Letter to the Editor: What is protocol?

VINTON TODAY
February 21, 2022 10:54 am

Dear Editor,Preamble:  Tuesday afternoon on KXEL radio, Sean Hannity’s program featured a husband who called in that had lost his wife, Tammy, to the Covid virus.

Reading my mind: Cashless

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
February 18, 2022 3:16 pm

Have you ever spent time to figure out how you'll get your debit card replaced without it affecting you? Believe it or not, it can be an ordeal, and I hate ordeals.

Reading my mind: Convoy

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
February 10, 2022 10:09 pm

The truckers, those mad, terrorists, the racist, thugs, had to go and start a convoy. The silly truckers think that it's time to lift mandates. Oh yes, they did.

Letter to the Editor: I'm not what I used to be

VINTON TODAY
February 9, 2022 9:12 pm

To our many readers:  Greetings and Salutations. I wish to announce openly and without reservation – I am not a strict Republican – I was once a voter for Democrats as well as Republicans, but in the ’80s or thereabouts I realized the Democrat Platform was way out there from my political thought.

Letter to the Editor: Supreme Court Nomination

VINTON TODAY
February 9, 2022 9:56 am

Editor:Hmmm!  I have to bring this up.  History is important to our present - most would agree with that right?  We have been told repeatedly that - we can't change history, but we can learn from it.

Letter to the Editor: Grading the Governments performance on Covid

VINTON TODAY
February 7, 2022 11:29 am

Editor:According to Stephen Moore the tally for how much the federal government spent to combat Covid-19 is $5 trillion more or less; more than the cost of WW1 plus WWII.

Letter to the Editor: Russia - who else would they invade?

VINTON TODAY
February 5, 2022 2:43 am

Editor:Russia 100,000 + soldiers and heavy equipment on the border of Ukraine.Hmmm!  One wonders is an insertion into Turkey next and would Greece make it easier?  Good Grief!  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

Reading my mind: Goodbyes

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
February 4, 2022 10:47 am

The upside to getting older is getting older. The downside is the many, many goodbyes that you say. Part of my job is reporting the obituaries that come in.

Hey! Where'd you go???

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 31, 2022 5:45 pm

Did you miss me?? Apparently, when I need to get a new debit card ordered because the last one had been through the mill, I forgot that it would stop

Letter to the Editor: Communication

VINTON TODAY
January 31, 2022 5:36 pm

Editor: Communication. There were two things at a Trans World Airline Cockpit we did not discuss religion and politics, but we could tell jokes.  This brings me to one I remember.