Opinion
While discussing the birth weight of babies with a few elderly women, one lady was bragging that her mother had 8 babies and each entered this life at...
Of bears, dippers, hunters and autumn colors
Despite the presence of hunters, we are in the midst of the peak hiking season.Don’t get me wrong. I have no objection to hunters although I wis...
‘Where would any of us be without (veterans)?’
It is time once again to celebrate “OUR” veterans this Sunday, Nov. 11, at 3 p.m., as our community will be hosting the Delaware County Ve...
Delaware Mission Court helping veterans
Okay, so maybe it’s not such a big deal for Uncle Sam. After all, he’s been parading Veterans Days up and down our nation’s Main str...
The war to end all wars
It was the 11th month, 11th day, 11th hour 100 years ago this Veterans Day that the guns went silent. By the hundreds of thousands, they climbed out o...
“Until the pain of remaining the same becomes greater than the pain of change, we tend not to change,” Dr. Richard Dobbins. I was introduc...
Dear Bobbie,I was told 4 years ago that I had diabetes. I am not on any diabetes medicine at the time. I was told that I could control my sugars by di...
Killed in the line of duty
I have a story that I feel needs to be told. A couple of weekends ago, I had the privilege of riding my motorcycle with three very good people.We, as ...
The texture of the universe
Back before I retired from Perkins Observatory, I was talking one fine day about the universe to a group of fourth-graders at one of our daytime progr...
Sheriff: Issue 1 doesn’t provide solution
The police radio broke the silence reporting that two men were observed sleeping in a car in an apartment complex parking lot. It was early in the eve...
