The school year has wrapped up for my two children and summer break has officially arrived. The weeks leading up to those last days of school for my elementary-aged son and daughter were filled with tests, final projects, field trips, locker clean outs, a field day, a sixth-grade promotion and celebrations.
By: Daniel Chavas Violent tornado outbreaks, like the storms that tore through parts of St. Louis and London, Kentucky, on May 16, have made 2025… Login to continue reading Login…
“How far do you live from school?” I ask my students. Their answers will be in miles.
My eighth grader graduated from middle school on Wednesday, and I’m not sure how I feel about it.
by Thomas L. Knapp “I guarantee you,” Joe Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper two months before winning the 2020 US presidential election, “I will be… Login to continue reading Login…
As the Halstead Lithium Battery Energy Storage Proposal continues to work its way through the system of Planning & Zoning, I think that Halstead Residents and Harvey County Residents should be reminded of a few things.
I have a dear friend who I have helped with different issues over the years. She is a disabled senior with limited eyesight, and she also has no car. I met her about 11 years ago, and while I am much younger we care about each other.
By: Glenn Brunkow I shut myself in the pen recently, or more correctly I shut my side-by-side in the pen recently. It had been a… Login to continue reading Login…
I have been trying not to write this piece because, in my heart of hearts, I hoped things would get better. I hoped that someone with the power granted to them by their elected office would set into motion a process or an order to reverse the damage that has been done to agencies, programs and services that allow our country to function.