Monday, July 7, 2025

Angelkeep Journals: Spooky spiders and anniversaries

Angelkeep’s writer’s first remembered experience of associating spiders with Halloween came from a prank built by Dad.  His Sunday...

Angelkeep Journals: Yearling birds’ first winter snow

Angelkeep hadn’t had enough of auld lang syne. First snowflakes struck prior to Thanksgiving. Sweet Gwen celebrated. She stood alone in the...

Aiming for a little less screen time in 2024

The white Christmas that many of us hoped for in northeast Indiana arrived a few weeks too late and has certainly caused...

Are college costs getting too high?

State Rep. Ed DeLaney suggests he knows the problem facing Indiana’s institutions of higher learning. “I understand math,” the...

Yet another head-spinning week

If there is no topic and a first draft of a column typed by Wednesday evening, I usually throw in the towel...

Some musings about being a messenger

It is weeks such as this that gets the wheels turning in my mind. One phrase kept popping up: “Don’t shoot the...

Letter to the Editor: Another successful prom dress exchange season

The Wells County Prom Dress Exchange recently completed its 15th year.  This year, 46 students shopped at the Exchange with a total...

Father’s Day: A 1974 plumbing disaster

In 1974, when I was 11, I flushed an apple core down the toilet. You see, my father had...

UCLA and USC in the Big Ten: Flunking college geography

So when I heard that the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern...