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Last week, we used this space to alert local business owners about a string of armed robberies in the area. We also emphasized that people needed to let the police do their jobs, and not try to take the law into their own hands.

Well, 2012, let’s take a look at you. I mean, yeah, there are those preconceptions concerning you being pretty much the last year we’ll ever see, thanks to the Mayans, but I have to say you’re looking pretty good to me.

Christmas Seals keep on giving
Editor:

Every year, millions of Americans donate to the Christmas Seals campaign, the largest campaign of the American Lung Association. In each donation, we are able to fund life-saving research, education and advocacy efforts to combat lung cancer, childhood asthma, tobacco use, secondhand smoke, air pollution and influenza.

Hudson thankful for support
Editor:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their generosity. When an illness like Leukemia strikes we don’t know what our future will bring.

When word got out that Fox’s Pizza Den in Millville was robbed at gunpoint on Monday, Dec. 19, much of the community was stunned. That simply isn’t the type of crime we are used to here. Oh, we’re not naive enough to believe that there is no crime in our little slice of Heaven, but it usually involves property crimes, drunk driving offenses or people burglarizing unoccupied homes.

As I started going back through the past year’s editions of the Coastal Point, I was floored by just how eventful a year it was. Now, to be fair, I’ve had a similar reaction nearly every year since we started this publication in February 2004. But this one had some major news happen — both on the positive side and the negative side.

As I started going back through the past year’s editions of the Coastal Point, I was floored by just how eventful a year it was. Now, to be fair, I’ve had a similar reaction nearly every year since we started this publication in February 2004. But this one had some major news happen — both on the positive side and the negative side.

This week, as we huddle around our fireplaces, Christmas trees, menorahs, Yule logs, or just an oven filled with treats cooked on our vacations, it’s also an opportune time to think about those who don’t have family to gather with them around a tree; who don’t have heat, let alone a fireplace; who can’t afford candles or to pay to keep their lights on; or who don’t know where their next

I’m a wrestler, by nature.
Coastal Point

Spirit of Christmas gets ringing endorsement
Editor:

Christmas is upon us once again. We need to take the time to remind ourselves that Christmas is about love. It is a time of charity and giving, not of materialism and receiving. A new iPad or a flatscreen might keep you entertained for a time, but ultimately they are just empty objects.

It’s been said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.Texas Christian University professor Jeff Ferrell embodies that axiom.

The Ocean View Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to lift the five-year censure of former councilman Bill Wichmann, and that sounds about right to us.

Local doctor will be missed
Editor:

After reading the news article recently published regarding Dr. Brent Fox, pain-management physician, of Salisbury, Md., I felt compelled to write this letter.

On Dec. 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. Nine years later on that date, John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States. Lethal injection was used in an execution for the first time on Dec. 7, 1982, and Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president on Dec. 7, 2004.

On Dec. 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. Nine years later on that date, John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States. Lethal injection was used in an execution for the first time on Dec. 7, 1982, and Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president on Dec. 7, 2004.

We all like to feel secure.
Coastal Point

It’s been said that a succesful sports team can galvanize a community. Lines of race, religion, gender and socio-economic status can be erased as people can unite in getting behind the home team and either reveling together over its success, or despairing as one over the team coming up short.

We are seeing that this year with the Indian River High School football team.

Human beings are a fickle breed. We allow things on the outside to consistently interfere and influence the things on the inside. We run hot and cold, and our overall moods and dispositions often vary from moment to moment. Good things cause us to be in good moods. Bad things tend to put us in bad moods.

Sussex County grabbed some limelight on Friday, Nov. 18, during ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

I really wish that ringing in my ear would stop.

Reader offers opinion on canal trail
Editor:

The power-shopping time of the year is now officially upon us. Clear up those charge cards, roll up the coins in the giant jar in the hallway and pull together those coupons and gift cards you have been holding on to throughout the year.

Black Friday is here.

Thanksgiving is largely built on traditions. You know, like white people coming here and running through the native population like they were ...

But I digress.

When I read the other day in The (Baltimore) Sun that a University of Maryland commission recently recommended that the school cut eight sports, I was a little sad.

Well, it will certainly be interesting to watch ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” Friday night.

Reader examines
Reader examines school districts
Editor:

Welcome to the real competition between the school districts of Sussex County. It is the competition for Indian River High School and Sussex Central High School students. It is about the money each school district receives per student and how they differ in their funding packages.

What has been expected for several months took place in Ocean View Town Hall on Tuesday night, as the town council voted 5-0 to terminate the contract of Town Manager Conway Gregory without cause.

I really should be happy.

Editor:

I enjoyed reading a letter from Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf regarding the Oct. 26 incident involving Sheriff Jeff Christopher and Councilman Vance Philips. Certainly, my tongue-in-cheek idea to settle the incident by giving the sheriff what he needs was not a feasible solution and should never have been taken seriously.

It was a turbulent few days for Sussex County Councilman Vance Phillips last week.