Category Archives: Opinion

With graduation time about over for the season, I have a confession to make. I loved school except for one thing, history. I was good at memorizing, so I usually passed the history tests with flying colors but retained very little. My recent visit to Washington, D.C., made me wish I had liked the subject...

No matter what you plan to do this last Monday in May which is Memorial Day, please remember the holiday didn’t begin as a day of celebration or commerce, but one of solemnity and, indeed, memoriam. The history of this holiday is honoring sacrifice. Many of our veterans have given life, and increasingly, limb for this...

Commencement really is a beginning. And I think it is one of many beginnings we get. By the end of the month, many of our acquaintances will have donned their caps and gowns to graduate from preschool, kindergarten, eighth grade, high school, college, and more. They’ve armed themselves with a big grin as they marched...

It does seem true that the things we worry about the most never happen. I have been worrying about how to keep the rabbits out of my garden. For the last four or five years, they have consumed every bean I have ever planted. I had big plans this year to exterminate those miserable rabbits. I was...

May is National Egg Month, and my email inbox is filled with egg promotions. One promotes easy-peel hard-boiled eggs: May is National Egg Month, and there's no better way to celebrate than going back to cooking and nutrition basics with the Incredible Edible Egg. Eggs are as popular as ever and at 19 cents apiece and...

40 years ago (1976) Cindy Rozendaal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gorman Rozendaal of Sully, received the DAR Good Citizen Award from Lynnville-Sully High School. Ruth Conover, daughter of Bruce and Norma Conover of rural Lynnville, was selected as Lynnville-Sully’s Cardinal Relays queen candidate. At a cost of $172,383, the Jasper County contract for a new bridge over...

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be newspaper reporters. Mamas, do let your babies grow up to be scientists. I’ve been getting a little flack about the worst of the 10 worst jobs of 2016, among 200 considered, according to a recent report from the website CareerCast.com. The annual assessment factors in: Environment...