That Same Old Lang Syne
Here’s to hoping 2014 is a way better year than 2013. One of my favorite songs this time of year is “Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg. It’s a song about Fogelberg meeting up with a lover from his past with a...
Editorials
Glendorado Woman's Brush With Portraiture
I'm impressed by people who have artistic ability. (I find drawing stick people challenging). When I worked as a cashier for Virgil Gilyard at the Country Store/gas station in Santiago from 1985-1993, I got to k...
“O Tannenbaum!”
As always on the day after Thanksgiving, it appeared that every other car and truck passing through the Becker area had a Christmas tree bagged and tagged on the roof, as people from far and wide visited their f...
Letters To The Editor
TO THE EDITOR: - Enlighten me, please. Doesn’t the golf course rely on city subsidies? Hasn’t the question been raised: Can Becker afford the golf course? Shouldn’t the mayor do everything possible to get i...
The Iniquity For All Time, The Acropolis, In Athens.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the third and concluding story in a series on Turkey and Greece, visited by Editor Gary W. Meyer with Inland Press Association in September.) Turkey and Greece have had mud huts ...
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