Angelkeep Journals:Angelkee August activity mirrored CCC 1592

When August rolled around to near end, the season of autumn could often be felt arriving. The events that entails were likely...

Community pool project celebrates unity in Wells County

During our final trip to the Wells Community Pool as we know it, my 6-year-old son conquered the big slide and a...

Lessons and memories in handshakes

Every instance I shake someone’s hand, I think of Gramps.  I spent a lot of summers and weekends with...

Something old, something new: I am ‘The Enemy’

Something old: It’s been noted here before that in my recreational reading I’ve become a fan of LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. He...

Angelkeep Journals: Yucking it up over yucca ants

Angelkeep has a small cluster of yucca. They bloom intermittently due to the location going to shade after a pin oak grew...

Diving into a new chapter at the county pool

Whitley, the youngest nephew, is very excited about the Wells Community Pool project.  He picked up a copy of...

Kindness and happiness know no borders

“The people are just so nice and happy.” Those eight words still make me smile a month after I...

Accountability to voters is more than a courtesy

While we often respond to breaking news, many aspects of news coverage are considered routine, standard or expected.  I,...

Picture this: One that I had to find

We interrupt my apparent obsession with property taxes to talk about the other certainty of life. The passing of...

What is transparency?

Haven’t we had this conversation before? The last time the word “transparency” was brought up in a column, it...