Letters to the Editor

By BRUCE FRASSINELLI

Special to The TIMES NEWS

This year, as I observe my 50th year in the communication business, I recall with a certain embarrassment my incredible boldness that took me in this career direction.

It was May 1966, and after six years of working in radio, I applied for the opening of Monroe County bureau chief of The Express (now The Express-Times), a 50,000-circulation afternoon daily in Easton.

The veteran reporter, who had held that position for more than 10 years, had decided to go back to college to become a teacher.

Dear Editor:

I was sad to learn of the death of a beloved teacher. His name is Robert Kovac Sr. and he taught English at the Jim Thorpe Senior High for many years. He wasn't just a teacher to a lot of us, he excited us to read, urged us to tell him about the books that we read. He introduced me to Beowulf, which is still one of my favorite books. He talked to me when my father passed and showed he was a friend as well as a teacher, he will be missed greatly by many more than myself. Thank you Mr. Kovac....for teaching me to read and write from the heart ...

Dear Editor:

I would like to take the opportunity to interject and respond to the article written in regards to the Coaldale Borough Council meeting held on April 13.

Dear Editor:

I read the article in Saturday's Times News about the fathers court battle with protestors at his son's funeral with great consternation and outrage. At the funeral of a young Marine killed in Iraq, members of the Westboro Baptist Church carried signs that read "Thank God for Dead Soldiers", "Semper Fi Fags" and " You are going to Hell".

As reprehensible as these actions are, the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the protestors broke no laws and the protest was ruled legal and protected by the Free Speech Amendment to the US constitution.