This is not the column I originally started this week. That one was about learning to crochet as a young child, and the piece I am now completing, tearing out the work I...

Friday night the house was so quiet and lonely. Saturday ballgames at Sarcoxie were very rough and we lost by I think a point. And kept Krelee afterwards while they took...

Birthdays: January 17th-Pat Burns, Lane Wood 19, Trenton Wilson 25, Shanna Slone 34, Brian White 38, Daniel Anderson 40 and Kolby Holmes 40; 18th-Marilyn Riehm, Suzanne...

Our one room schoolhouse teacher mother would relate to us sayings she grew up hearing from her parents and grandparents. Some were philosophical, some humorous, but they...

Growing up most of us didn’t find the right road until we wandered down a few wrong ones first.When will MODOT black top Hwy 160 between Lockwood and Greenfield since...

Happy New Year. Pray that everyone's started out great and continues through out the year. God bless all.On Friday afternoon, Bill Jones lost his little dog Sassy. He found...

Birthdays: January 10th-Rylee Pope 4, Kinley Nash 11, Dylan Noad 29, Carrie Staudt 40, Grant Ruark 57, Tonia East 63, Uncle Terry Myers 78 and Marjorie Daniel 93;...

Home is the first schoolhouse, and parents are the first teachers. Parents know their own child so much better than a teacher ever will based on proximity and frequency of...

Final thoughts for 2025. Thanks for reading.I am from the 1960s. I still want a menu I can hold, not a code I can scan.Late Christmas thoughts: Who misses Gibson Hardware,...

January brings Happy New Year 2026. May you all be richly blessed with good health, and happiness. You can't buy those things. Happy birthday to great niece Carter May...

Birthdays: January 3rd-Angie Garoutte, Ila Freeze 7, Sherry Terrell 70, Paul Weis 71 and Ron Dinges 89; 4th-Kolten Duncan 13, Blake Hosman 24, Lois Huchteman 66 and Betty...

For posterity, I would like to note that the temperature in southwest Missouri on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2025 broke a previous 136-year record high. So much for a...

Like most folks I never really thought about the entirety of our national anthem until recently.   Today there are those who would replace it with who knows what.   Have...

What a busy time of the year and we make it harder on ourselves as well.On Friday night the Greenfield Wildcats traveled to Ash Grove and they took a loss. Kim went to the...

Birthdays: December 27th-John Barger, Weston Holcomb 1, Quincee Sekscinski 7, Dillion Watson 12, Lacey Clark 14, Maci Montgomery 21 and Dominic Bergthold 22; 28th-Henry...