Category: Times Opinion

A 20 question quiz for you

Letters to the editor A quiz about modern day USA: 1. What is as high as an elephant’s eye? 2. Who sang You Ain’t Nothin’ But A Hound Dog? 3. What two things sadly fell down when hit by two…

Who done it?

To the editor, How are Mr. Biden and Mr. Alec Baldwin alike? They both blame others for what they have done. Not me. Clark Holdaway

Four-day school week is bad idea

To the editor, I think four-day schools are a bad idea. I have a college degree in business. Education lifted me out of poverty. I lived with my grandmother and foster parents until I was nine years old and joined…

Now, what do I do?

To the editor, Because of this Covid thing we have been told to stay home. So, being the obedient follower, I stay home. And now I am told by my auto mechanic that because I am not driving my car…

Food bank thanks donors

To the editor, At Aberdeen Food Bank we were getting very low on canned goods, so we were especially grateful to Spudnik and the Ag Days companies who helped in the food drive which gave us 23 large boxes of…

Athalia Spillman Roberts

Athalia Spillman Roberts, 104, returned home to a loving Heavenly Father on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020 at the Edgewood Care Center in American Falls, ID. She was born March 27, 1916 to William and Carrie Sophia Eggertz Spillman. She lived…

Thanks to everyone involved with DYW

To the editor, What a wonderful community we live in! Thank you so much for supporting our local Distinguished Young Woman program. We were postponed because of the chaos in the world today, and it was inconvenient, but everyone rallied…

Every job matters

by State Senator Jim Gurthrie I was a short scrawny kid in my early teens and it would be a couple more years before I hit 100 pounds. I couldn’t dribble all that well and as for the term jump-shot,…

Press, Times welcome letters to the editor

Candidate endorsements must be paid The Power County Press and The Aberdeen Times welcome original letters and guest opinions with ideas, viewpoints, criticism and news analysis that encourage discussion of issues with an impact on the community, according to Publisher…