Summer is flying by, and our facilities staff is as busy as ever! Some summer activities are starting to wrap up as camps and fall activities are getting ready to take off! While it’s not unusual to find teachers in their rooms working on curriculum or starting to prepare for this fall at ...

We see it on the streets almost every day, even in a small city like Marshall, as drivers get upset with each other over minor traffic snarls. They honk their horns. They gesture toward another driver, sometimes obscenely. They tailgate, as though they don’t know the meaning of a safe ...

There are big anniversaries we all share, like the first man on the moon and 9/11. There are little ones I share with Pam: first kiss, birth of kids. Anniversaries, good and bad, are a chance to put ourselves back in that moment. “Oh, yeah. That’s how that felt.” This month was the ...

It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the “Community News & Small Business Support Act,” that has been introduced in Congress would offer relief to both newspapers and local businesses. For too many ...

It has been said that no military plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. This is also true when a homeowner makes plans for a construction project. For example, one day a pharaoh decided that he would like to build a modest little pyramid. Once construction began he said to himself, ...

“I got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive and a country boy can survive!” Are those the lyrics America is currently obsessing over in a song by Jason Aldean extolling the virtues of small towns? Oops no, that’s Hank Williams Jr.’s hit single from 1982. So what’s the ...