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Don’t try. I am about to see my youngest daughter (by 15 minutes) get married. Katie and her “womb buddy,” as she likes to call her twin brother Cory, both chose to make 2013 the year to tie the knot. And after adjusting to the idea that I am no longer the most important...

The subject of this column has changed three times since I started it. Last Thursday night as I tried to gain much needed sleep, visions of brightly colored frozen fruits and vegetables danced in my head. With each, a bit more sadness crept into my sleepy consciousness.

Administrative news and views from Hudson School Superintendent Mary Bowen Eggebraaten

It's clearer to me now. As a youth, I sometimes wondered how I ended up in such an intensely Christian home. Most of my people came from Sweden in the 1880s. My wife and I will be traveling there in a few weeks, at the end of a visit to Germany. That's how this journey of discovery...

Apparently a lot of us, especially our young people. I have covered a lot of stories in our community over the past 23 years as a reporter with the Star-Observer but I never thought I would be writing about heroin and the devastation it brings.

I had thought the day when I found myself in a cloud, I would be dead, resting in peace somewhere. Instead here I am working in one every day -- just wishing I was. It happened a couple of months back. The Star-Observer is being created in "the cloud," or at least I think it is....

You never know what might come across your path. On a recent trip to visit family and friends these are some of the statements that were made: "The Koch Brothers are evil. They are Nazis."; "Our government is two hundred years old.

All Board of Education members have access to the information they need about the district and our work. This includes, and is not limited to, access to public records of the district and responses to questions about those records. No board members are treated differently in this...

I'd rather report the news than be a part of it. Nevertheless, the line got blurred for me on Wednesday of last week. After the morning staff meeting to semi-plan this week's Star-Observer, I stopped by the Walmart store to pick up a few items from the shopping list on our refrigerator...

Over my 23 years as a reporter for the Star-Observer, I have told some pretty sad stories that have involved our families, friends and neighbors. They have included the loss of loved ones from disease, accidents, natural causes and even criminal acts. It is always difficult to tell...