Monday, January 12, 2026

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Salmon Patties

For years, not a few, more like maybe 30-40 you couldn't get me to touch a salmon patty with a 10 foot pole. There...

Famous Last Words “Best Of”

Roger was a plunger, no, not in a janitorial sense but in a business one. He was a compulsive go-getter who married an exact...

Lettuce Eat Local: Pop(corn) Music

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local It's such an unmistakable sound, yet I don't know how to even begin to describe it. I could hear it coming...

Inebriated Cowboy

Thank goodness for kindly readers coming to the rescue. When contemplating material for this week's column, my old mind was coming up blank. Then,...

Be Prepared when the Fish are Biting

Have you ever stepped into the water on the first fishing trip of the spring only to find your waders leaked? Or lost a...

Phill’s Chicken Casserole

This week I thought we'd start the column with a good tip and conclude the column with another good tip. Tip #1, at Christmas...

Just a Little Light: Dandelions, Reaching toward the Sun

Dawn Phelps Columnist In June of 2009 four of my sisters and our husbands drove to Alaska, traveling the ALCAN Highway through Canada, a 1,700...

Good Friday Spent with Family

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight   It's a cool April evening with a temperature of 53 degrees. The wind makes it...