For most people, the Valentine’s Day holiday translates into cards with Hallmark messages, chocolates in heart-shaped boxes, red roses and teddy bears. But the holiday of love is so much more, just…
Category: Editorials
Emerald’s Gem Box…
Love Happy Valentine’s Day! The smell of love, flowers and candy filled the air. Whether it’s love for your spouse, your children, parents, or a best friend – everyone has someone they…
Reporter’s Corner:
Stories about people. Stories about places. Stories that matter. When I tell people – often strangers or new acquaintances – what I do for a living, there is generally a question that…
Watching the Finances
Part 1: First, my condolences…for a three part series. Why? Because I did it again. I attended another elected school board meeting. And, I have a lot to say. I must say…
Emerald’s Gem Box…
Happy Birthday, Brooke Tuesday, Jan. 21, marked the 25th birthday of my daughter, Brooke…my “baby.” I was 25 years old when Brooke was born. My second child. We are not as “scared”…
Deb’s Notes
Monticello Church of Christ, 475 S. Jefferson St., will continue to host gospel meetings with speaker John Zellner weeknights through Friday, Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. “Lest We Forget The Most High…
Reporter’s Corner:
What you don’t know will hurt you I’m fairly certain that almost everyone, at some point, has heard the modern proverb: “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.” The phrase is often…
Emerald’s gem Box
A good attitude is something that can be managed and learned So many times in life, we take such small incidents and we blow them up into what we believe to be…
“Watching the Finances”
Well folks…we made it. 2020! First, thank you to the many citizens who have approached and engaged in conversation regarding “Watching the Finances” column. Your feedback and offers to assist are greatly…
Emerald’s Gem Box…
I am scared I am scared!!! I am scared of what this United States of America nation is turning into. I am scared every time I read and hear the news of…
Reporter’s Corner:
On New Year resolutions and folding socks I hate folding socks. I try not to use that word, ‘hate’ too frequently, as it can lose its meaning if tossed around nonchalantly. It…
Watching the finances
Back from Christmas. Back to “Watching the Finances!” Actually, never stopped. Catnip. The “elected,” school board’s alleged discrimination and disparity concerning its real property, its alleged false reporting involving public records requests,…
#Canceled
If you’ve existed in the online world of social media platforms, chat forums and “woke” media, you’ve undoubtedly come face-to-face with the phenomena that has been dubbed “Cancel Culture.” While it is…
Emerald’s Gem Box
Make sure you have the true Christmas Spirit With Christmas right around the corner it is so easy to get wrapped up in Santa Claus and presents. With so little time left…
Emeralds Gem Box
Your local newspaper… I love the newspaper business. I was raised in it, and know of nothing else but this business. It has become my life, and I wake up every morning…
Watching the Finances
The request to convey “A-Building,” formerly known as Jefferson Academy, from the elected school board to the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), as “paid in full,” continues. The taxpaying public…
Reporter’s Corner:
Be kind to retail workers this Black Friday First of all, let me start out by saying that I get it. We’ve all been in situations where the customer service in a…
Emerald’s Gem Box…
Happy Birthday, Cheltsie Today (November 27) marks the 27th birthday of my oldest daughter, Cheltsie. To say the least, my life changed dramatically 27 years ago. At the young age of 23,…
Reporter’s Corner:
Four years of writing Four years ago, in November of 2015, a 19-year-old girl stood in the big office of a local newspaper and wondered what the heck she was doing there….
Emerald’s Gem Box…
Trump’s impeachment – 3 years ongoing and counting Impeachment is something that is supposed to be exceptionally unusual. It is supposed to be bipartisan and it is supposed to be fair. None…