Pierce City Leader-Journal Editor Paul Donley and I were talking before the Eagles football game a couple weeks ago and he told me his 50th wedding anniversary was this month. I’ve had plenty of people tell me their anniversaries are coming up, and I’ve celebrated the anniversaries of my parents and other extended family...

Cassville’s the place to be within the next week with annual fall events that promise, for participants and spectators alike, plenty to do around the square and on the R-4 campus. Events will be both daytime and in the evening if locals and visitors alike are looking for something to do any time during the end of the coming week...

The color pink has many meanings and interpretations in society, but none are more significant than the color’s use in October each year, aimed at raising awareness for breast cancer. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, started in 1985, is an international campaign that — largely thanks to all the pink — is probably the most visible of any health-related awareness day or month throughout the year. ...

Today’s newscasters, most of whom are good readers that are simply reading off a prompter, need to use more caution in the content of their broadcast. During the time I was in the Korean War, it was a known fact if a correspondent’s credentials were approved, he or she would be subject to censoring their own copy by sets of rules outlined by the command they were working under. ...