Angelkeep Journals: The darkness of Good Friday revisited

Easter is coming soon. It should be the grandest of holidays on earth. However Christmas takes that role. It seems market dollars...

Vietnam’s three wars still haunt us all

Few times in the last hundred years has our country not been engaged in armed hostilities. Today, although not in a declared...

Experiencing kindness at a time we have needed it

No act of kindness — no matter how small — is ever wasted.  Those words summarize the moral lesson...

One giant leap into the 21st century for this old Boomer

One small step for most. One giant leap for others. That would be me. The time had come. Others,...

Angelkeep Journals: Massive cicada invasion, and other hokey hoax

Now that spring has arrived, regardless of the doctrines of Punxsutawney Phil, who, by the way has only a 39% accuracy over...

There are more than two factors that go into the formula.

It is not just the assessor’s fault. If you read the account in Wednesday’s edition of the Norwell Community...

Stripping access counselor’s authority harms the public as well as the press

It’s easy to think of the Office of the Indiana Public Access Counselor as an agency that serves the media. And yes,...

Angelkeep Journals: Old wives’ tales (not Gwen)

Let me make it perfectly clear. This Angelkeep Journals’ writer is not, repeat not, referring to my lovely wife, Gwen, when writing...

We need reminded about shopping local

The cutline on last Monday’s Page 1 News-Banner is what caught my eye right away. “Cutline” is a bit...

We’ve done this before, but there is new stuff to talk about

The old saying goes that there are only two things in life that are certain: death and taxes. I would add that...