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Opinion

What do you think about love and marriage?

Local Columns

Love and marriage have changed in my time on earth. Rules have blurred since I was a teenager. Upon my first marriage I was only 21 years old. God gave me 43 years with Cindy, the bride of my youth. After her passing, He blessed me again and now Julie and I have been married nearly seven ...

Congratulations, Class of 2021

Editorials

To the Graduates of 2021, What a long, strange trip it's been. You may not know where that comes from, but it's never been more true this year. You spent the last year and a half taking classes from home, not being sure how long it would be before you could hang out with your friends and ...

Serendipity; I love it when it happens

Local Columns

Serendipity. It’s such a fun word to say but you don’t hear it used often. Serendipity not only sounds good; it is good. Merriam-Webster’s official definition of the word is “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also: an instance of ...

Be impatient for fishing success

Local Columns

I’ve heard anglers described in many ways. Some will say that to be a successful angler you need to have certain attributes. You need to be imaginative. Or determined. Some will say that you need to “think like a fish”. That wouldn’t be so good. Fish don’t think, they respond. And ...

Catch more fish by trolling this summer

Local Columns

Across the Midwest, most fish have set up their summer homes. They’ve completed the spawning ritual and now those fish are hungry. If you put a bait near a fish, it will probably bite that bait. The key is to show your bait to as many fish as possible and trolling is a good way to do that. ...

Frequently asked fishing questions

Local Columns

Since the 1980’s, I’ve done lots of fishing seminars at sport shows and for outdoor clubs and fishing tackle retailers. It’s been way over a year since I did my last fishing seminar. Gatherings like those got shut down in early 2020 and haven’t really started up again yet. I ...