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New phone rules for wrong numbers

MEEKER | One of my favorite things about small town living has been the conversations that inevitably followed the words, “Sorry, wrong number.” These misplaced calls were often the result of someone not paying close enough attention to their fingers. Those were the dinosaur-days of yore, when telephones were either[Read More…]

March 16, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Arbor Day connects past and present

MEEKER | “Last spring we urged our town authorities to set our trees around the town park. It is too late to take action this season, but such action should be taken next spring and town made comfortable and attractive for visiting autoists.” The editor of the Meeker Herald apparently[Read More…]

March 7, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Thankful for sunshine

MEEKER | There ought to be a law. Ever hear someone mutter that phrase when they are frustrated or angry? Lately it might have been used in regards to recent decisions and actions taken by the County Commissioners. There are a couple of legislative mandates addressing the lack of openness[Read More…]

February 28, 2021 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Shop at home first

MEEKER | Supporting small businesses has always been a part of community life. That is, it was the underpinning of a healthy local economy, until the economic upheaval caused by COVID-19 threatened to make shopping for the necessities of life more difficult. The bloating of the corporate conglomerates such as[Read More…]

February 22, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Wasn’t Born Yesterday

MEEKER | “I wasn’t born yesterday, you know.” Each time I hear someone say these words or a facsimile, I want to say, “I know, you keep telling us that!” However, I restrain myself. These days when I hear people use such an old folksy expression that asserts the rest[Read More…]

February 17, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: This is how it is now

MEEKER | This is how it is now — no same old/same old, no business as usual — as we all attempt to go back to our daily lives. Reading a magazine article recently I came across that phrase and the obtuse “new normal” that is used to describe daily[Read More…]

February 6, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Opinion

No more ‘new normal’

MEEKER | Is there anyone among us who can claim to know “what’s what“ anymore? Recently a famous actor appeared in a television advertisement that urged viewers to take his advice by obtaining a reverse mortgage. He (and his commercial sponsors) count on his familiarity, as well as his successful[Read More…]

January 21, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Remembering Hester-Jane

RBC | It wasn’t until I saw Hester-Jane Cogswell’s life in the pictures spread out on the dining room table in her Fawn Creek ranch house Saturday that the loss hit me.

August 11, 2009 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: What is reality?

“When are you moving back to reality?” a relative asked years ago. The long distances between towns, the lack of diversity, and the lack of various commercial concerns that most of us depend upon were only a few of the things that led her to consider her reality more valuable[Read More…]

June 24, 2009 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Flowers still thrill

For some of us, the thrill of spotting the first wildflowers each summer never goes away. Newcomers are always surprised by our reaction to that good ol’ green stuff — plants, not money.

June 16, 2009 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Looking Back: Old-timers not forgotten

Living here long enough to officially be called an “old-timer,” yet not long enough to know everybody who was born and raised here, I feel bad when I overlook someone who made a difference in the community, in individual’s lives.

June 9, 2009 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Enjoying the give and take of small-town living

Bailouts — one more reason for living in a small town. It is not government subsidies that are the subject of one more conversation, it is the small town neighborliness of merchants, who tell the customers who need a little loose change help, “Oh, don’t worry about it, just bring[Read More…]

May 27, 2009 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled