From the time they were three months old until they entered kindergarten, our children went to daycare. We’d felt fortunate ...

Much has changed from early pioneer days, one thing changes little: nature. Summer gives us nature in full force. August ...

As training camp heats up in Foxboro, I’ve come across several rankings of the greatest New England Patriots team of all time.

The late Charlie Tremendous Jones said, “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for two things, ...

As we age, we all slow down to some degree, and if you are moving slower, you are likely taking more time to notice what is ...

I have had obsessive-compulsive disorder all my life. Even as a child, my devoted mother, Dorothy Irene Welker, would say to me, “Billy, you dwell on things too much.” I still do, but it wasn’t until ...

It’s exciting that one of the world’s largest solar microgrid and storage projects is currently under construction and ...

Fort Dodge’s Boys of Summer, now in the autumn of their years, still remember vividly those days of the 1950s and 1960s when ...

In less than 100 miles and a couple-hour drive I can be on the coast of Maine. It’s really quite amazing how much the world changes in that amount of ...

Drought and flooding. Long, lonely hours. Shifting federal policies. Uncertainty about tariffs. Rising expenses for fuel, feed and fertilizer coupled with tighter margins. Simply put, it’s stressful ...

Our major street project this year is Charles Ave/Hill and Minnesota Street Reconstruction project. All utilities are being replaced, including water main, sanitary sewer, and storm sewer. Other items ...

Most of us don’t like being bored. But most of us don’t like eating our vegetables either. Boredom just might be a little underrated. Though we say things like “idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” ...