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IRS intensifies national crackdown on identity theft
WASHINGTON – Continuing a year-long enforcement push against refund fraud and identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service today announced the results of a massive national sweep in recent weeks targeting identity theft suspects in 32 states and Puerto Rico, which involved 215 cities and surrounding areas. The coast-to-coast effort against 389 identity theft suspects led to 734 enforcement actions in January, including indictments, informat...
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Former Mason County resident applauds local response
Dear Editor, I have just finished reading online the story of Pt. Pleasant, WV and Pt. Pleasant, NJ, and the help from WV after Super Storm Sandy. Was I surprised, indeed not!! With my husband having served Bellemead UM Church and myself helping in things like this, and knowing what the area does for others, my heart was warmed tremendously to see members of the church still at it and those around them doing the Lord’s work for somewhere el...
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Reader ponders mistreatment of flags
Dear Editor, As an American, as a veteran, I am appalled at the lack of respect people who are flag fliers have. Now mind you, I am so glad you want to fly them, but you don’t even care when your flag gets tattered or torn. I drive around the country and see so many businesses with these huge flags, or even small ones that are completely ripped to shreds. Wake up, unless that flag was flown in a war, it shouldn’t look like this. There are...
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Community Corner
I read someplace recently that the biggest regret in life most people have when it comes to the end of a year or near the end of life is not the things they did and wished they hadn’t, but the things they didn’t do but wished they had. How many times have you said, “I wish I had but didn’t because …” and then give some silly reason why. Over the short term we tend to regret actions, things we did that we wish we hadn’t, but over the long ...
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It’s time to get behind the Violence Against Women Act
As a husband, father and grandfather, it is incomprehensible to me how anyone can abuse a woman, a child or even a man. Truly, life is tough enough without perpetrating violence. That is why I am a proud cosponsor of the Violence Against Women’s Act — a bipartisan commonsense piece of legislation that will make a real difference for West Virginians. We know that since it first passed in 1994, the Violence Against Women Act has reduced domes...
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Community Corner
How many times do we promise “never to do that again” for some reason or another, and then time goes by and before long we’ve committed to do what we said we would never do again. It happens. And it did to Harry Gorrell. Producing a show is a big job but it seems that Harry got some energy back, and with a little push from friends, has decided to move right along with the eighth annual Boots, Fiddles and Blue Suede Shoes Spring Musical. ...
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BWC representative reaches out to businesses
Dear Editor, Workers’ compensation insurance is an important factor in Ohio’s economy. It not only ensures Ohioans injured on the job get healthy and back to work, but it also protects businesses from costly litigation from workplace incidents. That said, Governor John Kasich has tasked the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation with helping to improve Ohio’s economy with reasonable and stable workers compensation costs to employers being a...
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Community Corner
Many here know George and Kitty (Bachtel) Dallas who left Meigs County about 30 years ago for a new life and a new career in California. George was band director at Middleport High School for several years in his early days of teaching before taking on the superintendent’s job in the western section of the county which included Rutland High School. As I recall when the family went west, George went into the real estate business. Anyways, ...
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Episcopal church officials speak on health care
Dear Editor, Every day more than 1.5 million Ohioans, nearly 14 percent of our population, wake up without health insurance coverage. As a result, many of them go without treatment until their condition becomes more severe and more costly to address. Often when they do seek treatment, it is in the most expensive way possible: through emergency rooms and hospitals. The cost of caring for the uninsured falls to everyone. Those with health cov...
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Media, legislators are ignorant about firearms
Dear Editor, It’s started again. A push to ban so-called assault weapons. Blame the object, not society; however, I am amazed at the absolute stupidity of the mass media, pertaining to firearms. The “assault weapons” misnomer was invented by them and the politicians. Before these ‘highly regarded in their own minds’ purveyors of ‘the facts’, an assault rifle was a military issue weapon capable of selective fire, that is either semiautomatic...
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Family Healthcare supports expanded health care coverage
Dear Editor, As Governor Kasich and the state legislature consider whether to open the door to Medicaid coverage through expansion, I hope they consider analysis recently released by a non-partisan collaboration of researchers from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, The Ohio State University and others. The study confirmed that expansion will mean health care coverage from more than 450,000 currently uninsured Ohioans and will actually sa...
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Community Corner
So you’re a little concerned about your weight, what with all the “good” stuff you ate over the holidays and the fact that there was no time, or so you thought, to exercise. Now you’re looking for a good program which will help you get back in shape. The word from Paulette Harrison and Jeannie Owen who are Zumba teachers is, “Come, join the party!” It starts this week and will be held every Tuesday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. until summer, or ...
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Coach Eddy bids GAHS a warm goodbye
Dear Editor, Writing this letter has proven to be a more difficult task than I had expected. I am hoping to express my gratitude to all of those that have cared so much for us, and to explain the reason behind my recent decision. Doing so in just a few short lines will never do either of those the proper justice, but I feel compelled to try. The most important task at hand is thanking all of the many people who have made these last four yea...
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Lung Association warns of flu
Dear Editor, Flu season is harsher this year than previous years. The American Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic urges everyone to take healthy steps to weather the flu season. Vaccination is safe and effective and the best way to help prevent influenza. Influenza vaccine options are available for children, adults and seniors. Parents of young children should know that children 6 months through 8 years of age receiving a flu shot for t...
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Home intervention with special needs students
Home intervention techniques can vary widely. While most of the research focuses on classroom techniques, I wish to discuss the various actions we have taken at our home. I have one Asperger/ADHD/Bipolar/PANDAS Syndrome son and one Bipolar/OCD/LHON/ADD/Anxiety daughter. We do a lot of modifying our days including intervention, sensory work and integration. Both have extreme sensory issues and attention deficits which require frequent breaks...
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