January 2025

Applications being accepted for Natalie Thompson-Clizer Memorial Scholarship

The Scholarship Committee for the Andrew County Extension Council announced applications are now available for the Natalie Thompson-Clizer Memorial ScholarshipFriends and family established this scholarship in 1984 in memory of Mrs. Thompson-Clizer.The purpose of the Natalie Thompson-Clizer Memorial Scholarship is to assist a needy Andrew County resident to continue his/her professional development through enrollment in undergraduate college courses.The scholarship committee will evaluate applications on basis of need, completeness, clarity, student potential, and appropriateness.

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Celebrate yourself

My 30th birthday is this week.I stopped celebrating and caring about my birthday at around age 9 or 10. No details but I was very nihilistic and cynical before completing elementary school.What always made me interested about my birthday was the week.You see, my grandfather was born on on Jan.

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It's Now Nifty to Be Thrifty

Use of the word “thrift” has taking on a rather new connotation in these latter years of a built-in obsolescence and the everything easily disposable world. But it still brings to mind a torrent of sayings, proverbs, and old wives’ wisdom (don’t disparage that, some of those old wives were pretty, well… nifty).

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How birds stay warm

The crowd at my bird feeder, (I should say feeders) has grown pretty large lately as a whole bunch of different birds have been taking advantage of the black oil sunflowers and suet I keep out for them. They need fuel this time of year as do most wildlife.

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Sentencing set for 68-year-old man

A 68-year-old homeless man who has been on the run for several years ended up in the Andrew County Jail last week.Probation and Parole said he makes their job "impossible" and they want his probation revoked.Kim Jay Douglas, could barely walk straight, but he did coming from jail handcuffed and shackled to appear before Associate Circuit Judge Emily Bauman.He is charged with the felony of failure to register as a convicted sex offender and misdemeanor trespass. Douglas entered a guilty plea in April 2022 and got probation at that time.

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