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Dr. Irma McClaurin `73 tells the story of a paper she wrote for her second year at Grinnell on which the professor gave her a C plus and wrote “Dear Irma, you have many good ideas, but you’re not graduate school material.” Since then, McClaurin has gone on to study in India as a Fulbright...

In a fifty-year newspaper career, “Miss Edith” became an influential conservative voice advocating for the traditional roles for men and women. Edith Johnson feared suffrage would permanently draw women outside

150 years ago (1873)

100 Years Ago

25 years agoSt. Francis Hospital & Health Services has announced it will build a $4.6 million addition to the current hospital in Maryville. …The plan will allow for expansions and

Today, many people look forward to Memorial Day as the first day of summer, a day when families put on cook-outs, people break out boats after a winter of frozen lakes, and on Lake DeSmet, it is the weekend of the annual fishing derby. But, Memorial Day has a much more solemn meaning. To go back

The Johnson City Sessions, helping out house plants, examining wooly worms and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.

A typing prodigy, festivities at Tipton-Haynes, the start of the Morning Rotary and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.

LITCHFIELD — The Friends of Topsmead State Forest welcome the public at 6 p.m. June 5...

VIENNA Blood fans will be happy to hear that season two is here.The series tells the story of an English doctor and a Detective Inspector who investig