ON RELIGION
Lutherans and the worship wars
If members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod have heard it once, they've heard their national leaders repeat this mantra a thousand times: "This is not your grandfather's church."
That's certainly what musician Phillip Magness experienced when he took a sabbatical from Bethany Luthe ...
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A city divided: Look back at county issue
Bellevue Mayor David Kile has recently rekindled the idea of redrawing the county boundary lines in hopes of getting the city out of four different counties and into one county. This very subject has been on the minds of Bellevue elected officials since the centennial year in 1876. The earliest rec ...
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Live your days with thankful hearts
By JOANNE AUSTIN, director
Four County Young-At-Heart
Senior Center
Thanksgiving week is here. That means that the Center will be open on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We are closed on Thanksgiving Day and also on Friday, 27. There will be no Home Delivered Meals on either of these days and ...
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Main Street:
Pilgrim's Pride
As we sit down for Thanksgiving Day dinner to give thanks for the blessings of the past year, my thoughts during this holiday turn to our first business owners-- the Pilgrims. One hundred and two people defied the odds by sailing across the Atlantic in an attempt to flee the establishment in searc ...
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Marriage is the Maine point
Opposing gay marriage is a losing proposition. That is, at least, what everyone seems to say, on all sides of the political spectrum. Everyone, that is, except voters.
Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, has been my personal political hero for the last few elec ...
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Some Redmen football history
The Bellevue Redmen closed the 108th football season recently with a 5-5 season log to boost it's overall record to 546-396-44 that dates back to 1897. They did not field a team from 1904-1907. However, the Redmen fielded a team every year since 1908.
During this past season the Redmen suffered t ...
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