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GUEST COMMENTARY | Libraries Change to Accommodate Changing Times
by Judy Thompson, President, and the Wilkinson Library Board of Trustees
Jan 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Why, regrettably, the Wilkinson Public Library is now closed on Sundays.
UP BEAR CREEK | Welcome to the Year 26013
by Art Goodtimes
Jan 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
I’m marrying the Christian end-numbers to a rounded-off precessional cycle of 26,000 years in crafting a new Goodtimes Calendar (GC) … Voila! Thus, my new year, 26013 (GC)
DISPATCHES | The Media’s Flawed Record When It Comes to Afghanistan
by Rob Schultheis
Jan 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The picture of Afghanistan Americans have gotten from the press is false through and through. 
SPORTS WATCH | RG III Proves He’s Hungry For the Super Bowl
by Gus Jarvis
Jan 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
RG III’s teammates know he’s putting the team first and I think his toughness will make for an even tighter-knit bunch of football players on that Redskins football team next year.
VIEW TO THE WEST | One Hundred Names For Snow
by Peter Shelton
Jan 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Eskimos may have 100 words for snow, but we have almost that many to describe snow on cars.
RAISING ELLE | Here’s Hoping That ‘Love Is All You Need’
by Martinique Davis
Jan 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
“Mom, I really feel like I want to sleep in your bed.” To the parents who lost children at Sandy Hook, and to other violence worldwide, with love, from us.
SPORTS WATCH | After Sunday’s Win, Colts Make Playoff Picture More Interesting
by Gus Jarvis
Jan 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
You can look at all kinds of stats to judge a team, but when a team rallies around a coach recovering from leukemia, it’s immeasurable. And that’s why the Colts may now be the team to beat in the p...
VIEW TO THE WEST | A World Of Pain And Magic
by Peter Shelton
Jan 03, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Yesterday, Dec. 29, was my sister Polly’s birthday. She would have been 62. Today, an article in the Sunday New York Times took me back to 1972 and a year I spent in New York, during the time Polly...
DISPATCHES | The Media’s Flawed Afghanistan Record
by Rob Schultheis
Jan 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
I have no political  ax to grind in Afghanistan, beyond a deep and abiding affection for the country and its people. I have visited there 31 times since 1972,  making me the only journalist who saw...
UP BEARCREEK | Tweaking the Calendar
by Art Goodtimes
Jan 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
I’m proposing we change our calendars from 2013 to 26013.
VIEW TO THE WEST | Holding On and Letting Go: Resolutions 2013
by Peter Shelton
Dec 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
These New Year’s resolutions run the gamut from banishing bitterness to borrowing from a 17-year-old.

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