Editorials
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Imagine, if you will …
By Jean Doran Matua, Editor Trigger warning: If you have already set your mind and heart on who are the good guys and bad guys in all the chaos and turmoil in this past week, then please jump to the next article over. This is not for you. However, if you are open and want…
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Imagine, if you will …
By Jean Doran Matua, Editor Trigger warning: If you have already set your mind and heart on who are the good guys and bad guys in all the chaos and turmoil in this past week, then please jump to the next article over. This is not for you. However, if you are open and want…
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Happy anniversaries
Jean Matua “From the Heart” Thanksgiving week marks two very important anniversaries for me. I joined the Tri-County News 20 years ago this week, jumping right in and – from what was written by the publisher then – changing things up quite a bit. It would be a year before I purchased the newspaper and…
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No matter what, VOTE!
In the 2016 presidential election, only 3 of 5 eligible voters bothered to exercise that right. That means that 2 of 5 eligible to vote didn’t bother. That was a near-record low, and the lowest in 20 years. There may be forces, both inside and outside the country, counting on similar poor turnouts this year.…
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It’s okay to drop a plate now and then
By Jean Doran Matua Those of you old enough to remember the Ed Sullivan Show will get this easily. Plate-spinner. Remember the guy who would spin plates atop long wooden dowels, all while Aram Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance played relentlessly in the background? I not only remember watching it, but I feel like that most days.…
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Thanks to our first-responders
We are always grateful to our local volunteer firefighters, rescue squads, and EMTs, but this week we have an extra “excuse” to express our gratitude.THANK YOU! For being willing to spend your “free” evenings doing training each month, and spending years in training. THANK YOU! For being willing to be called away from the dinner…
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Price hikes affect us all
Gas prices are the ones we notice first, and usually the ones that hit us in the pocketbook first. But there are many price increases that affect us all, both businesses and consumers. One special hike you may not be aware of is paper, specifically groundwood paper, more commonly known as newsprint. The price of…
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Teamwork
We celebrated “Monster” Mike Schultz Day this past Sunday, May 6. Both Mike and his wife Sara grew up in Kimball. Schultz is a Paralympic athlete who medaled in both snowboard events in which he participated last month in Korea: a gold in boardercross, and a silver in snowboard slalom. The Paralympics in Korea was…
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The death of retail? No way!
It seems each week we hear of at least one major store or mall closing down. A victim of online shopping, they often say. But does it have to be so? And will our small, rural communities inevitably succumb to the death of retail as we know it? A resounding “no,” I say. It doesn’t…
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April Fool’s photo results
Last week we had a great photo of the 2018 Kimball area firemen’s breakfast. The photo was actually a composite of five or six photos, stitched together in Photoshop before we processed it for print. The problem was that some of those 200-300 people had the nerve to move while I was snapping the photos. The result…
