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Making America backwards again

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: In the last 85 years the United States has encouraged science education and has attracted the best minds in the world, allowing Americans to harness nuclear energy, go to the moon, invent the internet, develop the polio and other vaccines, and produce many more breakthroughs. Americans have received about 40% of the Nobel prizes. Immigrants to America have played a large part in our success. We have benefited from a brain gain by attracting the best and brightest from around the world who came to America for a better life. Nuclear energy would not have been developed ...

Trump stirring the pot

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: (President Trump) is again stirring the proverbial pot to deflect from his lack of transparency about anything he’s done for the past thirty years. This time, he has apparently given the OK to an inept Robert Kennedy to pull back the funding for vaccine research. All while there comes an unending stream of television commercials apparently nationwide, to encourage parents to get their children vaccinated before beginning any sort of pre-school or kindergarten in order to avoid ever spreading cases of measles and other diseases which were thought to be eradicated. ...

A major mower malfunction

Community Voices

It was sad to see her go. We’d been together for so long — nearly twenty years — that she had come to seem like a member of the family. Time had clearly taken its toll; she didn’t have nearly the same levels of vim and vigor as in her younger days. But I still very much enjoyed her company, especially when I rode her on balmy summer afternoons. I was with her the other day when she began to hiccup uncontrollably. This was deeply concerning. But then, a few seconds later, she stopped and would move no more. Something deep inside me told me that something was deeply wrong with ...

Where is it?

Community Voices

It was so comforting to feel the feeling. In all honesty, I do like my alone moments. Perhaps it’s my introspective leaning personality, but those times to collect, sort and arrange thoughts are very important to me. It’s my hope you have periods of peace, too. However and obviously, there is another element of life all of us need and that is the presence of other people. Presence is a powerful time for us to build relationships, to discover and to hang onto the past. In a bit of time, our family will be coming together to celebrate the presence of each other. ...

Dogging it

Community Voices

With the turn of the calendar page into September, the dog days of summer will soon be behind us, and the real dog days of fall can begin. With grouse openers in mid-September, primary waterfowl seasons starting later in the month, and pheasant season kicking off in October, those hunting seasons where our canine friends shine are just around the corner. Being prepared for those outings and expecting the unexpected is key in keeping hunting dogs at their peak for the entire fall. Move it Just like people need a little pre-season training to get into shape for fall hunting, ...

On the Porch

Local Columns

The passage below about 100 years of business in Lyon County was written by Bob McVenes for the Lyon County Centennial book published in 1970. It gives a great account of the changes in business in Lyon County in its first 100 years. “The past 100 years in business in Lyon County has seen many changes. The early trader established a business of trading such commodities as sugar, calico, tobacco, and ammunition for pelts from the abundance of fur bearing animals which in habited our country. From the trading post concept of merchandising Lyon County saw the establishment of General ...