We continue to implement Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) at Southview, the Middle School, and at the High School. I’m impressed at the simple, but effective, strategies BARR brings to the table to help us look at some new protocols to use data we have. This helps us to have a better ...
Last week I had a volunteer opportunity, one that was well suited to my work with the printed word. I helped to judge the local Rotary International essay contest for sixth graders from Marshall Middle School. I’ve judged it several times in the past five years, and each time I’ve been ...
As a master gardener, I and the group of master gardeners who are in Lyon County, are here to help the public with questions about your gardens, your trees and shrubs or other questions you may have regarding gardening in a general sense. As we turn the page and move into spring, one of the ...
We have been learning about Mike Lamfers, who grew up on a farm east of Amiret and served with the Marines in Vietnam. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduating from Tracy High School in 1965. Mike completed his Marine Corps training and deployed to Vietnam in October 1966 as a ground ...
To the editor: It was with sadness that I learned of the passing of Ed Carberry. Dr. Carberry, although not a large man, was a towering presence in the hall and chemistry classrooms of SMSU. He will be remembered for his exuberance, enthusiasm, and passion for teaching chemistry. He was an ...
To the editor: Its been 51 years since Roe v Wade, and I am still amazed at the blasé / ‘apathetic attitude’ our society places on this carnage. There are probably several reasons for this attitude; primary of course is that we don’t take God seriously. Another would be that we ...