Watching the Sun Bake

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Editor Rice Lake Chronotype Rice Lake, Wisconsin Dear Editor I read with great interest your recent story on attempts to restore the healt...

This evening while doing my 14 mile bicycle ride I gave considerable thought regarding the need to come up with a functional scientific epit...

This morning the Associated Press posted a "news" story on yahoo.com in which they referred to the hyena's at the Transportati...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that travelers to South Africa get vaccinated against rabies and several other di...

On the day I retired I left my office three hours early and walked to the Ballston Metro Station in suburban Virginia. Before taking the ele...

Male Common Grackle. Photo from the US Fish and Wildlife Service collection Although the calendar says that we still have two more weeks of ...

/Massage-Therapy.jpg"> A friend of mine is a massage therapist who also does skin care therapy. As part of her business she wants to...

Although Charlie Manson was, and remains, certifiably nuts, he once uttered some profound and prophetic words. In an interview nearly 40 yea...

Today, June 1, marks the start Hurricane Season - traditionally my most favorite and anticipated season of the year. Every June 1 I write ab...

Counties were among the earliest units of local government established in the Thirteen Colonies that would become the United States. Virgini...

Forty two years ago tonight, May 29, 1969, the Rice Lake Wisconsin Senior High School Class of 1969 graduated and was let loose on the world...

I realized something rather strange last night. I went up to Bradenton to meet the new crop of Bradenton Marauders at a special event at Des...

Anyone who was alive and functional in the mid-1970s has to remember the hilarious television sit com "Movin on Up" about George J...