Opinion
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 uses oxy...
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, both passed ...
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 tr...
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 put some of my favorite songs on. I could n...
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 o...
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 every day, I meet man...
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 New York with a...
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 m...
Keeping score keeps you sane
Thank goodness for sports on television.Our long national drought of excitement has finally ended. We’re able to cheer for overpaid hooligans ag...
Dancing through my bipolar life
Have you ever heard “Dance like no one is watching,” a song lyric by Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh from “Come from the Heart”...
