OPINION
Christmas Eve is about anticipation
Editor’s note: This column is being reprinted from Dec. 24, 2014. It is funny how our perspective changes over years. Youthful joy of Christmas anticipation can turn to parental stress or even adult indifference. As we celebrate this week, let’s all try to remember and recapture that Christmas joy of …
Support appreciated
To the editor: At this time of the year, we look forward to the holidays and the new year. Here at Arts Place, we are grateful for all the good will and fortune that has been bestowed upon us.
Arts Place committee offers thanks
To the editor: A heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped make the 42nd Annual Holiday Benefit Auction at the Jay County Campus of Arts Place such an incredible success.
The season brings back memories
It’s inevitable, I suppose, that we get a bit sentimental and reflective during the holidays. Every celebration brings echoes of past celebrations. Every toast brings to mind those who aren’t here to raise their glasses. Every tradition reminds us of how each tradition was born.
Gratitude grows for childhood gift
Childhood Christmas presents date you.
Club thanks Portland Foundation
To the editor: During this season of giving thanks, members of the Portland Kiwanis Club want to publicly offer a great round of thanks to The Portland Foundation.
Technology update was frustrating
The temptation is always there. Why not, I ask myself, just let the parade of technology go on without you? Just let the next “rev” of software pass you by. Just let the next new gimmick or gadget do its thing without you. And, to some extent, I give in …
Appreciate the Thanksgiving table
It was a typical Ronald family Thanksgiving, probably in the mid-1960s. In those days, the clan — as many of my father’s siblings, their spouses, their children, and grandchildren as possible — gathered together for a huge celebration.
Cincinnatus League says thanks
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024 - Letter to the Editor
Friendship continues uninterrupted
Some friendships require effort. Others sustain themselves. You know the ones I’m talking about, those friendships which can be disrupted by years and hundreds of miles but are renewed as easily as a conversation that has been momentarily interrupted.
For those in need, there is support
Tuesday, Nov.12, 2024 - Letter to the Editor
‘Zoo’ served to liven up a gray day
“I feel like I’m in a zoo,” I told my wife over a bowl of soup. It was Monday, and November had landed with an audible thud. Gone were the crisp blue skies of October. Gone too were most of the autumn leaves, stripped from their branches by Saturday’s gusty …
You’ll want to watch Winner this winter
In about 25 years writing about sports, this marks the first time I’ve written a column nine months in advance. That should say something about how I feel about the importance of the sentiments I’m about to express.
Will stories have a happy ending?
The road home wound through the Indiana countryside as Svetlana unwound stories from her life on the other side of the world. We’d first met in Kyrgyzstan, the land of her birth, in 2002. And now she was in the Midwest to take part in a panel discussion at a …
Fulfill duty and vote in the election
To the editor: “My vote won’t count, so I’m not voting.” Voting is a right, privilege and responsibility of citizens.
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