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MELINDA MYERS: Be A Weather Watching Gardener
Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challenges. Our gardens are exposed to more drastic and variable weather with changing weather patterns. Floods, droughts, wind, temperature extremes, and...
BOB BROWN: Suspension of Critical Judgment
The Sheriff of a nearby county, before DNA identification was available, urgently requested the assistance...
SCOTT DREYER: A Trump Supporter Explains Her Reasonings
Below are comments from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, for employment reasons, on...
DAWN CUSTALOW: “It’s Not Complicated – Just Love The One In Front of You . . .”
As a nation, we have been in shock and disbelief as we grieve the recent...
SCOTT DREYER: 2024 In Review, “The Year The Fever Broke” (Part 2)
Part 1, for January-July, is here.AUGUSTDemocrats had their convention in Chicago. They took the grotesque,...
Where We’re From Guides Where We’ll Go
by Fred FirstWe may feel powerless to make a difference in the national issue of homeland security. But on the local level where...
The Care and Tending of Our Hearts by Gary Robbins
I remember watching Oksana Baiul skate one night on TV about fifteen years ago. An incredible figure skater, Oksana had won the World Figure...
Blood in the Valley: Traditional Knowledge and a Compelling Spring Wildflower
by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.One of my favorite early-spring native wildflowers is bloodroot. As the phoebe begins to sing and nest, the soil...
Walking Each Other Home
by Lucky Garvin
I met her late in her life. They had known about the mass in her belly for about a year. `Only a...
Anthony’s Doughnuts
by Leigh SackettMy son has discovered the joy of cooking. He has always (like most children) loved mixing potions, but the wonderful local...
How to Raise Money for Good Causes
by Hayden HollingsworthMoney is on everyone’s mind these days and none more so than charitable organizations. The federal government, every state assembly, and...