Clarification

Mr. Dean Strickland, author of last week’s “Have a Good Christmas” poem, wrote in taking issue with the fact that we published his poem in our letters to the editor section. In fairness and as promised, we have chronicled his objection in this week’s paper.

The Bulletin would like to take this opportunity to remind readers that the Bulletin is under no obligation to print anything in a specific section of the paper, and it reserves editorial choice for such matters.

Along with other publications, the Bulletin sees its Letters to the Editor section as an interactive space for the community. Letters are very often not literal letters TO the editor. They may be a thank you to the community (12-22-21), a letter for a visitor reflecting on their tour of the Community (12- 15-21), praise of health care (8-25-21), responses to specific columns from the opinion page, responses to other letters or even works of art.

The Bulletin is very grateful for everyone’s readership and for our thriving Letters to the Editor section. We look forward to publishing future things in our letters to the editor section, the rules for which are outlined in our masthead on the left of this page.

Of course, if multiple emails are sent harassing us with profane name-calling and wishes of ill-will for exercising our editorial preference for content placement, it is highly unlikely we will publish from that submitter again. This limiting of appearances from submitters is alluded to in the aforementioned masthead.

Have a wonderful remainder of the 2021. We’ll see you on the other side next year. Same bat time, same bat channel.