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Philip Martin wrote recently about Brooks Robinson, advising that it is better not to meet ones heroes. He suggests that in such an encounter they inevitably disappoint you by their often unkind behavior. Philip says he never met Robinson, the greatest third baseman in the history of baseball. But in this case he is disappointed he did not.

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In 1972, the roads that meandered through the Missouri bootheel to my northeast Arkansas hometown of Paragould were narrow and desolate ... especially on a dark Christmas Eve night.

DOWNTOWN AKRON — Seven employees of the Akron Public Schools (APS), who also serve as officers, board members and committee chairs of the Akron Education Association (AEA), spoke before the Board of Education Nov. 7 about the surge of student violence and the administration’s “dismissal, disengagement and disrespect” of staff members on the front lines.

Early in the pandemic, when covid-19 made people afraid to gather indoors, some churches opted to meet outside for worship.