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Local Commentaries

View from Hickory Heights: A special visitor

About a week ago I was sitting on my porch when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. Since I have many chipmunks, I thought it was probably one of those. Then I saw more movement. I got up to have a look. There was a fawn in my flower bed. I went inside to get my phone to take a ...

Rounding Third: Life is great. Cheese makes it better

Truer words were never spoken. That quote by author Avery Aames sums up my lifelong love affair with cheese. After I stopped eating school cafeteria lunches, good old American cheese became a thing of my past. In college, I met a few French students who knew the cheese world. It was all new ...

View from Hickory Heights: Family has farm ties

June is Dairy Month. Our family was in the dairy business for four generations. First, my husband’s grandfather owned the farm. Then it went to my father-in-law. Next his daughter had that farm. My husband moved to the farm that we now call Meldick Farms. It is on Howard Road near ...

Public media attack hurts our community

Imagine turning on your TV or radio and finding silence where “Sesame Street,” local news, and emergency alerts used to be. No more “Our Town” stories celebrating your neighbors in Warren County. No more trusted voices guiding your children through their earliest years. No more ...

Nation needs common sense cannabis reform

My job as the District Attorney of Warren County is to uphold the law and protect public safety. But our laws must make sense — and when it comes to cannabis, the federal government’s policy is increasingly out of step with reality. Cannabis is currently classified under Schedule I of ...

More than a toy

Recently I have seen a lot of posts about paper dolls. I have not seen any that I had as a youngster. My favorite set was a set of twins. They came in a cardboard case so I could carry them around. They were probably about two or three years old as their clothes indicated. More than half the ...