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In My Opinion

Growth is good – when managed

The story of struggle that rural communities have waged to hang on to the character

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Museums can be part of the future

My enduring memory as a former staff member at the Gilmore Car Museum is

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Teacher shortage is real

Can we grow our own resources?

Residents and parents of children in the Maple Valley school system can

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Preparing youth for life after high school

Everyone can remember the teacher who insisted that learning history is important so we

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The importance of community dialogue

Why the surprise from Barry County commissioners that more residents didn’t turn out for the two

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Governor plans to ‘go it alone’

She sounded irritable when delivering her second State of the State message last Wednesday, but

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Can newspapers – and their communities -- survive?

As a lifelong proponent of a newspaper’s value in building awareness and citizen

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Online shopping is burying us in waste

Brown ones, white ones, and now blue ones, all delivering packages to what seems