Fixing downtown Bluffton
Since the new thing for downtown is a park around the courthouse plaza and the dream is it will draw more businesses to the...
Feeling disenfranchised
Why do we have elections for when the news media has it already decided?
We have Donald Trump trying to be president, then we have...
A resigning Republican
An open letter to Wells County Republicans:
With my election as a Precinct Committeeman to Nottingham Township, it was my sincere hope to help influence...
It takes more than a park
After seeing in the paper what NOW is planning to do for the uptown area, I got to thinking about the past and what...
Let’s not lose another one
Let me get this straight. In order to “revitalize and economically develop” Bluffton, we need to demolish current infrastructure (the old JC Penney building)...
Lions and tigers! Oh, my!
We, who live in Bluffton, know that the Bluffton schools’ mascot is the tiger. How many of you know that we also have lions...
Letters to the Editor: 01-09-2017
Remembering Ed Davis: Details and values
News of Ed Davis’s passing reached me the day after Ed’s funeral. The news arrived in a text message...
Preserving downtown
I find it very disconcerting to see what’s happening in Bluffton downtown! In the 50s and 60s the downtown was booming with businesses and...
Bye says ‘bye’ to bingo
The Montpelier Lions Club would like to thank everyone who came to our Basket Bingo for Scholarships on Saturday, March 18. It was a...
A good plan for better roads
This is in response to the front page story in The News-Banner Monday, Feb. 13:
We the people of Wells County need to get on...