Roosevelt County is currently experiencing an outbreak of syphilis. This is a very dangerous disease for every person that is not properly treated, but is especially heinous for women of child bearing age due to the fact that it can be passed from the mother to the fetus. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease for which there is no vaccine, but the good news is that there is treatment especially

Dear Editor: At the county commissioners’ meeting on June 3, I was told that the county commissioners and I have an ideological difference. WOW! They don’t see a problem with giving themselves and the rest of the county employees $1,000 each of CARES money while the rest of the county taxpayers dealing with the exact same condition don’t get a thing. The county road department commented