Today's Features

by Steve Musen

by Jeneen Wiche

Schools starts today. I haven’t had a child in school since John graduated, I won’t tell you how long ago that has been. My great-grandchildren will be starting school in Frankfort.
Noel Thomas started his bus route Monday. He is driving some students to classes in Carrollton. Joel will have to start coordinating his deliveries in the late afternoon with the bus run coming home. Kay’s Branch Road is not built for school buses and semis to coexist.

It was a warm summer night in a town near Washington, D.C.
A group of friends sat around a backyard table eating dinner when a young man with a gun appeared and interrupted the dinner party, according to a 2016 NPR story.
“Give me your money or I’m going to start shooting,” he said, pointing the gun at one of the women.
The people believed him; however, no one had any money on them.
So, they started talking to the man, first trying to play on his guilt: “What would your mother think about you doing this?”