Did you notice? The town public works crew has posted the side roads, dozens of chuckholes have appeared, it snowed again, and we had to reset our clocks. It must be getting on toward spring. The NFL and Super Bowl are past tense, and the Red Sox.
From time to time, readers suggest that I explore this topic or that. Some of them even make suggestions that I can print in a family newspaper. Most suggestions seem to depend upon whether they think I am a flaming liberal or a rock-ribbed.
It’s a girl, and a Lincoln County 911 emergency dispatcher helped deliver her. On June 13, Anita Sprague received a call from a woman in labor. Sprague comforted the woman who made the call from her driveway alongside a new friend she met the day.
Last week, this column chided some major newspaper chains for eliminating and cutting back on opinion pages, including my favorites, called letters to the editor and op-eds. We argued that those actions censored opinions of those who disagree with.