Letters

Many thanks to Coach Mike Marksbury and Jim Beavers for sending us to “Disney World” Friday night at the SCHS Homecoming football game.
Coach Marksbury became our new Walt Disney and made a dream come true at the game Friday night.
Our son, Clint, is a senior on the varsity football team and has played football in this county since A.J. Waldridge founded the Stallions League. His senior year brings to these parents many emotions as our youngest child brings to a close his education in this county, and football has been a huge part of his education.

The issuance of a qualified opinion by State Auditor Crit Luallen regarding apparent inappropriate financial and accounting practices of the Spencer County Clerk’s Office is extremely disconcerting. As both an auditor and a Spencer County resident, I am disappointed that taxes paid to the county may have been misused in such a flagrantly egregious manner.

Although I had hoped the election of 2010 would have greatly diminished the good ole boy network in local government, it has not. Carmin Gaines said it very well, the election simply changed the players.
Judge-Executive Bill Karrer and the magistrates have come against County Clerk Judy Puckett and former EDA director Annette King, citing the rule of law and accountability to the taxpayers. However, the Ethics Commission and Deputy Damon Jewell have gotten a free pass.

In the late afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, the most crowded skies of the world became silent. There were no high streaks of contrails mixing with clouds. The ever present life-saving chatter of air traffic controllers ceased. A kind of strange eerie void had restored the heavens to its pristine past. Nothing man-made moved in the skies above the United States.
Nothing, except a single small airplane lifting in the late afternoon from Bowman Field en route to the New York area with rare and precious medical supplies.