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Local Commentaries

Leaving the ego-drama behind

Editor’s note: This is the final article of a two-part series that explores Christian themes seen through Fantasy Football. According to ESPN, roughly 40 million Americans play fantasy football which is approximately 8% of the United States population. Here is the premise behind fantasy ...

Dress ‘enforcement’ is often discriminatory

I am writing in response to the article on the “enforcement” of the dress code in Warren County schools. Upon reading this article, I was transported back to high school as if no time had passed. And it forced me to be more honest with myself than ever about the fear, anger, and confusion I ...

Don’t miss out on downtown delights

Warren’s central downtown is glorious. It emits beauty and restfulness. It is welcoming. Who wouldn’t want to stop and linger? It has a “come join me” appeal. It is a far cry from our 1960 introduction to Warren when we had to drive through a winding ...

View from Hickory Heights: Finding joy in autumn

Now that I am alone, I do not can any more. I used to do a lot of canning. Canning was not something that I was accustomed to doing. I do remember helping a friend’s mother who canned tomatoes. She was an Italian lady who canned a lot of tomatoes for sauce and other tomato dishes. I ...

Even stalwart Americans admired Queen Elizabeth

She is gone. It is as though the last thread holding the world together, dating back to my childhood, has disappeared. Queen Elizabeth was mourned, celebrated, and lovingly buried as I wrote this – glued all morning to PBS’ full coverage. I stumbled into the den at 5:20 a.m. and turned ...

When the ‘cure’ starts to becomes torture

The men and women who put their lives on the line shouldn’t have them placed on hold by a Veterans Administration that kept hundreds in isolation long after the rest of our state emerged from COVID lockdown. Yet that’s exactly what happened at the Veterans Administration Medical Center ...