While some of us are still struggling with our options on the presidential ballot this year, early voter interest is higher in Gibson County than the last presidential election.

More than 25 years ago my father (who, by the way, marks his 76th birthday today) complained to a friend at my hometown county fair: “She’s the oldest of my kids but I don’t have a grandbaby yet. She thinks that newspaper is her baby.”

I was preparing to leave the house to drop my son off at pre-school that sunny Tuesday morning.

I’ve got to imagine that William F. Hutchen was working like crazy 170 years ago today.

This past Sunday, around 40 people with ties to the Gibson County sports history books were honored in the inaugural class of the Greater Evansville Basketball Hall of Fame.

I shake my head when I think about it, but I actually said this to my husband on our first date, when he mentioned he was a Vietnam War veteran:

It was just yesterday, I’m sure, when I partook of my “last supper,” an hour before I headed off to a North Gibson school board meeting on Grandma’s Birthday — known to everyone else as St. Patrick’s Day.

Filling in on the Princeton Fire Territory news beat Monday night, I was surprised when PFT board members said they regularly get calls from people who question why fire trucks are parked at local restaurants and other venues.

I’m not sure a community could be more proud of a notable daughter, but if Jackie Young keeps traveling down the path she’s on, I’m sure we will be.

In the 25 years or so that I have known him, my husband has never said, “You should write about....” whatever it is he’s thinking.

I wasn’t happy, as a young reporter who had recently purchased a new-to-me home in the 1980s, to learn from President Ronald Reagan that I was considered a member of the working poor class.

I don’t know about you, but I have a favorite chair at home. At the dinner table. At church.

Writing a story earlier this week, I noticed a line in a police document. A suspect in a criminal case told police, according to the document, that he ran “because he was scared because of all the happenings in the world.”

The Daily Clarion rounded the corner this summer toward her 170th year as the local news source for the community, and we want to be an even stronger “go-to” resource for our readers.