If you start to lose faith in the younger generation, I recommend you visit a county fair. It will be crawling with talented, responsible and upstanding youngsters.

Neosho has a crown jewel in Morse Park and its park system.

A new lighted flagpole was erected on the top of Hill Street and Valley a week or so before the Fourth of July. When coming up Valley Street, going south, the American flag on that pole makes a very beautiful and patriotic sight.

“If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times!”

Fourteen years is both long and short. As my husband and I recently marked our 14th wedding anniversary, we had time to reflect on the changes in our lives during those years but we both agreed that even had we known what the future held then, we would still have married with the same joy.

I have four children and “Cinema in the Park” is a tradition that will be stamped in their childhood memories. What an experience to remember! At the start of every season, we visit the Neosho Chamber of Commerce website and find a schedule for the upcoming movie season. Hot summer days, packed with baseball games and softball games, followed by cool evenings lying on quilts in Big Spring Park eating popcorn and drinking soda is something my children will be sure to remember for a lifetime.

Although she was born in Kansas, and attended a one-room rural school for six years, Zandy Robinson spent much of her adult life in the highly-populated state of California.

It’s not uncommon for our home phone to ring in the evening with someone wanting to talk to either Big Al or I about our work. 

Around the age of 2, I was told that I would have to wear glasses. Now, 34 years later, I found out that one of my twin nephews, Noah, who is 3 ½ years old, was told the same thing.

The great American-owned business or industry is quickly becoming a piece of our history — not our future.

It remains to be seen whether Justin Pickup’s sentence will be enough.

Kay HIvely talks about friends in her As Time Goes By column for Sunday.

Lately, my two daughters have been on a weird mission — they want a baby brother.

I came home Tuesday evening this week and, as I always do, I picked up my Neosho Daily News and began to read what all was happening.

On a hot summer’s day, there just can’t be a better job in all the world than working in an “ice cream shop.”