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Since I am not in the classroom anymore, I don’t have any reason to dread, fear, acknowledge or otherwise survive April Fool’s Day. It just simply isn’t on my busy retired schedule this year.
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I enjoyed every day of the 57 years that I was a teacher, some more than others I might say and none more than the last 15 years when I:
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As a longtime English teacher (no math or foreign languages for me), I have long had a good “ear” to hear certainly words pronounced correctly.
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Morris and his wife Esther went to the State Fair every year and every year, Morris would say, “Esther, I sure would like to ride in that helicopter.”
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The following story is part of the impressive collection of archives containing stories from people who have been touched one way or another by the 1995 bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
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Our apologies to our readers and to John Bill Martin for failing to continue this column in our December 12, 2019 issue of the Hughes County Tribune. Our readers (and
Read moreThrough the years I have occasionally used quotes from Maxine in my writings and I say occasionally because much of her “stuff” is not fit to print in a family newspaper.
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One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.
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