Some areas of our local mountains have names that sound strange to some folks and are often mispronounced, causing certain places to wind up with different names – or at least different spellings.<

Have you ever traveled on a southern road and saw three mysterious, tall, colored crosses on the side of the highway?

Sept. 17 is Constitution Day. It’s a great time to reread our Constitution and remember the freedoms we enjoy and the responsibilities of our political leaders.

As a person grows older, do they get more religious?

My 4-year anniversary over The Graham Star came and went without a single thread of recognition: no candle, no cake, not even an “attaboy.”

I recently wrote a column about a 1974 fire detail in Utah and meeting a Romanian shepherd (“Summer with a Shepherd,” Aug. 24).

An article written by Adrianna Rodriguez appeared on the front page of the Aug. 21 edition of USA Today, about sending kids back to school.

I spent most of the summer of 1974 on the Ashley National Forest in Utah, on a fire-prevention detail.

Labor Day became an official federal holiday in 1894. Since that time, communities across America have celebrated the sweat and hard work of people who have built our country.

The 1933 song “Stormy Weather” would certainly be a fitting one for Graham County this summer.