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Today's Opinions

  • Closing of Schmidt Museum impacts entire community

    The issue: Family chooses to sell collection
    Our view: Regretting missed opportunity to enjoy it

    In some form or fashion, the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia has been part of the local landscape since 1977.

    The family’s decision to close the attraction and auction its treasures has been greeted by a sense of regret by many. A major part of the disappointment is a form of guilt: We often don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone.

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  • April 28, 2011: Our readers write

    A partnership that worked
    Something beautiful happened this past weekend.
    The nature preserve/outdoor classroom area at Radcliff’s Woodland Elementary School needed to have its one-half mile of walking trails re-mulched to provide for better footing for the students who regularly visit there.
    The newly formed Junior Leadership Corps (JLC) programs at Radcliff’s North Middle and Vine Grove’s J. T. Alton Middle Schools were seeking to conduct a small unit leadership development exercise/community service project.

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  • Strike up the Army Band

    The issue: 113th Army Band's concert series
    Our view: Great Family Entertainment
    The 113th Army Band (Dragoons) at Fort Knox will host its first summer concert of the season at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Fort Knox Eastman Amphitheater. The concert is free and open to military families and members of local communities.

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  • Local students make community proud

    The topic: High achievements
    Our view: Local youth shines through

    Rebecca Hinkle and Kayla Doyle go to different schools, but they are linked by this common denominator: They are high-achieving high school students in Hardin County.

    Hinkle is a junior at Elizabethtown High School and Doyle is a senior at Central Hardin High School. Their recent accomplishments in and out of the classroom are worth recognizing by all.

    ACT PERFECTION

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  • What can be made of near-death experiences?

    Stories about dying, going to heaven (or hell) and selling books about it has become a veritable cottage industry these days.

    Two pastors, Don Piper and Steve Sjogren, both wrote about visions of heaven in their death or near-death experiences. Piper’s 90 Minutes in Heaven, (2004) was followed by Sjogren’s, The Day I Died (2006).

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  • April 26, 2011: Our readers write

    A good man
    I had the good luck to encounter one — really two, on busy Dixie Highway on a Friday evening.

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  • Middle class barometer

    Conservative Republicans are always accusing liberal Democrats of waging class warfare when Democrats point out the wide and forever-growing income gap between the haves and have-nots. Conservatives generally don’t see pervasive poverty in America as a problem and seem unconcerned with the rich getting richer while the middle class and poor get poorer.

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  • April 25, 2011: Our readers write

    Williams' lessons

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