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Opinion

It takes a village

Letters to the Editor

The motto, "It takes a village to raise a child" holds true in all cases. The Marshall Tiger girls (basketball team) took the third place state title on Saturday, March 14. When those girls made their way onto the court, you could see it in their eyes; they were going to take this win. I knew ...

Have patience

Local Columns

As I write this column, I'm reminded to have patience. Why? Well... Looking out the window, I can see about a block — maybe. Why? Because Old Man Winter sneezed and sent a blizzard to us. The snow is piling up. Visibility is minimal. The temperature is falling. Yes, it's still winter, but ...

Direct connection

Local Columns

I’ve never been much for travel. Be it for fishing, hunting or family trips, I’m often content being within an hour’s drive of where I live. Sure, there’s new places to visit and new things to see in far flung regions of this country and the world, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve ...

Forged in frustration

Community Voices

None of this would have happened were it not for cable TV. Like many guys, I’m a skilled — one might even say professional — channel surfer. I’m not interested in what’s on so much as what else is on. Some years ago, during one of my surfing sessions, I stumbled across a show ...

Personal bucket list changes with the passage of time

Community Voices

It’s rare when a movie sums up a concept so well that it becomes applied to the lives of almost everyone. One example from almost 20 years ago was The Bucket List, a good story about two old men who want to live out a set of dreams before they kick the bucket. I’d never thought in terms ...

Evidence for a young earth

Letters to the Editor

The 3-6-2026 ‘Triceratops skeleton…’ stated the price of a set of dinosaur bones can now bring up to $44 million, mainly due to a new shift toward objects that have “cultural resonance.” Also states the bones are 66 million years old; but are they? Recent discoveries of soft ...