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Opinion

Column: Welcome Holy Week into your life this year

Columns

We are about to enter what Christians call Holy Week. Jewish people will be entering their Passover celebration around the same time. Holy week began on March 18 and ends on Easter Sunday, March 31. It is not by accident that Passover and Holy Week coincide. Remember, Jesus was a Jew, and on ...

Faith Perspective: Get close to God with a KISS

Letters to the Editor

Getting close to God is easy with a KISS approach – Keep It Simple Sinner. A personal relationship with the Lord is just that – a one-on-one connection. It does not have to include church or reciting prayers. But it does involve praying. Saying prayers before going to bed is something ...

Column: What does it mean to ‘become one flesh’?

Columns

I have just spent a month with my husband at what we call “the shore.” This is in the Gulf. We go there for one month in the winter. This winter was strange because the Copper Country was almost as warm as the Gulf. But we enjoy it. Usually, he fishes and talks to all the other fishermen, ...

Praise for Hancock School Public Library

Letters to the Editor

Thank you for recent articles highlighting the Hancock School Public Library. It is a true treasure, in no small part thanks for the creativity and dedication of director Boni Ashburn. She goes way above and beyond in writing the grants that have brought so much to the facility. She is ...

Childhood games and lessons learned

Letters to the Editor

Many of us prior to the advent of cellphones had the experience and fun of joining in on neighborhood games as children. Games like hide and seek, tag, kick the can and hop scotch to name but a few. These games were played after school, on weekends, and lasted until the street lights came on or ...

Kudos to our local firefighters

Letters to the Editor

I am writing to express my heartfelt gratitude to the volunteer fire departments in our community for their heroic efforts in saving my home from a devastating fire. Their selfless dedication and swift action undoubtedly prevented what could have been a catastrophic loss. On Friday, March 1, ...