Editorial · Our View
Our View: Leave the Post Be
The corner of Birch and Second has done its job for sixty-nine years. A fourth sign would only give it ideas.
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Our View
Our View: Leave the Post Be
The current issue carries our full editorial on the Birch and Second question, and we stand by it: not every bare post is a failure of government.
We have also printed Mr. Bunde’s opposing view in summary because a newspaper should let a town hear itself, even when the town is speaking through a man who brought his own diagram.
Letters on the matter remain welcome. Diagrams must be no larger than a placemat.
Letters to the Editor
From the Mail Slot
- To the Editor: The fourth sign would look tidy. Tidy matters. — Mrs. Ellingson
- To the Editor: The corner works because we know the corner. Please do not improve it into confusion. — Lyle P.
Letters may be edited for length, clarity, and whether Earl can read the handwriting.