The social news or gossip columns in the old newspapers are always fascinating to read. A special section in the newspaper was devoted to the social media of the day. The whereabouts of local people and events were often featured in these columns. Here are a few from The News Messenger of Lyon ...

We have been learning about Tracy’s Dave Ziemke, who enlisted in the Army in June 1967; trained as a field wireman; and deployed to Vietnam in December 1967. The Army assigned him to the 1st Battalion of the 5th Artillery Regiment, north of Vietnam’s capital of Saigon. About half of ...

Insulin is an essential, life-saving drug that has been around for more than a century. Despite that, leading manufacturers have drastically increased prices by more than 600 percent over the past two decades. I will always remember hearing about a 65-year-old retiree in Minnesota with ...

It’s not often that people of all ages talk about a movie that should lead everyone to make a trip to the theater. It happened this winter with the Tom Hanks movie “A Man Called Otto”. I saw it earlier this month at Marshall 6, and thought it was the best new movie I’ve seen since ...

Delores Richards and I are the two volunteer coordinators for the Salvation Army in Lyon County. To say that 2022 was a crazy and challenging year would be an understatement. First our supervisor for Salvation Army was out for most of the campaign with a serious illness. Thank God she is ...

President Biden delivered the annual State of the Union address with the usual fanfare and heckling. There was the typical standing and sitting, toadying from the President’s party, and jeers from the opposing party. One of the most interesting exchanges for me took place between Senator ...