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Letters to the editor

Beautiful brevity of the Bible

To the editor: It is a literary curiosity that the Book that has shaped our world so profoundly is, in parts, so sparse. One might expect the biography of God-made-man to be a volume of encyclopedic detail. Instead, what we find in the Gospels is something more like a series of lightning ...

Go the extra mile to support those in need

To the editor: Now more than ever, people experiencing food insecurity need our help. And as communities across the North Country step up to support food banks and pantries, The Heart Network would like to share some tips for ensuring that donations to these amazing organizations can have ...

Appreciating the small things

To the editor: I love driving through town early in the morning, when people are walking their dogs, village workers are plowing and shoveling the sidewalks, and residents are going to work. It’s when the village is waking up. I especially like the traffic lights at the corner of Main and ...

There’s a right way and a wrong way

To the editor: On Election Day, the folks in Onondaga County overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure increasing county legislative terms from two to four years, while their neighbors to the east on I-90 in Herkimer County overwhelmingly defeated a ballot measure calling for a similar ...

The focus should be on what we ingest

To the editor: George Bryjak’s letter of Nov. 22 in the paper got it half right. Yes, prescription drugs are expensive. But why do we need them so much? It’s because we are a nation of fat and sick people. “Health care” is no longer correct. We should call it “sick care” ...

Businesspeople need to transform to save the Earth

To the editor: Those things that are most important to a person are central in determining what that person does with his or her life. If making money and accumulating wealth are very important, the person who has these values will devote much of their life to doing business. If having a ...