Growing Old Graciously Urges Fair School Funding Reform
A Norwalk reader laments a proposed pay raise for district administrators while predicting school closures and cuts to teachers and programs. The writer questions the size of the administrative staff, calls for pay reductions at the top, and urges directing funds to teachers and classrooms to retain educators and programs.
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Board of Education
Norwalk
Norwalk School Board Under Fire Over Spending
A reader questions district overpaid administration and legal fees, cites busing, building plans, and surplus equipment. He urges belt tightening, layoffs, and a Blue Ribbon probe into overspending while criticizing supervision and parent notification practices. The letter dwells on fiscal policy, staff composition, and accountability.
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Norwalk
Assunine
Pleasant Street
Bronson School
Bronson
Jack Brown
Chessword by THOMAS JOSEPH
A chessword puzzle by Thomas Joseph with clues across and down, naming German composer bids, names, and common crossword answers. The grid includes entries for Quayle, Quinn, Copland, and Williams, among others, with references to rivers, places, and various wordplay solutions.
Dear Abby letters on guests and weddings clash
A collection of Dear Abby excerpts covers family dilemmas about hosting a college son with his girlfriend, wedding gift etiquette, money disputes in a blended marriage, and safety concerns about mothballs for dogs. The letters reveal tensions over sleeping arrangements, inheritance plans, and parental control in a humorous column voice.
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Abby
David
Judy
Dad
Oklahoma
Horned hats go on sale at National Press Club show
Edward P. Grace III unveiled Cuckoo Hats with flexible horns at a Washington fashion show. Prices range from 8.95 for horned caps to 50 for Hamburgs and derbys. Grace argues horns will rejuvenate the hat market despite some critics and a nod to JFK’s bareheaded era.
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Washington
UPI
Edward P. Grace III
Pennsylvania
Tom Landry
Grace
National Press Club
Vermont
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Santa Claus
John F. Kennedy
White House
Letters To Forum The Reflector Sample Code Note
A sample readers letter discusses letter submission rules for The Reflector Readers Forum. It explains requirement of signature with address and phone, word limit of 300, and originality. It uses a coded example showing letter A stands for three Ls and X for two Os with daily letter shifts.
Like a Native Son of Huron County Reed’s Pioneer Life Highlighted
Henry Timman recalls Franklin D. Reed born April 25, 1812 in Greenfield Township. The first county native grew up amid war years and mills along Reed Creek and Norwalk Creek. Reed built the first grist mill on the Huron River, later known as the Old Stone Mill near Greenfield, and died August 14, 1891 at 79 buried Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Henry Timman
Huron County
Franklin D. Reed
Greenfield Township
Egypt Road
Steuben
Frank’’ Reed
Hanson Reed
Elizabeth Powers
Pennsylvania
Frank
Mansfield
Trumbull County
Greenfield
Huron
Abram Powers
Reed
Mill Road
William Darkhuff
Norwalk Township
Norwood
Norwalk Roads
U.S. 20
Timothy Baker
Axe Factory
Norwalk Road
Melvina Fitzgerald
Woodlawn
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Irish River
New Guinea
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Ryoum
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Los Angeles
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Righto
Longfellow
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D.D. Eisenhower