Nov 16, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The election is over and many of us have already offered up a sigh of relief and a pre-Thanksgiving prayer of gratitude. But campaign promises and rhetoric oft carry over into elected officials’ misspeaks, verbal faux pas, or proof that we don’t elect...
Nov 9, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener’s Mom This week’s offering is “Mom Approved”. Or, I guess it is, she sent these to me. •The location of your mailbox shows you how far away from your house you can be in a robe, before you start looking like a mental patient. •My...
Nov 2, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener If you haven’t already voted, there’s a question on your election ballot next week wanting your decision on a constitutional question Indiana voters will have the chance to decide if people’s right to hunt and fish needs to be declared in the...
Oct 26, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Becky Killian (We turn over this space this week to an award winning writer, photographer and journalist to share with you a Halloween story. Just keep saying, “I ain’t afraid of no ghost.”) Before sitting at a desk last week at the newspaper office where I work, I...
Oct 19, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) I will tell you up front, this is a nutty story. I enjoy getting outside in the fall when the air is cool & crisp. And gathering persimmons and hickory nuts are a way to enjoy the out of...
Oct 12, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Bicentennially speaking over 200 years ago, when Vincennes, Indiana was a small prairie borough just beginning to blossom, a man named Elihu Stout came to town and made history. That year, in 1804, the fledgling frontier settlement of the Indiana...