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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,...
20 Questions for the Church
I’m glad God called me to be a pastor. I love the church because it is God’s chosen instrument to advance God’s kingdom...
Breathing With the Trees: Good Health is a Walk in the Woods
by Fred FirstWe hardly need more reasons—as children or adults—to put technology, crowds, and hurry behind us and go more often to the...
What is “Quality Entertainment?”
by Keith McCurdyJust recently on New Year’s Eve, while playing Pictionary and Catch Phrase with family, I remembered a quote that I had...
Why The County Library Stinks
by Lucky Garvin
I don’t have much of a sense of smell, but when someone thought they smelled smoke, I really did try to help...
52 Wishes for the New Year
The beginning of a new year always seems to send me into a reflective and thoughtful state of mind. As part of a...
Spicy Mahi Mahi and Mango Tacos
I have a confession to make. I turn 40 this year. Although I am small and in fairly good shape, I have really let...