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One Small Voice: ‘We’re doomed’ with gun violence

January 24, 2023

by Lynn Mandaville In Washington, D.C., there is an independent agency called The Gun Violence Archive. It is non-partisan, affiliated with no political party, PAC, or movement. It is an online archive that collects statistics daily about, among other acts of gun violence, the mass shootings reported and verified by...

Blueberry Croissant Puff is a twist on bread pudding

January 22, 2023

by Kathy Hamman Miller Need a tasty dish to go with your morning breakfast? Well here’s a twist on grandma’s bread pudding recipe. This recipe can be made the night before to pop in the oven while you’re preparing for breakfast or is great as a treat served with a...

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One Small Voice: We need sensitive documents rules

January 19, 2023

by Lynne Mandaville There are a lot of things that I’m bothered by about all this secret document stuff that’s been taking up so much talking-head time lately. I’m horrified that our former president felt it was all right to take with him boxes and boxes of classified information when...

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Army Bob: Documents issue includes so many questions

January 19, 2023

by Robert M. Traxler How did the process of searching for classified documents at President Joe Biden’s office start, and why did it start? Who sent lawyers to the old office, years after it had been abandoned by our President? Why did searches for classified documents and finding classified documents...

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Yes It’s True: WHS girls’ hoop coaches experienced

January 15, 2023

Mike Hudson Wes Hudson An interesting football coaching experiment at Byron Center High School a little more than a decade ago produced neither good nor bad results. But it was interesting. And coaches for Wayland High School’s varsity girls basketball team are essentially doing the same thing these days, though...

Dump, bake and enjoy this ‘al dente’ meatball casserole

January 15, 2023

by Kathy Hamman Miller Ingredients: Casserole: 1 lb uncooked penne, or my new favorite - gemelli pasta. 24 ounce jar of marinara sauce 3 cups water 24 ounce bag of the frozen cooked meatballs thawed. I used cocktail size - Italian style for this recipe. The bag comes with 48...

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Basura: Santos, Walker, Trump Hall of Fame liars

January 12, 2023

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” — William Shakespeare George Santos. Hershel Walker. Donald Trump. These three guys deserve inclusion into the Liars’ Hall of Fame, for the outrageous false claims they’ve made, and the sheer audacity of their falsehoods. Santos was newly and narrowly elected to the United State House of...

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Army Bob: CNN has shown it’s turning against Biden

January 12, 2023

by Robert M. Traxler Hell is indeed freezing over. CNN broke a story that highly classified documents, top secret code word, eyes only documents, were discovered in an office in DC. It is an office used by then former Vice President Joe Biden when he was being paid by the...

The possibilities can be endless for ice cream bread

January 8, 2023

by Kathy Hamman Miller Ingredients: 2 cups of your favorite flavor of whole milk ice cream I used strawberry this time. 1 1/2 cup self rising flour. 1 tablespoon sugar. Sprinkles of choice. Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spray a 9 x 5 baking pan. Scoop the ice...

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Army Bob: Don’t follow Pied Pipers, Chicken Littles

January 5, 2023

by Robert M. Traxler The greatest threat to our nation’s survival is “Climate Change,” according to every progressive socialist in the United States and Western Europe. Let’s look at the climate disasters that the “sky is falling” folks have preached as gospel. Global cooling: an end of the world, an...

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