Lifestyle

The same question arises time after time.

As Darryl Tannenbaum was completing his training in Michigan as a medical doctor, he considered 75 job opportunities across the country before deciding to join Southern Indiana Orthopedics as an orthopedic physician and surgeon.

Every time I walk past our Christmas tree, I feel the urge to get the stepladder out and straighten up the tree-top angel. She’s been leaning seriously to the right since my grandchildren helped decorate the tree in early December. Now Christmas is over, and I never managed to straighten her out.

As the days pass by, seniors of Jennings County High School are eager to graduate.

This was community generosity like nothing I’d ever seen.

People in the autumn of their lives are discovering artistic skills they didn’t even know they had. They consider it a stroke of good fortune.

We are well aware that folks were just strolling around two days ago in shorts in 70-degree weather. But the calendar will tell you in no uncertain terms that this is the holiday season, whether we all have yet to raise a feasting fork toward the stuffing or not.

Halloween is almost here, and Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) follows close after on November 1st. Day of the Dead originated as a holiday in Mexico, but is now widely celebrated across Hispanic cultures. It’s also becoming more well-known north of the border, too.

Looking back, 2006 was a watershed year for the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp.

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