Bob Morris stated that commenting “does no good.” I disagree. The good is that he exposes himself as incompetent. Morris states that the city is not against the public works employees unionizing but then refuses to negotiate in good faith. This is classic, unnecessary double speak.

The Washingon Community High School Board of Education wishes to extend our thanks to all school staff and residents of the community who gave so generously their time, effort and even monetary contributions toward our recent building referendum.

The employees of the department of public works (streets, water, wastewater and cemetery) are seeking the public’s support in an ongoing labor dispute with the city of Washington

As a member of the WCHS Board of Education, I find your very harsh editorial, “Time wasted as building crumbles,” in the June 17 edition of this paper, to be unjustified and demonstrating an apparent lack of knowledge of the process involved in addressing our life/safety needs.

Take Pride in Washington would like to thank the Washington community for its outstanding effort in cleaning up Washington Saturday.

Recently, a student wrote in to express his disappointment in the community for not passing the recent tax referendum for expansion and repairs to the high school.

On behalf of Washington Community High School and our baseball program, we would like to extend to the Washington community a huge “THANK YOU” for the wonderful turnout and support at our first night baseball game!

I am responding to the letter by Malcom Kinsinger that the Washington Times-Reporter titled “Resident links homosexuality, shorter lifespan”

My name is Joey Taylor and I am a senior at Washington Community High School.

Homosexual behavior shortens life span by 10 to 30 years.

Early Friday morning, April 10, my new Web site, www.JohnCAckerman.com, passed its first milestone when it received its 500th visit. With this milestone accomplished, I wanted to share some information concerning the use of the Web site to this point in time. Here are a few statistics we have.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank several organizations and individuals for their efforts during the past 18 months who helped inform the voters of Washington regarding the current facility needs at WCHS.

The Washington Education Association expresses its full support for the upcoming referendum to refurbish and repair Washington Community High School.

I have always been excessively proud to live in Washington. There are so many good things in this part of the heart of America.

In August 2008, Washington Community High School received a mandated “Life Safety Survey,” which identified $4.4 million in potential building issues.