Stories from Wednesday, August 12, 2020

For several years, Northview head girls cross country coach Tim Rayle led an uber-talented group of Lady Knights before taking a year’s break in 2019. That collection of some of the state’s top runners just so happen to be coming off a trip to the state finals and needed someone to guide them back there after former head coach Conor Strain stepped down to spend more time with his young family...

Kent Salitros was the guest speaker during the July monthly meeting at the Clay County Genealogy Library. Below is an overview of the interesting and informative presentation given by Mr. Salitros. To learn more about mines and miners in Clay County, visit the Genealogy Library in Center Point any Monday, Wednesday, or Saturday between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m...

My Uncle Charlie was extremely smart. He was an engineer for NASA. Really, he was—at Cape Canaveral, no less! But he was also ornery and loved to tease. Unfortunately, I was one of his favorite targets. Uncle Charlie loved to tell me that “A brain is a terrible thing to waste.” He would shake his head at some silly thing I’d said or done and tell me that I had only so many brain cells and if those cells were damaged or destroyed, I would live with deficient number of working brain cells for the rest of my life. ...

Have you been reading “Baby Blues” on the comic page recently? About a week ago, the kids in the comic strip went back to school and the little mischief-maker boy, I think his name is Hammie, fell in love with his new teacher. Big hearts and all. On Friday’s page, he tells his parents that his feelings for his new teacher won’t affect him at all. Then he excuses himself because he can’t wait to do his math homework...