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1986: The Holiday
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Column: The evolution (or de-evolution) of langauge

WORTHINGTON — I used to listen closely to English teachers. My thinking was, if I am going to work for newspapers I had better know the rules of the language

By Ray Crippen , July 07, 2012

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Column: Worthington has a somewhat rich history

WORTHINGTON — Who do you guess was the wealthiest person ever to visit Worthington? There is no way to know, of course. Every guess is a fair guess.

By Ray Crippen , June 30, 2012

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Column: Plenty of potential for fruits and vegetables

Do you ever go looking for wild strawberries? I know where there are some. I am not going to tell where. I know where there are ground cherries. A secret place.

By Ray Crippen , June 16, 2012

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Column: Recalling another 1862 war

WORTHINGTON — If you read newspapers or watch television or page through magazines, you know last year was the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War.

By Ray Crippen , June 09, 2012

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Column: Long ago, it was common to go bananas

WORTHINGTON — Schaap Moving & Storage has painted that big, brick warehouse at 1224 Second Ave. — the corner of Second Avenue and 13th Street. There is a coat of beige paint over every square-half-inch of every brick. I suppose some people judge that building to be unremarkable.

By Ray Crippen , June 02, 2012

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Column: Hot dogs! Step right up and get your hot dogs!

WORTHINGTON — I am going back to the days of breakfast, dinner and supper. Breakfast, dinner, supper was the standard through the local region for many, many years. Lunch was something served to men in the harvest fields at mid-afternoon in the threshing season.

By Julie Buntjer , May 19, 2012

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Column: Planting the seeds for another Memorial Day

WORTHINGTON — There were people who feared their lilacs would bloom in February, or early March. Buds emerged, to be sure, but the lilacs held back. They know their time. It is only now that lilacs are really beginning to blossom.

By Ray Crippen , May 12, 2012

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Column: Often-overlooked muskrats are part of our history

We never gave real muskrats a choice. We — people long before our time — decided, “Those are muskrats.” And so they continue to this day.

By Ray Crippen , May 05, 2012

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Column: Local residents made their community college possible

WORTHINGTON — Thirty years after Worthington Junior College began classes in its 14th Street wing of Worthington High School, the college moved to its location on Lake Okabena’s north shore. This was 1966. This time — unlike the first time — there was community hoopla.

By Ray Crippen , May 02, 2012

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Column: Calling our readers! Put down your cell phones, please

WORTHINGTON — The boy was maybe 8 or 9 years old and he was talking to his dad on a cell phone. I know this because I heard him say, “Dad?” We were standing in the aisle of a supermarket in front of — I don’t know — perhaps 40 feet of bags of candy. Lifesavers and gum drops and chocolate kisses.

By Ray Crippen , April 21, 2012

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Column: Happy 100th birthday, Fred Manfred

WORTHINGTON — Two carloads of us drove to Blue Mounds State Park one Saturday last October. The sky was blue as 300 robins’ eggs, the way it is in October. I suppose the temperature was 70, maybe 75. We were trying to soak up heat because, of course, we knew an arctic winter was just ahead of us. Everybody went on a hike along one of the trails but I stayed at the park headquarters, once Frederick Manfred’s house.

By Ray Crippen , April 14, 2012

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Column: Spencer, Remsen incidents should teach us lessons

WORTHINGTON — There is a story which, not too long ago, would never be told in a newspaper column because everyone knew it. By this April of 2012 that story needs telling perhaps because there are so very many who do not know it, possibly to their disadvantage.

By Ray Crippen , April 07, 2012

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Column: A great thing that came out of a difficult year

WORTHINGTON – The year 1935 was notably depressing for America. Unemployment was above 20 percent. April 14, 1935, Black Sunday. The worst dust storm of all moved over Worthington and blew all the way to the east coast, blurring views from the White House and blocking views of the Empire State Building

By Ray Crippen , April 04, 2012

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Column: Popcorn! Get your hot, freshly popped, buttered popcorn!

“Do zombies eat popcorn with their fingers?” The answer is, “No. Zombies eat their popcorn first.” This got me thinking about popcorn.

By Ray Crippen , March 31, 2012

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Column: WJC library was a community treasure

WORTHINGTON — No one can know the total of structures destroyed in World War II. From London to Berlin to Stalingrad to Hiroshima to Tokyo, buildings — houses, apartments, churches, cathedrals, temples, stores, shops, warehouses, factories, depots, government centers, colleges, universities, arenas, barns, hangars, prisons, palaces, castles — buildings beyond knowing were bombed, burned and leveled.

By Ray Crippen , March 28, 2012

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