May 14, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Earlier this year as the three month snow cover and polar vortex was releasing its grip on southern Indiana, there was some speculation that the long, intense cold would help diminish the pesky insect population. Now that the woods-in about two...
May 7, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A friend gifted me a book on the common sense and uncommon genius of Midwesterners. I have gleaned from it to share with you the philosophies, observations and witticisms of men and women either born or raised Hoosier. George Ade was a Hoosier born...
Apr 30, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Charities abound and every one of them claiming to be a good cause. Rarely a day goes by that the Crothersville Times post office box doesn’t contain at least one solicitation for financial help. One day recently we got pleas from WorldVision and Feed...
Apr 23, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Have you ever noticed how diametrically opposed we sometimes speak? When someone says, “Not to change the subject, but…” what is the next thing they do? They change the subject. And when someone says “I don’t want to start an argument,...
Apr 16, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener We admire entrepreneurs; those who have a vision, take risks, establish a business and keep it going for multiple decades. The Crothersville community lost one of its entrepreneurs last week with the passing of Earl Murray. Murray, along with his...
Apr 9, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Way back in the day my friends(?) would mail me some cartoons and jokes. Later when I became technologically advanced(?), they would fax me some mirth and merriment. (Some of it was off-color… it was some of the more humorous stuff.) Now that we all...