It is hard for me to believe that it has already been 20 years since we welcomed with celebration and trepidation a new millennium. No, our computers did not crash. The lights stayed on. And h…

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It is time for that annual reminder: Remember to shop local first!

Local libraries have archived issues of the four decades of Webster-Kirkwood Times. In our offices, we have a jumble of file cabinets in several different rooms that are at least intended to c…

Walt Whitman’s legacy lives on as one of America’s best-known poets. He was born 200 years ago on Long Island, New York. His poetry, his life and his St. Louis connections are being celebrated…

September is that busy month of local festivals. Summer is still with us and autumn not far away.

Cicadas, Katydids and Crickets

Most Americans of a certain age recall sitting for hours in front of a mostly-static TV screen on Sunday evening, July 20, 1969. A few hours earlier, two U.S. astronauts had made the first-eve…

Summer Solstice, the farthest northward arc of the sun in the Northern Hemisphere, occurs today, June 21. It is the day of the year with most hours and minutes between sunrise and sunset – 14 …

Fifty years ago this month I graduated from high school. There were 24 of us in the graduating class at Canton High School. Many of them are still in central Kansas. A couple have died. I have…

Obviously, I have never been a Mom. An active parent, yes. But never the carrier of life. Never the partner with flesh torn in process of giving birth.

I just finished reading the April issue of National Geographic. The focus was Cities – Ideas for a Brighter Future. According to the magazine, the world’s population just 30 years from now is …

April is Earth Day Month. We have room for improvement on many fronts, including recycling practices.

A majority of readers, I hope, got to this page by picking up a red wrapper on their lawns or driveways, then slipping out the paper and opening this newest issue of the Times. Often the red b…