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Brenda J. Linert

Thanksgiving newspaper coming a day early

I’m not a meteorologist, but I do have a smart phone, and it is indicating a brisk, but sunny, Thanksgiving Day. As I write this, it’s more than a week away, but I’m hopeful, for the sake of the many holiday travelers set to take to the roads this week, that the forecast doesn’t ...

Thanksgiving newspaper coming a day early

I’m not a meteorologist, but I do have a smart phone, and it is indicating a brisk, but sunny, Thanksgiving Day. As I write this, it’s more than a week away, but I’m hopeful, for the sake of the many holiday travelers set to take to the roads this week, that the forecast doesn’t ...

Printed newspaper page really can’t be replaced

There’s just something about the yellowed, brittle pages of an old newspaper that makes me feel nostalgic. Unless I’m sitting on my living room couch on a Sunday afternoon, or on a stool at my kitchen counter early in the morning, these days I seem to be spending precious fewer minutes ...

Exploring newspaper roles at election time

For centuries, newspapers have played a significant role in our nation’s election process. We understand our importance in disbursing local, state and national election information, and we always take that responsibility seriously. During the last several weeks, we have been publishing a ...

Election uncertainty? Just read the issues

Marching through election season, especially in recent years, has been hard. It brings increasingly ugly candidate debates and divisiveness among political parties, along with voters. Advertisements embellish candidates’ accomplishments, or worse, tear down and sometimes (often) lie about ...

Court document outlines Jan. 6 defendant’s crimes

Volumes of video recordings and photographs showcase hundreds of people clamoring up exterior walls and through hallowed halls of our nation’s Capitol. They depict intruders’ use of tools like make-shift battering rams or hatchets to shatter windows as they attempted to gain entry to locked ...