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The Editor:
Primary care providers, listen up! This is something you must hear.
Results from a large retrospective analysis found that over 80 percent of patients nationwide had not had …
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The Editor:
We have an issue with residents and visitors dumping garbage and trash onto our county-owned beaches and parks. We have seen several instances of people dumping onto their own …
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The Editor:
We are not a ghost town.
What happens in Point Roberts, stays in Point Roberts ... and that’s sometimes a problem.
We are not a ghost town, as some have suggested, but we …
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The Editor:
It saddens me to see and hear people cutting down mature trees here. This is especially the case because our community values our natural setting so much.
There are many good …
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The Editor:
My name is Sheena Durflinger, I have been a resident of Point Roberts for six years and I love planning events. I moved here from Chilliwack, B.C. where I was the event planner for the …
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The Editor:
I grew up playing in the woods by Baker Field and I was saddened to see bright orange paint on the trees and cheap tchotchkes nailed to the trunks. I know that many children might …
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The Editor:
Personally, I don’t like seeing people promote Point Roberts on social media like Facebook where mega amounts of people get an insider view of our precious community. Why do you …
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The Editor:
In America, elections aren’t decided by the media, they’re decided by the Constitution. The election of 2020 is far from over! America is not, and never will be a …
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The Editor:
An abundance of thanks to Sheena Durflinger, Tracey Aiken, Linda Hughes, Dina Lynka and many, many more volunteers who made the Point Roberts community a Halloween event not to be …
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The Editor:
Your article on Race Week is surprisingly flawed and one-sided. Shame on your reporting.
You made it sound like Race Week was a large company that was trying to bilk the marina out …
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The Editor:
Thanks for the great article and photo that you published on July 31, 2020.
My wife and I have received so much positive feedback from friends with whom we have shared the article. …
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The Editor:
The Point Roberts love boat? We have a new Circle of Care bus sitting here doing nothing which seats 20 plus handicap access. Make arrangements with the border bosses to allow for its …
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The Editor:
The debate over wearing masks must end. It is a matter of life and death. If you don’t like wearing a mask, you’re going to hate wearing a ventilator.
Governor Inslee …
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The Editor:
We, the people of Point Roberts, Democrats, Republicans, independents and those of other political or national identity who have held space in this place called Point Roberts during …
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The Editor:
A tribute to David Gellatly by Theodore Roosevelt – Man in the Arena
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where …
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The Editor:
As I look back on 2019 from the perspective of March, 2020, I can only marvel at how quickly our worlds can be upended! While I know that COVID-19 and its attendant issues shall pass, …
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The Editor:
This new draconian travel restriction and quarantine over entire Italy reveals the limitations of the effectiveness of methods used to screen travelers. Which country will be next? …
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The Editor: I have an image of firefighters in my head from the 1987 film Roxanne, a shift on the Cyrano de Bergerac story starring Steve Martin and Darryl Hannah and filmed in Nelson, B.C. …
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The Editor: My Christmas reading this year has been Mark Swenson’s Point Roberts Backstory: Tails, Trails and Trivia from an American Exclave. I delighted in the many tidbits of local and …
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The Editor: I stood on the stage at our Winter Holiday Program and as I got ready to speak, I had an emotional wave come over me. Looking out at the sea of faces who were in attendance to see …
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