Signs of spring at close of February. The north wind still has some icy breath and we will receive an extra day of winter because…
Posts published in “Opinion”
As a boy I read “The Call of the Wild,” Jack London’s 1903 novel about a dog named Buck. Stolen and sold as a Yukon…
Editor’s Note: Community Commentary is a new column in The Mount Airy News, featuring commentary from community leaders in Mount Airy and Surry County. There…
Spring is only 35 days away. The north wind of winter still blows, but it is not quite as harsh. The cold days of the…
“Ze Plane, ze plane!” Those words always signaled the start of another episode of “Fantasy Island,” the TV show than ran on ABC-TV from 1977…
To the Editors: Richard Merlo’s letter of Feb. 12 (Reader: Women bad leaders of Democrats), though mercifully brief, provides a useful checklist for a misogynistic…
Saint Valentine’s Day is five days away. The day of celebrating with hearts, flowers and candy, gift cards and candlelight dinners is only five days…
To the Editor, First of all I want to say thanks for the two articles by Jeff Linville in the paper dated Thursday, Jan. 30,…
Today we celebrate Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day is also known as Candlemas, (we like that name better because we hate groundhogs as pests of the…
Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected folk tales, which they published in two volumes called “Children’s and Household Tales.” You heard many of these cautionary…