The recent flap over the roundabout is a reminder of all the issues that spin round and round in the public forum with no end in sight. No matter what the issue, roundabouts, justice centers or schoolchildren listening to the president on television, sides are drawn quickly.
Tag: Loose Ends
Loose Ends: Communication breakdown
“Sometimes when you’re here, you’re not really here,” is a common complaint from today’s children. Children from all levels of the economic spectrum seem to say this to their parents once in a while. It should strike a chord for every parent or grandparent.
Loose Ends: A market-ing success
How do you measure the success of a new community project? By talking to the locals who actively participate or by taking count of the number of people who take advantage of the program’s offerings?
Looking Back: Threshing days of old
Many people are so used to seeing newly baled hay out in the fields, that they can’t imagine the White River Valley any differently.
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.
Loose Ends: If you lived here, I’d know of you
Part of the appeal of small-town living is that most everyone knows your name. The old “Cheers” episodes featuring a big city bar, where all the regulars know each other’s names, are very popular because of that up-close-and personal feeling. Those who don’t experience it every day miss it, even[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Idle chit-chat and other time fillers
MEEKER — Cultural mores and traditions continue to vary across different sections of the country, and the rate of one’s speech patterns are often attributed to one’s geographical origin.
Loose Ends: A life of possibility inspires others
MEEKER — It isn’t until someone is gone that we are often able to put into words what it was that made them so unique, so admirable.