To the editor, On April 1, we are being asked, by the partisan Wisconsin legislature, to vote to embed our Voter ID law into our constitution. If we do so, only the legislature will be allowed to decide what is a valid ID. This is the sixth attempt in the past year to restrict voting access. Wisconsin already has a successful Voter ID law. Investigations have shown a lack of fraud in our elections.

To the editor: The overwhelming generosity of the people of Shawano​ helped provide joy to children in need through Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts this season. Across the U.S., the Samaritan’s Purse project collected 10.5 million shoebox gifts in 2024.

To the editor: We thought that you could verify facts with two sources of information that said the same thing. Hearing something on the Walter Cronkite CBS Evening News and then reading it in the local newspaper was proof this was the truth. Today, it is far more difficult to distinguish the truth from lies. No matter how savvy we think we are, we can be tricked.

To the editor, I feel that I should respond to Peter Cameron’s article from Nov 22. I feel that the reason that the Democrats did so poorly is because they were on the wrong side of the abortion issue.

To the editor, After two nighttime meetings, the Shawano Area Writers have not seen much interest in these events. But it’s not totally bad news. Only one person has come to the two night meetings, and this person has a lot of potential as a writer. In the Student Writing Contest years of 2022, 2023 and 2024, Francesca Ullmer a homeschooled student, has won nine awards.

To the editor: I am completely unknown to probably about 99.9% of you. I am a 78-year-old white woman (about to be 79) who has written no books. Nor ever been interviewed by anyone. I am ashamed to be an American. I am disgusted and embarrassed. I cannot believe that millions of you voted for a convicted felon, a convicted rapist, a misogynist, a racist, an anti-Semite and, oh, by the way, a liar and cheat.