Tom Lux News Today

Sam Lux is announcing his candidacy for Carbon County controller. Born and raised in Carbon County, he is the son of Tom Lux, a local business owner and Lisa Lux a school teacher. Lux has experience p...

JOLIET, Ill.--John Lux, a longtime newspaper man who served as publisher of the Herald from 1972 to 1981, died Wednesday in his hometown of Joliet, Ill.

First thought: Thom Gunn, ‘Thoughts on Unpacking’. ‘I realise,’ he ends, ‘that love is an arranging.’ No sooner thought, I think of another, cracking conclusion: ‘The world might change… Change as our kisses are changing without our thinking.’ And then I think of ‘Breakfast Song’, another Elizabeth Bishop poem we’re lucky to have in print. Of Derek Mahon’s ‘Monochrome’. Of Seamus Heaney’s ‘Skunk’. Ev...