Commentary

Lame gifts are the best

Paul Gaudette

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

A s I got ready for the stock show Monday morning I found myself grateful for two gifts that I would’ve hated as a kid: a jacket and thick boots. The local weather is always courteous enough to drop about 40-60 degrees when the stock show arrives so the extra insulation was welcome.

A lesson in parts, in two parts

Curtis Honeycutt Grammar Guy

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Today’s linguistic lesson is a two-parter. Well, if you really want to get into it, it could potentially be several parts. And, when I say “parts”, I mean body parts. I can talk your earlobes off about body parts. I want to specifically introduce you to the term “anatonym.

Letter to the editor

News Staff

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Dear Editor: During the ‘make America great’ campaign, Mr. Obama asked an interesting question- “When was America great?” Now I am not a fan of Mr. Obama and did not vote for him. Some people may have wondered where he got the idea that America was not great. He may have gotten it from the Bible.

Corrections and a Case of the Hum Bugs

Paul Gaudette Editor

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

I come to you today as an editor with a hat in hand. In the spirit of owning the error, I wanted to start this column off by admitting several misprints and errors I found after printing the Dec. 23 issue.

Starting a new year with neologisms

Curtis Honeycutt Grammar Guy

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

It’s time to celebrate a new year. Good riddance to 2021, which seemed like a regurgitated, tired sequel of 2020. Here’s hoping 2022 won’t be 2020, too. We’re all ready for a new year. What better way to bid adieu to the old and usher in the new but with new words! I’m talking about neologisms.

A weasel by any other word

Curtis Honeycutt Grammar Guy

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

As a child, I assumed lava would play a bigger part in my life than it has. Yet I haven’t seen lava in person once. I feel like I overprepared myself for lava and underprepared myself for scheduling a dentist appointment.

Letter to the editor

News Staff

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Dear Editor: I enjoyed your recent Museum Matters column by Ben Pate about the history of the old Bunyan Community. My grandparents (E.C. Shillingburg and Myrtle Williams Shillingburg) were raised on farms at Bunyan and attended school there.

Don’t get upsot by these vintage Christmas terms

Curtis Honeycutt Grammar Guy

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

It’s that time of year when we tune into the local Christmas station on the radio. After a five-minute commercial block, you hear some pop star oversing a traditional, public domain holiday song. This type of Christmas album is, as Lucy Van Pelt tells Charlie Brown, “a big commercial racket.

Why it’s A-OK to write ‘Xmas’

Curtis Honeycutt Grammar Guy

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Some phrases get people’s stockings in a twist during the holiday season. Today I’m not going to beat around the holly bush — I’m jumping right down the chimney to address these Christmas controversies. Do you throw up your dukes when you hear someone wish you “Happy Holidays?

Lead in cThe team from Country Flower Plant Farm were busy Tuesday putting up Christmas lights to highlight Thursday’s Dublin Country Christmas Stroll event. Country Flower is donating the use of the Christmas decorations to the community to create a festive atmosphere. They also will be selling live Christmas trees at Wright Park, from Thursday Dec. 9 to Sunday Dec. 12. Dublin Chamber of Commerce | submitted photo

Chamber Chat

Amy Keith Mcdonald

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Come Sip, Snack, Shop and Stroll Downtown Thursday Dec. 9! Thursday’s events will be spectacular as Dublin hosts its inaugural Dublin Country Christmas Stroll. More than 30 vendors will be selling from 4 to 8 p.m.