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Secession Plan For Independence Day

by Curt Kovener (This is an archived column originally penned some 20 years ago with tongue planted firmly in cheek). The seemingly prevailing attitude by Vernon Township residents is that we often get short-sheeted, left with the dirty end of the stick, and generally...

Scared Spitless

by Curt Kovener I don’t like to get scared. I’m not talking about the anxiety you feel waiting in the dentist’s office or that initial worry when you look in your mailbox to see a letter with a return address to the Internal Revenue Service or that feeling of sudden...

Patience: Something We Want In Everyone Else

by Curt Kovener  In our youth, some of us now nearly old-timers remember the real old-timers talk about how busy the business district of Crothersville used to be. The business district being defined as US 31, pretty much the same in 2014 as it was in 1914. “It...

Amazingly Simple Home Remedies (?!)

by Curt Kovener I cannot…on second thought make that will not take credit for these. Cuzzin’ Bill (or is that Cussin’ Bill?) sent these intellectual(?) gems(?) to share…so I am. But don’t blame me, I’m just the messenger. Alls ya’ll can take the matter up...

A Historical Hike

by Curt Kovener  I took advantage of the 3-day Memorial Day weekend to combine work with exploring and history. South on I-75 to Exit 49 north of London, Kentucky in the community of Hazel Patch is Camp Wildcat Battle Field, the site of the first recognized Union...

A Memorable Weekend

by Curt Kovener  From the Curt Comments Archives originally penned about 20 years ago: If you are reading this it must mean that I returned from a weekend camping-fishing-working expedition. Since we put most of the newspaper together early over holiday weekends, I...