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Local Columns

Make Earth Day every day

Earth Day is next week. April 22 has been set aside as a day to honor the earth, clean up after winter, and spruce up where we live. With the weather this week warming up, it seems the right time. Some might argue that Earth Day should have been the day that the astronauts on Artemis II ...

My battle with quicksand; well, sort of

Everything I knew about quicksand was what I had learned from action programs on television. As a young boy I experienced it; well, at least I thought I did. This is my story. My father was a hardworking man, but every now and then he took an afternoon off to tend to some family ...

Sometimes new fishing ideas are old

In the world of fishing, it’s hard to believe that there is anything new when it comes to catching fish. But there is. It might be old news to some anglers, but it’s only old news if you’ve already heard it. There are new anglers entering the picture all the time who maybe are ...

How much does Jesus love us…

"Jesus Loves Me This I Know...," so goes the song many of us sang as youngsters. But how can we understand how much Jesus loves us? To comprehend, here's a real-life story of love and believing. It was 1961 when Lou Holtz had just married the love of his life, Beth. Lou was a graduate student ...

A Holy Week pause

There’s something about this time of year that feels like it moves faster than it should. The calendar fills up. The weather starts to shift. There are baskets to fill, meals to plan, schedules to coordinate. And before we know it, Easter is here… and gone. But this week—the week leading ...

A rose by any other name

Four centuries ago William Shakespeare wrote, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This line from Romeo and Juliet is valid for today’s column, even if used out of context. We are largely who we are regardless of our name. I’ve been an Arvid for more than 78 years but if ...