Choose to spread joy today and every day

Full of life. Kind. Joyful until the end. Doug Brown used those lovely words in this space two Saturdays...

Have you hugged an etiquette expert lately?

“Were you raised in a barn?” I never had the legendary Mrs. Montgomery as...

Free speech, school rules and tax assessments

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand...

Three memorable days in the southwest with an unfortunate ending

Less than two weeks ago we were feeling chilly as we quickly walked across campus so that we would arrive to the...

Letter to the Editor: A letter to the community of Bluffton

We are writing to you as residents and/or property owners of River Road in Bluffton, Indiana. We have all admired the Wabash...

Letters to the Editor: Protecting the unborn

I am writing in response to Mark Miller’s article, “To boldly go where this man has not gone before” from the July...

Let there be peace, like at Angelkeep

Memorial Day weekend will involve patio relaxation in what has reason to claim being the most peaceful...

Who knew it would be so hard to buy Christmas decorations

“You might say it was a Christmas miracle.” Longtime friend and News-Banner colleague Chet Baumgartner summed up our conversation...

Open Door Law applies to county public agencies

Employees of Madison County government, notably those in planning departments, should start taking Anderson resident Sean Smith...

Baddabing — you’ve been LSSU-banished

January is what it is — a time to re-start, yet a time to look back. So...