Note: I wrote this article for the Bienville Democrat, September 1, 1992. My daughter, Cameron who just celebrated her 32nd birthday was 15 months old. “Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation.” Philippians 2:29. The year was 1975 and I was a sophomore at Lou...

Dear Rusty: Hypothetically, if I plan to sign up for Social Security at 70 and pass away before that, I will get nothing. My spouse would still get a boost in the amount she receives because I made more, but everything I put into the program vanishes. I haven’t reached my full retirement age yet and...

70 years ago June 18,1953 Col. Robert L. Scott, Jr. and his Thunderjet 'pose together” in Germany to mark planes reaching 1,000 air hours, a rare endurance mark for military jets and in distance equal to 20 trips around the world at the equator. Don Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Evans, of Belah,...

A reader recently wrote and asked a question that many of us ask at one time or another: “If there is a God, and if He is a good and loving God, why d...

It is something that we did not want to do…especially so soon after purchasing The Jena Times. Nonetheless, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is...

Do you remember elementary school recess? At our school, we ate lunch right before playtime. We’d line up single file to walk through the food line. T...