My wife and I recently celebrated our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Planning how we would mark the occasion was left to my discretion. Maybe I should have taken her on a vacation a second honeymoon of sorts.
Instead, I planned a gathering of a few dozen friends at our house. Perhaps I’m cheap, but one of the key reasons I did so is that I think of our marriage as a public thing, even if few people actually know the inner workings of our marital life.
Our marriage is an entity with ramifications and consequences that echo outside our home. The same is true in reverse: what happens in other marriages can affect ours. A marriage needs friends, and it can likewise supply friendship to others’ unions.
Logan County has produced a multitude of interesting people over the many decades of its existence. From the Hatfield clan of the 1800s to legendary sheriff Don Chafin to “America’s
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Earl Dean Browning, age 95, of Godfrey, Illinois, passed away at home in the early morning hours of Monday, February 22, 2021.
Dean was born January 21, 1926, in Annawan, Illinois, to Earl Franklin and Velma Lucille (Moon) Browning. A star basketball player, he graduated from Annawan High School in 1944. Following high school, Dean served his country from 1944 to 1946 in the United States Army rising to the rank of Technical Sergeant (Platoon Leader) in the Anti-tank Company 35
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th Division, Tropic Lightning. Dean was awarded the Bronze Star for gallantry for serving 165 consecutive days in frontline combat service including the invasion of Luzon, the taking of the Balete Pass and the capture of Santa Fe. He was also awarded the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Army of Occupation Medal, Good Conduct Medal and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon. He was among the first Occupation Troops in Japan.
With a winter storm warning on the way for North Mississippi, the division tournaments for the basketball playoffs that are for the local schools are adjusting their schedules for the
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FORT MADISON – Old Fort Players is on a roll.
After the successful opening of “The Queen of Bingo” on Feb. 5, the theater decided to keep up the momentum and has scheduled another comedy for May, Dorothy Schulte of OFP announced recently in a media release.
Directors Ty Clute and Angela Sanford will hold open auditions starting Monday at Old Fort Players, 725 Avenue G, Fort Madison.
The cast calls for one to two each women and men ages 17-25 and two to three each men and women over the age of 25. There is also a need for several actors who can fill multiple small roles.