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Government taking away your gas cooking stove?
BY KYLE LOVERN I’m sure many of you grew up in a time when your moms or grandmothers cooked on a gas stove. Many of us heated our homes with gas heaters or furnaces. We had an electric cooking stove in our old home place at Nolan, but we heated our home in the winter…
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Hometown is the best
Editor: We would like to thank our amazing community for the continued support of our Martin County High School Senior Walk and Martin County High School Project Graduation! Without our wonderful community, we would not be able to have these events for our high school seniors. The definition of hometown is a place where one…
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Remembering fallen heroes
BY SENATOR PHILLIP WHEELER The arrival of Memorial Day has come to feel like the start of summer, especially with so many students’ school years ending across the commonwealth. During the holiday weekend, families across our state will begin their yearly traditions and the memory-making we all enjoy. These moments with family and friends would…
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Reevaluate your church mission spending
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE For 50 years of my life, I’ve been associated with churches that have given over $4 million collectively to outside denominational endeavors. The typical mainline denominational church/parish will collect weekly offerings from their members. A percentage of this money each month is given to a state office. The state office will,…
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Remember those who gave all in the Vietnam War
BY KYLE LOVERN Growing up in the 1960s, I paid attention to current events even though I was young – especially the Vietnam War, which was in full swing from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. I remember watching Walter Cronkite on the news and some reporters in-country bringing home the news of Southeast Asia…
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Freedoms
Dear Editor: Smith & Wesson made all people equal. Now our government is attempting to set us peasants back into caveman times. Just think of all the men and women who gave their very lives for our hard-earned freedoms. Crime is all around us daily. Drugs are all around us daily. Here’s a thought, shut…
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About that ‘border crisis’
BY THOMAS L. KNAPP I’m seeing a lot of back and forth lately on whether or not there’s a “crisis” at the border, with greatly increased migration and limited ability on the part of law enforcement to respond. Personally, I don’t consider it a “crisis” at all. Immigration is just people moving from one place…
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Stop the invasion before the ship sinks
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Your three-bedroom house might accommodate 10 to 12 guests on holiday weekends, but it’s not easy. Even If you have two bathrooms the shower time has to be coordinated. You enjoy the gathering, but after a couple of days you are ready to resume normalcy. America may never resume normalcy. We…
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Rhubarb pie and memories of the past
BY KYLE LOVERN I often write about my memories of the past and growing up. Recently a photo of a rhubarb and strawberry pie on social media brought back many memories. My mother, Charlotte Hope, was a great cook and made everything from scratch. (I know most everyone thinks their mom is a great cook.)…
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