I can always tell its football season by the change in my laundry habits.
In looking at the calendar, I just can’t quite believe that it is almost September. Where has the summer gone? Well, it is still here by the temperature on the thermometer and it doesn’t look like it is going away any time soon. The mid-term elections are just over 60 days away and I imagine that Nancy Pelosi is squirming right now waiting to see if she is going to continue as Speaker of the House. I am not going to make any predictions but I do know that there are a lot of mad people around the country and I don’t see that changing over the next two months.
School has begun and that brings together large numbers of kids in the same spaces.
Most locals are probably acquainted with Fredville, that former little highway stop on the corner of old U.S. Highway 71 (now Gateway Drive) and Jute Road.
I am going to have to dig out some light colored or white T-shirts to wear as I walk along Wildcat Boulevard each morning. It is dark at 6 a.m. now, and I like to wear things that can be more easily seen than the black T-shirts I like so much.
Aug. 16 was the magic date when students returned to classes at Neosho Christian Schools.
Apples are beginning to arrive at the market.
On Saturday, the residents of Newtonia and Stark City celebrated the installation of a storm shelter and storm siren in their communities.
The football season for the Neosho Wildcats will kick off Friday in Bolivar.
I’ll start with a “poundage” update.
One of the worst family “committees” is movie duty.
I need to clarify a couple of things from last week’s column.
As you may have already read in this newspaper, the historical society’s second edition of an old favorite is back from the printer.
And I, for one, am excited.
I’m a small town guy, and this summer, I got a chance to show it.
I have been noticing an unusually large number crickets and bluebirds along Wildcat Boulevard lately.
This Saturday, two towns in eastern Newton County – Stark City and Newtonia – will dedicate the new storm siren, which is located at the storm shelter on the old Midway School grounds (now Joplin Truss Co.) on Highway 86.
Recent rain in the area has certainly helped several market vendors.
I’ve been getting reacquainted with an old pastime of mine: painting.
The saying has almost became cliché, but that’s doesn’t mean it’s not the truth: everyone knows someone who’s life has been touched by cancer.
While a student in law school at Emory University in Atlanta, our daughter, Susan, met this lovely elderly couple in church and they became good friends.
