Letter to the Editor: Watch what folks do, not what they say

VINTON TODAY
August 11, 2022 11:46 am

Dear Editor, Darrin Lindsey . . . . I get it . . . you’re a follower . . . a believer . . . you trust in those you choose to follow. I get it. You question nothing they say.

Letter to the Editor: Iran and assassination

VINTON TODAY
August 10, 2022 9:23 pm

Dear Editor:Just in:   Iran and its militant governance placed a $300,000 bounty on John Bolton's (former Nat. Security Advisor) head and a $1,000,000 bounty on  Mike Pompeo  (former SEC State).

Disinformation and where it comes from

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 9, 2022 12:45 pm

"Just FYI there were only 5 pit bulls in Keystone, I repeat 5, not sure where all the dis information is coming from. At least fact check a topic so sensitive as this, thank you.

Letter to the Editor: E-I-E-I-O

VINTON TODAY
August 8, 2022 10:41 am

Dear Editor, Those that control our food supply wield an immense amount of power. Small family farms like the one I proudly grew up on, have been integral to the success of the United States all throughout our history, but now such farms are being gobbled up at a staggering pace.

Letter to the Editor: The silliness of "Climate Change," of course it's changing

VINTON TODAY
August 6, 2022 10:30 pm

Dear Editor,A recent opinion letter had one paragraph dedicated to CLIMATE CHANGE with the requisite warning of imminent death due to crop failures, relief that fossil fuels are being drastically reduced and the increased government spending on alternatives to the “deadly consumption of unsafe fuels”.

Letter to the Editor: What we leave behind

VINTON TODAY
July 28, 2022 12:28 pm

Dear Editor As someone who has retired within the last year, I find myself looking back on my life and comparing my childhood to the childhood we experience today.