As most of the community is aware, last Tuesday Dr. Apthorpe announced publicly his intention to retire at the end of the current school year. For many people in the district and the community, this was not easy news to hear. From a personal standpoint, I enjoy working with Dr. Apthorpe and I ...

Question: Do you know anything about the required minimum Distribution changing for my IRA? Answer: I want to say this column is not meant to give financial advice, but I have learned a lot about RMD’s and IRA’s in the last few weeks. I will try to pass along what I have learned. When ...

How much more evidence do we need to compile before the federal government protects our children and fully deplatforms Google from American public schools? The Silicon Valley behemoth has already admitted it illegally collected children’s personal information on YouTube without parental ...

President Donald Trump’s brilliant plan for Mideast peace has triggered a sandstorm of negativity and deflection from the regular naysayers who attack anything the president says and does. Critics of his recently unveiled peace aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should ...

Developed societies are those in which the common good has been multiplied many times, over a long period of time. It may seem paradoxical that such things happen in spite of virtually all of those societies pretty much ignoring the common good during the period of greatest advancement. Along ...

Sitting at my table, I’m delighted to see the red-belly pecking away at the suet. It’s always a male so I presume it’s the same one who visits me day after day. His red belly seems very obvious now, in wintertime. There were certainly many days when I wondered about the name — perhaps ...