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A strong start and bright autumn days ahead

As we welcome the crisp air of October, I am thrilled to report that the UFRSD school year has started off exceptionally strongly. Walking through our hallways and classrooms...

This game we call soccer

This game we call soccer has shaped my entire life. Mentors and best friends are what I got from...

Patience Wright’s secrets in wax

By Janis Parker Patience Lovell Wright was feisty, unpredictable and independent. She grew up on a family farm in...

Women, saints and patriots

We touch on a few items this month, yet at the exclusion of a somewhat newsworthy event. However,...

Protecting our future, preserving our past

Mayor Mike Todd With summer in the rearview mirror and October ushering back our familiar busy routines, I want...

The question every town must ask in times of change

We’re at a crossroads again. Chart New Course believes the significant change evident all around us makes this the right moment to ask the question:...

The mystery of Isaac Pearson’s death

Local history is often neatly packaged into clear-cut heroes and villains. But just days after George Washington’s famous victory at Trenton, a complex tragedy...

The question every town must ask in times of change

We're at a crossroads again. Chart New Course believes the significant change evident all around us makes this the right moment to ask the question:...

Betting On Black: My love for music

I’m not sure I could go a day without listening to music. I don’t just mean a song or two, but hours of music....

Mayor Chris Bobbitt: What the Declaration of Independence still asks of us

As I was thinking about this month’s column, I thought about the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States....

Ewing Then and Now: Let us eat cake cobbler!

I’ve devoted most of the past year’s columns to looking forward to this moment: our nation’s semiquincentennial and our area’s connection to the nation’s...

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