Country Cousin First Cow...
TIMESLand weather is up to its usual summer tricks....blast furnace hot one day, turn on the furnace cold the next. A young cousin visiting from California once during a cold, drizzly July asked if it's winter here all the time. Wouldn't believe it when we told her this was summer!
On the other hand, variety is the spice of life. When it's hot and muggy, we can blame our laziness on the weather. When it's cold and drizzly, we can blame it on rainy day blues. And when it's perfect, w...
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From our readers Dear Editor:
As I write this, today is Father's Day.
Over three million children have a father locked up in this country. Nationwide, around 10% of black children have a father in prison.
Governments who represent us make it very hard for these fathers to maintain relationships with their children. They are either imprisoned too far away from their homes, or the price of phone calls is ridiculously exorbitant, or the mental illness exacerbated by imprisonment makes relationship impossible.
Most of these child...
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From My Window Typewriters Are Back!
By Jane Thibodeau Martin
As I read the local Sunday paper today, I ran across an interesting headline in the business-financial section"¦"typewriters garner new fans in digital age." Surely not, I thought " but the photo of a youngish woman at a "type-in" in New Mexico drew me into an interesting read.
The piece said those old electric, and even manual typewriters, have become popular with a group of enthusiasts. The typewriters were part of a "hip participative experienceâ...
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Country Cousin Remembering Father...
Remember that Ark we talked about a week or two ago? Still sounds like a good idea, but don't forget to equip yours with lightning rods. Seems like that kind of year. Since Spring finally arrived and jumped right over into Summer, TIMESland has been hit by some pretty violent storms, complete with thunder, lightning, high winds and power outages. They don't appear to be over.
Never mind that we've already had a few 90-degree days that we weren't prepared for, Summer officially gets he...
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From our readers To the Editor,
I would like to take a moment to thank the employees of the Village of Crivitz for their response to the severe storm that went through our community on Sunday afternoon. Without being called they were out within minutes of the storm passing checking for damaged homes, downed power lines and trees blocking the streets. Through resourceful thinking and using the tools and equipment available to them most, if not all of the blocked streets were open within hours of the storms passing.
There are some homes and busin...
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