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Opposition to annexation and urging community action

To the editor: I am writing to voice my strong opposition to the proposed annexation of our neighborhood from Perry Township into the city of Salem. It has come to my attention that the city is claiming the right to annex our properties based on a supposed deed restriction. However, upon reviewing my own deed, I have found no such restriction, nor do I recall being informed about this possibility during the property closing process. I believe it is essential to express my concerns regarding this issue and encourage the community to join me in opposing this annexation. First and ...

‘Winning isn’t everything’

To the editor: I attended the Salem - United Varsity Baseball game Thursday (May 11) at Salem’s impressive facility on F.E. Cope Drive. It was a beautiful night and the game was exciting. Salem won by a run. United, with a district enrollment about half that of Salem’s, put up a valiant effort. High school athletics, properly coached and supervised, teaches participants sportsmanship and character. The other night, Salem displayed little of either. For the first several innings, the Quakers, from their dugout, harassed the United pitcher and his teammates, with chicken-like ...

US House majority threatening standards

To the editor: I worked for 48 years paying into Social Security and Medicare, earning these essential benefits for retirement and aging well in the community I helped build. This is Older Americans month that highlights the programming and systems we as a people created to support aging well. We create great wealth for all to share in and raised the standards of living over the last 70 years. But some in Congress do not want all to share. Does the US House majority really want to throw those standards away with the hack-and-slash proposal and financial collapse in the debt ceiling and ...

Applauds process used by trustees, commissioners

To the editor: I firmly believe in a landowner’s right to make decisions for their own property until those decisions lower their neighbor’s property values, destroy their neighbor’s quality of life and ability to sell their property if desired. The current process that the township trustees and the county commissioners are using to restrict or approve windmills and solar projects in townships protects landowner rights and citizens of our community, and I applaud them for their actions. The previous process to allow windmills was held at the statehouse in Columbus and ...

Not a big fan of the Republican Party

To the editor: Here we go again. Dave Johnson and his minions singing the greatness of a loser like Donald Trump Jr. His daddy was the worst president this country had ever seen and that includes George W. Bush. Yes, this county is red but that will change if the Republican keeps on the same path. The young voters will put you in your place. They want change and you refuse to do so. We need people like Jim Jordon and Bill Johnson to be gone. Neither one has done anything for this country for years but set on their behind doing nothing but complaining how bad things but won’t do ...

Norfolk Southern should be buying residential properties

To the editor: It is a common understanding in the retail industry that “if you break it, you buy it.” That same principle applies to a community destroyed by a reckless corporation as well as a community broken by a careless customer. The overdue bill owed by Norfolk Southern for its wanton destruction of East Palestine is a hefty one that far exceeds the $387 million claimed lost in its 1st Quarter Report on the “Eastern Ohio Incident.” However, not a dollar has been paid so far to directly compensate property owners for their colossal loss of value. Making matters worse is ...