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Framed

My youngest is curled up with her laptop, angling her head back and forth as she clicks the mouse. The camera is on, and as I walk by, I see that she is virtually trying on glasses. Blessed with better eyesight than her mother, the lenses won’t be for correction; rather, they will reduce the ...

Consequences and rewards

I’m the first to admit that I was a full supporter of bribing my children. If I could get them to clean their rooms or complete a chore list without nagging them, I was ready to celebrate. The nagging took up so much time that the need to eliminate it became a series of consequences and ...

Seat belts — do you always wear them? You should.

Nearly half of the people killed on U.S. roads in 2023 were not wearing seat belts. That year, 17,872 vehicles in fatal crashes involved unbelted occupants, according to a new analysis from Pegasus Legal Capital, LLC, a legal funding company in Florida that provides competitive, low-risk cash ...

Wishing you a sweet Epiphany

Epiphany concludes the Christmas holiday season. Also known as the Twelfth Day of Christmas, this day commemorates the day the Three Kings from the East arrived in Bethlehem, bearing their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Most European countries have traditional sweets for Epiphany. ...

Help us chronicle your lives in 2026

As we turn the page on yet another year evanescing here in the Tri-Lakes, I’d like to take this opportunity to extend a heartfelt thank-you to our subscribers, as well as the local advertisers who allow us to continue publishing this community newspaper. Without you, this storied ...

Joe Drutz — WWII POW and civic leader

The headline on page one of an Enterprise in February 1973 prompted the editor at that time to have Joe Drutz write a story about his experience as a POW. Pretty cool, don’t you think? So, let’s get right to it. “It gives me a funny feeling to hear and read about operation ...