Opinion

Loose Ends: We’re looking forward … again

No pining for the past. There are no signs posted on Main Street on the old fashioned street lights, not many plaques commemorating historic events. A recent book review, written about a new book focusing on how the west is changing, cited one shared characteristic of all the western communities that are able to meld the past and the future successfully. Recognizing their past, rather than dwelling on it, they move forward to the a…