Stories from Saturday, November 28, 2020

Thank you members of the Fraternal Order of Police for spending your time raising funds to take children in need on a Christmas shopping spree. Thank you organizers of Project Christmas Promise for the countless hours spent ensuring that every child in Butler County wakes up to presents Dec. 25...

It’s a bad way to die It’s just incredible to me the number of people in Butler County that don’t believe in COVID. Let me tell you, I just spent over a week flat on my back in an isolation room in Batesville, Arkansas, because that was the closest place the people in PBRMC could find for me. ...

The story of Thanksgiving starts with the Mayflower, on which my ancestor John Billington was a passenger. During the voyage, his son, Francis, accidentally discharged a musket and barely missed the barrel of gunpowder. When they arrived at Plymouth Rock, Francis climbed a tree and saw a body of water – still aptly called the “Billington Sea.”...