Opinion



The power of second chances

Better Together opens doors to employment & hope By TRAVIS McGILVARY Guest Columnist Everyone in life has made a mistake, big or small. It’s what we learn from those mistakes…


A royal time at Beef & Boards

I don’t care how old I get; I still love anything princess. My daughter is no exception. She loves anything girly that is fit for a princess, which is why…


Do good manners still matter?

By NANCY KELLY SMITH Civility Counts Say “please”! Say “thank you”! How many of us have instructed a child or grandchild to answer with a polite response to a kind…


Finding delight

Pensive is defined as “dreamily” by Merriam-Webster. Chuck said I looked pensive while writing this week’s column. Dreamily is probably a good way to describe how I felt as my…



Start your summer the “K” way

Summer doesn’t arrive loudly. It slips in through longer evenings, barefoot mornings, and the quiet permission to begin again. School years close, calendars soften, and suddenly life feels less rushed,…


Less windshield time, more results

By MIKE HUBBS Guest Columnist It is 3 a.m. The radio crackles with a partial license-plate number and a vague description of a sedan that just fled a violent robbery….