Is there any proven way to improve life expectancy? Personally, I’d like to make it to 100. Each year I try to eliminate one bad habit, and now I have none. That’s depressing. The average life expectancy in the U.S. today is 77.2 years. So, if you’re an average person who’s 77.1, schedule that annua...

With a title like that, there are a number of issues and items that could be discussed in this editorial. With so much chaos occurring in our country and world, it would be easy to attribute such a title to any number of things. But for this week, given the fact that Tax Day, April 15, just occurred...

When I was a kid, houses basically had two doors: a front door and a back door. That was it – no side doors, additional exits or entrances – just two doors, and if you were lucky the doors had screens to keep out the varmints. We weren’t lucky, neither did we have central heating or cooling or even ...

As reported in this week’s issue, Howdy Neighbor Day is officially moving to a set date each year (first Saturday in October), breaking ties with a lo...

While men are sadly restricted to carrying their day’s belongings in a small pocket-sized wallet, today’s women have the luxury and pleasure of fillin...

I am Brandon Rowton, a student at Jena High School and also the current Sophomore Class President. I just finished reading the article the paper made ...