Tag: Columnist
Funny Papers Again Column | Notes From the 365 Little Squares...
An end of the year, month-by-month chronicling of stand-out events of the past year is an age-old newspaper tradition, and as I have never...
Worthy to Print Column | Keep Our Troops in Your Thoughts
I suppose there is a time in everyone’s lives that stand out as a particularly emotional passing. Perhaps you can remember this time with...
Window on the World Column | The Shopping Cart
It was very late by the time we headed south for our annual shopping weekend in Paso Robles. There is something about traveling south...
Funny Papers Again Column | 14 Days of the Sights and...
As Planet Earth nears the end of another orbit around the sun, many in the United States observe Christmas Day. It’s celebrated as a...
Window on the World Column | The Christmas Cracker
In England, the shops are now full of Christmas crackers — every shape and size and decoration of cracker can be found, lining the...
Funny Papers Again Column | Puzzles, Parades and Pepper’s Salty Words
I am not sure what mental quirk, not a medical term, takes place in brain wave synapses, a medical term, triggers a memory which...
Worthy to Print Column | To Those Who Inspire
One of the best things about writing for this periodical is the trip I often take as I try to find a subject that...
Funny Papers Again Column | Dreams Only Exist When Asleep; When...
A couple of weeks ago I said I was going to steer clear of any political stuff; but a writer writes what is in...
Worthy to Print Column | 3 Days to Remember
I woke up this morning wondering who was going to get up and turn on the furnace. I had a secret card with me...
Window on the World Column | The Divided States of America
Deep in numb confusion that dulls the senses and creates quivers of fear for the sanity of the world and the civilized folk out...
Local News
Greenfield Police add high-tech drones to boost emergency response
GREENFIELD — Greenfield Police Department has announced the addition of two advanced drones to its public safety arsenal, a move officials say will dramatically...
