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Back at the Ranch: Tricks, treats and decades of Halloween fun

Back at the Ranch: Tricks, treats and decades of Halloween fun

Halloween has always been part of my life, even if my mother was morally opposed to trick-or-treating.
Drive carefully

Drive carefully

The snow is down across the Lakeland, but statistics show that some residents won’t be around to see it melt in the spring.
First third of autumn already gone

First third of autumn already gone

We are now just over a third of the way through autumn, and for the majority of it, we have been blessed with beautiful weather – blue skies, bright sun, and while they remained on the trees, bright coloured leaves that made our part of the wor
Fire prevention much different now than in earlier times

Fire prevention much different now than in earlier times

Back at the Ranch: It’s Fire Prevention Week, and it seems to me that people are learning some much different ways not to see what they love go up in smoke than the ways we depended more than half a century or more ago.
To AI, or not to AI, that is the question AI wants you to ask

To AI, or not to AI, that is the question AI wants you to ask

Could AI write this column? Did it? Headlight fish and pizza hounds suggest not.
Another season

Another season

Seasons of change
It was a workout to write this column

It was a workout to write this column

Let me hear your body talk
Slow truth and strong communities

Slow truth and strong communities

One source you can count on in this scary new world is your community newspaper. We employ professional journalists with deep experience and connections to the communities that we serve. Just as importantly, we’re visible in our communities, which makes us accountable and accessible to you, the reader.
Seeing orange

Seeing orange

Sharing the stories
Big issue events with links to local life

Big issue events with links to local life

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