By Sarah Pridgeon Details tend to define us all. For me, aside from a love of scones and cups of tea, there is also the fact that I am an Elizabethan. I’ve always thought it must be awfully peculiar not to have one’s own monarch but, in the wake of the news that HRH...
Editor, This is in regard to all the people at the National Forest Service and Park Service who oversee Devils Tower. While I applaud their desire to help Mother Nature, I believe they are failing miserably. After Tuesday’s attempt to do so, two things should be painfully clear. One – you can’t control Mother...
By Sarah Pridgeon I’ve been thinking recently about my fellow representatives of all things British. Not the charming fellow emigrants I’ve encountered in this county and beyond, but those who are helping America form impressions of us through movie screens and television sets. I’m a little concerned to see the channels flooded by Gordon...
By Sarah Pridgeon I have now been fingerprinted for a second time by the government of my new homeland and taken another step along the long and winding road to citizenship. They already had my fingerprints on record but decided to repeat the exercise, presumably on the off-chance that I have replaced myself with...
Editor, I would like to respond to the article on the city co-funding a building inspector. I could not believe when I read in the article that the county thinks that they do not have a need for a building inspector at this time. The county is in more of a need for a...
To Editor, I would like to remind everyone who got notices of value for property taxes to check and make sure they are correct. After May 6 you are stuck with what you got. You must contact the Assessor and if an agreement is not reached it can be appealed to the county board...
By Sarah Pridgeon I’ve made an offensive move in the Battle of the Biscuit and I think my new tactics might have worked. After baking and distributing the evidence, at least a dozen members of this community are now aware that those things you eat with gravy are definitely not biscuits – they’re...
To the Editor: Our country is made up of individual communities, each with its own needs that can be as unique as the communities themselves. In the middle on all of these challenges, often in the very heart of our community, is a solution, a trusted institution that makes it its business to understand...
By Sarah Pridgeon I’m sure you’ve heard the news that Baroness Margaret Thatcher, previously the Prime Minister of Great Britain, has passed away at the age of 87. You may also have heard the kerfuffle her death has caused, with debates still raging between those who support her with passionate vehemence and those who...
By Sarah Pridgeon This weekend, I discovered how disconcerting it is to find out that, during your absence, a 1000-foot skyscraper has sprung up in your former back garden. Leaving home was an adventure I undertook on the understanding that everything stay precisely as I left it, perfectly preserved until I returned for a...
