This week in the local news:

On the front page: back in the day, the creator of a Famous Comic Strip Character lived in the area. We have a museum. Now we may be getting a statue. An 8-foot statue. Of a comic book character. I hope they go ahead and paint it bright yellow, too. sheesh

Inside front page:

• The local K-9 has armor now


• There are people who stay involved in Girl Scouts into their 60s?


• Don't get me started on the fact that the high school band percussion section has to spend five days in the summer on marching cadences because the school board decided marching band was too...complicated? expensive? whatever...and they don't march except at Homecoming and Memorial Day parades. Just, don't.


• Local crackpot has a new cause, a good cause, actually, but that makes him no less a crackpot.


• [photo] We had delegates in town last week from our sister city in another country.


• [ad] The butcher/meat locker is having a sale on stuff to grill.

Other tidbits inside:

• [photo] Harry Potter party at the bookstore was a success.


• The rained out city band concert is rescheduled for tonight.


• The newspaper is sponsoring a party outside their office this Friday evening.


• Guess what? Using alcohol in the parks is illegal.


• We have perverts here. Actually, this one is from out of state, and he "forgot" to register when he moved here, so when he was arrested for drug possession he got another special date in court.


• Four obits--no one I know.


• 7/8 of a page devoted to police activity: first item is a high school kid from our church ticketed for letting someone drive who is too young to drive. Of the 17 names listed in town, 10 are Latinos; things are little more even in the sheriff's report (I don't know if the city cops target Latinos, or the paper only happened to choose these names...or what...but the average age of EVERYone listed in the city report is 27. Rough to be a kid in a small town!)


• The county fair used to elect a 4-H King and Queen. Wow. Wonder if that makes it to the resume?


• The appliance store is closing. Bummer.


• 29 pieces of real estate exchanged hands here the first full week of July.


• [ads] SWEET CORN is in (i.e. for sale) at several of the local farms and farmstands!!! Hurrah--we loves us some corn (even if I can't be around it until it's totally shucked).

Life in a small town continues.... No one was murdered this week and we weren't mentioned on Fox News. Small favors, eh?