More and more, couples are choosing to live together before getting married, and some are forgoing marriage altogether. According to the Institute for Family Studies, 70% of couples live together prior to marriage. 1 And while no one wants to “jinx” the relationship by planning for a ...
Question: I notice a lot of people walking and running along the highway. The thing that concerns me is that they are moving in the same direction of traffic with their back to the potential hazard. Can you talk about pedestrian safety and what people should do when on the highway? Answer: ...
To the editor: Having read the 4-24-2025 ‘Xcel meeting offers closer looks at planned Garvin power plant’, here are some questions I would have liked to ask Xcel: 1. What is the estimated cost of the 420 megawatt gas turbine fired power plant and its substation? And what percentage of ...
“What are you catching them on,” the mother across the pond hollered to me as my youngest boy Jackson landed a feisty stocked rainbow for my older son AJ. With a wave that I was on my way, and a scamper up the embankment of the small community water with my tacklebox in hand, I told the ...
Let it be known that I’m writing this column to honor my mother. She would like the style that will be used in this rendering, because I’m borrowing the advice from butterflies to honor her. Mom was a rural woman. She grew up on a farm, and lived her whole adult life on a farm with her ...
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since the “c” word came into my life. Sadly, the word in question wasn’t “cashback.” Hearing the phrase “poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma” regarding my tonsil was a bit of a shock. It required some research ...