Opinion

It seems inevitable. Every time the weather turns and winter begins, car crashes, collisions, rollovers and other incidents become far more commonplace.

It isn't often you see Main Street in Barrhead packed full of adults and children after 7 p.m., but there they were. Laughing, singing, tobogganing, huddling around a fire, and riding horse-drawn sleighs.

I am reading the book Y, by Marjorie Celona. It is about this 18-year-old girl who gives birth to a baby girl. She can’t handle having a baby to look after, so she abandons her in front of glass doors of a building even though the sign says “Closed.

Credit is due to the Village of Boyle for identifying an opportunity and wasting no time in seizing it.

Have you forgotten yet? … For the world’s events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways … Siegfried Sassoon wrote his poem Aftermath in 1919, just one year after the end of the First World War

Who’s to judge by the color of your hair, the kind of clothes you wear? Your body type, your facial features? No one should judge you by the way you look and how you do things.

Dear Editor, Shop Locally?? Prize Caribbean Cruise?? In this economy when families are struggling to make ends meet, I would think that the prize could go towards; gas bill, water bill, power bill, $250 at IGA, meat package, family pass to the swimmi

It’s unfortunate there is a need in this day and age for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of those hurt by domestic violence and bullying.

Snow glorious snow, what winter lovers live for. There hasn’t been much of a shortage of the white stuff, considering the season is still technically autumn.

Dear Editor: It’s October 31st and an armada of volunteers show up to help get the “Co-op Family Pumpkin Walk” underway.