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  • Special thanks mystery woman

    Randy Baker|Sep 26, 2019

    On Sept. 13 my son was t-boned on Broadway by an out of state driver that just didn’t understand the intersection. My son was hit in the driver’s side door and was pined in the car for almost an hour. Right after the collision a woman ran out of her office and immediately began to hold my son’s head. My son thinks she was an off-duty EMT who stayed with him until the ambulance could take him to the ER. We appreciate all the firemen and EMT’s, but a very special thanks to the mystery woman. We don’t know who she was, but what she did means the...

  • The reason for Labor Day

    Randy Baker|Sep 7, 2017

    Another Labor Day has been here and we take a day off of work, we go to the lake, we have a picnic and no one knows what we are celebrating. Ask 100 people what Labor Day is about and you might get one or two right answers. No one under 30 has a clue. And I bet less than one in a thousand can name one Labor Leader, past or present (and Jimmy Hoffa doesn’t count). For those that don’t know, from late 1800 to mid-1900 the labor movement in the United States aimed at protecting the industrial workers (often women, children, and people of col...