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To the editor:

Given recent news about a child with tetanus, I went to my own MD for a booster. But guess what! Medicare doesn’t pay for it in the doctor’s office; instead I have to make a trip to a pharmacy! How short-sighted.

The feud over who will determine the future of Wells Island goes on. City counselors hesitantly passed an ordinance adopting background information and implementing language and map amendments to the city’s comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance conserving Wells Island, but it didn’t go over unanimously. The council voted on the ordinance at Monday’s noon meeting, and passed it 5-2.