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Protect personal info when holiday shopping online

’Tis the season! Whew, we have made it past Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but there still are 20 shopping days left. This season also is a busy time for theft. According to the ...

DATE: Dec 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Travel Troubleshooter Fuel is cheap, but airfares keep rising

If fuel prices are so low, why are airfares so high? And will prices ever return to Earth? They’re simple questions with complicated answers. But Jake Oakman, for one, would like ...

DATE: Nov 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Blue Star Mothers spread the word, and Cortez welcomes flying Clydesdales

On Nov. 18, members of the Blue Star Mothers, Montezuma County VFW Post 5231, its Ladies Auxiliary, DAV Chapter 44, and American Legion Post 75, and members of the local community welcomed t...

DATE: Nov 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Columnists

This bird of Thanksgiving is cunning in the wild

November is a time of thanksgiving, and for some reason, the turkey is the symbol of our thankfulness. I say “for some reason” because historians are not absolutely sure where t...

DATE: Nov 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Powerful solutions

Don’t let food poisoning sour your Thanksgiving dinner celebration

At Thanksgiving, we gather with family and friends to appreciate the gift of each other. Traditionally, this celebration involves lots of food – typically turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. ...

DATE: Nov 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Yellowstone's a place to be thankful for

By Don Oliver It's November, and it seems anyone writing a column does a "being thankful" column. Well, I'm no different. Last September, while standing in the middle ...

DATE: Nov 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Celebrating a transcendent union

All Souls. All Saints. Dia de los Muertos. Some of us Christians have recently celebrated these days of remembrance. As the days grow shorter, their timing is no accident. We are ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Freedom’s journey leads into the Wilderness

Biblical literature teaches that we all take seven journeys in life. Which journey are you on? Two months ago I wrote about our first journey in life – “Welcome to the Garden of E...

DATE: Oct 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits

Veterans Day pays tribute to all who serve

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, an Armistice was signed ending hostilities of World War I, The Great War, the war to end all wars, in which 16 million combatants and...

DATE: Oct 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Veterans Forum

Get those ballots in

Ballots for the Nov. 4 local, state, and national elections were mailed to registered voters last week. They need to be returned to the county clerk by 7 p.m. on Nov. 4 to be counted. Postma...

DATE: Oct 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: View from the Boondocks

Living (and dying) by God’s good Nature

Today when I read Ezekiel J. Emanuel’s article in the October edition of “The Atlantic” titled, “Why I Hope to Die at 75,” I knew there were others thinking along the same lines I do. ...

DATE: Oct 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

The Passover Journey – learning hard lessons of life

We take seven journeys in life. Last month I wrote about our first journey, “Welcome to the Garden of Eden,” where we begin growing up and leave the buoyancy of infancy and adole...

DATE: Oct 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits