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Letters

  • Daughter grateful for her father’s recognition  

    I am writing, first, to thank my Aunt Agnes Crawford Conway for the letter she wrote about my father concerning the history of the Pleasant Valley Fire Department.
    My father was the fire chief from 1956 until he and my mother’s deaths in an auto accident in 1971. This history was documented in a cookbook published in 1988 or 1989.
    I can remember the men who were so committed to the fire department at that time. Most of them are gone now, but some of their wives are still with us today.

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  • Letter writer apologizes for hurting family

    I’m sorry for the things I’ve put my family and their families through, as well as other families I’ve hurt in the process.
    And I want to reassure them that I will return to the person I was before I screwed up the last 15 years of my life.
    I want them to know that nothing was done intentionally to physically hurt anyone. But no excuses. I know, as well as you, that I can do better. And I will.
    God bless you all.

    RaShawn M. Peebles
    Lancaster
     

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  • Businesses should value customer service

    Spring break finally arrived. I decided months ago it would be the perfect time to schedule doctor appointments for my teenage middle school daughter.
    Our dental exams were scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on April 18. Arriving 30 minutes early, I spoke with the lady at the front desk. She couldn’t find our appointment time or date. She repeatedly asked questions, constantly asking our last names. My daughter was a new patient, but I was not. She suggested I may be at the wrong doctor. I didn’t even know the doctor she mentioned.

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  • Letter: Fix, don’t patch all county roads

    It’s a shame what Lancaster County and the  S.C. Department of Transportation are doing to the roads in my area. Flint Ridge, Earl Cauthen and Rob Neal roads are a disaster waiting to happen. The crews that are “fixing” the potholes and craters in these roads are a joke. They are patching the small places, but leaving the most dangerous spots wide open for someone to tear their cars up when they hit them, because you cannot even go off the side of the road to miss them anymore.

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  • Letter: Four percent for all

    I am always amazed at The Lancaster News and how it handles stories in Lancaster County. It all depends on who you are as to how the news is reported about you. I am well known for some of the good things I do in the community, yet most of those things never seem to make it into the paper.

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  • Letter: Desser victim of Democratic propaganda

    I see that Lou Desser is another Democrat who believes the propaganda that is  fed to him.
    Perhaps he can tell us: What is the difference between the  federal medical plan U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney has vs. all the Democrats in the House and  Senate?
    He states that 45,000 people died due to lack of health care. Did he read the recent survey of how many died due to medical errors? Can he explain why they did not go to emergency rooms or receive care from Medicaid? If you went bankrupt, then you probably chose not to buy coverage or seek assistance.  

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  • League of Women Voters congratulates Justice Toal

    The League of Women Voters of South Carolina congratulates Chief Justice Jean H. Toal of the S.C. Supreme Court on her receipt of the inaugural National Center for State Courts “Sandra Day O’Connor Award for the Advancement of Civics Education.”
    The award was established in 2010 to honor an organization, court or person who has promoted, inspired, improved or led an innovation or accomplishment in the field of civics education.

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  • Candidates should live in our area

    Our local elections are over for a while, but we learned something that lingers: a candidate’s residence is not necessarily where he or she lives, but where he or she registers.
    What is bothersome with this is that when we are electing someone to represent the area where we live, we want that someone to be from our area, to actually live there. There must be some way to correct the existing regulations.
     
    L.R.Maguire
    Lancaster
     

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  • Don’t repeal the Affordable Care Act

    U.S. Congressman Mick Mulvaney has given top priority to repealing the Affordable Care Act, which most Republicans refer to as “Obamacare.”
    This is despite his participation in a fine federal plan that contains all the benefits of the act. (We taxpayers pay most of the premiums that are due on his plan.) But he is determined to deny the benefits to his constituents. 

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  • U.S. debt can no longer be sustained

    While Nik Bramblett’s letter to the editor, “Writer fasting to bring attention to budget cuts,” in the April 8 edition of The Lancaster News might be good for his health, it has little pertinence to the needed budget cuts or the Tea Party. 

    It is not about starving people but of a debt so massive that it can no longer be sustained. You can fast all you want, but it will not pay for the social programs that are in place nor a debt that is increasing by more than a trillion dollars per year. The interest is billions per year. 

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