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Best fishing spots are usually kept secret
It was the first weekend of fishing season, and I was taking my family to my favorite fishing spot. I stopped at a gas station to fill up, and one of my best friends, Lenny, pulled in beside me. I could tell by the gear …
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Teachers, leave them kids’ sunscreen alone
What’s so fair about a fair complexion? I ask that as one who tires of “clever” remarks about onlookers being blinded by my legs when I wear shorts, and as someone whose family attends a whole lot fewer afternoon ballgames than Dracula. Yes, sun damage …
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Thankful, despite hot conditions
Ah June, you were not so meek and mild to us this year. It’s been hot, dry and dusty and most of us have been finding ways to beat the heat. But there are still many reasons to be thankful. 1. Dislike the truck driver …
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Bulldogger got ’em down by lips
Most rodeo performers who participate in the bulldogging or steer wrestling event probably know that Bill Pickett is the guy who invented that sport, but sometimes I wonder if they know the whole story. Pickett was one of the Wild West’s most unusual characters — …
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Get rid of fear
Martin Luther King said, “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” I’ve interviewed several combat veterans. Most admit to being afraid. But there are two reasons soldiers are able to conquer their fear: 1) They have extensive training. 2) …
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Why Obama keeps an enemies list
When the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel exposed that the Obama campaign is keeping an enemies list and spending vital resources attacking Romney supporters, many liberals gasped in surprise. Richard Nixon and Senator Joseph McCarthy kept lists of names to be targeted, but Obama keeping …
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Upholding veterans’ quality of life
What is quality of life for our veterans? The meaning for most upon returning home is security. Jobs that offer equitable pay with benefits, home ownership, education opportunity. Many veterans returning home bring with them acquired skills. Skills they did not have prior to entering …
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Life’s little things missed, not missed
I never knew who she was until she died last week but I certainly love many of the movies she wrote or directed. Writer-filmmaker Nora Ephron died Tuesday in New York of leukemia. She was 71. Born into a family of screenwriters, a top journalist …
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White County holds claim to state’s third largest diamond
The Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro is the only place in the world where the public may search for diamonds and keep what they find. It is also the only place in North America where diamonds are found in their natural matrix. John …
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Reporting isn’t always ‘pretty’
Well, I’ve made it a year. Wednesday marked my one-year anniversary at the Batesville Daily Guard and what a year it’s been. I have really enjoyed being right in the middle of what’s going on. I have met so many new people, traveled to new …
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More orders issued
One hundred and fifty years ago, the capital city of Little Rock was reinvesting its infrastructure to serve the purpose as the Head Quarters for the entirety of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. Having served as Commander of the ATM only since late May 1862, …
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Letter to the editor
Concern for ducks Dear editor: As a long-standing employee of a local business here in Batesville, also a resident of the county for 40-plus years, I am one that has always brought their children and grandchildren to Row Lake to fish and feed the ducks. …
