Spring welcomed at the Gueberts’
The signs and sounds of another Illinois spring are everywhere and each one sends me daydreaming to another time, another place.
Blessed, but sometimes life ain’t fair
When I was a very young kid, I went to the Loudonville Free Street Fair with some of my friends. At home that night, I said to my father, "I saw your uncle at the fair!" Real cowboy.
Losing this battle will be expensive
"It's time to get political." That's a headline message on the Web site of The Humane Society of the United States.
The promise of spring is kept
If there is a whopping blizzard on the Thursday this article appears, it is all my fault, because this Thursday (March 22) I unplugged the heat tape in the barn.
A clean sweep of mother-son relations
Can this relationship be saved? When it comes to cleaning, my 9-year-old son thinks a horizontal surface is a space onto which he can drop trading cards, old homework, various action figures, and tiny plastic parts barely visible to the naked eye belonging to erector sets he does not even remember owning.
Eating right
Perhaps more of us than ever before are aware of the importance of what we eat, while at the same time, more temptations that aren't so good for us surround us and sway us to indulge in the wrong foods.
Criminal activity but no criminals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.
Author longs for life’s answers
John Steinbeck, the great American author of The Grapes of Wrath and several other books of great worth, decided late in his life he wanted to write a different sort of book.
Ready for the manure chronicles?
The caller identified himself as a reporter with the Canton Repository. He was doing a story on two dairy farms that are taking part in a pilot program for onfarm manure treatment, kind of like a municipal sewage treatment plant.
Postal system: Bring my mail before you get another raise
Editor: Our postal system is again asking for another raise. This isn't right. Why should they get a raise when ?the system' is not doing its job? Within the past year, I know of three pieces of information-sensitive mail that I never received.
