I love corresponding with our readers. Reader G. responded to a column I wrote recently as follows:
Every year, folks make New Year’s Resolutions and after a hiccup or two, they wind up wishing they could go back in time. I.e. they break those resolutions faster than you can say Flux Capacitor.
Quite often I am asked about the newspaper business. There are a lot of clickbait stories discussing the demise of the American newspaper. Those stories make our readers and advertisers wonder if we will be around in 30 years.
This is my confession: Because I write in advance, I pulled this from the archives of my blog because I wanted to enjoy a Merry Christmas with my family.
Perhaps you are of an age when you remember the 1967 “Doctor Doolittle” movie starring Rex Harrison. In the climactic scene, Dr. Doolittle is in front of the judge who doesn’t believe Dr. Doolittle can talk to animals.
I hope that you were able to relax and enjoy a fantastic Christmas, one spent making priceless memories with your family and loved ones that you will cherish for a lifetime. The Christmas season is a time to remember the greatest Gift ever given, and as we do so, we can also think of all the…
Several weeks ago, I addressed students and parents with concerns about social media challenges that were circulating among our students, daring them to vandalize school property, slap teachers and engage in acts of sexual harassment, assault and indecent exposure. One challenge involving th…
Often, people tell me, isn’t it great to live in Florida where our economy isn’t suffering like all those liberal shutdown states. Florida’s economy is booming and those liberal states are suffering under nanny state rule.
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Salley Clare (Pagenkemper) Baumann was born October 22, 1946, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania to Arthur and Doris (Braun) Pagenkemper. Sallye Baumann died on December 7, 2021, at the age of 75 in Tavares, Florida.
Editor’s note: David Dunn-Rankin, who many readers know through his weekly column, is CEO of this newspaper’s parent company and the son of Betty Dunn-Rankin. The following originally ran in the Venice Gondolier.
Loving caretaker and father, William Robert “Bob” Friedman, 78 of D’Iberville, MS, passed away on November 5th, 2021, in his home.
Frances “Patsy” Teuton, age 79, passed away September 22, 2021, at home with loved ones by her side. Ms. Teuton was born in Jacksonville, FL. on May 2, 1942, to Herbert & Gladys (Evans) Sumner.
Wilson Crandall May 6, 2021 Wilson Trafton Crandall, age 77, passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 6, 2021, at the Edgewater Health and Rehabilitation Center in the Waterman Village of Mount Dora, Florida from complications relating to Parkinson’s disease.
Mr. Raymond Lewis Guenther, lifetime resident of Altoona, Florida, died on April 8, 2021, from complications of a stroke. He was 78 years old.
Richard (Rick) Russell Livingston passed away on the afternoon of November 18, 2020 in Anderson, South Carolina at 71 years of age. He was born in Lakeland, Florida on April 29, 1949 as the first born child of Nelda Forehand Livingston and Wiley Richard Livingston, Jr. He served in the Unite…
Millie Rue Romney Dunn age 100 of Mount Dora, Fl, formerly of New Smyrna Beach FL and Westwood, MA, died peacefully on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 joining her pre-deceased husband of 68 years James Owen Dunn Sr. She was born in Salt Lake City, UT on August 11, 1920. She graduated from the Univ…
Eugene John Campbell was born on March 19, 1935 in Nassau, Bahamas Island and passed away in Sumterville, Florida on February 13 2021.
Cameron Lee Cruz, age 43, passed away unexpectedly in Mount Dora, Florida on December 5, 2020. Cameron was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan at Blodgett Memorial Hospital. Cam was beloved at every school he was at, starting at Crestwood Elementary in Rockford, Michigan where he became fast frie…
Raymond “Ray” Ordell Halverson (1934-2020) went home to be with the Lord on Jan. 22, 2020 at the age of 85 after a short but rough battle with cancer. The funeral service will be held at Trinity Evangelical Free Church, 890 Abrams Road, Eustis, Florida at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28. It will al…