Columns

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...

It was hard to believe this week when two women who called Hillsboro home, yet impacted lives far beyond the confines of Highland County,...

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...

I was digging through some of my old compact discs of music the other day and I ran across a CD that I had...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

Thank goodness for sports on television.Our long national drought of excitement has finally ended. We’re able to cheer for overpaid hooligans again. We can...

Have you ever heard “Dance like no one is watching,” a song lyric by Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh from “Come from the Heart”?...