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by Cal ThomasCalThomas.com  We Americans are an impatient lot. If we must engage in warfare, we would prefer it be wrapped up in weeks, not months, and certainly not years like World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In those wars we had the draft, so more Americans were engaged in fighting and watching their progress, […]

by Jim Hightowerjimhightower.com   Here they come again. Every couple of decades another infestation of smiling, winking, fast-talking, corporate hucksters descends on rural America.    The scammers have varied from Big Oil’s notorious land men to peddlers of private prisons. But this one is the biggest, most important flimflam yet, with Silicon Valley billionaires and […]

Bad choice by POTUS 47 only adds to 47 years of bad choices by Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com   It may be a surprise that last year’s biggest ag story–tariffs–was swept off today’s front pages by even bigger news: a Middle East war, its sharply higher fuel and fertilizer prices, and the near certainty of another multi-billion […]

Polar bears are struggling more than ever as the sea ice they depend on melts away all around them as the world warms. Photo by Hans-Jurgen Mager on Unsplash. EarthTalk®From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Are polar bears still in decline due to global warming? – Patty Finch, Bowie, MD Polar bears are […]

St. Kitts is the larger of the two Caribbean islands that comprise the nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. It’s known for rain forested mountains and beaches of white, gray, and black sands. by Paula Johnson This particular cruise was exciting for me. First, it’s rare that we go to the far southern islands. They […]

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by John Mooy I have vowed to myself over and over again that I would not be writing about the weather.  However, I once again seem to be moved by whatever the phenomenon of what we have received on a particular day.  Today, the topic is RAIN.     Because it is now the spring […]

Did you know that you can get Covid tests and Narcan for free at the Marcellus Library? Pick up Covid tests right inside the vestibule. If you are ill, give us a call, and we can leave them outside for you. Narcan is available in a box just to the right of the doors on […]

A Tale of Two Kings “One King dies for others: rises againOne king lives only for himself, dead endsOne King teaches love, and shows compassionOne king insults, rambles, shows only sinOne King forgives and beckons us the moreOne king is much like a toddler of forNot just any but the worst of the worstOne steals […]

Marcellus Lions ClubThursday, March 19, 2026, at 6pmPatch & Remington Present: President Estela Beaugrand, Vice President Marie Breseman, Secretary Sarah Engstrom, Allen and Pat Butchbaker, George Gearhart, Mike, Sherry and Aidan Durden, Tony Ruacho, Jimmy Shannon Absent: Treasurer Joel Bartram, Stephanie Bender-Breseman, Shannon Durden, Bart Poulsen Prayer, pledge, and meeting called to order at 6:08pm. […]