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Remembering Memorial Days past
Posted Friday, May 24, at 2:29 PM The official name of our late May holiday may have changed to Memorial Day, but it didn't matter much to my grandparents. They always called it Decoration Day no matter what the calendar said. Decoration Day was the day to decorate family graves with flowers, and for my grandparents, spend the morning making the rounds to three different cemeteries to pay respects. ...
Thanks to Vernon Burgess for some special memories It's a small world, especially in a small town. I've been thinking about Vernon Burgess this week, asking family members how he's doing since he's been under the weather. Vernon is 93 now. I've heard stories about Vernon all my life - I grew up in Worthington, he lived on a farm just outside town. The reason I heard about Vernon was because Vernon used to be my mother's boss, and he was a good one...
Mother's Day. Make sure you wear the necklace. Sunday is Mother's Day. In the United States, it's always the second Sunday in May. The date was set by Anna Jarvis, the woman who campaigned to make it a national holiday, which happened in 1914. There's differing opinions about where the apostrophe should or should not go. ...
James O'Malley is a road deputy for the Greene County Sheriff's Department. He started working there in the jail and became assistant jail commander before transitioning to work as a full-time deputy. He's currently assigned to work with the detectives on criminal investigations...
Kelly Portteus is a full-time dispatcher at the Greene County Sheriff's Department. She also works as a part-time dispatcher at the Linton Police Department. Linton dispatches their own calls, but emergency calls to the Greene County Sheriff's Department (GCSD) and all of the other departments in the county are answered by a GCSD dispatcher...
Lives in Boston have been changed forever It's time to write the weekly column and on this particular morning, the entire city of Boston is basically hunkered down and shut down while an army of police officers searches for one 19-year-old suspect. I've not turned on the television. I'm reading twitter feeds and listening to the Boston PD scanner traffic -- can you imagine working as a dispatcher in Boston during this past week?...
My family is going through a transition, one all families go through, and that's what's on my mind this week. My mother passed away on April 2. She was 90 years old. My dad passed away a few years ago. Our family is small so when we get together, we can all fit around one table. When one of us can't make it home, or passes over, it's hard to ignore that empty chair...
Happy Easter weekend! It's Easter weekend. Spring has to be around the corner, hopefully to stay. The weatherman says there's more chilly weather to come but it just has to end before long. We've had enough. Saturday seems to be the day to hunt Easter eggs. Nick, Sabrina and I are all planning to go to a hunt. ...
They call it March Madness and the name fits I'm about basketballed out! I'll hang on though, because Oladipo has more flying to do for IU and I'm a fan tried and true. When he leaves IU, he just might cause me to become an NBA fan again. I know I'm not alone in being weary of winter and weary of basketball right now -- hearing people say they're ready to watch some baseball. In my case, it's watching mountain bikers...
Welcome to the world, Cannon! I'm now one of the Grand People. Cannon was born on Sunday, March 3, the son of Joseph and Amy Kruger. Both Mommie and baby came through the passage healthy and everybody's happy. Mom, or maybe it was Cannon, decided it was time to go to the hospital right before a Saturday IU basketball game. ...
In like a lion, and out like a lamb Welcome to March, the month they say comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. I've been waiting. I try to practice the principle of making my own weather - choosing to act like it's a sunny day no matter what the weatherman says, but these gray days are getting old...
Kristal Stahl to be honored by Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame The Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in New Castle honors Hoosier basketball players every year during an annual awards banquet -- a reunion and get-together of stars of the past that have given fans thrills to be remembered. This year, a Greene County native is on the list of honorees...
Happy birthday, Washington Monday is Presidents Day. Or so I thought. When I looked it up to be certain of the date, I found out Monday is a federal holiday but the United States government does not call it Presidents Day. According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), this holiday, which is always on the third Monday in February, is officially designated as "Washington's Birthday" in section 6103(a) of title 5 of the United States Code - the law that specified which days are holidays for federal employees...
A snowy sectional, a snake dance, a barnburner, a buzzer-beater It's Sectional time. Girls go first -- their sectionals were this past week, and the guys are up next. I haven't been to a sectional game since Joseph was playing, but I know it's still an exciting time for everyone who follows a high school team throughout the basketball season...
Behind many of the long-winded stories on the front page about defendants on trial for some kind of alleged wrong-doing, there's some person or some family suffering some kind of loss. Once in a while their stories are told. Most of the time, they're not...
One positive interaction can restore faith in people The pantry needed a restock and it needed it quick. We were out of tostitos and salsa, out of frozen pizzas, out of NutterButter cookies. What's worse is we were out of coffee and French vanilla. These are staples and Thursday was payday -- I was going to have to go to the store...
Eagle viewing day is coming up The eagle viewing day up north of Terre Haute is coming right up. I've never been, would like to go, maybe this year? Kind of depends on the weather, and what else is going on with the family. It's sponsored by Duke Energy every year. This year it's next Saturday, January 26 at Duke's Cayuga electric power plant on the Wabash River -- that's about 35 miles north of Terre Haute...
Riding the rails doesn't have happy ending of the movies After the story about two men "Ridin' the Rails" came out in the paper, I heard about a great movie starring Lee Marvin and I heard "Oh, I've always wanted to do that!" and "Wouldn't it be neat to jump a train and ride across the country?" As romantic a notion it may be, the reality is that anyone riding rails is probably not living life on easy street...
Tales of big cats from the past There's always been tales of big cats in the area and yesterday Sabrina Westfall ran into an old column in a back issue dated Jan. 8, 1988. It was written by Mike Dickerson in his column called "Smoke Signals." Here's what it said, slightly edited......
Blizzard news from the 1978 Evening World This week's blizzard reminded folks of blizzards past, especially the Great Blizzard of '78. So Jon the press man pulled some old editions of the Evening World newspaper out of the archives for me to look through. Here's a few tidbits..... Tuesday, January 24, 1978: Freezing rain turned highways and streets into skating rinks shortly after 8 a.m. ...
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