Pfizer, the company that produces one of the major COVID-19 vaccines, announced this week that its vaccine will work on children aged 5 to 12, and that it will seek approval from the government to begin offering vaccinations to children. The Pfizer vaccine is administered at smaller doses for ...
Rotary Brews and BBQ Fairmont Rotary Club is putting on its Brews and BBQ event today in downtown Fairmont. What a great fundraising idea. The event will help raise money for Rotary to continue with its important projects that help the community. Fairmont Safety Council It’s nice to see ...
Some mighty high-stakes poker is being played in our nation’s capital these days, with the nation’s fiscal future hanging in the balance. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted to approve a federal debt limit and funding continuation plan that would allow the government to remain ...
Over the years we have been critical of the United Nations for a variety of reasons. It has often been hamstrung in times of crisis; it has often catered to dictatorships and tyrants; it has made a mockery of human rights issues by putting some of the worst offending nations on commissions ...
The U.S. is in the process of deporting thousands of Haitian refugees who have gathered at the Texas border, sending them back to a country that has little to offer them. Haiti is the western hemisphere’s poorest nation. It has been ravaged by major earthquakes not once, but twice in the ...
Great weekend To the editor: It was nice to see a photo of the Cedar Creek Open disc golf tournament in the Sentinel in August. Here is just a little information about the CCO tournament. This was Trevor Boehne’s 15th year as the tournament director. Trevor grew up in Fairmont but lives ...