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Local Columns

‘Who’ll stop the rain’

Columnists rummage around in the closets of our lives looking for things we share. Those become leaping off points to write about. I didn’t have to look hard this time: water. If you’re reading this, you’ve had too much rain. For a few weeks, friends from further away asked if we had ...

Preliminary budget challenges

I wanted to take a moment to share some important information regarding our district’s preliminary budget for the 2024-25 academic year. As many of you are aware, we have been anticipating a tighter budget due to the full expenditure of our COVID funds and the rising cost of education. It ...

COVID: it remains an important global health issue

It’s been four years since the height of the pandemic, but COVID is a sickness that still affects many lives. My own life has been impacted in the past week. That’s because of the COVID cases at a Marshall assisted living, facility, the home of my 86-year-old mother. I’ve been ...

Household Hazardous Waste Facilities

As spring turns into summer, some residents are working on moving, downsizing or are continuing to reduce the items in their homes. The Environmental office receives many phone calls about what to do with items that are no longer wanted or needed. For those who have paint, stains, automotive ...

The Vietnam War – Dave Harris – Downtime, end of tour, and beyond

We have been learning about Cottonwood’s Dave Harris, who was raised by his grandma in southern California, and with grandma’s permission, enlisted in the Army at 17 in May 1968. The Army deployed him to Vietnam and assigned him to the 71st Aviation Company in Chu Lai where he served as a ...

On the Porch

For this column, I often share social news or the gossip columns from the old newspapers. The social news is always fascinating to read and a lot can be learned of local people and events from the communities in Lyon County. For this article, I’m going to share the classifieds from one of the ...