The Cactus (Mullein) Cowboys

Long before the advent of the multitude of electronic toys today that so many people are hooked on, young children busied their spare time with toys of their imagination and the great outdoors.   By saying in their spare time, I mean when they weren’t busy with farming chores.

Watching the news

It was the first time I had been in a gathering since the first of March.  About 200 of us were there in the funeral home chapel recently, to pay our respects to a friend and loved one. I sat on the back row, a bit nervous and wearing a mask. Seven others were masked.

Gunfight at the Graham County corral

Last week, there was a figurative gunfight at the Graham County corral.  The actors weren’t Burt Lancaster playing Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas playing Doc Holiday. The location wasn’t a desolate town called Tombstone in the Arizona Territory.

Ode to the Honda: the little Civic that could

After leaving church services on July 19, I did something I knew was coming, but could never anticipate: I cleaned out and bid adieu to my 2000 Honda Civic. Surely by now, most Graham County residents have witnessed me chugging around in my luxurious four-door sedan.

‘God put a rainbow in the clouds’

After an afternoon rain on July 8, I looked up in the sky and saw a beautiful rainbow. It looked as if it arced over the Fort Hill area in Robbinsville.  Columnist Roger Carlton captured the rainbow with a photograph printed in the July 16 edition of The Graham Star.

Fear can present harmful ramifications

Emotions come in many forms and levels of intensity.  The joy we experience with the arrival of a new family member is intense. The sorrow we feel with the death of a parent may be of mixed intensity.

Control your anger, before it's too late

All of us have experienced what it means to be angry at any levels.  But not all of us know how to control it. Adult Psychiatric specialist Agnes Padilla said being angry forever – especially when holding grudges – is not good for your health.

Teaching school is never easy

The job of a school teacher has never been easy, even under the best of circumstances.  This coming school year will be made all the more difficult, due to all the coronavirus restrictions that will be in place.

Bill helps journalism right way

There have been some rather disingenuous attempts to “help” journalism by state and federal officials who wanted a degree of control in recent years.  However, new bipartisan legislation introduced July 16 is a hand up – not a hand out – and deserves the public’s support. U.S. Reps.

Just your normal ‘job well done’

“Think you can do it? You are the first class to graduate without a walk-through.” And with that, Robbinsville High School Principal David Matheson gave the Class of 2020 its final charges, a mere 90 minutes before an overdue commencement ceremony at Modeal Walsh Memorial Stadium on Saturday.