This Week
By LOIS KINDLE Bet you haven’t ever gone to a formal affair and accessorized your attire with a pair of sneakers. Sounds likes fun doesn’t …
Columns
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By MITCH TRAPHAGEN American writer and newspaperman Finley Peter Dunne once famously said that newspapers have the ability to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Indeed, in Dunne’s era …
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By MITCH TRAPHAGEN According to a recent article by the Associated Press, an estimated 60,000 U.S. veterans sleep on the streets at night. Veterans make up approximately 14 percent of …
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By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I wrote some of this as an editorial for my newspaper in Iowa in 2008. Four years later, I feel the same message applies. Compromise has been …
Obituaries
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Constance Irene BoddenConstance Irene Bodden was born on May 14, 1916 in West Bay, Grand Cayman Island. She passed peacefully on May 7, 2012 with her loving granddaughter Kimberly Sullivan …
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Georgia B. WadeGeorgia B. Wade, 94, passed away Friday morning, May 4, 2012. She was born November 3, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois. She received her Bachelor and Masters degree at …
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Robert Thomas “Rocky” CarverRobert Thomas “Rocky” Carver, 57, of Riverview passed away on Monday, April 30, 2012. Born in Tampa, Rocky was a life-long resident. He was a member of …