(Editor’s note: This is an abridged version of a letter Jeff Luck sent to Matthew Lynch of the state Olympic Regional Development Authority and Christian Calabrese of Gilbane, regarding Luck’s construction company’s bid to reconstruct the Olympic Speedskating Oval in Lake ...

My father, Capt. George Weber, commanded a field company of what was known as the Red Ball Express in World War II. Formed to sustain continuous supply lines for Gen. Patton’s Third Army and other American forces as they raced across Europe toward Germany, the Red Ball Express took men like ...

St. Bernard’s School has a prayer service led by one of the kindergarten through fifth grades each Friday to crown the week. The fifth-grade students in Mrs. Danielle Fitzgerald’s class recently focused on the school’s monthly virtue of honesty. In preparation, each student had drawn ...

Abraham Lincoln foresaw many problems we face in America today. Now we use terms such as “racism” instead of slavery, but the ideas are the same. His famous Lyceum speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (Jan. 27, 1838), was titled “The Perpetuation of Our ...

It has been nearly a year since we were able to feel comfortable. Such a challenging year, and it’s not over yet! At some point in time, thoughts of “normal” seemed to fade away. The “new normal” became something to hope for, even though no one can define what that might be. Well, a ...

In the bloody wake of an insurrection on the Capitol by hordes of armed white supremacists and naive Trump supporters, the president-elect issued the following statement on Twitter: “No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protestors yesterday that they ...