Check It Out: Former communist shares his Easter story
I came across a Dr. Seuss quote that asked, “How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon.” I don’t know about you, but for me, time is flying by at warp speed…
April Fools! Meet the team that puts together your local newspaper
Say hello to younger versions of the team that puts together your local newspaper.
Letters to the Editor: Main Street paving and public input
After reading in The Eagle about the paving plans for Main Street, I have a question. Why not pave from 6th Avenue to Railway Avenue?
U.S. climate science faces political purge reminiscent of dystopian warning
In 1953, Ray Bradbury published Fahrenheit 451, a novel about an American fireman in a near-future society where books are banned and burned.
Why print still matters — and why your local paper needs you
Print newspapers are often dismissed as outdated. That’s lazy thinking. In small and mid-sized communities, print still does three things digital alone does not…
Just A Gal From Glidden: Fighting over lozenges, counting our blessings
This week’s column comes to you under the influence of NyQuil and Halls. Yes, I caught my annual spring cold. I am blaming Robert as he came down with symptoms a couple of days before me.
REMEMBERING WHEN: The art class ash tray
When I was graduating from eighth grade and about to enter high school, I was faced with the daunting task of picking the classes I would take in my first year.
Check It Out: My crash course in patient advocacy
Last week I listened to a doctor’s podcast on the topic of advocating for your loved one when they’re hospitalized and thought it would be a good topic to write about.
Trump boxed in by war with Iran
Donald Trump may be discovering that the war he chose is harder to end than to start. The U.S. president launched what he called Operation Epic Fury expecting that overwhelming force…
Just A Gal From Glidden: Lessons learned beneath the Dankin elevators
Agriculture Safety Week always gets me thinking about the little lessons you learn growing up on a farm. Not the big lectures. The quiet ones that simply became part of everyday life.
Check It Out: Anxiety is like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
Someone wrote, “My uncle always used to say he was more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.” I guess that’s what you call being anxious.
What McNab Place means to me
I was asked one day what McNab Place meant to me. As a tenant of McNab Place, it is the following things: McNab is a home to many fiesty and patient people. It is a home that the people take pride in.
Attrition, drones and delusion shape Ukraine war’s fourth year
“Breathe deeply, calm down and don’t go running to stock up on food and matches,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told his citizens one month before Russian tanks…
Just A Gal From Glidden: Freedom at 16 and 202 kilometres of trouble
July 2, 1985. That date is burned into my memory. I had just turned 16 a month earlier and, yes, that was the historic day Katie Drummond got her driver’s licence. Freedom at last.
