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April Fool's Day is nigh, the scribe thought, with a sigh,
time to come up with something silly, maybe even wry.
As last week showed, and a whole bunch of others, too,
sometimes being creative is more than yours truly can do.
While wandering through a parking lot one evening last week, a fellow...
This week, once again, we're going to have a little bit of this, and a little bit of that...
...that's mainly 'cause sometimes, when your scribe sits down at the keyboard to create a masterpiece, there's just not much going on between the brain and the fingers...it's kind of like creativity decided...
Hope springs eternal, which, is a really, really good thing...
My fingers are cold as I'm hacking at the keyboard on a chilly Monday morning in March at The Paragraph Factory. Seems like my fingers have been cold since, oh, sometime last October.
I didn't help my own cause last Sunday night, either...
As recent widespread flooding demonstrates, severe weather can happen any time of the year. To help people prepare for weather emergencies, IEMA and local emergency management agencies will be promoting Severe Weather Preparedness Month throughout March.
"We want to make sure families have a plan...
Thank goodness...
...last Saturday afternoon, yours truly went on a daily walkabout.
The sun was shining, all bright and warm. Yes. Warm. As in I won't freeze my face while on a walk.
I'm not sure how or why the idea flashed through my simple little mind. Such is often the case. That being said,...
It was a dark and stormy night. Really. It was. And a dark and stormy afternoon. And a dark and stormy evening.
Unless you happened to be hibernating, you probably saw that it rained a little bit last weekend in Union County. While the deluge wasn't quite of Biblical proportions, it sure was...
The Union County Selective Service office has announced that the county draft call for March, 1968, is for 12 Union County men.
Merchants in Anna are offering Leap Year Specials to their customers this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Members of the A-J Future Farmers of America visited the O.K....
This week, some thoughts about creatures which can fly, and a critter that might have hoped that it could fly...
One evening last week, while yours truly was on a daily walkabout, I could hear the sounds of geese as they flew from the west.
I stopped, listened and watched as seven geese soared...
What you're seeing this week makes it official. My brain froze last week.
Call it the effects of the winter of our discontent. Old Man Winter seems to be especially grumpy and cantankerous this season. At least we haven't heard anything about the Polar Vortex.
Winter seemed to settle in with some...
Way to go, groundhog.
The chubby rodent in Pennsylvania saw his shadow last Friday. He would have seen a shadow last Friday morning in Union County, too. Guess that means we get to have six more weeks of winter. Sigh...
...indeed, the groundhog's prognostication appears to be correct...
...we had...
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