I was sitting in the waiting room of a doctor's office last week when someone I hadn't seen for many years came in. When he saw me, he said "Bob! How are you? You look great!" I don't look great. Since I last saw him, my hair has turned from gray to white, and there's far less of it. My skin ...
Hats off! Editor: Hats off to the FedEx driver Tony for going above and beyond the call of duty for delivering packages with medical supplies during the recent snow storm. He has enriched our community with his kindness and sense of caring ... Thank You Tony! Paul Ray Jensen Pelkie Power ...
On December 7, 1941, Imperial Japan caused the United States to enter World War II. We must remember that Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor was due to an expansionist Japan, U.S. economic sanctions, and the U.S. disrupting the ability of the Japanese to acquire oil (among other natural ...
Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400- year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece. But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, liberty, ...
Glorifying a divine entity? Editor: Marilyn Sager has written another screed that needs a little comment (MG, 12/19). There’s a lack of dignity with the brutal treatment of people with brown skin by ICE thugs, and the confinement of undocumented immigrants in concentration-like camps. ...
On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Earlier in the year, Longfellow had unsuccessfully pressured his son, Charles, not to join the Union Army. On Christmas Day, Longfellow learned his beloved son had been ...