Opinion

The Trees of My Childhood

As I began thinking about this topic, I remembered the trees of my childhood backyard on Alford Street. Fortunately, the folks who own the home now are friends of mine so when I asked if I could come take a look at “their” backyard, they were more than willing, so off I went.

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Cooking with Mumzy!

Cooking with Mumzy Hello friends and readers of the Mountaineer Echo. I hope this week finds everyone in happy spirits and good health. I know you have noticed our paper has been cut down to twelve pages. I just want all of you to know this was not Robert nor my idea, but it came from upper management.

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Letters to the Editor

Hello All I wanted to post my Opinion and not a rant to you All. I openly admit that I am a transplant from Illinois over 5 years ago to this area! I came here for its Natural Beauty and some of the Best People I have ever met! I arrived just after a corrupt governing body had depleted and destroyed the city structure to the point of bankruptcy! The city held 23 bank accounts and money was totally unaccounted for! Leaving the city open to corruption and theft!

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Hangin’ Out On the Corner

When I first started thinking about writing a column about memories of my childhood in Flippin in the 1960’s, I had one particular memory in mind that I wanted to share. I’d thought about it for a couple of years. Here it is almost five months and some 20+ columns since I began Growing Up Flippin and that story remains untold because I kept hoping to find some photos, to no avail. It will wait no longer.

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Cooking with Mumzy!

Hello, all, I hope everyone is doing well and in happy spirits. We are doing well here. We have big changes going on and I am sure everyone will notice them. I don’t like changes, but I am going to try my hardest to make the best out of this situation.

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