Last weekend’s Heritage Fest was billed as the best of the west by at least one commissioner, and musically speaking he may be right. I spent less time at the annual celebration than most years — the result of kids who are finally old enough to stand in line for rides by themselves and other [...]
The Beer Garden entertainment was perhaps the high (no pun intended) point of Heritage Fest last weekend, beginning with the very successful Gin Blossoms concert on Thursday evening. The stage, erected for the use of this national act was an improvement on the usual BG venue, I hear, although it also displaced some of the [...]
I realized when I wrote this week’s column that I might be spitting in the wind. After all, even my closest family members seem to have no compunctions about scheduling everything else in their lives around the kids’ sports, music and other activities. Just because I take a more conservative view — family first! — [...]
It’s Memorial Day, and all of us should take a minute to reflect on the sacrifice of this nation’s troops, past and present. A friend tells me about a wonderful organization that connects citizens with young men and women in uniform. Through Adoptaplatoon, you can “adopt” a serviceman or woman, provide pen pal support, or [...]
We’ve been finding evidence of some cicada action today on trees, shrubs and, yes, even tulips. I grew up in Rockford, so I have no memory of the red-eyed throngs I’m told will soon cover all available outdoor surfaces. I’ve been told to expect a mechanical hum that’s “deafening” and the squish of expired cicadas [...]
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