Opinion

Parents have to put immense in extracurricular sponsors and coaches. Athletics and academics teams alike travel all over the region, nation, and soon internationally.

This devotional and directory is made possible by these businesses who encourage all to attend worship services. It is relatively easy to celebrate God’s goodness and faithfulness when everything is going smoothly.

Some weeks, it’s tough to pick just one topic for this column, so I’m taking a page out of Bob Mitchell’s book and clearing my proverbial spike. Theft at playground construction With little in the way of events for photographs last week, I found myself on the hunt Monday for a picture worthy of our front page, above-the-fold spot.

This devotional and directory is made possible by these businesses who encourage all to attend worship services. Recently, two of us drove around an area in Shell Knob to pray in the community.

Some people put a stamp on your memory the first time you meet them. As editor of the paper, I had read Lori Videmschek’s name about 1,000 times while editing the copy of our former sports editor.

I heard a theory the other day in reference to better support for parents today. One part of it was that once a child is born, the parent should receive “extra” sick days.

It’s an ordinary New Year’s resolution to work harder or take up a side gig to make a little more money, but a few area individuals are taking that sentiment too far. In the early morning of Jan.

As my children are moving from elementary school into middle and high school, I’m learning so many new things, like that “gucci’” is a good thing and has nothing to do with the clothing brand, deodorant is a hot commodity, and I can manipulate them into just about any chore by threatening to take away their cell phones.

It’s Monday morning, the first of 2023 and the first Monday of my life as a newspaper owner. I’m at the Cassville Democrat office with my wife and two girls.

One by one, a generation of Barry County leaders has been exiting from courthouse offices over the last few years, punctuated last week again with the retirement of Presiding Commissioner Gary Youngblood.