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Generational hurts By Christina Olka Freedom Director, South Bay Church, christina@southbay.cc When you put my mother and me in the same room, many people can point out that we are…
Let the name-calling commence By Christina Olka Freedom Director, South Bay Church, christina@southbay.cc By definition, a name is “a set of words by which a person is known, addressed or…
Words can hurt; words can heal By Christina Olka Freedom Director, South Bay Church, southbay.cc Words have cosmic value. They have the power to bring life or bring death into…
Setting a course By MITCH TRAPHAGEN mitch@observernews.net On a beautiful September Saturday, I stood on the seawall at the yacht club and marina in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., and gazed out…
PUBLISHED AUG. 4, 2016 The Barbers By MITCH TRAPHAGEN mitch@observernews.net The building is from a different era. Open the door and walk from the heat into the cool of the…
PUBLISHED JULY 14, 2016 By MITCH TRAPHAGEN mitch@observernews.net Perhaps there simply are no answers. Or, perhaps more likely, the answers are multi-generational in that we could only begin today, but…
PUBLISHED JUNE 16, 2016 Observations: Living in three-quarter time By MITCH TRAPHAGEN mitch@observernews.net In late 2001, I was a brand-new reporter for The Observer News. My first article, a photo…
PUBLISHED JUNE 16, 2016 An unusually gray day By LISA STARK lisa@observernews.net It was an unusually gray day, I thought, especially considering the perpetually sunny skies I had grown accustomed…