Feb 14, 2018 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener While there was sufficient ice on the pond we used the seasonal hard water to aid in our invasive plant reduction efforts. Way back in the day the Indiana DNR provided wildlife planting packets to benefit birds and add beauty to the forest edges. One...
Feb 7, 2018 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener It has been a while since we visited ‘The Wisdom of the Midwest’, a collection of quotes of common sense and uncommon genius from people who grew up as middle Americans. “Education is not preparation for life. It is life itself.” ~John Dewey “Absorb...
Jan 31, 2018 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The Times is losing another longtime colleague and friend. I had mixed emotions when told of Postmaster Carolyn King’s pending retirement this Friday. She has been around having a hand at delivering your weekly newspaper as long as the Times has been...
Jan 24, 2018 | Curt Comments
This week we turn over this column space to a friend and colleague—a newspaper reporter, editor and owner spanning a 50-year career. Joseph F. Persinger penned this piece on the importance of locally owned, hometown newspapers. Persinger formerly worked for the...
Jan 17, 2018 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A collective noun, as students of Mrs. Lewis’s high school English class will tell you, is a word for a group of specific items, animals or people. For example, a group of ships is called a fleet, a group of cows is called a herd, a group of lions is...
Jan 10, 2018 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener As it is at your house, it is cold and frozen in the wilderness. And also as it is at your house, I am ready for a brief…or maybe even extended… above freezing respite. It was welcome to have a light White Christmas. Though most of us would have...
