There's something about being back at home after a weekend away. I don't know if it's just age (yep!) or expanding the work week for a full weekend at Drake, but there's something …

Dear Editor: When I hear “Pickleball”, I immediately flash back to my high school P.E. days. I vaguely remember the rules, but the game itself was fun. Fast forward to today, when …

Aaron Salter Jr., 55, was on duty at the security job that supplemented his retirement income. Ruth Whitfield, 86, was buying groceries. Celestine Chaney, 65, stopped in for strawberries for the …

Linda and Kevin Ross live on the Skunk River near Augusta on the Lee County Side.  They already have three older Airstream Travel Trailers—you know, the ones that look like silver beetles going …

I just don't get it. If someone would have asked me a month ago if I thought Fort Madison could pull off being "crunchy", I would have thought they were talking about its age or maybe …

Irony has been so deep in recent days that we shouldn’t be surprised if people start walking around with their chore boots on or with the cuffs on their pants rolled up to avoid the mess. …

Thad Crane and his wife Laura live in the old Selma school house.  In fact, Thad sleeps in his old home room.  You wouldn't know it from the outside, but their living space on the first floor of …

It's been an interesting past several days. The wife went to Nawlins with the daughter for about six days for a jazz festival. In that time I've written a bunch of …

The legendary U.S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis once observed, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” Brandeis was not talking about everyday cleaning around …

Ginnie and I participated in the First Annual Walk for Nohema in Chautauqua Park in Fairfield last Saturday morning.  Nohema Graber was a Spanish teacher at Fairfield Community High School, who was …

Life is the prize. Sometimes we ask ourselves, unfortunate as it may seem, why we struggle through this ride, especially when we get punched in the stomach throughout life. …

Lorrilee McCall-Miller heard something outside their door as she was getting ready for bed.  It sounded like a baby crying.  She opened the door and looked.  There was a baby fox, a kit, looking …