Laugh with Kathy: What is your talent?

KATHY LARIVIERE
April 15, 2020 10:59 pm

I remember watching the Miss America Pageant with my father when I was a young girl. It was sometime in the mid 1960s and Miss Kansas won the title.  She lived about 30 miles from where we lived at the time, and I was beside myself.

Letter to the Editor: Make it stop!

VINTON TODAY
April 15, 2020 5:11 am

To the Editor,To my chagrin, and I can assure you many others, who opened your website to see another edition of the local amateur’s medical opinion/propaganda.

Laugh with Kathy: The Law of Good Intentions

KATHY LARIVIERE
April 15, 2020 2:13 am

While visiting my family in Texas over Thanksgiving, Gene enjoyed trap shooting one afternoon.  He talked about it for days (Like seriously days! It takes twelve hours to drive from Texas to Iowa and he JUST KEPT TALKING!), so I decided that a great Christmas gift would be to buy Gene a clay trap thrower.

Letter to the Editor: And so it goes

VINTON TODAY
April 14, 2020 12:28 am

Dear Editor:  Democrats and my critics will have a hard time backtracking if this works before other therapies are available.  My prayer is that recoveries increase and fatalities decrease!! And that researchers find plasma or other therapies 100% successful.

Being a Senior Citizen from the mid 1900's

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
April 13, 2020 11:57 pm

It's finally happened. I'm old. I had shut the CD off in the car. The player holds 6, but some idiot wasn't that hip on how to change the disks, so while driving, she ejected a disk and pushed another one into the player.

Laugh with Kathy: Jurassic Park

KATHY LARIVIERE
April 13, 2020 11:30 pm

There is a part of our yard where the grass meets the woods that I respectfully refer to as Jurassic Park. I say respectfully, because things cross into there and don’t come out again.

Laugh with Kathy: Games without Game Pieces

KATHY LARIVIERE
April 10, 2020 5:56 pm

We’re all feeling the effects of Covid 19 in some way, and many people are trying to find ways to entertain their children while waiting for school to resume.

Fun activities you can do online as part of your educational journey from home

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
April 7, 2020 7:04 pm

Back in the good ol' days, before the internet, well, even before homeschooling was a thing, those of us who chose to homeschool had to rely solely on books from the library and curriculum that could be ordered.

Laugh with Kathy: Hello Neighbor

KATHY LARIVIERE
April 6, 2020 5:56 pm

A couple of years ago, I was sitting in my home office when I turned around and noticed the back end of a large animal walking by my window. I jumped up and went to the front door to see what it was, only to discover a very large, curly haired dog in the front yard.

Letter to the Editor: COVID-19 treatment

VINTON TODAY
April 6, 2020 2:17 am

Editor:To the critics and naysaysAs a WWII bomber pilot of the 8th Air Force reputed to have said after returning from a mission over Nazi Germany, "If I am taking Flak I know I'm over the target.