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...
Dec 20, 2017 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener (Christmas traditions make the winter holiday special. We share with you another of our Christmas traditions with this story from the Curt Comments archives.) Each December, I vowed to make Christmas a calm and peaceful experience. I had cut back on...
Dec 13, 2017 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener This is a not-so-pretty time in the wilderness. The brown leaves continue to blow about even after multiple raking, mulching and cleanup. The brown bones of bare trees offer little contrast or color to the drab hills and hollers. The October pumpkins...
Dec 6, 2017 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener My long-time friend Joe Persinger and I share a number of similarities: singing and playing guitar, a career in the newspaper business, a fondness for wine, and sharing puns & corny jokes. It is on that last quality I ask your indulgence and,...
