Opinion

On behalf of the Reedsburg Masonic Lodge, I'd like to thank all the volunteers who made our 40th Annual Thanksgiving Meal a big success. With your efforts we were able to provide 235 meals to our Senior community. 

The Old Franklin Township Historical Society in Plain would like to extend a huge thank you to the membership and community for a successful year. We appreciate all donations, whether monetary or archival.

In 2018, a mobile home park owner in Stevens Point lost his operator’s license after submitting falsified drinking water samples to the state, purportedly leaving longtime residents of the park at risk of consuming excess iron and manganese. He appealed.

The signs leading up to Thanksgiving were not auspicious. The oven door broke and would not close.  We lost water pressure so showers were impossible and toilet tanks refused to fill. To top it off, Elsie had caught a mouse and was happily flinging the corpse around when I went to bed.

Have you found the perfect Christmas gift for that special someone yet? If so, what makes it perfect? Is it perfect because it’s unique, like handcrafted pottery? Is it perfect because it fits the personality of the individual for whom you bought it, like a plaid shirt for the lumberjack in your family?

I don’t always cook with paprika. I’ve never, for example, put paprika in or on pasties. That seems like it would almost be a crime. But I admit I do use it in a lot of things I cook.

Data centers have been around since the 60’s and now they are a problem?

Somewhere is a ‘think tank’ where someone has made a mockery of logic and reality.

Recently, my spouse and I attended the annual School Board Meeting in my hometown of Spring Green and learned a lot about the budget. We do not have children in the schools anymore, but we are local taxpayers. It’s not realistic, but I wish everyone could attend in order to learn about what vouchers do to their public schools.

We are extremely thankful to live in this generous community!

About 90 years ago, a madman in Europe executed about six million people. He rounded them up, put them on trains, and sent them to deathcamps in Poland and other countries.

The people of Germany had choices. They could flee the country, help their neighbors, stay silent and uninvolved, or turn their neighbors over to the Gestapo.