By DONNA WESCOTT Hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th. I stayed home and watched the fireworks around my neighborhood. Last Sunday I attended Lamar’s graduation at...

By WILLIS STRONG It has been a hot week and it looks like we are in it for the duration of a hot July. There have been rains around us, but here it has been light. The...

By MELODY METZGER Lamar Democrat Last Saturday evening I had the pleasure of spending time with son Jud and wife Meghan, as well as the three...

By REV. DR. JACK SLADE Cornerstone Baptist Church Heavenly Father, Lord, You are good; Your steadfast love endures forever, and your...

By REV. DR. JACK SLADE Cornerstone Baptist Church The U.S. economy and word economy has surpassed even football in the media as the most...

By REV. DR. JACK SLADE Cornerstone Baptist Church As you are reading this, there are over 40 wars taking place around the world. When will it...

By REV. DR. JACK SLADE Cornerstone Baptist Church The country we love is hurting. It has never in my life time hurt as it is today. The...

By CARRIE CLASSON “The World of Birds” The raven nest was the big news this spring. Our neighbor, Joe, who belongs to every social...

By LARRY DABLEMONT I try to always do the right thing. But it hasn’t always been that way. I stole a candy bar once when I was five or six years...

By KAY BLANCHARD Child: “Ms. Librarian, can you tell me about this picture?” Librarian: “Yes, child. These are statues of our country’s most famous founding...

By WILLIS STRONG We just survived another hot week with the temperatures in the 90s and no rain. It has been three weeks since this area has had any rain. Crops, gardens...

By MELODY METZGER Lamar Democrat I traveled to visit the surgeon on Wednesday in Carthage and finally got liberated from my arm sling. I don’t...

By CARRIE CLASSON “My Neighbors the Superheroes” I think my next-door-neighbors might be superheroes. They both work with computers (at...

By LARRY DABLEMONT Down at the pool hall when I was a kid I heard some front bench regulars talking about the funeral they had went to. They...

By DONNA WESCOTT This weekend was very nice. Hope all the fathers out there had a great Father’s Day. Jamey and his family went to the lake. His wife rented a pontoon...