Letter Guidelines

Echo Pilot welcomes letters to the editor. We'd like to hear from our readers on a variety of subjects.

Several guidelines should be followed. Letters must be signed and must carry the writer's full name and address. A daytime telephone number must be included for verification purposes. Only the name and town will be published.

Letters pertaining to candidates will not be printed in issues published in the two weeks prior to an election.

Letters must be no longer than 400 words and thank you letters must be limited to 200 words. Letters longer than our guidelines will be returned to the sender for editing.

We don't publish personal attacks, poetry, open letters, copies of letters sent elsewhere or unattributed information downloaded from the internet.

Echo Pilot will not honor letter writers' requests to bold, capitalize or underline words in their letters.

Writers are permitted to write two letters to the editor on any one subject. Only one letter per month from any one writer will be published.

Letters should be mailed, faxed or e-mailed to: Letters to the Editor.

Letters regarding candidates

Readers are reminded that letters to the editor pertaining to candidates will not be printed in issues published in the two weeks prior to an election.

With election day set April 22, this is the final issue that letters about candidates for that election will be published .