Delayed and still not the same...

The Olympics are underway after a one-year delay. So many things were canceled, postponed, or delayed in the last year for the health and safety of people around the globe. The Olympics is no different. The 2020 Olympics started over the weekend in Tokyo.

Life in the Slow Lane?

If you are not a member of my family on the maternal side no one would understand the sentence, “What did you have to eat Agnes?” Agnes Dorsey was my great grandmother. She had been a farm wife and a home economics teacher.

Looking Down Main

I have always believed the axiom that admitting you have a problem means you are already half-way to the cure. Thursday morning as my bride and I were preparing to leave town for a long weekend with family we stopped at the post office to mail a few things.

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Guest Columnist

Biden Near Nepotism Though President wasn’t Though President wasn’t involved in the nepotism of his leading administrators, newspaper headlines looked very incriminating.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, “Where seldom is heard a discouraging word…: Actually you can hear (or read) plenty of discoursing words, but let’s hear it for the ENCOURAGING ones! “You could do that”. Those were the words said by my niece as we watched the parasailers floating above Lade Chelan in Washington.

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KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1786 Voice: “Stand by to raise ship. Blast off minus five… four…three…two…one… zero.” (sounds of a rocket blasting off) Announcer: “Kellogg’s Pep, the build-up wheat cereal, invites you to rocket into the future with Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.

Along the Way

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

Ask Rusty

Dear Rusty: I turn 62 next year, and I am getting different answers to my questions so I hope you can help me. The amount I would collect is different at 67 and 72. If I start to collect Social Security at 62, when I turn 67 will it go up to that amount? And go up again when I turn 72?