June has been PTSD Awareness month and I have been writing about the 22 Veteran suicides a day. Last week I was able to announce the release o…
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“Sha’alu Shalom Yerushalayim”; or as your English Bible translates Psalms 122:6: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem”. This is a very simple vers…
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Hello, readers. I hope you stayed warm during the cold snap. I guess it’s the beginning of blackberry winter.
Yesterday was Memorial Day and with the COVID-19 virus still a major issue in our country, many of the annual remembrance programs that draw h…
I try to keep up with things – you know — “things”. I keep a pocket calendar going and transfer information into a note book calendar so I can…
When a toddler growing up in a bilingual household inserts native language words into his English sentences, conventional wisdom assumes that …
Throughout the last couple of years, I have been writing a lot of my columns focused on the 22 veteran suicides a day. Last year numerous vete…
Hello, readers. I hope you are staying warm during this cold snap. I guess it’s the beginning of blackberry winter.
If you read my column last week, I gave a lead-in to this week’s story and talked about the event that happened 50 years ago yesterday, May 4,…
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Hi guys, it’s so good to be spending these five marvelous minutes with you. Funny thing about a newspaper; it can go where you go; and, believ…
There have been very few news releases coming out of Washington since everyone has been sent home due to the virus thingy. There are several i…
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Journalist Stephen Sawchuk reminds us that these past few weeks, our public schools—often dismissed as mediocre, unequal, or bureaucratic—have…
Another week of self-distancing and working through the issues of daily life that it affects. Throughout Cocke County, like throughout the nat…
We have all come to know about a very important department of business known as “Support”. It can be an explanation of the product machinery o…
Should school boards or states cancel the rest of the school year, students could miss five to six months of formal schooling before possibly …
You are familiar with the rooster who preached the one word sermon when Simon Peter denied The LORD in the courtyard at the “trial” (actually …
In 1968, near Hoi An, Vietnam, Corporal Ray Manzo, a young Marine, found himself in a full-out firefight. During this event, under heavy fire,…
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The coronavirus pandemic has caused schools to close all across the country, forcing millions of students to stay at home and parents asking t…
Due to the coronavirus, many individuals and families are struggling financially, in large part because the “forced shutdown” of our economy i…
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Hello, everyone. I hope you are doing well during these days of staying in.
“Ain’t nobody gonna tell me I can’t preach!”
The female Veteran I profiled last week had a long and distinguished career, such that I had to separate it into two parts. I promised to fini…
