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Dear Editor,
We are writing simply to say THANK YOU to you and to everyone on your staff for their service of providing a local newspaper twice each week. We read it through as soon as it …
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3/19/26
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Dear Editor,
The biggest disappointment when your favorite teams lose after a tremendous season is the lack of opportunity to say “Thank you” to those teams. After a loss, the players, …
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3/19/26
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In rapid succession this year, the Washington Pos t laid off half its newsroom, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution cut 15% of its staff and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced it would close in May.
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By Jason Hancock
Guest Columnist
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3/13/26
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There are chirping sounds outside my office window today, and I bet this visiting bird is doing a countdown to the first day of spring. Now and then, I go to the window to see if I can spot her – …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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3/13/26
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Among the best of the best books concerning wine that I have ever read is Wine and War by Don and Petie Kladstrup. ‘
This book does not dwell on specific wines as most of the classical …
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By Bennet Bodenstein
Contributing Columnist
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3/13/26
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What it is that sets Christianity apart from all other world religions? There are many answers to this question and perhaps the most earth-shattering is the reality of the resurrection. There is also …
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By Atticus Dyer
Pillar Church
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3/9/26
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With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, many people are tempted to purchase the attractive “shamrock plant,” or may receive one as a gift. What is sold as shamrock is actually a plant from the …
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By Kathi Mecham
Contributing Columnist
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3/5/26
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The Hebrew holiday of Passover begins at sunset on April 1, 2026, and ends at nightfall on April 9.
It is probably the most festive of all the Hebrew holidays. The holiday celebrates the …
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By Bennet Bodenstein, Contributing Columnist
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3/5/26
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Press zero. I still try it when I call a business and a recorded voice answers. It used to help me skip the recorded blah-blah and connect straight to a human operator. But not anymore.
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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3/5/26
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Dear Editor,
An intriguing fact I've learned recently is that most birds migrate at night! They do this for many reasons; air stability, fewer predators, moon and star navigation, plus …
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3/5/26
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We often describe towns by what they do. College town. Military town. Farming community. Those labels describe function, but they do not describe formation. Warrensburg is more than an economic …
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By Pastor Tim Whitmore,
First Christian Church Warrensburg
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3/3/26
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Have you ever watched someone watching TV? I used to do it when I was a kid because my dad was nearly as entertaining as whatever he was watching. As a devoted fan of science fiction …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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2/26/26
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In this period before the seasons change, there should be some great buys on wine in the marketplace. With that in mind, I would like to suggest some warm-weather wines that I recently sampled.
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By Bennet Bodenstein, Contributing Columnist
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2/26/26
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Harbingers of spring beckon, and I answer by lacing up my shoes, leashing my dog and hitting the trail. Spring peepers and chorus frogs call me to the pond where I pause to listen and imagine the …
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By Angela Palmer
Contributing Columnist
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2/26/26
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Dear Editor,
“I wanted to be a good boy,” stated the United States president in part of his rebuttal to the Supreme Court's decision regarding his unconstitutional use of tariffs.
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2/26/26
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About a week ago, I got a text from a close friend saying she was embarrassed that I saw her sunroom in its current state when I took care of her dogs while she was out of town. I rewound my internal …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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2/20/26
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We all know the serious side of wine; however, there is also a comic side.
Very often, the comedy is in the label or a story about the wine, and I would like to offer the reader some of those …
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By Bennet Bodenstein
Contributing Columnist
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2/12/26
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I made you something for Valentine’s Day. It took years, and I almost gave up. But I finally finished, wrapped it in a yellow cover, and put a big pink heart on it, just in time for February 14th. …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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2/12/26
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Twice in the past week, I’ve dreamed vividly of gardens. Ethereal backyard gardens featuring forests of dill, towering, twenty-foot sunflowers, basil so perfect it was sparkling, and superabundant …
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By Liz Schleicher
Contributing Columnist
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2/12/26
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What would you do if you had “stupid money”? That’s one of the questions I asked my three best friends from high school during our recent weekend reunion. At first, their answers were practical …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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2/5/26
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