Mar 12, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Here in Indiana it appears that a bill is making its way through the legislature that will make it okay to say “ Merry Christmas” in public schools. I didn’t know that it wasn’t OK to send out the winter holiday message. But apparently the law-to-be...
Mar 5, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener I, like a number of southern Indiana residents, enjoy feeding and watching the birds during the winter. Birds of all colors flock to winter feeders: cardinal red, jay blue, shades of gray juncos, orange & white breasted towhees, gray but trying to...
Feb 26, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A bill moving through the Indiana legislature could allow southern Hoosier farmers to grow a new crop: industrial hemp. Like the baby with the bath water, hemp, and its much more popular cousin marijuana, were made illegal in the 1930’s. More on that...
Feb 19, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Many readers of this column may be acquainted with ‘Maxine’ the greeting card and internet character who is plain spoken and cynically pragmatic in her comments. Hmmm… sort of like newspaper people. Such is the genre of life-isms collected for this...
Feb 12, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Perhaps Thanksgiving is at the wrong part of the year. After last Tuesday’s town council meeting, we slushed and mushed my way back to my old Howard Street address. Helping Mother up the steps I thought about shoveling the walk to get a leg up on...
Feb 5, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Here is some trivia, facts and bits of information which may be of no use but will make you a more informed human. •It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times. •Gold is...
