Opinion

Imitation a form of flattery?

Published by admin on Thu, 08/15/2019 - 9:25am
Maybe it’s the endless distractions that come with summertime — like the flies buzzing around my head and the front door open to all sorts of vehicular and pedestrian sounds — but sometimes it’s hard to think of what to write for this space. Call it writer’s block. Call it sleepiness. But when a deadline is looming, something must be written! 

Community pulls together in time of need

Published by admin on Wed, 08/07/2019 - 4:36pm

It was bad last Friday, but it could have been worse.

What happened to summer?

Published by admin on Wed, 08/07/2019 - 4:34pm
I was recently sitting at my desk  minding my own business working when an email came in that I didn’t much care for. It was an email from Custer High School activities director Jordan Likness.
I didn’t dislike the email because it came from Jordan; he’s a good guy. I disliked the email because it was a schedule of fall sports for Custer High School. I hit reply and typed the following:
Nooooooooooooooo!!!

Hats off to SD! ‘In God We Trust’

Published by admin on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 9:27am
The above headline was a message we received from a friend of ours in Florida last week after news of the new South Dakota school law hit the national media waves. The new law was passed by the Legislature this past session and signed into law by Gov. Kristi Noem. It takes effect the beginning of this school year and requires the motto “In God We Trust” to be displayed prominently in an easily readable form in all state public schools.

Memories are made of this

Published by admin on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 9:27am
I stepped outside the other day to the familiar scent of sweet clover which had dotted my yard with white flowers. When I came home that afternoon from work, I sat down in the grass to look for four-leaf clovers.
My memories carried me back to some long-buried, but precious memories of looking for four-leaf clovers as a little girl in my grandparents’ yard in Auxvasse, Mo.
My grandfather had a knack of finding four-leaf clovers and there was always a glass filled with them on my grandmother’s kitchen counter.

GDD was bigger, better this year

Published by admin on Wed, 07/24/2019 - 3:06pm

“It was a great weekend!” Those few words pretty much sum up this past weekend’s Gold Discovery Days events, but hardly do it justice. “It was a really great weekend,” would probably be more like it. Even the weather cooperated for a change.

President will never change

Published by admin on Wed, 07/24/2019 - 3:04pm
It’s become painfully apparent over the last two and a half years that President Trump will continue doing what he has done before and after the 2018 presidential election. He will continue his childlike behavior and inappropriate name-calling. Some of us long for him to become more “presidential.” That would be a welcome change for the entire country.