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January 30, 2026

OPINION: Odds and ends

Local column by George Worthy

Worthy to Print Column | All About the Benjamins

How are you doing? I mean, do you still wear your mask? Did you seriously see that the doctor that goes on TV wants us to wear three? The past few days are almost historic. Some folks from the surrounding areas of what we...

Worthy to Print Column | Let’s Go Truckin’

George Worthy
Did I ever tell you about my pickup? Oh, no need to reply. If I go one day without speaking about the ā€œGreen Machine,ā€ I start to get the shakes and Lorraine runs out of the room. Don’t get me wrong, she knew that...

Worthy to Print Column | Keep Our Troops in Your Thoughts

George Worthy
I suppose there is a time in everyone’s lives that stand out as a particularly emotional passing. Perhaps you can remember this time with a smile or maybe you get a tightness in your chest. I never have a hard time remembering times that...

Guest Column | A Call to Action for Heart Health

Mee Memorial Healthcare System Rena Salamacha
Every February, the nation comes together to recognize American Heart Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about heart disease.Ā  It’s essential to be aware that even though heart disease is a significant health issue across America, many heart-related illnesses are preventable. Risk factors for...

Funny Papers Again Column | If I Were King

We don’t have kings in the United States of America; yet how many of us have at one time or other wished we had ultimate authoritarian power? Remember, even the Cowardly Lion wanted to be ā€œNot queen, not duke, not princeā€ but ā€œKing of...

Funny Papers Again Column | Travels With Buddy — Part I

In a rare case of a column running too long, I offer this story as a two-parter… One day I came home from school, it was 1964 and I was in the sixth grade in Greenfield Elementary School, and my father handed me a book...

Funny Papers Again Column | Random Bits and Pieces

This week I am of a mind to not dedicate my word allotment upon one subject but rather touch upon a couple items gleaned from various sources. One source, our local Rustler, had three entries in last week’s issue; two were about the local...

Window on the World Column | Rites of Passage

Lucy Jensen
My baby girl is getting married this weekend and I just can’t believe it. Eight months or so of furious planning and here we are. Your mind flashes back to the first time you laid eyes on her in this world, that sweet, cooing...

Funny Papers Again Column | From Loop to Loop: Roads We Once Drove

Funny how the mind works. Today I was blankly sitting in front of my laptop with no idea what to write about, tuned to KCBX, the local NPR radio station, when a report from Chicago mentioned the famous circular downtown roadway known as the...
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