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  • Keeping a balance in the electronics age

    I have started to realize that as my daughters are going from baby to toddler to little girls I am having to change my views on electronics and their ...
    NEW: July 22, 2014 - 10:49 am

  • It's nice to meet you

    There is nothing I find more unpleasant than shaking a person’s hand.There can be a lot of psycholog ...
    NEW: July 22, 2014 - 10:49 am

  • Newton parks are first class

    To the editor:I have spent more time this summer in our parks than most other years. Many of us driv ...
    NEW: July 22, 2014 - 10:49 am

  • Asa Crowe

    Some of the students were listening, others were looking out the window with that faraway, dreamy look that I remember well (and still have once-in-a ...
    July 21, 2014 - 9:25 pm

  • Don’t let Big Oil bully biofuels

    It’s vacation season across America. That means family road trips are underway and the traveling public is paying even closer attention when they pull ...
    July 21, 2014 - 11:11 am

  • The Invisible Employee

    Do you ever feel people at your job don’t know you exist?Do you sit through long meetings where no o ...
    July 18, 2014 - 10:41 am

  • Extinguishing My Psyche

    Perhaps I am suffering from an addiction — a fiery compulsion buried so deep in my subconscious psyche that I am acting without cognizance. Or perhaps ...
    July 18, 2014 - 10:41 am

  • Newton – a town of resiliency

    “Resilience.” This word has been used to describe Newton for many years now. The primary definition of this word is “the capacity to recover quickly f ...
    July 17, 2014 - 3:36 pm

  • How (Not) to Cure a Headache

    I ran into my good friend Nick Brubaker last weekend. I only get to see him about once a year, so there were a lot of benign topics we wanted to cover ...
    July 17, 2014 - 3:35 pm

  • More adventures in 'Godfather-ism'

    I went back to Kansas City this past weekend for some family time — which culminated in a multi-generational water gun fight and barbecue on Sunday.
    July 16, 2014 - 11:21 am

  • Hi, I'm Jamee!

    Starting around the age of 10, I knew that someday I wanted to work at a newspaper. I grew up in Monroe, and with help from my mom, I started my own n ...
    July 15, 2014 - 11:31 am

  • Prairie City Cemetery Walk — A Historic Event

    A nice crowd of people attended this very special event a the Historic Waveland Cemetery near Prairie City on Saturday, June 28. It was another histor ...
    July 15, 2014 - 11:30 am

  • Tractors & Art

    The corn was a sight to behold, standing thick, proud and tall, reaching for the sky, tassels sticking up like priests carrying crosses, ready to poll ...
    July 16, 2014 - 11:25 am

  • I Blame the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

    “Ray, when someone asks if you’re a god, you say, ‘Yes’!”In the iconic ending of “Ghostbusters,” Goz ...
    July 14, 2014 - 11:43 am

  • High school math teachers invited to trig training class

    To the editor: Here is a real life example of the compelling need for the STEM program (Science, Tec ...
    July 14, 2014 - 11:43 am

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