To the Editor

Dear Neighbors

To the Editor:

I humbly ask that you look beyond the two names at the bottom of this letter. See us all as we are: your Neighbors whose children play with yours, who celebrate holidays beside you, and who have built lives here in Petersburg. Tonight, I wonder who’ll be next – taken simply for where we were born, what we believe, how we worship, or whom we love.

Dear Neighbor, will you be there for us?

When you see me at the grocery store, you smile and wave. Your son and mine jumped off the Blind Slough bridge together last summer. We aren’t strangers – we’re part of the same co...