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Opinion

The importance of community theaters in rural areas

Editorials and columns

Growing up in the greater New York City area meant exposure to every Broadway and Off-Broadway play through television, print, and radio advertising. So, it followed that we had a thriving theatre program through summer school enrichment and two wonderful teachers who brought it to the ...

Graves into gardens

Editorials and columns

At a Catholic Bible study I used to attend in my hometown we were discussing the scripture readings for the following Sunday when the topic of prayer for the dead came up. The priest told us that most Protestant Christians do not pray for the dead. Many in the room were shocked to hear that. ...

Want to save grassland birds? Start with prairie dogs.

Letters to the Editor

Last fall, I fell in love with prairie dogs on the American Prairie in Montana even though the hype for America's Great Plains pointed me to bison. As impressive as North America's largest land mammal is, the pipsqueak of the prairie piqued my interest and stole my heart, and I'm not the only ...

The speculation game

Letters to the Editor

One of the most popular indoor sports in this town requires no physical training. Any number of folks can play and generally nobody gets injured although at times playing the game has damaged some political careers. We're talking about the "who is running for what office? or if you prefer it's ...

HOPE

Letters to the Editor

Hope. This simple four-letter word has dominated my thought patterns in recent weeks. Often finding myself one of the oldest in any room these days, I believe hope is a desire of mine born from maturity and life’s experiences. I must admit, however, there also is a lot of the unknown ...

Recall effort moves forward

Letters to the Editor

On March 2nd school board members Eric Lawson, Sarah Costain and Monica Dziesinski attended a hearing for a determination of the factuality and clarity of the proposed language on the petitions for recalling these three from their school board positions. Due to space limitation, the petition ...