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Opinion

Crazy Days: Annual tradition for Marshall area residents

Community Voices

Every year in late July on a Thursday Marshall gets a little crazy. The city hosts an annual Crazy Days celebration, a day filled with bargains at local businesses. It begins bright and early at 7 a.m. and continues until late afternoon. We had a good Crazy Days this year. The weather was ...

July is National Mental Health Awareness month

Community Voices

July 2025 marks the 16th annual National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, also known as BIPOC Mental Health Month. This observance was established in 2008 when congress officially recognized July in honor of author and health advocate Bebe Moore Cambell. Cambell (1950-2006) co-founded a ...

Answering patient questions about measles

Community Voices

As multiple outbreaks of the measles have popped up across the United States, so too have the number of internet searches about the measles virus. When it comes to your health and the health of your loved ones, it’s important to separate fact from fiction. Here are a few frequently asked ...

Ask a Trooper

Local Columns

Question: Somebody was trying to tell me the other day that it’s OK to throw out their fruit peels along the highway as they break down fairly quick and it shouldn’t be an issue. I disagreed and told them garbage is garbage. I asked if they would want someone to throw that stuff in their ...

How to make sense

Local Columns

How in the world do we make sense of what’s happening? I expect all of us have encountered a number of things in our lives when that question was relevant. There are times when something makes no sense what so ever. From my experience, when these no sense moments occur, it is how we react ...