Our county and the entire Ottawa Valley was settled by forestry workers and farmers. Soon schools, churches and all the support industries like feed mills, general stores, blacksmith shops, barber shops, bars, roads and even train tracks with . .

Sometimes I wonder, “What box of Cracker Jacks did he get his degree in?” When we were in school we learned to read and write and were made to understand that more education was better. We also learned that the

A course as important as any I took in college was just listening to old farmers chat. Long before the days of the internet and TV when it seemed like all that was on that old box radio, with the

Sometimes we just have to take a few minutes to think about what is really important in life. February 8 was Food Freedom Day. There was very little celebrating or even an announcement on the box. For the few of

When many of us old timers got married, the bands were read at church for several weeks before the wedding. Those were the Sundays when the potential bride and groom were a bit . . .

It seems like every week, we are reminded in the press, on radio, and on TV of a funeral of a . . .

The main reason that I look forward to tomorrow is to see what will happen. When we look back over our short lifetime no matter . . .

We all have a bad day from time to time and wonder what we did wrong In 2019, a few bad days turned into bad weeks, bad . . .

Take a close look back before charging ahead. Whether we look back to wonder why that car was in the ditch, look at the . . .

Yes, Christmas comes on the 25th each year, ready or not. We all know that we should have the winter tires on, the anti-freeze checked, all that extra stuff in the . . .