December 17, 2009 RSS feed / Features

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Common Talk

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
By JANE E. BRYANT
We imagine that Bill and Barbara Pope spoke for most of their generation when they said, Thanksgiving? More...

Silly Social Scenes

“Put that satirist on my Enemies List!” Richard M. Nixon
By Miss Aineeda Lobotomy, Semi-Permanent Guest Columnist

GRANDMA LOBOTOMY’S PLUM PUDDING RECEIPT – As business is somewhat slow this week without Coach Naugahyde to flog, This Columnist is offering her Grandma Lobotomy’s receipt for homemade plum pudding, a Lobotomy family staple since t More...

Thoughts of an Average Joe

Eye Anxiety!
By JOE WRIGHT

About every two years or so, I get a postcard from my eye doctor inviting me to go in for another exam. I don’t know why, but I think I’d rather have a colonoscopy. More...

Kids Korner

By S. RIZZOTTO The Northfield News

MODERN CHRISTMAS elves find their origin in the house gnomes of the Scandinavia present since the pagan times. It was believed that these gnomes guarded homes against evil and were benevolent and helpful to good people. More...

Keeping In Touch

Choose Hope
By CHRISTINE BARNES

This December, at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, delegates from around the world are gathered to craft a treaty pledging unified global efforts to reduce the human impact on this planet’s climate. The dialogue begins in earnest. More...