Cowboys, teachers and Father Fix-it
Where do cowboys come from? In my family’s case, they came from a farm in Ohio. My cousins Del and Dana were raised on...
Make Election Day a national holiday
Where are the letters? I’ll get to that thought in a moment. But foremost in many people’s minds now is — can the U.S....
I have been reading to Lori
I’ve been reading to Lori.Lori is my husband, Peter’s, older sister. She has cancer and has been battling it for a while now. She...
Icons called home on same day
It was hard to believe this week when two women who called Hillsboro home, yet impacted lives far beyond the confines of Highland County,...
Endless summer deserves proper finale
We’re counting down the last days of summer at our house.That’s standard fare for parents in August. This year, it’s particularly true, since our...
Can you smell the good stuff?
I was digging through some of my old compact discs of music the other day and I ran across a CD that I had...
Future proofing with rural broadband
It’s been said that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed all kinds of socio-economic weaknesses in America. The glaringly obvious is the state of our...
I have acquired a reputation
It seems I have acquired a reputation.I have been handing out dog treats for three months. Every day, I take the same trail, and...
Elise Corwin had a life well lived
It was just a few days before Easter, Doug Corwin said, when his 32-year-old daughter, Elise, told him she was thinking about going to...
A community with no newspaper?
Editor’s Note: America’s Newspapers supports passage of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, which was introduced July 16.What would my town be without a newspaper?...
