Opinion

We have been longtime residents of the Reedsburg community for the last 16 years. A great education has always been a high priority for our five children and Scott would like to make it a priority for all the students of the Reedsburg District.

Some believe the words "separation of church and state" are actually in the U.S. Constitution. I’ve looked. They are not. The actual words in the First Amendment read as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…" Pretty straightforward.

I was staring up through the water at my mom and dad. I could hear them talking and laughing. I can remember flailing. I tried to scream but water rushed into my lungs. I sank further and further down. I was drowning and I felt utterly hopeless.

It’s easy to get complacent this time of year.

Just about all of us are eager for the snow to melt and the sun to shine, for the streets to clear up and alternate-side parking to end.

Alas, amidst the many joys of March, the robins and bluebirds and crocuses, it is also the season in which we butcher the trees. I have never understood this wholesale attack on trees. Is it restless workmen with no snow to plow and no grass to mow?