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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,...

In Animal Kingdom Bigger is Better and Artificial Augmentation is a Key to Success

by Mike KeelerBut in this case we're talking about birds, not humans.  In a recent study, Spanish biologists were investigating the nesting habits...

Recipe of the Week: Noah’s Winning Muffins

by Leigh SackettWell Sunday was one of those perfect days. It was fairly warm and my son responds like a butterfly -  the...

A Character With Great Character

by Jon KaufmanAs a child, while sweating it out in my dentist's waiting room, I would often read back issues of Reader's Digest...

Putting History in Perspective

by Hayden HollingsworthIt’s not every week that something as monumental as the changes in Egypt occur. It is too early to tell what...

Called to More by Pastor Joe Lehman

“Trample my courts no more!  Bring me no more worthless offerings!   Make justice your aim; redress the wronged, hear the orphan’s plea,...

The Very Miraculous Septic Tank Excavation

by John RobinsonThe old septic tank needed attention. The tank cleaner folks said that if we uncovered the access hole it would save...