Musician Jeff Tweedy displays sense of humor in his memoir
In his memoir, “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back),” Jeff Tweedy, frontman of the American rock band Wilco, displays a sense of humor that his audiences will know well from his onstage banter.
Month: November 2018
EDITORIAL: Student shows rare selfless solidarity with bullied classmate
Our nation’s top federal health agency recommends a plethora of actions school personnel and others can take in identifying and addressing the effects of bullying on our youth.
3 men charged in connection with shooting at Lake Village mobile home park
LAKE VILLAGE — Three men were charged in connection with a shooting Nov. 11 at the Ten Oaks Mobile Home Park, police said.
Judge bars US from enforcing Trump asylum ban
HOUSTON — A federal judge barred the Trump administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally.
Stopped trains are annoying, safety hazard
Your newspaper should be applauded for the article on the stoppage of cars at the stalled train crossings. It not only is annoying, it is also a safety hazard both for emergencies and irate car drivers.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Students miss out when religious debate is banished from classroom
Teachers should absolutely discuss religion with their students. A comprehensive education necessarily includes learning and discussing issues of faith.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Don’t preach, teach
An elementary school teacher walks around her classroom in Louisiana asking each of her young students what they want to pray for, they bow their heads and she recites a Christian prayer. But not all of her students are Christian.…
UPDATE: Father says 1 of 2 NWI women slain in Chicago hospital shooting was ‘strongest person’ he knows
A sense of grief hung over Northwest Indiana Tuesday after a shooting a day earlier at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital left three people and a gunman dead.
Help pours in for the less fortunate at Thanksgiving
Help is coming from all corners this holiday season to assist the less fortunate.
‘It’s a great day to be a Stinger’ Solon Robinson celebrates National Blue Ribbon award
Blue hats, blue flowers, blue clothes and even blue hair — students, faculty and staff at Solon Robinson Elementary donned all things blue Monday afternoon at the school’s National Blue Ribbon celebrations.