Columns

ACROSS
1. Kingdom in South Pacific
6. Worn on shoulders
9. *Lena Horne’s venue, “Cotton ____”
13. Poppy seed derivative
14. Chemist’s office?
15. Picture
16. Out of style
17. Roswell subject
18. Relating to tones
19. *Germany’s chancellor
21. *It caused the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
23. “___’em!” to a dog
24. Fine print add-ons
25. Latissimus dorsi, for short
28. *Palo ____, where Hewlett-Packard was formed

It saddens me to know that there has yet again been a young life taken from the world at such an early age.
A young HCHS student allgedly took his own life over the weekend, leaving behind a host of family and friends to grieve his death.
While everyone wants to know the answers to why, how and when, all that I care about are that measures are still not taken to prevent things like this from happening.
Now I am not so naive to think that there is a magical switch that can be turned off to disable people from ever harming themselves.

Is summer really on its way?
For the sake of not jinxing the county back into another cold spell... maybe I won’t say it out loud, but I do believe that warm weather is in our near future.
So what does that mean?
It means a lot for many Harrison County families if you think about it.
Baseball is now underway, so many families will be gathering nearly every weekend to watch their children and grandchildren make memories at River Road Park.