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Pizza

People can be particular about their pizza preferences. I grew up in southern New Jersey, in an area with heavy Italian influences and acidic, sandy soils. The result of this is that I grew up spoi...
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Bonnie and Clyde

I am not certain that the world needs a musical based on the life and criminal career of Bonnie and Clyde. But on Saturday evening, I was sitting front row at the Chestnut Center for the Arts in downtown Marshfield watching the Marshfield Area Actors production of the Broadway play. MAA describes itself as a “community theater troupe dedicated to having fun and putting on the best show possib...

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Rabbits

I have an excessive number of rabbits in my yard. When I walk out to my driveway every morning, there are between four and five cute fluffy bunnies just chilling out, living their best lives in my front yard. They will make a token half-hearted scurry if I approach them. But, really, they have long-since recognized me as being more of an annoyance than any sort of true threat. To them, I am ...

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A matter of discipline

When it comes to discipline of children, there are some clear generational differences. Well, perhaps not necessarily generational, but philosophical differences in how to raise decent, loving children. It is every parent’s dilemma on how to reprimand children when they inevitably misbehave or test boundaries. I grew up with parents who leaned more toward the “spare the rod, spoil the child...

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Pictures

Growing up, I was a passionate reader of the comics pages. I chuckled at pitfalls of “Hagar the Horrible” and the “Prince of Id” and patiently followed the never-ending and desperately tedious adventures of “Prince Valiant.” I especially enjoyed reading the “Dick Tracy” comics. I was amazed at the cool gadgets he had, including the watches that had built in television screens and a...

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Spending a day

810 That is the number of minutes of sunlight that Taylor County residents will have today. From sunrise at 6:17 a.m. to sunset at 7:47 p.m. and every minute in between. Looking at it other ways, it works out to be 13 hours and 30 minutes or 48,600 seconds. Regardless, of how many slices you chop it up into, the length of this particular day doesn’t change. The question to each of us is, w...

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Driving

It took me about 20 minutes to drive from The Star News office in downtown Medford to the Stetsonville Village hall on Monday afternoon. For the record, I did not use the ridiculous great circle detour that the state has of taking Hwy 64 east to Hwy 97 and then south Hwy 29 and then north on Hwy 13 from Abbotsford. If I, or anyone else for that matter, actually followed the official detour, I m...

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