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By The Numbers

by Curt Kovener While all of our votes are important next Tuesday, voters inside the town limits of Crothersville have a particularly important vote to cast for the town’s future. Voters of the Vernon Crothersville precinct will determine whether the number of...

They’re H-e-r-e!

by Curt Kovener It was a warm fall afternoon following some recent seasonably cooler temperatures. I was sitting on my front porch shelling out some hickory nuts in anticipation of making some coming holiday pies. I was concentrating on the slow, methodical manual...

Who Are You Callin’ Fat?

by Charley Kovener Curt, my human, read me a news release he got from a veterinary group, that got my dander up. And he says I got plenty of dander along with fly away hair, drooling and flatulance.Hrumppp!!! It seems these veterinarians are warning human pet owners...

This, Too, Shall Pass…And Other Universal Truths

by Curt Kovener As I have gotten more gray hair I have come to understand some oddities and truths in life. Here is some gleaned from a variety of sources. •Nothing is worse than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. •Bacon tastes good. Pig...

Ahhhhhh-tumn

by Curt Kovener The nights are cooler and the mornings often fog shrouded. Spider webs woven during the night are easily seen by dawn as they are heavily laden with glistening dew drops. But some are obscure. I find some newly spun webs stretched between tree branches...

What’s In Your Wallet?

by Curt Kovener “Picking up paw-paws, put them in your pocket,” is a song we sang in our youth. But this is not about any woodland fall harvest. Paw-paw is a metaphor for those plastic cards we all seem to be required to possess these days to make...